Contains 6604 photos
Elevated view north across Market and up Kearny to Market St and Geary St cable cars, Mutual Savings Bank, Flannery Building (with Hale Dental Co. sign and projecting electric "Dentist" sign), Chronicle (de Young) Building, Hearst Building. [No. 3 Kearny St. north from Market 1905]
South of Market
Taken from the original Golden Gate Park bandstand, view east along Conservatory Valley. First band shell.
Golden Gate Park
View north to the Conservatory.
Golden Gate Park
[California St. from Sansome to Montgomery sts, SF Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] Elevated view northwest across intersection to Bank of California, North Beach and California horsecar tracks. Parrot Block, Cast Iron Bank. London & San Francisco Bank building (constructed in 1874), 424 California, at left at Leidesdorff corner.
Financial District
[Watkins Photo Stanford Home] View south from California Street.
Nob Hill
[View of San Francisco, from California Street Hill, Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] Baldwin Hotel, Trinity Episcopal Church, Old US Mint, First Congregational Church, 3rd Baptist Church at left.
Nob Hill
Elevated view southeast to south side of California. Hayward's Building at center, the second Merchants' Exchange Building, Safe Deposit Building under construction at right. August Weihe, stock broker, Mahogany Gold & Silver Mining Co. in Express Building at left [From Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, Portrait and Landscape, 26 Montgomery Street, opp. Lick House entrance]
Financial District
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Nob Hill mansions, Fairmont Hotel, St. Francis Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market. [No. 15 Mason St. North from Market St 1906]
South of Market
[No. 8 Post St. looking west from Market St.] Market st cable car, Crocker Building, de Young Building, Mutual Bank Building, Observation car on Post st.
Financial District
[No 165 San Francisco rising from Ruins April 18 1907] View southeast to ruins of Alban Towne Mansion and Portals of the Past portico, later moved to Golden Gate Park. California St cable car tracks in street. Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Temple Emanu-el with shorter reconstructed towers, Call Building, Whittell building, Humboldt Savings Bank Building, Butler Building. Flood Building, St. Francis Hotel annex under construction.
Nob Hill
[No 11 Montgomery St. north from Pine 1905] View north to Kohl Building, Safe Deposit Building. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building in distance at Sacramento corner.
Financial District
Elevated view west from Merchant's Exchange. Grace Church, Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions, Fairmont Hotel under construction. San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett architect) and German Savings & Loan Society at lower right. Powell cable car in distance, Kearny electric car, California cable car. [No. 133 California street from Montgomery St. 1906]
Financial District
Unidentified lake. Golden Gate Park?
[Zan 5] View southeast to Bay Bridge, Embarcadero, Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Island, Waterfront piers, old houses on Telegraph Hill.
Telegraph Hill
Elevated view northeast to St. Ann's Bldg at northwest cor. Powell & Eddy (with Louvre Restaurant sign on back), Flood Building, Old Phelan Building Mutual Savings bank, Market St Cable cars. Towers of Temple Emanu-El, Grace Church at left. Duplicate of wnp26.384. [No 5. Market St. east from Fifth st]
South of Market