Contains 78 photos
[B 239 Montgomery St. South from G. D. Shreve & Co., Corner Sutter St.Watkins New Boudoir Series, Yo Semite and Pacific Coast, 26 New Montgomery St., Palace Hotel, S.F.]] George C. Shreve street clock, Thomas Young Real Estate, Overland Ticket Office, Gannon's Cigar Store, Masonic Temple, Palace Hotel in distance.
Financial District
Elevated view south toward 3rd and Market past Newspaper Corner. Chronicle Building, Examiner Building, and Call (Spreckels) Building. Monaco Photography Studio signage on side of Flannery Building. [The Chronicle, Examiner Call Buildings W.C. Billington Photo]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west on Clay to Clay St. Cable RR cable car at Kearny Street Terminus. Portsmouth Square on right. R. Cutlar Dentist, H. Traube watchmaker and jeweler at left. Watkins stereo card number 2368 (Variant). Original Title: 'Clay St. Hill R.R., San Francisco, Cal. Run by A.S. Hallidie's patent Endless Steel Wire Rope and Gripping Attachment. Overcomes an Elevation of 307 feet in a length of 2800 feet. Worst grade, one foot in six.'
Chinatown
Elevated view east down Market. View of Call Building with Annex under construction, Examiner Building, Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Dixon's Hatters, Midway Plaisance, Lion Drug Co., cable cars, street sweeper, carriages. Dupe of wnp37.00971
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east down Market. View of Call Building, Examiner Building, Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Midway Plaisance, Lion Drug Co., cable cars, street sweeper, carriages. Dupe of wnp37.00951
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view east from north side of Market over crowd waiting for Spanish-American War news. Call and Examiner Buildings, Palace and Grand Hotels in background. Montgomery Market, German Sausage Factory, Schlueter & Volberg Carpets on right. [9255 Waiting for News from the Seat of War. San Francisco, Cal., U. S. A.] Same original image as wnp24.311a, with slightly different cropping.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Kearny and Market in front of the Chronicle Building (with large clock over entry) to road work, Palace Hotel, Metropolis Bank Building. Policeman in foreground.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southwest across California St. to second Merchants Exchange Building (1866). Building at right (with signage for Alameda Real Estate Co, Bowen Brothers Grocery) was demolished in 1874 for construction of the Safe Deposit Building. Building at left is Hayward's Building, with signage for Amador Mining Co. Merchants Exchange signage for California Mutual Life, Aetna. Similar, with some different cropping, as right frame of Houseworth stereoview 109: 'Merchants' Exchange Building, South side of California street, btwn. Leidesdorff and Montgomery sts.'
Financial District
View southwest toward Market Street from O'Farrell and Grant, Humboldt Bank building (Bank of America) at center, Mannings, Golden Rule Cafe, Portola (later Paris) Theatre advertising 'Cuties of Burlesque'. State Theatre in background. Phelan Building at right. Birdcage traffic signal at right.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Stillman. Construction of Bay Bridge approach; Schmidt Lithography Clock Tower Building on Second Street at right.
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view northwest across 14th Street to Oakland City Hall. Crowd around park, tents. Published as stereoview with caption 'Relief Line In Oakland'. [Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 215]
View north up Kearny. On left, Granville's Jewelers, Pastine's Restaurant, Iron Horse. On right, Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill, Hotel Sutter, Pauson's, Mutual Savings, San Francisco Federal Savings, Maskey Building, Downtown's Fisherman's Wharf restaurant, Gene Compton's Cafeteria. Muni trolley bus #600. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
View east to Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building (with Dr. Willetts chiropractor, Security Finance Co., Florsheim shoes signs), Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank Building with Bank of America sign atop, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building with Eureka Federal Savings, Great Northern Railroad. Commercial slide. Birdcage traffic signals.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southeast across and down Market Street. Crowds near Powell watching Call Building burning in distance. Emporium, Academy of Science and Flood Building at 4th and Market at right. [No.3]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across intersection to Army soldiers patrolling Market Street as Call Building burns in background left. Emporium, California Academy of Sciences and Flood Building at 4th and Market in distance.
Downtown / Union Square