Great Highway near Vicente
View north on Great Highway, construction crew near foot of Vicente paving Great Highway. [Great Highway const.][dpwbook25 dpw6103]
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Sansome near Pine
View north on Sansome to scene of heavy road construction. Building at right had housed Anglo and London Paris National Bank until completion of firm's new building at Sansome and Sutter in 1910. In background, tall building at California Street corner is Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects).
Financial District
St. Mary's Cathedral
View northwest across Van Ness & O'Farrell intersection to St. Mary's Cathedral, construction of Delbert Block (Arthur A. Lamb architect, demolished 1910) at left. Crowd of well dressed people in front of church. Same construction pictured in wnp102.0024.
Tenderloin
Ruined Fire Engine
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to Kearny St. & Post St.corner, W. & J. Sloane Bldg.
Downtown / Union Square
Telegraph Hill
View north to construction of Pioneer Park parking area in front of Coit Tower. Gas storage tank in background left at foot of Powell St. has since been removed. Alcatraz and Angel Island in distance. [C]
Telegraph Hill
Golden Gate Park
Steam roller paving Main Drive (JFK Drive).
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
Steam roller operating on Main Drive (later JFK Drive)
Golden Gate Park
Church & 20th Sts.
Steam shovel at Church & 20th Sts. looking southeast 10:10 A.M. - United Railroads [U05346]
Castro
Twin Peaks Tunnel
Elevated viwe east from east portal of Twin Peaks Tunnel at Castro Street, with Municipal Railway (MUNI) K-line #1144 about to enter tunnel. Trinity Methodist Church at Market and Noe Street (built 1929, destroyed by fire October 11,1981) and Pacific Telephone Building in background.
Castro
Market at Stockton
View northeast from center of Market to parade with British Mark IV tank "Britannia "and Red Cross nurses, part of a large Allied War Exposition held at 8th and Market. Roos Bros. Building in background. (Britannia toured Canada and the US to raise money. Later renamed "Liberty" it is now displayed at the United States Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen, Maryland.)
Downtown / Union Square
Harrison near Vassar Place
View east on Harrison to excavation of portion of Rincon Hill that obstructed the street right of way. A. Fleishhacker and Co. "The Paper Box House" at southeast corner of 2nd and Harrison. At right, 400 2nd St., commercial building with water tank on roof, built 1917. Still stands 2021, though facade has been modernized. [Rincon Hill Job]
South of Market
Top of Mt. Olympus
Triumph of Light statue, surveyor, steam shovel, with man in car parked in front.
Buena Vista
Fulton near Larkin
View northeast across Fulton to a "chemical engine" fire truck next to Main Library at Civic Center, on Fulton Street near Larkin. In background right, St. Boniface Church, Red Cross Building at Fulton and Hyde Streets.
Civic Center
Building of new US Mint
View south from Buchanan & Hermann Sts. Dolores St. and Mission Dolores church at left, Dolores Heights beyond.
Mint Hill
Civic Center
Elevated view southwest toward City Hall, Hayes Valley, Buena Vista Park, Mt. Sutro, Twin Peaks, Mt. Davidson in distance. Excavation for Brooks Hall under Civic Center Plaza, with entire Plaza a construction site and traffic rerouted around work. Old Main Library (later Asian Art Museum) at lower right. Civic Auditorium to left of center, United Service Organization (USO) Hospitality House (later demolished for New Main Library) just below. Building at bottom center to rear of Old Main Library on Hyde St. later demolished.
Civic Center