Flags

Contains 99 photos

wnp71.0404

Market near 3rd

View northeast across Market to 660 Market St (Realty Building, built 1907, demolished 1923). Army recruitment effort with soldier standing behind podium with large Victrola phonograph, tank vehicle with signs: 'The Dominant Tractor Built by C.L. Best Gas Traction Co., San Leandro, Cal.', 'Tracklayer Best 75', 'Enlist Today & Help California to furnish 3000 men in 30 days for the Duration of the War.' In April, 1917 the C.L. Best Co. gave the Army an armored prototype of one of its Tracklayer line of farm tractors for use in recruitment. Signs on Realty Building for Lyon & Hoag Real Estate office, North Pacific Steamship Co., The Waldorf, A.J. Henry Notary Public. The Ocularium Henry Kahn & Co., Quarg's Bar, Pioneer Assay Office. Crocker Building at right. [SS-198] [G810 SS-198] (GGNRA/B

1917 South of Market

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Market near 2nd

Elevated view west to Returning California Volunteers parade. Postal Telegraph in Wells Fargo Building. Crocker Building center, Chronicle Building on left, original Hobart Building at right. Men on telephone poles, lagre crowd. Duplicate of wnp27.4468. [G57 SCB-019] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1899 Financial District

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Stockton St. Parade

4th of July parade on Stockton Street. View south from near Jackson, Nob Hill in background right. Same image as wnp71.1509. [F57 SPA-022] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1862 Chinatown

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Market near 1st

Elevated view northeast across Market to parade on Market Street for returning volunteers of Spanish-American War. Ferry Building in distance. [Return of the Calif Boys 1899 ] [F810 CB-019] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1899 Financial District

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Montgomery & California

[1865 PA-15] 4th of July 1865. Elevated view south to soldiers parading north on Montgomery St. under commemorative arch. Express Building at left. Horsecar on California. 'Crawford & Dutch Dentists' at 415 Montgomery St. Same image as wnp37.00762, 'Montgomery St., from Austin's Building, July 4, '65', Watkins No. 755 with different cropping. [F810 PA-015] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1865 Financial District

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McAllister near Hyde

View northeast to cornerstone laying ceremony for City Hall with large crowd, buggies, 'Honor & Justice' gateway. Temple Emanu-El on far right. Watkins Stereoview No. 1614 "Laying the Corner Stone of the New City Hall, San Francisco, February 22d, 1872."[Laying the cornerstone New City Hall 1872 PB-16] [F810 PB-016] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1872 Civic Center

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Market near Fulton

[CK005 Embassy as Rialto Strand as Jewel Preparedness Day Liberty Loan Parade 6 April 1918] Elevated view southeast across Market to fake tanks escorted by mounted police heading west on Market Street. Rialto and Jewel Theatres (later Embassy and Strand), Odd Fellows Building, Grant Building in background. Liberty Loan Parade.

1918 South of Market

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Market & Kearny

View north across the intersection of Market, Kearny, and 3rd. Lotta's Fountain at center (with extra height). Muni 5-Line trolley coach #618 and J-Line streetcar #1036 with zip strip livery crossing intersection. Chronicle Building (with American Savings) with modern facade, since removed, in background. In background left, SF Federal Savings & Loan, Maskey Building, Mr. Sid restaurant, Red Fox cocktails.

1972 South of Market

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Market near Van Ness

View northeast on Market toward crew of navy ship marching in Atlantic Fleet (Great White Fleet) parade. [Sibyl Marston of Berkeley] (The Great White Fleet was a nickname given to 27 warships from the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet that visited San Francisco while circumnavigating the globe.)

1908 Civic Center