Presidio
Surgeon General LTG Leonard Heaton speaking. Groundbreaking for New Letterman Army Medical Center on the Presidio.
PresidioEvent
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Pine near Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View west on Pine near Market St. In distance, ruins of Merchants Exchange Building. [Scrapbook caption is wrong]
Financial District
James Rolph
Governor James Rolph and Chief Justice William Waste [Rolph taking oath of office as governor of the state of California] Probably at state capitol in Sacramento
Unknown Location
Admission Day Parade, Parade float Mission San Francisco de Solano. Sonoma NSGW No. 111 (Native Sons of the Golden West). Children on float with model of Sonoma Mission (Mission San Francisco de Solano) with painted backdrop. Soldiers, one with rifle on shoulder, march alongside, man in priest's robes at lower left. Crowd on bleachers in background. [Examiner 9-10-25]
Foerster Street Slide
View North on Foerster toward Teresita. [news copy: This sea of mud which slid down and embankment and crushed three houses is believed to have taken the life of one woman trapped in the kitchen of one of the houses.
Miraloma Park
Market near 8th
Elevated view northeast across Market to crowds on street and rooftops watching parade (probably Portola Festival) heading west. Fairmont Hotel, St. Boniface church, Marshall Square Market, Flood Building. Electric streetcar tracks, flags and banners strung across Market Street. [M.G 110]
South of Market
Hayes & Laguna
Making of movie 'Greed.' Crowd watching parade passing by. Movie cameras at left. Left-hand portion of panorama. Simpson Memorial Church at Hayes and Buchanan in the distance.
Hayes Valley
Hayes & Laguna
Making of movie 'Greed.' Crowd watching parade passing by. Early movie cameras at left. Right-hand portion of panorama.
Hayes Valley
Hayes & Laguna
Making of movie 'Greed.' Crowd watching parade passing by. Movie cameras at left.
Hayes Valley
4th & Market
Elevated view southwest to parade heading west on Market Street, likely for the arrival of Great White Fleet. Streetcar stopped on 4th with people watching from top of it. Pacific Building at left, with people on roof.
Downtown / Union Square
Embarcadero
Sailors disembarking at wharf for Great White Fleet parade. Near Howard Street. Hotel Mohawk and Hotel Admiral, Crowley's.
Civic Center
Elevated view of Civic Center Plaza with very large crowd gathered; new City Hall; State Building; Hotel Mimosa in foreground
Civic Center
Bay Bridge
[Heavy traffic on world's largest bridge, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 1244] Crowd of automobiles and pedestrians; Yerba Buena Island in background
City Hall
[17] Large crowd on Polk Street steps for post World War II event; microphones; veterans, dignitaries; Douglas MacArthur with dignitaries; sign saying 'MacArthur for President.'
Civic Center
Pres. Eisenhower Visit
Post near Powell. President Dwight D. Eisenhower waving in motorcade; Barnes Hind Pharmacy at 430 Post in background.
Downtown / Union Square