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Elevated view across Market to Baldwin Hotel, northeast corner of Powell and Market (present site of the Flood Building) burned 1898. Stanford Mansion and Trinity Episcopal Church at background left. Horsecar tracks were installed in 1879 and replaced by cable car tracks in 1888. Trinity Episcopal Church and Stanford Mansion in background left. [183 Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre, NE corner Market and Powell]
Downtown / Union Square
Man and woman in a cactus garden.
View east on Market to approaching elephant parade. Humboldt Bank Building, Pacific Building and Emporium in background
Downtown / Union Square
View south to old Guardhouse at intersection of Sheridan Avenue and Graham St. (replaced by 1900 Guardhouse which became Presidio Visitor Center). Cannon, cannonballs, soldiers standing on porch. Part of re-located Alameda gate at right. [2061 Guard House at the Presidio, SF]
Presidio
View southeast from Fort Mason to Pioneer Woolen Mills, next to Black Point (today's Fort Mason). Present day Aquatic Park. Tall smokestack was for Spring Valley Water Co. pump station at foot of Van Ness Ave. [121. Pioneer Woolen Mills, Black Point](Cropped version of wnp71.1481)
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View south on Powell to Golden West Hotel (corner Powell & Ellis), Flood Building, female pedestrians, carriage in the street, Market Street.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [202] 1906 earthquake refugees waiting for supplies
View north on Grant Ave, to Clay St. intersection. Pedestrians on sidewalk, carts and autos in the road. Sing Chong store, 800 Grant, on northeast corner of Clay and Grant.
Chinatown
[5407 Floral Landscape Golden Gate Park. 1900, C. H. Graves] Conservatory Valley. First Bandshell at left. Duplicate of wnp24.220a (This view was taken after the first bandshell had been replaced by a newer one in 1888 on the site of today's tennis courts.)
Golden Gate Park
[5520 Cliff House and Seal Rocks by Moonlight, San Francisco 1901 C. H. Graves] Victorian Cliff House.
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 174] View northwest across Geary to hotel's north wing under construction, after earthquake and fire. Refugee tents in Union Square.
Downtown / Union Square
[Porkers just landed, San Francisco] Pigs in street watched by men. Catwalk in distance with sign "STEAMERS FOR COOS BAY PORTS"
Northern Waterfront
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 108] View southeast to ruins of the First Congregational Church. Back of the St. Francis Hotel and Hotel Alexander at the left. Native Sons of Golden West Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
View north from corner of Folsom and Embarcadero (then South East St.) of mules being loaded up a ramp. Trestle bridge in distance crossing Embarcadero was for loading coal. [11271 Loading mules for China]
Rincon Hill
Baldwin Hotel (on the site of the Flood Building) Spectacularly burned in 1898, the fire demonstrated the inadequacies of the emergency water system, which was born out in April 1906. [9870 The Baldwin Hotel]
Downtown / Union Square