Construction

Contains 3716 photos

Post & Kearny
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Post & Kearny

View East on Post across track work in intersection to northeast corner of Kearny. Wolf & Hawley men's clothing, Golden Eagle, decorations for the Knights Templar Conclave - United Railroads [U00252]

Downtown / Union Square
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

[256. Grading Telegraph Hill.] North side about Lombard and Montgomery, Horses and wagons carting rocks. Warehouses and ship behind.

Telegraph Hill
4th & Townsend
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4th & Townsend

[Railroad Buildings, 4th and Townsend Streets., S.F. 2452] View northeast across intersection to North Beach and Mission horsecar in front of Southern Pacific headquarters building.

South of Market
California & Leidesdorff
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California & Leidesdorff

Elevated view southwest across California to the second Merchants' Exchange Building (completed July, 1867). Demolition on adjoining lot in progress, preceding construction of Hayward's Building, an office building at 415-423 California. Watkins stereoview 939 'Merchants Exchange, San Francisco'.

Financial District
Market near Beale
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Market near Beale

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to Ferry Building with scaffolding, streetcars, steam donkeys, rubble and ruins, Temporary railroad tracks on south side of Market, streetcar. [Lower Market Street, after the Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco] Copyright date June 8, 1906.

Financial District
Church & Duboce
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Church & Duboce

View southwest from Mint Hill towards Corona Heights with chimney of Gray Bros. brick factory. St. Francis Lutheran Church (then Ansgar Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church) (center), and Duboce Apartments (right) both under construction.

Mint Hill
Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

View east to Bay Bridge construction from Rincon Hill, two towers in place. Hills Brothers Coffee Plant (1922-24, George Kelham architect); Joseph Magnin Warehouse, One Harrison (1918, George Applegarth architect).

Rincon Hill
Montgomery & Sacramento
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Montgomery & Sacramento

Looking north. Bank of Italy sign. Anglo Bank Building with columns at right.

Financial District
City Hall
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City Hall

[B 201. New City Hall and Sand Lot, San Francisco. Taber Photo., San Francisco.] Showing the wooden dais for speeches.

Civic Center
Old Civic Center
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Old Civic Center

Construction view southeast from Larkin & McAllister [B 892 New City Hall. San Francisco. Taber Photo., San Francisco.] Market Street Railway cable car #7, Hall of Records.

Civic Center
Sansome near California
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Sansome near California

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Pulling Down Walls Sansome Street near California Street]

Financial District
Market & Post
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Market & Post

View southwest from center of Market, Crocker Building at right under reconstruction. Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) and Palace Hotel under construction at left. Monadnock Building, Call Building, uncompleted Humboldt Bank Building in left background. In right background, Flood Building, Chronicle / de Young Building reconstruction, 660 Market Realty Building, completed late 1907. Behind Chronicle Building scaffolding, Flannery Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building. Electric streetcar #1540 on cable car track.

Financial District
Sansome & Commercial
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Sansome & Commercial

Elevated view northwest to post-fire ruins of old Hall of Justice at center and reconstruction. View to Russian Hill. Montgomery Block at right. Shannon-Conmy Printing, California Fruit Canneries. E.J. Shattuck Co. Sentinel Building (Columbus Tower) at far right.

Financial District
Van Ness & O'Farrell
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Van Ness & O'Farrell

View northwest across Van Ness & O'Farrell intersection to St. Mary's Cathedral, construction of Delbert Block (Arthur A. Lamb architect, demolished 1910) at left. Crowd of well dressed people in front of church. Delbert Block construction also pictured in wnp102.0024.

Cathedral Hill
Site of the Palace Hotel
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Site of the Palace Hotel

View North from Palace Hotel construction site to Crocker Building, Market and Montgomery, Wells Fargo Union Trust Building, Mills Building in background. Metropolis Bank Building under construction.

South of Market