Sacramento near Leidesdorff
View west to What Cheer house on left, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Martin's Restaurant on right. Fairmont Hotel, cable cars in distance. [No. 4 Sacramento St. west from Sansome, 1905]
Financial DistrictDemolished
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Woodward's Gardens
View of Woodward's Gardens. Music Hall atop hill, bandstand at center, corner of Art Gallery at right. [No. 161 Music Hall, Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco, Cal.]
Mission
Folsom near 2nd
View northeast from Rincon Hill (2nd Street cut visible at right) toward flats and Victorian homes on north side of Folsom Street, ships in harbor. Staircase up side of Rincon Hill, Selby Shot Tower at right. Telegraph Hill in distance on left. Reilly stereo card title "City Front, San Francisco, Cal."
South of Market
Geary & Market
Elevated view west on Geary past Geary Street cable cars (started service February 1880), Lotta's Fountain. 'Red Rubber Stamps' sign on 700 Market St. building, Bradley Rulofson Photograph Gallery, large 'Dentistry' sign on roof of building on northwest corner of Geary and Kearny with eagle atop. Calvary Presbyterian Church (site of St. Francis Hotel) in background center. [No.479 - Geary Street from Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
Woodward's Gardens
[482 Row boat Woodward's Gardens] View of Children's rotary boat ride, pavilion, windmill.
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
[No. 155 Entrance of Woodward's Gardens] View east past planting and statues to main entry gate.
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
[No. 158 Seal Pond, Woodward's Gardens] View northwest to Conservatory, Museum, and Pavilion.
Mission
Long Bridge
View south on Long Bridge (spanning Mission Bay from about 4th and Channel to 16th Street, built around 1865), crossing rail tracks, sailing ships in distance. [No 151 View at Long Bridge, South San Francisco]
Mission Bay
Van Ness & Hayes
View across Van Ness Ave to St. Ignatius church and school. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall. [473. St. Ignatius College] (Different cropping of wnp71.1629)
Civic Center
California & Mason
Elevated view southwest to Victorian mansions on California between Mason & Taylor. Richard Tobin residence on right. Left house built for Leonidas B. Benchley in 1863. Edward B. Pond, who was mayor during 1887-1891 and was formerly a liquor merchant, purchased the house in 1877 or 1878 and replaced it with a new building in 1889. (WMK) Twin Peaks in distance.
Nob Hill
Sansome near Merchant
View south from center of Sansome, cobblestone street with horsecar tracks, Branch House, 424 Sansome, on left, Coso House, 411 Sansome, on right. A. J. Leary book bindery, 402-408 Sansome, down street on left.
Financial District
Stanford Mansion
Elevated view northeast from Pine St. to rear of mansion, retaining wall, garden, and conservatory. Portion of rear of Mark Hopkins mansion at left. [No 120 Residence of Gov. Stanford, Nob Hill]
Nob Hill
Call Building
View of south side of Market at 3rd, Examiner building and Call building.
Downtown / Union Square
Embarcadero
[Driving Hogs on Mission St and East 1908] Ferry Building, New Wellington Coal Plant, a LOT of pigs. Water wagon in background.
Financial District
2nd Cliff House
[Cliff House & Seal Rocks] View from Sutro Heights parapet past statue to Cliff House.
Sutro Heights