Woodward's Gardens
[1628?] Conservatory at Woodward's Gardens
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Woodward's Gardens
[1632. Museum, Woodward Gardens.] First building at Woodward's Gardens. Used to be Woodward's home until it got popular and he moved to Napa.
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Folsom near 2nd
564 & 562 Folsom, between 1st and 2nd Streets. Home of William Alvord (Pacific Rolling Mills and namesake of Golden Gate Park's Alvord Lake) and Charles C. Keeney of the US Medical Department. Duplex house with large American flag. Horses, horse and buggy. Same area from a distance at wnp37.02293-L. (copy of a stereoview) [712]
South of Market
Russian Hill
[Panorama from Russian Hill, San Francisco. (no. 3.) 764] Looking NW from the Summit at Green and Jones. Looking toward the Golden Gate. Large road in center is Union Street. Octagon House at lower left, reservoir at upper right.
Russian Hill
Washington Square
View southwest over North Beach. Union Street at left, Washington Square and flagpole at center. Major grading and landscaping of Washington Square was completed in April, 1869. Omnibus Railroad horsecar at northwest corner of Square on Powell St. Same image as wnp71.1480. [Panorama from Telegraph Hill (no. 19) 1356. Washington Square.]
Telegraph Hill
Market & Bush
Elevated view north to October 21, 1868 earthquake damaged Coffey-Risdon Bldg.; northwest corner Bush & Market. Horse trough, ruins. [Effects of the Earthquake, Oct 21 1868, Market and First [Sic] Streets. 984].
Financial District
Broadway from Kearny
[Broadway street from Kearny-looking East. 1383] Wood sidewalk, Broadway cut in rock face of Telegraph Hill. Buggy with 'F. Klatt' stenciled on. Five story building behind. Group of boys standing next to barber pole.
North Beach
Masonic Temple
View northwest across Market to Masonic Temple (with tower completed 1868); 'New Corner, Branch of The Old Corner' saloon on corner of Post. Copied from Watkins stereocard no. 1368 [Masonic Temple, corner Montgomery and Post Streets. 1368]
Financial District
Fort Mason
View west to Black Point (today's Fort Mason) from future Aquatic Park. [Black Point, San Francisco. 699.] Army buildings and former squatters' houses turned into officers' residences on hill. Children playing in waves at approximately foot of today's Larkin St.
Clay near Battery
October 21, 1868 Earthquake damage. Rail Road House at 316-320 Commercial Street (with entry on Clay), and S. P. Taylor & Co. (paper) between Front and Battery. Two men look out of window at right. Facade braced with long wooden beams.
Financial District
View from Rincon Hill
[View from Rincon Hill, San Francisco. 521.] Looking northeast across 2nd street. Telegraph Hill in distance, St. Francis of Assisi church on horizon, center.
South of Market
Greenwich & Kearny
View west over North Beach towards Golden Gate. Sand dunes of White Point at center right, with Black Point (later Fort Mason) beyond. Entry arch and tollbooth for Bay Shore & Fort Point Road on White Point, where sandy portion begins at water. [Golden Gate, San Francisco. 669.]
Telegraph Hill
Washington Square
View southwest toward Russian Hill. Soldiers assembling in square. Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869) in background. [Washington Square July 4th 1862. 326.]
North Beach
Aquatic Park
View west from approximately Hyde and Beach Streets over future Aquatic Park towards Black Point (later called Fort Mason). Pioneer Woolen Mill at left center. Army buildings visible on Black Point were constructed in 1864, so this photo dates to mid-1860s at earliest.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Woodward's Gardens
[601 - Moonlight Effect from Woodward's Gardens. San Francisco. Illustrated by Helios' Flying Studio]
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