Celebration

Contains 451 photos

Market & Mason
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Market & Mason

View north across Market to military parade. Native Sons (Admission Day) Monument. Construction on front columns and signage on Mechanics Savings Bank Building is incomplete.

Tenderloin
3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

Elevated view north up 3rd and Kearny Streets to arches for Grand Army of the Republic Conclave Encampment, streetcars, crowded streets, Telegraph Hill in the distance. In background, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Flannery Building with projecting electric Dentist sign, decorated Chronicle Building. Lights and decorations strung across intersection.

South of Market
Civic Center
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Civic Center

Shriners Parade; people in stands, including many Shriners in regalia, on Polk Street & McAllister. View west.

Civic Center
City Hall
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City Hall

[Arco de Brilliantes (Sic), 1925] Diamond Jubilee decorations on Fulton Street; Main Library at left. Arco de Brillantes, illuminated decorative archway.

Civic Center
4th & Market
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4th & Market

Elevated view southeast across Market to Red Cross nurses in Parade on Market Street, crowds lining street; California Theatre, Humboldt Savings Bank; Call Building in background. Pacific Building at right. [The Great Parade on ....1917]

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

View south across Market to crowds lining streets and filling windows to watch Preparedness Day Parade; Portola Theatre ("Strictly High Class") showing Edith Storey in The Shop Girl. Bohemian Cafe, Tom Dillon Milliner 720 Market, entry to Humboldt Bank Building at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

Elevated view southeast across Market to troops in parade (led by mounted band) for President McKinley's visit. Palace Hotel, Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Midway Plaisance theater in background

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 6th
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Market near 6th

Elevated view east over Eagles Parade from 6th & Market, Hewes Building. Dean Building (demolished 2018), Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Garfield Building, Nathan-Dohrmann Co., Whittell Building, Flood Building, Humboldt Bank Building with 1915 sign, Emporium. [dpwbook3 dpw387]

Tenderloin
5th & Market
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5th & Market

Elevated view northeast across Market to Fraternal Order of Eagles parade. Flood Building at left, Phelan Building. Float drawn by horses with giant eagle decoration on top. [dpwbook3 dpw393]

South of Market
SF General Hospital
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SF General Hospital

Band plays at dedication of SF General. Mayor Rolph. [dpwbook11 dpw2361] Potrero near 22nd

Potrero Hill
Polk near City Hall
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Polk near City Hall

Elevated view of City Hall reviewing stand, with Mayor James Rolph and members of the French Siberian Expedition, for celebration of return from France of the California Grizzlies, 144th Field Artillery. During the 'Spanish Influenza' epidemic, some soldiers and dignitaries wearing masks, most of the audience at upper right is masked. [California Grizzlies (troops at Civic Center) dpwbook23 dpw5710]

Civic Center
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

War Womens Day Parade, celebrating the contribution of women volunteers during World War I, coincided with the visit of the Pacific Fleet. [Mother's Day Parade dpwbook25 dpw6230]

Downtown / Union Square
City Hall
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City Hall

Elevated view from City Hall down to Polk Street and Civic Center Plaza [President Wilson in auto, front of City Hall dpwbook26 dpw6244]

Civic Center
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Elevated view northeast across Market to Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar parade in front of Old Phelan Building [Triennial Conclave K.T. San Francisco 1883]

Downtown / Union Square
Taylor & Market
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Taylor & Market

Elevated view southeast across Market to soldiers marching en route to Spanish American War. Van Vroom Electro Dental Parlor, 997 Market; Edison Phonograph, Sterett Printing, 933 Market at left. [9384 - First New York Volunteers at San Francisco, en route to Manila.]

Tenderloin