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[No. 135 Palace Hotel] Market, Geary and Kearny Streets. View southeast across Market St. to Palace Hotel. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated September, 1875) in foreground, portion of Grand Hotel at far left, Nucleus Block building at right, in early stages of construction. People on street corner and around fountain. Duplicate of wnp37.02342. Variant of wnp24.261a. Same original image as wnp24.0137a with different cropping and caption within photo.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view across Market to Baldwin Hotel, northeast corner of Powell and Market (present site of the Flood Building) burned 1898. Stanford Mansion and Trinity Episcopal Church at background left. Horsecar tracks were installed in 1879 and replaced by cable car tracks in 1888. Trinity Episcopal Church and Stanford Mansion in background left. [183 Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre, NE corner Market and Powell]
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast from Fort Mason to Pioneer Woolen Mills, next to Black Point (today's Fort Mason). Present day Aquatic Park. Tall smokestack was for Spring Valley Water Co. pump station at foot of Van Ness Ave. [121. Pioneer Woolen Mills, Black Point](Cropped version of wnp71.1481)
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
[5520 Cliff House and Seal Rocks by Moonlight, San Francisco 1901 C. H. Graves] Victorian Cliff House.
Baldwin Hotel (on the site of the Flood Building) Spectacularly burned in 1898, the fire demonstrated the inadequacies of the emergency water system, which was born out in April 1906. [9870 The Baldwin Hotel]
Downtown / Union Square
Interior View of the conservatory at Woodward's Gardens an amusement park and pleasure ground at 14th and Mission [421 Woodward's Garden Under the dome of the Conservatory]
Mission
Victorian Cliff house viewed from Ocean Beach, people with umbrellas seated on the beach, steam ship passing as seen between Seal Rocks and the Cliff House.
Richmond Outer
[No. 135 Palace Hotel] Market, Geary and Kearny Streets. View southeast across Market St. to Palace Hotel. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated September, 1875) in foreground, portion of Grand Hotel at far left, Nucleus Block building at right, in early stages of construction. People on street corner and around fountain. Duplicate of wnp37.02342. Variant of wnp24.261a.
Downtown / Union Square
[No. 132 Sacramento St] Two men stand on the sidewalk. Crowd gathered in the street in the distance.
Financial District
Flower conservatory. [1630 At Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco]
Mission
View south across street to 133-137 Post Street, between Kearny and Grant. McCarty's Dancing Academy inside. Dedicated in March, 1862 by the Dashaway Association, a pro-temperance social society founded in 1859 by a group of San Francisco firemen. California State Normal School was located there for about 6 weeks in 1865. The hall was sold and renamed Irving Hall in 1884. In 1890, H. Liebes & Co. (furs) added a story. In 1894, Liebes turned it into a 5 story building and substantially rebuilt it, including demolishing and rebuilding the facade. (AS)
Downtown / Union Square
View from Ferryboat departing ferry slip
Outside SF
View north to Hotel Plaza at Post and Stockton, Union Square in foreground.
Downtown / Union Square
View south from Duboce and Noe. Franklin Hospital, now site of Davies Hospital
Duboce Triangle
Golden Gate Park, taken from the top of the Spreckels Temple of Music Bandshell, view north. West wing of museum completed 1925.
Golden Gate Park