Contains 7898 photos
View north on Bartlett Alley, now called Beckett Street, from Jackson. Chinese men on one side, and Caucasian men on other. Signage on second story of building at right indicates it was a restaurant, Wui Fong Low restaurant, listed as "Wauy Fong, Restaurant" in the 1878 Wells directory. Watkins stereoview 3752 is the same image with different cropping. [Bartlett Alley, Chinese Quarter, San Francisco]
Chinatown
View east from center of Market to basalt brick street, Phelan Building, Chronicle (de Young) Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Cineograph Theater, Midway Plaisance Theater, bicyclist. [Taken with the $5.00 Vive. Souvenir of Vive Day. Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar, San Francisco, Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on 3rd Street towards Aronson Building, Mutual Savings Building, Call Building, Chronicle Annex, Palace Hotel (at right). Demolition by dynamiting, probably Hearst Examiner Building. Rubble and ruins from earthquake. Metropolitan Hotel ruins at right center.
South of Market
Patient being unloaded from ambulance at Mechanics Pavilion on Larkin Street near Hayes. Likely right after 1906 earthquake. Signs for Grand Mask Carnival and Roller Skating.
Civic Center
[Gray Bros.] Gray Bros. brick factory and quarrying operation viewed northwest from Eureka Valley about Noe and Cumberland. Same image as wnp37.04252
Dolores Heights
[169 Chinese Consulate, on Stockton Street] East side of Stockton between Sacramento and Clay, Originally the residence of the French financier F L A Pioche, 806 Stockton, built in 1865.
Chinatown
Elevated view east from Grant, between Post and Sutter (possibly from Shreve Building) to Union Trust and Hobart Building ; Crocker Building with black smoke. West side of Foxcroft Building, later known as 68 Post St., Mechanics Institute, Crocker Building with black smoke at far right. At far left center, Mills Building, Sherman Clay & Co. Building. At lower left, roof of White House Department Store. Yerba Buena Island, Bay and East Bay Hills in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
View north toward Mission Street from the front deck of the Transbay Terminal. Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line streetcar #81 with wings livery. Shell Building visible in the background left.
South of Market
Looking north to Hotel Plaza at Post and Stockton
Downtown / Union Square
Looking north to Hotel Plaza at Post and Stockton
Downtown / Union Square
View east across Stanyan to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 20-line streetcar #290. Frank M. Smith Tennis Shop, 692 Stanyan, in background left.
Golden Gate Park
Elevated view east on Haight from across Stanyan. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 7-line streetcar #467 turning onto Stanyan. Buildings on both side of this block have been demolished. (Former Market Street Railway (MSRy) unit #167 renumbered #467 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with Muni #167.)
Haight Ashbury
View northeast across Market to Muni PCC #1163. Credit Dentist Dr. King in Dean Building (demolished 2018). Mechanics Savings Bank Building; Pix, Esquire (playing 'Beau Geste), Telenews theatres, Flood Building. Wells Fargo Building (44 Montgomery) in distance right.
Tenderloin
View northeast to MSRy 25-line #284 passing dairy plant building under construction for Spreckels-Russel Dairy Co. I80 Freeway now crosses site. Birdcage traffic signals.
Showplace Square
View west on 16th Street toward South Van Ness (then Howard) United Railroads streetcar #575 westbound through flooded street
Mission