Contains 7898 photos
View northeast on Market toward 3rd Street. Chronicle building, Lotta's Fountain, Crocker Building (1891), Nucleus Hotel (with signage for The Wasp, Painless Dentists, Beamish's Shirts), Palace Hotel. Cable car, wagons and pedestrians in street. Russell's Family Shoe Store, 700 Market Building at left with signage painted on back for The Chronicle, Wicks Real Estate. [6159 Market St. from Kearny St., SF Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
[Market St. Chronicle Building, Crocker Building and Palace Hotel] View east from center of Market to Russell's Family Shoe Store, 700 Market Building at left with signage painted on back for The Chronicle, Wicks Real Estate; Nucleus House on right (with signage for The Wasp, Painless Dentists, Beamish Men's Furnishings), Castro St cable car, Lotta's Fountain, wagons and pedestrians in street. Sign on Nucleus Building, 'Beamish has removed to 918-922 Market.' Move took place April 1, 1893.
South of Market
View west to Hall of Records and City Hall from McAllister and City Hall Avenue (then Park Avenue, now no longer in existence). At far right, Supreme Court Building at McAllister and Larkin, completed 1891. [5952 View of New City Hall, San Francisco]
Civic Center
[3546 The New Chinese Joss House, Waverly Place, San Francisco] Ning Yung Association. 23 Waverly Place. A Joss House is an antiquated name for a Chinese traditional temple.
Chinatown
[A 165 Market Street from Third Street, San Francisco, Looking East] Call Newspaper sign, The Peoples Benefit clothing store, Horse cars in street.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across Larkin to United Service Organization (USO) Hospitality House (constructed between March and August, 1941), a clubhouse for enlisted men. Present site of Main Library. Old Main Library, Old Federal Office Building, Empire Hotel in background. [Zan 1000 San Francisco Hospitality, Redwood Empire Assn. Photo]
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest to 7th and Market, demolition of Odd Fellows Hall. [Blowing up Odd Fellow's Hall Charge 200Lbs Dynamite Apr. 23 1906]
Tenderloin
[Risnon? Building 1868. West of Front on Mkt] Earthquake damage to Coffey-Risdon Bldg.; northwest corner Bush & Market.Published by Oscar Foss. See cropped duplicates wnp37.01595 and 37.00891.
Financial District
View east to Ferry Building. Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Old St. Mary's, cable car, side of Fairmont Hotel. Duplicate of wnp14.4824.
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Filbert over Cow Hollow toward Russian Hill showing damage from the 1906 earthquake and fire. 2496 Filbert(formerly 2460 Filbert) on the corner, and then home to Brilsford Flint, wool merchant, Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of California, and former president of the Olympic Club, still stands though in slightly modified form. Home of Louis Schultz (1842-1909, brewer and capitalist) with the Mansard (french style) roof at 2426 (later 2466) Filbert built no later than 1875, demolished 1948. [Duplicate wnp37.01484]
Cow Hollow
Northeast from Powell near California, a series of important public schools occupied building with double stairway (originally Dr. Boring's Church) at lower left on Powell near Clay. In 1856 to 1858 it was Union Grammar School, 1858-1860 San Francisco High School. Remodeled in 1860, it became Boys High School (later Lowell High School) and Girls High School was established at Stockton & Bush. In 1875, Boys High School moved to Sutter near Gough. The building housed Normal Schools (teachers colleges) which later became CSU San Francisco and CSU San Jose. Central Market at lower left. Globe Hotel (NE corner, Dupont / Grant and Jackson), Continental Hotel (525 Pacific), Zeile Roman Turkish & Russian Steam Baths, 524 Pacific. Steeple of First Presbyterian Chinese Church, right of center.
Nob Hill
View from Montgomery and Market. Architectural rendering (not entirely accurate) of Palace Hotel. Patent Notice by Muybridge 1874, who made a photographic copy of the original architectural illustration.
South of Market
View North through Second St. cut bridge. Homes on either side, wagon and pedestrian in street.
South of Market
View west on Bush across intersection; California Neck Tie Factory; Brooklyn Hotel (opened at this location in 1868); Mercantile Library, built in 1867-68, sold in late 1889 to the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co, then remodeled as their headquarters.
Financial District
Elevated view north to Market Street and original Hobart Building; Telegraph Hill on right with Layman's Castle (German Castle) atop; Felix Adler Free Kindergarten, southeast corner, 2nd and Folsom; Rock face of 2nd Street cut in right foreground [X402]
Rincon Hill