Construction

Contains 3716 photos

Van Ness & Fulton
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Van Ness & Fulton

Veterans Memorial Under Construction

Civic Center
Hunters Point Shipyard
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Hunters Point Shipyard

View north from Hunters Point during construction of dry dock. the cluster of buildings at left were just outside the shipyard on the former 5th Avenue South extension (on the line of Lockwood Avenue today) and include the Little Palace Hotel.

Hunters Point
Union Square
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Union Square

View north from Geary. Fitzhugh Building under construction; Bullock & Jones Building under construction

Downtown / Union Square
The Curb Exchange
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The Curb Exchange

Elevated view north across Bush street near Kearny; rear of Russ building; 34-line street car. San Francisco Curb Exchange, Mooney's Malted Milk 368 Bush, M. Blaskower cigar store 346 Bush. Ford Coffee Shop.

Financial District
Harrison near Vassar Place
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Harrison near Vassar Place

View east on Harrison to excavation of portion of Rincon Hill that obstructed the street right of way. A. Fleishhacker and Co. "The Paper Box House" at southeast corner of 2nd and Harrison. At right, 400 2nd St., commercial building with water tank on roof, built 1917. Still stands 2021, though facade has been modernized. [Rincon Hill Job]

South of Market
Mason & Turk
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Mason & Turk

View South on Mason toward Turk and Market. Newly installed streetcar tracks, Admission Day Monument, Native Sons Monument, Streetcar, south of market Ruins in the distance.

Tenderloin
Top of Mt. Olympus
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Top of Mt. Olympus

Triumph of Light statue, surveyor, steam shovel, with man in car parked in front.

Buena Vista
Fulton & Larkin
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Fulton & Larkin

View northwest to man posing in car, Bliss and Faville's California State Office Building (later Earl Warren Building) under construction on McAllister in background

Civic Center
Sunset Tunnel
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Sunset Tunnel

Car parked in front of west portal of tunnel, which is nearing completion, though no tracks have been laid.

Duboce Triangle
Sunset Tunnel
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Sunset Tunnel

Sunset Tunnel construction. Scaffolding; west portal of Sunset Tunnel near Carl and Cole, Chandler brand car

Cole Valley
Sunset Tunnel
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Sunset Tunnel

View from interior; Noe & Duboce looking east to Mint hill

Duboce Triangle
Market near Geary
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Market near Geary

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north from Market St. to remains of the Humboldt Savings Bank office at 626 Market. The bank refurbished that small building and reopened before moving to a large skyscraper to the west, near 4th Street. Horse and Wagon, workers on Oakland Traction Company tower truck work on overhead streetcar wires. Sign for Lacey Saloon to right of bank entrance. East wall of Chronicle Building at left.

Downtown / Union Square
Liberty Tower
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Liberty Tower

View east from Geary and Kearny toward World War I Liberty Loan display with Liberty Bell replica on top and clock faces indicating number of millions raised in Liberty Loan campaign encasing Lotta's Fountain. Palace Hotel (with Western Pacific Railroad Co. in corner retail location, Monadnock Building with electric sign for Oakland Tribune and Northern Pacific Railway. Workers working on marquee on Flannery Building at right. Newsboys sell to people waiting for streetcars on Market. Spots on image. [1168]

Downtown / Union Square
Legion of Honor
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Legion of Honor

Lincoln Park. Construction view with billboard and car parked in foreground

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
1000 Van Ness Ave
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1000 Van Ness Ave

Cadillac dealership at 1000 Van Ness under construction. Viewed from St. Mary's Cathedral

Tenderloin