1868 Earthquake
October 21, 1868 earthquake damaged Coffey-Risdon Bldg.; northwest corner Bush & Market. [Photographed by Oscar Foss, 606 Kearny St., S. F.] Duplicate of wnp37.01595 and wnp37.01488.
Financial DistrictDemolished
Contains 7898 photos
Golden Gate Park
Second bandshell in Golden Gate Park with concert in progress. On site of present tennis courts. American flags flying and crowd with parasols. Present site of tennis courts
Golden Gate Park
Telegraph Hill Ruins
View northwest from roof of Appraisers Building.[Up Telegraph Hill in the Wake of Earthquake and Fire--San Francisco Disaster of April 18, 1906] Duplicate of wnp24.314a.
North Beach
Woodward's Gardens
[Entrance to Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco] Museum. Sign beside giant tusks framing doorway advertises the Celebrated Clodoche dancers.
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
View along path, Conservatory and Museum buildings
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
[Woodward's Gardens, S.F.] View from gazebo to gardens
Mission
Mark Hopkins Residence
View west across California to Hopkins Mansion. Three children in street. [2041 Res' of Mrs. Mark Hopkins-Searle. S.F. Cal.]
Nob Hill
Market near Beale
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to Ferry Building with scaffolding, streetcars, steam donkeys, rubble and ruins, Temporary railroad tracks on south side of Market, streetcar. [Lower Market Street, after the Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco] Copyright date June 8, 1906.
Financial District
1894 Midwinter Fair
[9502. The Bazaars, California Midwinter Exposition.] Persian Palace Theatre of the Belle Baya, The Oasis, Cairo Alley.
Golden Gate Park
Union Square
["Nob Hill" from Phelan Building, San Francisco] Elevated view northwest across Union Square. Homes, Trinity Episcopal Church, National Guard Armory, Nob Hill mansions, and Temple Emanu-El. Building at lower left, Howard Block, built in 1873, then home of the Concordia Club at 102 O'Farrell.
Downtown / Union Square
Woodward's Gardens
Statuary in Woodward's Gardens inside main entrance. Statues on rooftop in background faced onto Mission Street. [78 - Statuary in Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco, California.]
Mission
Powell near California
View northeast from Nob Hill to Telegraph Hill from near Powell and California. Gardens, homes. Building at left beyond fence, on Powell near Clay, housed Boys High School (later Lowell High School) from 1864-1875. Later it housed San Francisco Normal School, which eventually became San Francisco State University. Steeple of First Presbyterian Chinese Church on Stockton to right of center. Published on Kilburn Bros. stereoview card with title '2709. San Francisco'. Also published by John P. Soule, copyright 1870, as '1319. Telegraph Hill, from Clay St. Hill, San Francisco'. Same source as wnp71.2111.
Nob Hill
Woodward's Gardens
View across bridge. Birds, taxidermy deer and trees.
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
Rotary boat ride. [1329 Woodward's Garden, San Francisco]
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
[Grand Stairway and Italian Terrace] Band stand at left.
Mission