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View northeast across the intersection of 4th and Townsend to Southern Pacific Railroad headquarters. [General Office of the Southern Pacific at 3rd & Townsend in the '70s.] Horse cars running on Townsend Street. (Original caption is incorrect)
Mission Bay
Elevated view northwest towards Portsmouth Square. Clay street cable car at terminus. Coaches and cabs lined up for hire. Portsmouth House, Exempt Fire Co. firehouse with bell tower on far side of plaza. [Clay Street Hill] [Views of American Scenery]
Chinatown
Elevated view north on Kearny from Market, showing parade of Christian Temperance Army marking south on Kearny St. Lotta's Fountain at right. The 16th International Christian Endeavor Convention held in San Francisco from July 7th to 12th, 1897. [5068-The Christian Endeavor Army July 1897]
South of Market
View southeast past a man seated on a wagon, to busy street scene on the 900 block of Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets. At far right is 935-931 Market, built in 1887 and first occupied by Keane Brothers dry goods. In distance left, tall building is the Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market. [WK] [Market Street towards the ferries]
Tenderloin
First Cliff House from Cliff Road (now Point Lobos Ave) before 1868 additions. [Watkins Pacific Coast at the Cliff House. 772]
Sutro Heights
View west towards expanded Cliff House from Sutro Heights, Seal Rocks in the background. [1226. Cliff House and Seal Rocks]
Sutro Heights
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view northeast across Union Square, temporary St. Francis Hotel Annex (Little St. Francis) in foreground, built in Union Square following the fire. Dewey Monument and downtown ruins in the background. [Hotel St. Francis Annex]
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast from the sidewalk on Market Street toward the Call Building at 3rd and Market, Chronicle Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, and Bancroft History Building(Built 1887, Ayres' Business College, Whitaker & Ray Book Sellers) are visible. Billboard for Goodwin & Elliott at the Columbia Theatre (they played there in 1900 and 1902). Stanford (photo) Studio, 725 Market; Johnson's Creamerie, 725 Market; Spreckels Market, 729 Market; Goldstein & Co. theatrical supplies, 733 Market; Hofmann & Woenne butchers, Montgomery Market, 735 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Two women posed on pedestrian bridge over the Embarcadero, looking towards the Ferry Building. [Elaine and Laura Bridge Ferry Building]
Financial District
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, view east from the Japan Exhibit. Tower of Jewels at right.
Presidio
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Bernard Maybeck's House of Hoo-Hoo with large redwood tree structures.
Marina
View east across Van Ness Avenue near California for the Knights Templar Parade. Crowd assembled. Leon and Bertha Sloss home, 1516 Van Ness with arched entry visible across the street.
Pacific Heights
View east across Van Ness Avenue near California for the Knights Templar Parade. Crowd assembled. Leon and Bertha Sloss home, 1516 Van Ness with arched entry visible across the street.
Pacific Heights
View east across Van Ness Avenue near California for the Knights Templar Parade. Crowd assembled. Leon and Bertha Sloss home, 1516 Van Ness with arched entry visible across the street.
Pacific Heights
View southeast across Van Ness Avenue showing the east side of the street between Austin and Bush. The Knights Templar Parade with mounted equestrian contingents. Victorian homes on the site of the Marie Antoinette Apartments.
Lower Nob Hill