Bush & Market
Earthquake Damage to Coffey-Risdon Bldg.; northwest corner Bush & Market.
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Portsmouth Square
Elevated view northwest towards Portsmouth Square. Clay street cable car at terminus ramp. Coaches and cabs lined up for hire. Exempt Fire Co. firehouse with tower on far side of plaza at left.
Chinatown
Ocean House
Ocean House, near north end of Lake Merced in the area of Middlefield and Eucalyptus (burned in 1882). On the site of today's Lowell High School. (Watkins stereoview No. 1707)
Lakeshore
Angel Island
Point Stuart Battery, Army officer holding parasol with two women and a dog. Three 32-pounder cannon on wooden carriages, which appear deteriorated. These guns were installed during the Civil War and decommissioned in the 1870's. (One source attributes this photo to Carleton Watkins.)
Outside SF
Angel Island
View of Camp Reynolds on Angel Island with parade ground at center. Photo taken from wharf.
Outside SF
Angel island
Camp Reynolds on the west side of Angel Island, viewed from the bay. Commanding Officer's residence at center with post chapel on the hill behind it. Photo probably taken from the end of the post's pier, looking east.
Outside SF
Presidio
Parade Ground. Present Graham & Sheridan Streets. Old Powder Magazine at right center.
Presidio
View E from Russian Hill
View towards Telegraph Hill from above Hyde between Lombard and Greenwich. Washington Square, center right, with major landscaping completed April, 1869. Toland Medical College and Home for the Inebriate in distance left. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex at center on Powell. Same image as wnp71.1478, with significantly different cropping.
Russian Hill
Portsmouth Square
View northeast to children posing. [Helios]
Chinatown
Telegraph Hill
Telegraph Hill Observatory, also known as Layman's Observatory, Layman's Folly and German Castle.
Telegraph Hill
Montgomery & Union
View northwest across intersection to people posing in front of 1301 Montgomery St., brick building built 1852 as store or factory and dwelling, by the time of this photo stuccoed on the south side. Still stands in 2021 fully stuccoed. Pioneer Park atop Telegraph Hill in background.
Telegraph Hill
Van Ness & Post
View northwest past busy scene of street work and shoppers to temporary Emporium store (former Hecht residence) at northwest corner.
Lower Nob Hill
Van Ness & Eddy
View northwest across Van Ness Avenue to Tait's Pompeian Garden, Charles Lyons London Tailor, 731 Van Ness, Keystone Jewelry, and main Tait's relocated after earthquake in house. Bullock & Jones on far corner. Duplicate of wnp4.1457
Tenderloin
Market & Valencia
View south to Market St Railway Valencia St. Power House, Haight St Cable Car with Oakland Ferries, Golden Gate Park & Cemeteries signage. Steam Dummy at far left. [#47]
South of Market
Presidio
View northwest to Golden Gate, Main Post, newly planted trees. At bottom right, salute battery, used for firing salutes.
Presidio