Contains 60 photos
View west on Post from Montgomery. View west from center of street to distant church steeples at Union Square. Cobblestone street and horsecar rails. Mechanics Institute, 31 Post built 1866, at left. Stallard, physician. Cobblestone street. Barbers, horsecar rails. Same image as wnp71.0871, wnp37.03481 (Taber B 30) with different cropping. [Post St. West Montgy St. 1890 SS-154] [F810 SS-154] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View west to Brewer's Warehouse, William Ward & Co., Ale & Porter Depot 509 Sacramento, What Cheer House 527-531 Sacramento, Delta Saloon, A.J. Plate Gun Depot 510 Sacramento. Large crowd up the street in front of What Cheer House. [No. 132 Sacramento Street SS-163] [F810 SS-163] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
View northeast across California to Chas. Crocker's Residence, Collis Huntington mansion (first owned by David D. Colton) [Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 127 Montgomery St., San Francisco]
Nob Hill
View northeast across California to Chas. Crocker's Residence, Collis Huntington mansion (first owned by David D. Colton) Apparently from Watkins New Cabinet Series. [Chas. Crocker's Residence, California St.] Identical view to wnp70.0472
Nob Hill
Elevated view west. Cable cars with terminus at Kearny, Old St. Mary's, California House, Edouart's Gallery, German Savings & Loan Society.[B 517 California Street from Sansome Street (Sic), San Francisco Taber.]
Financial District
View northwest from Geary & Stockton. Many people strolling, American flags waving from buildings, large tent set up in square. Walkerley Building at right (1886, Union Club, Pacific-Union Club). [F810 US-007] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west from the Mills Building. Temple Emanu-el, The California Hotel and Theatre (1889), the Stanford and Hopkins Mansions on Nob Hill, Grace Episcopal Church with bell tower, Old St. Mary's Cathedral at right. T.E. Hecht information blacked out in this version, see wnp37.02100 [View From Mill's Bld'g (Sic)] .[F810 V-047] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
North Beach, looking East from Russian Hill near Hyde and Lombard. Sailing ships at anchor, Yerba Buena Island in distance. Toland Medical College and Home for the Inebriate in distance center. The octagonal house at the left, one of five in the city, was built in 1859 for Arden Ellis, a laborer, at the NW corner of Lombard and Leavenworth. North Beach in middle distance. Yerba Buena Island in background. [2708. Telegraph Hill and Goat Island] Also published as stereoview card with title '1316. North Beach and Goat Island San Francisco' by John P. Soule.
Russian Hill
[View of Montgomery, Post and Market Streets.] Engraving. Original Mechanics Pavilion at right.
Financial District
People watching Examiner Building burning.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Ruins Majestic Theatre 63.] View east towards rear of Majestic on 9th and Stevenson. Theater entrance was 1281 Market near 9th.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View south to night view of ruins with 'stairway to the sky' in foreground, Old City Hall dome and Hall of Records in silhouette. Numerous outdoor fires glowing in distance. Cable car tracks on cross street. Probably Leavenworth near California. Same original image as wnp33.00766.
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north through ruins and rubble to wagon pulled by four horses. Larkin Street facade of City Hall at right.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View north through ruins. St. Mary's Cathedral in left distance, Larkin St. side of City Hall ruins at right. People walking near Grove and Larkin intersection. Some new or temporary structures at left in area that would later become Civic Center Plaza.
Civic Center
1906 earthquake and fire. Ruins of Grand Hotel, view from near Market and New Montgomery.
Financial District