Contains 7898 photos
View west on North Point at Polk, Municipal Railway (Muni) F-line streetcar #33. Fontana Warehouse on right (demolished and replaced by Fontana Towers in the 1960s) and Fort Mason in the distance. Galileo High School playing field fence at left.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View east across Van Ness to abandoned Fontana Warehouse with broken windows.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Fontana Warehouse demolition. Looking west towards Fort Mason
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Fontana Warehouse demolition; view west from Polk and North Point. Fort Mason in background.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View east on Lombard from Montgomery, across Sansome to waterfront. Del Monte Milling building (1907) on left, extant 2018.
Northern Waterfront
View north on Front to Golden Gateway site
Financial District
View east on Commercial Street between Battery and Front. The Ferry Building in background, (Entire block demolished for Embarcadero Center, photo taken from current site of 1 Embarcadero Center)
Financial District
View east on Commercial, Federal Reserve Bank (now Bentley Reserve) at right, Ferry Building in background. (This area now part of Embarcadero Center) Cars, people, Embarcadero Freeway
Financial District
View southeast across Mission to J-Line streetcar #52, just west of 3rd Street. Williams Building at corner. At right, M.A. Gunst Building aka Rochester Building (Lansburgh and Joseph, Architects), built 1907. Rucker-Fuller Desk Co., Rochester Clothing Co., Peters Shoes.
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to dynamiting of Masonic Hall ruins, Post & Montgomery. Union Trust, Crocker Buildings Duplicate of wnp27.2591. #1212
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast down California from Nob Hill grounds of Mark Hopkins Insitute of Art. Crowd gathered at Powell intersection to watch. Fairmont Hotel, Stanford stable at left, Old St. Mary's in distance, Stanford Mansion at right. Fire approaching. #507
Nob Hill
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Fairmont Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market.[No. 15. Mason St. north from Market]
Tenderloin
View northwest to 1906 Earthquake Damage, from City Hall Avenue and Marshall Square (near the present intersection of Grove and Hyde)[No. 70 City Hall] Pioneer (James Lick) Monument (in original location) just off camera to left.
Civic Center
Artwork from Watkins photo of inside the grounds. Conservatory, pond, observatory. [Woodwards Gardens, S.F., Cal. Watkins, Photo For 'Horticulturalist'
Mission
[View Southeast from California Street Hill, S. F.] Selby Shot Tower, Masonic Temple tower, Palace Hotel, Nucleus House, Temple Emanu-El, rear of St. Patrick's Church, Third Baptist Church.
Nob Hill