Stockton & Geary
Union Square, view northwest from City of Paris department store. Dewey Monument. Plaza Hotel before renovation of facade 450 Sutter under construction.
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Market & Powell
Elevated view southeast across Market Street. Taken from Douglas Building. Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Pacific Building, 'The Light of the Western Stars' playing at the California Theatre. Many streetcars, crowded sidewalks. Flood Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Mission Dolores
View west across Dolores St., with friars in median of street, people talking in doorway.
Mission Dolores
Monterey & Yerba Buena
View of Monterey Heights home. Split street staircase
Westwood Highlands
Taylor & California
Elevated view east over Nob Hill to Bay, East Bay and Yerba Buena Island on clear day. Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club), Park Lane Apartments (at left, after 1929 addition of 3 stories, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect) Brocklebank Apartments (1927, Weeks & Day architects), Fairmont Hotel, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Huntington Hotel at right (1924, Weeks & Day architects) and Ferry Building. Grace Cathedral Rectory at lower left.
Nob Hill
Palace of Fine Arts
Indoor Tennis match. Grandstands full of spectators.
Marina
Market & Montgomery
View north across Market to Crocker First National Bank Building, Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Building. Hunter-Dulin, Russ Buildings in distance. Pedestrians, streetcar, and tracks in street.
Financial District
Montgomery & Greenwich
[Panorama of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill. Vallejo and Broadway wharves. (No. 11) 1348] View down to Embarcadero. Sailing ships and Contra Costa ferryboat. Chrysopolis side-wheel steamer.
Telegraph Hill
Stockton & Chestnut
View east across Stockton to Home for the Inebriate with people posing in front. Toland Medical College with cupola on left.
North Beach
Harrison near Main
View east to Marine Hospital / Sailors Home. Board staircase and bridge on undeveloped Rincon Hill. Grocery and liquor store. (The U.S.Marine Hospital opened in 1853 but later moved to the Presidio in 1875. This large building then became a sailor's boarding home operated by the Ladies' Seaman's Friend Society.)
Rincon Hill
Mills College
[Mills' Seminary, Alameda Co. Illustrated by Muybridge. Published by Bradley & Rulofson] Women reclining on grassy hillside. College building and hills in the background. Duplicate of wnp37.01787
Outside SF
Market & Geary
Elevated view west to 700 Market Building on corner with McAllister dentist offices, City Mart Photograph Gallery and Larrabee's book and stationery store 702 Market. McGann & Co. Hatters 704 Market at left with large top hat sign at top of facade. Carriages and loiterers, pedestrians on street. Mechanics Institute Pavilion in Union Square at right. Horsecar line tracks. [1714. Junction Geary and Market Sts. San Francisco, Cal.] Originally a stereocard image.
Downtown / Union Square
St. Ignatius College
Located on south side of Market St between 4th and 5th Streets. Second building on site, built of brick. Horse car line in street. Present location of Emporium Building (Different cropping of wnp37.02111-r)
South of Market
Post near Powell
View north from Union Square to National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864), Post between Powell & Stockton Streets, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street behind. Portion of Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) on left
Downtown / Union Square
Alcatraz Island
Telephoto view from Pier 45. Golden Gate Ferry to Berkeley at right. Angel Island in background. [C.R. 1023 Alcatraz Island. SF Bay. U.S. Government Prison. Ferry Boat to Berkeley, California.]
Fishermans Wharf