Contains 142 photos
Elevated view west on Post from south side of Market to Montgomery & Post. Mechanics Institute at left, Masonic Temple at right (with tower completed 1868), Hinckley Apothecary, Trinity Church (built 1867) at Powell and Post in the distance, Grand Hotel under construction in foreground. Piano and organ store at right. Superior duplicate to wnp71.0378. [G57 SSS-043] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Ellis towards fire burning on Market St. in distance. Corbett's on left, S.N. Wood & Co. store in Flood Building on right. [EF-91] [F810 EF-091] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View east toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Call Buildng, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904. Clearer original image at wnp24.349a. [SS-64 Market St. East 4th St. 1898.] [F810 SS-064] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northwest to west side of Montgomery St. between Commercial & Clay. Notary Public, B. Davidson banker, Barrett & Sherwood jewelry 135 Montgomery (later renumbered to 517), Apothecaries Hall, Little & Co. , P.H. (?) Brothers Co., [F810 SS-131] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view north across 3rd to scaffolding alongside Call Building during early stages of remodeling as Central Tower. Hotel Doric sign on Hotel King, Barrel House bar, Kane's Log Cabin dairy lunch, Market Street Railway 16-line streetcar, Owl Drug Co., Mutual Bank Building. [8-19-37]
South of Market
500 Divisadero, northeast corner of Fell and Divisadero. Queen Anne drug store building built 1888-1889 as Theodore Green Apothecary, Samuel Newsom architect. It is San Francisco Landmark #182. [Newsom Brothers, 500 Fell]
Alamo Square
View north on basalt stone street past two United Railroads Fillmore Street counterbalance streetcars (#607 and #609). Golden Gate Pharmacy. Accident Report. [#3799. Fillmore and Union Sts. Looking North. A.R. 5081. 12-30-12.]
Union Street
View north on Powell to Muni Powell & Mason Sts. Cable car #503 on turntable in front of Woolworth's (opened in October, 1952).
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across Powell to Muni Cable car #519 on the Powell-Hyde line passing the Sir Francis Drake Hotel at right. Cable car built in 1894 for the Midwinter Fair. Parsons Optical, San Francisco State College Extension in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Mission to three horsecars, nearest marked "Oakland Ferries", plank sidewalk. [Drug Store NW corner 20th Mission St, S.F. Aug 19, 1886, taken with instrument held in hand hence the blur] [F810 STC-014] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Mission
Elevated view southeast across Union Square. No fence around square, Lengfeld's Pharmacy, Chronicle Building, Hearst Examiner Building (1897), Call Building (1898) in background. Spring Valley Water Co., City of Paris Building (1897) at right. [F810 US-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [8717 Union Square from Post St Looking East 1896 (Sic)]
Downtown / Union Square
View north from center of Powell St. to Municipal Railway (Muni) Powell & Hyde Line cable car #519 on the turntable in front of Woolworth's, passengers loading before the turnaround. Powell Theatre, Hotel Pasadena on left. Flood Building at right. St. Francis and Sir Francis Drake Hotels in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of California below Hyde, 2 cable cars (California to Van Ness service started in May, 1954) passing each other just west of Hyde Street.Cal-Hyde Market, Eppler's Bakery, Conradi's Drugs. [5871]
Nob Hill
View west on Washington Street to approaching Market Street Railway (MSRy) Cable Car #509. Smoke Stack for Washington Mason Powerhouse at center. Crescent Pharmacy at right. 1360 Jones apartment building (built 1928) in background left.
Chinatown
View north on Castro to New Empire Market, Wultzen's Drugs, Castro Creamery, Bank of America, Eddie's Sedans. On right, Castro Theater, Herndon's Market, Prudence Penny Grocery Store, to the right. Market Street Railway (MSRy) Castro Street Cable Car #3, 8-Line streetcar #20?. Banners strung over street for Portola Fiesta.
Castro