Market & Turk & Mason
De Gaulle Visit. View west on Market to crowd contained on sidewalk while motorcade led by motorcycles passes, heading east. Kress store, St. Francis Theater, Warfield Theater, Dean Building.
Downtown / Union SquareFlag
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Grant & Vinton Ct.
View north on Grant between Pine and California.Shanghai Low restaurant at right. New Grant Hotel, Hotel Yamata, Sing Chong Co., Cathay House. Flags and banners strung across street, one saying 'Welcome Visitors'. Possibly for GGIE.
Chinatown
NW from Merchant Exchange
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking northwest. Earthquake Ruins, View Northwest toward Russian Hill, North Beach, Hall of Justice at Center, Tents in Portsmouth Square, St. Francis Church beyond, Telegraph Hill
Financial District
Hamilton Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake and fire, Hamilton Square refugee camp, refugees in line, looking northeast. Sherith Israel synagogue in background left
Lower Pacific Heights
Washington & Mason
View northwest across intersection to SF Muni Washington & Jackson cable car #511. Cable Car Power House (now also Cable Car Museum) in background.
Nob Hill
11th & Bryant
Mayor and Commissioners [dpwbook19 dpw4211] Board of Public Works. Street Repair Department.
South of Market
Golden Gate Park
[Old museum dpwbook22 dpw5368] View north across pedestrian tunnel to older and later buildings of the de Young Museum. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, the Egyptian-style building was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of the de Young. It was demolished in 1929. Replacement sphinxes, Cider Press statue, Dore Vase. Newer de Young building at left.
Golden Gate Park
Fulton & Hyde
View north to Civic Center Red Cross Building flag ceremony, YMCA and St. Boniface Church in background [Red Cross Building Civic Center dpwbook23 dpw5637]
Civic Center
Bayshore Boulevard
View East from Above Bayshore Boulevard near Marin Street. Islais Creek marsh and Southern Pacific trestle in distance. Union Oil gas station flag at half-mast for the death of President Harding at the Palace Hotel two weeks prior.[Islais Marsh & SP trestle dpwbook33 dpw8890]
Produce Market
Pine & Quincy
View northeast across St. Mary's Square. Home Insurance Co. building with Colonial tower at Kearny & California (built 1951, demolished 1983), Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), rear of Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery).
Chinatown
Guerrero near 17th
Celebration of the return of boys from the Columbia Park Boys Club from a nine month trip to Australia. Club, in new building, extant as of 2018 at same site. [8 (?) Homecoming of Columbia Park Boys, March 1, 1910; Turrill & Miller Photo S. F.]
Mission Dolores
Presidio main Post
[Post and Regiment headquarters, Presidio] View to Angel Island in the distance.
Presidio
Presidio Main Post
[Retreat, Presidio S.F.] Soldiers preparing to take down the American flag during 'retreat' ceremony. View north along Graham Street.
Presidio
Van Ness near Eddy
[Fairmount School in a Parade] View east on Van Ness to Fairmount Grammar School contingent in a parade, Van Ness and Turk streetcar in background.
Tenderloin
Sutter & Sansome
View to northwest corner, and temporary railroad track on Sutter for debris clearing after 1906 earthquake. Wagons with loads of new lumber. Reconstruction underway and office of London Paris and American Bank Ltd.set up in remaining 1st floor of ruined larger building. Mills Building in right distance. [4264 London Paris and American Bank Sept 06] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Financial District