Ferry Building
Looking south on Embarcadero. Auto tunnel at lower right was there from 1920-1955. Muni Railway E Car #351, built in 1922.
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3rd & Market
Elevated view east on Market to large Knights Templar hanging decoration over intersection. Large electric car crossing, these cars only had hand brakes but no air brakes so they had a lot of accidents and only lasted about 10 years. Chronicle Bldg., Crocker Bldg., Union Trust bldg., Palace Hotel, and Nucleus block.
Downtown / Union Square
17th & York
View south across 17th Street from Franklin Square. Crowd kneeling in gated yard and during outdoor Catholic church service at 2611 17th Street (then the southeast corner of 17th and York, later site of 17th St. car barn). Service was held on the Sunday following the earthquake and fire, led by Rev. Father Patrick Mulligan. Bernal Heights in the distance, building in distance at right may be Union Brewery at 18th and Florida Sts. The 1905 directory lists this as the home of attorney and former Sheriff John J. McDade and capitalist Richard O'Neill. [Holding Service in the Open Air, 17th & Bryant Sts.]
Mission
Market near Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west down Market St. Ruins of Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Call Bldg., Crocker Bldg., Postal Telegraph (original Hobart) Bldg. Starting to run electric streetcars on cable car tracks. [View from ferry looking up Market St. #39 Bushnell Foto Co.]
Financial District
Golden Gate Park
Looking west on Main (JFK) Drive. Left to right: Casino, Conservatory of Flowers, President Garfield Monument [Abell & Priest, At The Park, Bancroft's History Building, 723 Market St., S.F.]
Golden Gate Park
Downtown Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest from top of Kohl Building at Montgomery and California Streets. In distance from left: Russian Hill, Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square, St Francis of Assisi Church, Sentinel Building (Columbus Tower), Telegraph Hill. In the foreground below center, the north side of the 600 block of Commercial Street including: ruin of the 1877 U.S Sub-Treasury building (built on the site of the original U.S. Branch Mint after the Mint moved to 5th & Mission). Curved cornice at lower right is the Italian American Bank at Montgomery and Sacramento Streets, ruins of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building beyond.. [Looking N.W. From Kohl Bldg #79 Bushnell Foto Co.]
Chinatown
Downtown Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Safe Cracking #4 Bushnell Foto Co.]
Grant & Market
View east to GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) Arch. Through the arch is the Nucleus Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
Call Building
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Call bldg. burning. Burned via elevator. Looking from Post & Kearny
South of Market
Conservatory of Flowers
Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park.
Golden Gate Park
Unknown Location
[Japanese Artificial Garden] definitely not Golden Gate Park
Union Square
View north from crowd to President Theodore Roosevelt at the dedication of the Dewey Monument. Buildings on Post Street in background, tops of Temple Emanue-El spires above.
Downtown / Union Square
Old City Hall
View northwest from near Market and 8th to City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) and Pioneer (James Lick) Monument. Sign reads 'New City Hall Square.' French-made cannon in front of monument was a Spanish-American war prize, presented by the Army in a ceremony on March 21, 1900.( It is now in the Presidio.)
Civic Center
Kearny & Market
Elevated view north across Market to Lotta's Fountain, with many people climbing on it, at center. Probably the arrival parade for General and former President Ulysses S. Grant on his return from a world tour of several years. Troops marching on Market and Kearny Streets. Banners strung above Kearny. Large crowd fills street, many holding flags. People on rooftops, and filling windows. Building at northeast corner of Geary & Kearny has large "Eagleson & Co. 4 and 6 Kearny St. Shirts Underwear" sign, C.N. West Electro Medical Belts 652 Market, A. Roger & Co. Ostrich Feathers 652 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
First Cliff House & Seal Rocks
1st Cliff House and Seal Rocks viewed from parapet at Sutro Heights. Seedling plantings protected by windbreaks on slope below road. [3047 Cliff House & Seal Rocks. S.F. Cal.]
Sutro Heights