Ferry Building
Night view of Ferry Building illuminated with Shriner symbol on clock tower
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Ferry Building
Night view of Ferry Building illuminated with PPIE 1915 symbol on clock tower
Financial District
Ferry Building
Elevated view east to crowd in front of original Ferry Building. Horsecars and cablecars. Sutter Street Railway #63. Market St. Railway electric streetcar at right. Southern Pacific ferries. [36683]
Financial District
Market & Stockton
Elevated view southeast down Market to large military parade during World War I, likely on the occasion of the arrival of Japan's envoy, Viscount Ishii KikujirÅ. Some 3,000 troops escorted him to City Hall from the Embarcadero. Roos Bros. Department Store, Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Portola Theater with Billie Burke in The Mysterious Miss Terry. California Theatre, which opened on November 1, 1917, in late stages of construction at 4th and Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Ferry Building
Night view of illumination of electric streamers across Market St.
Financial District
Unknown Location
Victorian house and front yard with rustic furniture and two women posing in window. Quoins.
Hunters Point
View northwest toward Potrero Hill, battleship USS Ohio in dry dock.
Hunters Point
Market & 3rd
Elevated view southeast to Christmas Eve concert, December 24, 1910, in front of the Market Street side of the Examiner Building across from Lotta's Fountain. Monadnock Building, Hearst Building. Large crowd formed, thousands of hats. El Camino Real bell at lower right. Mayes Oysters sign on 3rd Street at far right.
Downtown / Union Square
Palace of Fine Arts
Two women pose in front of the lagoon, colonnade in background.
Marina
Market near 8th
View northeast across Market to military parade, paused in street. Signs on top story of building at left 'Welcome Fleet Officers and Men' indicates this is the Great White Fleet parade, celebrating the visit of the Navy's Atlantic Fleet. Hall of Records, Pioneer monument (Lick Monument) and rebuilt St. Boniface Church in background. Moise-Klinkner Co., Terkelson & Henry photographers at left in 1210-1218 Market St (Built 1907, Herman Barth architect, still stands with modified facade, 2022). Notably absent is Marye Building to its right, built 1908, with fencing around site.
Civic Center
Kearny & Geary
Elevated view northwest across Market, showing buildings on west side of Kearny to crowds watching a parade of mules and covered wagons, maybe a gold rush themed Admission day parade? Parade coming from Kearny, turning west onto Market. Flannery Building at left, with none of its often-typical large commercial signage on facade. Lotta's Fountain, with spectators climbing aboard, at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Mason
Northeast corner of Sutter and Mason. (handwritten caption is incorrect) Home of Adolph Sutro's daughter, Emma Merritt, built 1870. This house was moved by Dr. Merritt in 1900 to 2355 Webster. (which avoided its destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire.)[Cor. Of Sutter and Powell Streets. Mrs. Merritt's Residence, May 1890]
Downtown / Union Square
Unknown Location
Possibly Cow Hollow, large late Victorian mansions.
Geary Blvd?
Man and woman in horse-drawn carriage on undeveloped street, probably Point Lobos Road (today's outer Geary Blvd). Not mappable; Point Lobos Road extended from Presidio Ave to the Cliff House.
Southern Pacific Hospital
[Southern Pacific Hospital, Building painted with Fuller Concreta, Painting contractor A Quandt & Son] [SF-17] Baker and Fell Sts. Another wing was later added in the lawn area at right.
Panhandle