Cablecar

Contains 1735 photos

Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

Elevated view northeast on Market across 3rd Street. Lotta's Fountain; Geary St. cable car; Masonic Temple spire at left. Nucleus Block, Palace Hotel, Grand Hotel at right. Notably absent is Chronicle Building, completed 1890. Utility poles with 7 crossbars on north side of Market. [B 524 Market Street from Third Street, SF, looking east.]

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

[3145 Market Street, SF, from Lotta's Fountain to First Street] Geary Street cable car #9; Market Street #15; Palace Hotel; W. & J. Sloane & Co.; G. W. Clark & Co.

Downtown / Union Square
McAllister & Leavenworth
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McAllister & Leavenworth

View west to Hall of Records, City Hall before construction of dome and rotunda; Mechanics' Pavilion on left. Six-story Supreme Court Building at McAllister & Larkin at far right, completed 1891. Cable car tracks on City Hall Avenue installed 1889. Duplicate of wnp37.00383, wnp37.00397. [5951 View of New City Hall, SF]

Civic Center
Market & Post
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Market & Post

Elevated view west across Market. L to R: Mutual Savings Bank Building, Chronicle Building; 660 Market St. Realty Building; Crocker Building; Post St., Masonic Temple. (T.E. Hecht copy) [#450 Market and Post Streets April 21, 1905, TEH450]

Financial District
Geary near  Powell
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Geary near Powell

1906 Earthquake and Fire, 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
Stanford Mansion
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Stanford Mansion

Elevated view south across California street near Powell to Stanford Mansion, S.C. Bugbee and Son, architects. Mansion stood from 1875 until 1906. [Residence of Gov. Stanford, California St. S. F. 3703]

Nob Hill
First Ferry Building
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First Ferry Building

View east to Market Street Cable Railway Co. car #13[?] on turntable in front of original Ferry Building.

Financial District
Market near Turk
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Market near Turk

View northwest across Market to north side of street. Victorian flats, buggies, delivery wagon and Market St. Cable Railway cable car #8.

South of Market
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

View east on Market between Grant and 3rd Street. Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Montgomery Market, Bancroft History Building with Ayres' Business College, Columbia Phonograph, Ettinger's Fringe Factory, Butler-Schutze Co., Hayes Street cable car.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Post
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Powell & Post

View north to crowded Powell Street cable car #401. Bernheim's Pharmacy at far left. Unusual street lamp above intersection. Third Baptist Church steeple on east side of Powell a few blocks north.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

[Palace Hotel, Market St. No. 5 Market Street] Looking southeast to Palace Hotel and Grand Hotel. Portion of Lotta's Fountain at left. Cable car, buggies, people walking. Same image as wnp27.3380.

Downtown / Union Square
Fillmore & Broadway
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Fillmore & Broadway

View northwest to Market St. Railway Co (MSRy) Fillmore Hill Counterbalance line #623. Domed control booth for Market Street Railway Fillmore counterbalance streetcar line.

Pacific Heights
Baldwin Hotel Fire
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Baldwin Hotel Fire

After the fire, Market & Powell Streets. Market Street cable car passing.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

[Powell Street Cable Car #2523.] View north on Powell to Washington-Jackson cable car on turntable. Flood Building on right.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

Elevated view north across Market on Powell to busy street scene, Market Street Railway (MSRy) cable car #504? on turntable and 4 more in the distance. Bank of Italy (later Bank of America), Hotel Turpin, flower stand, Pig & Whistle, Wakelee Drugs, Woodstock Hotel at left, Owl Drug Co., Clinton Cafeteria in Flood Building at right. [Powell Street]

Downtown / Union Square