Temple Emanu-El
1906 Earthquake and Fire, from Stockton near Sutter. View northwest to synagogue amid ruins after 1906 earthquake.(AS) [Miles Bros. #57]
Downtown / Union SquareDemolished
Contains 7898 photos
Powell near Ellis
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east across Powell to men posing among ruins of Novelty Theater at 104 Powell St after 1906 earthquake and fire. Top of Call Building visible in distance. [Miles Bros. #60]
Downtown / Union Square
Telegraph Hill
View northeast from Russian Hill with Washington Square in foreground; Original Ss. Peter & Paul Church at Filbert and Grant, St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Stulz Bros. Grocers, Union and Columbus (then Montgomery Ave.), German Castle (Layman's Castle) on summit. [Telegraph Hill] Same original image as wnp27.4110 with different cropping.
Russian Hill
Market near Mason
View east towards St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel, Chronicle Building, The Matinee Millinery, Jno. Steinbach Jeweler 1016 Market, (Ernest) Essman Dry Goods, 1022 Market. Painted pole for C. Curtin dry goods at right, 911-915 Market. Two story building erected on lot at far left by July, 1895. Same image as wnp27.6768 with slightly different cropping.
South of Market
Old Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast to group of men and a few women, marching band, cable cars, and horse cars. Men are mostly in uniforms or Odd Fellows costumes in front of original Ferry Building. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). Valencia Street #18 cable car on turntable at center. Likely on the occasion of the arrival of IOOF Grand Sire John H. White on October 3, 1887. [Odd Fellows Receiving 'Grand Sire' at Ferry Landing. Foot of Market St., S. F. CAL. A. J. McDonald]
Financial District
Sutro Heights
[Glimpse of Sutro Heights] Carriage circle, statues, fountain, flower conservatory. View looking east. Copy of wnp37.00217
Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights
Adolph Sutro standing in front of his home. [Glimpse of Sutro Heights.] Residence, Observation Tower on parapet.
Sutro Heights
Montgomery & Market
Elevated view northwest across Market to Crocker Building, at left Chronicle Building, 700 Market building. At right, west up Post St., steeple of First Congregational Church in distance. Utility poles with many wires and crossbars. [Crocker Building, Cor Post, Market & Montgomery Streets]
Financial District
Jones & Market
Elevated northeast view to East end of Jones St. Jones Street Shuttle cable car, (Jones Street Dinky), Hibernia Bank, Prager's Dept. Store (Murphy Building). In distance, Nob Hill mansions, spires of Temple Emanu-el, Baldwin Hotel, Chronicle Building[A View of Market Street, Showing Nob Hill on the Left from Odd Fellows Hall] Same image as wnp15.492.
Tenderloin
Ferry Building
View northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building 'C.P.R.R. Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley Ferry' terminal. Market Street Cable Railway Co. cable cars and horse cars. Signage for real estate auctions for Lincoln, Placer County. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). [451 Ferry Landing, San Francisco]
Financial District
Grant near Jackson
[China Town. Dupont St.. Perkins. 640 Clay St. San Francisco.] View northeast across Dupont (later Grant) to east side of the 1000 block of Dupont. Building with bay window is 1024 Dupont. Merchandise on sidewalk.
Chinatown
Market & 7th
View southwest across intersection to Odd Fellows Hall, Wright & Sanders architects. A cornerstone-laying ceremony was held on May 14, 1884, and construction was completed in November, 1885. T. M. Antisell Pianos on ground floor. Rosenblum & Abraham Tailors, Pringle Bros. boots and shoes 1109 Market, Castle Bakery (John Feyhl proprietor) 1111 Market. Good Fellows Grotto saloon in basement. [The Odd Fellows Hall Market St. Perkins. San Francisco 395.]
Tenderloin
Mission near 4th
[Gooden Mtg & Loan Co. 9-15-27 Mission Street East Above 3rd.] View east to Shield Hat Co., Triest & Co., Pacific Telephone building. Aronson Building in distance left. Area on right became Yerba Buena Gardens.
South of Market
Geary & Fillmore
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Jewish Synagogue, Geary St.] 1906 earthquake damage to temple Beth Israel.
Western Addition
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Dock
Elevated view east From Rincon Hill to Pacific Mail dock with sidewheel steamer boats (identified in one source as the Colorado, built 1865, scrapped 1879, Steamer Senator at right (1865-1882)), sailing ships and Yerba Buena Island in background. Oriental Warehouse (built 1867, still stands 2021 at 650 Delancey St.) at left. Three part wooden structure at center is Occidental Warehouse, used for grain storage, with blacksmith and boiler shops to the left. Ad for C.C. Hastings & Co. Clothing at Lick House, 'Use IXL Bitters' on fence. May be part of panorama with Carlton Watkins wnp71.2170. From Watkins Mammoth Plate CEW 611.
South Beach