Contains 1735 photos
View east on Geary to Market with Palace Hotel and Monadnock Building across Market in the distance. Rear of Mutual Savings Bank Building (with entry to Paul T. Carroll Knox Hats) and Flannery Building at right. At left, Rosenstock and Schmidt Buildings. Geary Cable Car #155.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Geary toward 4th Avenue. Large crowd gathered around a line of cable cars.. sign at right reads: Benjamin Sturges, Contractor - builder
Richmond Inner
Panorama from 18th and Castro looking North, United Rail Roads street car, pt.2, Clayton St Family Collection
Castro
View north to women waiting for counterbalance streetcar on Fillmore Street, Clayton St Family Collection
Pacific Heights
View north across Pacific to The Hamlin School, 2230 Pacific between Webster & Buchanan, earlier known as Miss Hamlin's School after its founder Sarah Dix Hamlin. The school first occupied this building in August, 1906, and later also occupied others to its rear on Broadway. In 1928 it moved to the former James L. Flood mansion on Broadway. Emilie Zaretsky sitting on front steps? Lange Collection, Emilie Zaretsky (granddaughter).
Pacific Heights
Grant between California & Sacramento. Looking north to cable car on Sacramento.
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to approaching 1906 Earthquake Fire from Mint Hill. St. Ignatius, City Hall, Valencia Street Cable Car Powerhouse smokestack. Outbuildings of Protestant Orphan Asylum at Waller and Laguna in left foreground. Same image as wnp15.969.
Mint Hill
Victorian Park. Turntable in original locations; Cable Car #517. Area surrounding turn table had just been landscaped as Victorian Park.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Cable car #526 on original turntable in Victorian Park in Aquatic Park. Haslett Warehouse in background. (Birdcage traffic signal at left.)
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Victorian Park. Cable car turntable in original location; Buena Vista Cafe in background
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Elevated view west on Market between 3rd and 4th Streets, probably from the top of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) arch erected in 1886. Original Phelan Building on right, Baldwin Hotel in the distance. On left, F.S. Chadbourne Furniture, 741-743-745 Market. Original 1887 Flood Building at 4th and Market under construction. Two tracks of cable cars, two of horsecars. Utility poles with 4 crossbars on south side of Market, 8 crossbars on north side. Originally published as "Taber B2341, Market Street".
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, 1258 McAllister between Steiner and Fillmore, ruins of a house, piano moving wagon in front, 1248 to the right, cable car tracks in front.
Western Addition
View east on Geary between Stockton & Powell [Geary street before the fire. Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 121] Union Square, Geary cable car and Whittell building under construction. Lengfeld's Pharmacy.
Downtown / Union Square
View north across the intersection of California and Hyde. Demonstration and protest with people Stopping California Street cable car from entering the Cal Cable barn. Future transit historian Phil Hoffman (with glasses and pipe) seated on the roof. [newscopy: San Franciscans take control of a cable car after the last run on the Hyde-O'Farrell cables before the vehicles were replaced by buses. Demonstrators pushed the car back a block before police broke it up and rescued the 'captured' crewmen.]
Nob Hill
View East down Sacramento Street (with cable car) toward the Financial District
Nob Hill