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Contains 2392 photos

Page & Pierce
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Page & Pierce

View West on Page Street. Many of these buildings extant 2019.- United Railroads [U00757]

Lower Haight
Clement near 8th Ave
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Clement near 8th Ave

View east on Clement from 8th Avenue. Richmond Congregational Church at right at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue. Congress Hall Whiskey advertisement on 538 Clement on the the left, the grocery store of Pietro (Paul) Del Piano. Mr. Piano got out of the grocery business a few years later, and opened three successive saloons in the inner-Richmond, up until Prohibition closed him down. (JF) The white 3-story building at left still stands at 524 Clement. - United Railroads [U00226A]

Richmond Inner
Washington & Mason
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Washington & Mason

View north across Mason to Cable Car & Powerhouse at Washington and Mason Streets. Ferries & Cliff House Railway Co. Men and boys under corner awning. [Washington & Mason Car & Powerhouse. Broken Corner Missing] - United Railroads [U00138]

Nob Hill
Sutter & Broderick
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Sutter & Broderick

View west on Sutter from Broderick. Buildings at right (north side) mostly still stand. The block on the left demolished for public housing. Sutter Street cable tracks in street, Laurel Hill Cemetery in distance. Liquor store on corner at left. [Whithing Case] - United Railroads [U00170]

Lower Pacific Heights
14th & Valencia
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14th & Valencia

View North on Valencia Street with track construction at intersection. - United Railroads [U00207]

Mission Dolores
9th & Market
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9th & Market

View north across Market to corner of Hayes & Larkin. 9th & Larkin Line of what was the Sutter Street Railway. Mechanics Pavilion, later site of Civic Auditorium. - United Railroads [U00219]

South of Market
Frederick & Stanyan
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Frederick & Stanyan

View Southeast toward Cole Valley. Putting in new set of tracks. Almost all of the buildings in this photo exist today. - United Railroads [U00318]

Parnassus Heights
El Camino Del Mar near Seal Rock
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El Camino Del Mar near Seal Rock

48th Ave Depot during conversion of Ferries & Cliff House steam railroad line to streetcar line. The depot, built in 1888, was moved several feet and refurbished by United Railroads during the conversion. Sutro Heights Casino in right background at today's 48th Ave & Point Lobos. United Railroads [Reconstruction Ferries & Cliff Line] [U00411]

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
4th & Howard
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4th & Howard

Looking north toward Market Street. In the far distance you can see the St Francis Hotel, Academy of Sciences and Pioneer Hall. At far left, New Golden Gate Hotel 164 4th Street. Saloon with Wunder Beer sign at right at Natoma St. corner. [Rerailing 4th St between Howard & Mission]. . - United Railroads [U00457]

South of Market
Lands End Station
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Lands End Station

Construction of Lands End Station on the Cliff Line (formerly Ferries & Cliff House line). Served as passenger waiting room, curio shop and food concession until demolished in 1940. [Reconstruction Ferries & Cliff Line.55] Observation streetcars could pull over on a siding and people could get off and have their photo taken. The railroad right-of-way is now part of a walking path. - United Railroads [U00469]

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Eddy near Powell
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Eddy near Powell

View east on Eddy from center of street showing work crew building tracks. St. Ann's Building, Louvre restaurant on left. Flood building, Emporium and Red Front stores in distance.. - United Railroads [U00573] [Eddy & Powell Sts.]

Downtown / Union Square
Mission near 4th
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Mission near 4th

View West from center of street to track construction. Bass-Hueter Paint Co., 816 Mission; Golden West Storage Warehouse, 840 Mission at right. Jacob Schwerdt bar, store and office fixtures 821-823 Mission at left. Twin Peaks in distance. [Rerailing Mission Streets] between 4th & 5th - United Railroads [U00570]

South of Market
Van Ness & Sacramento
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Van Ness & Sacramento

[Van Ness & Sacramento] View across cable car tracks to SE corner. First Presbyterian Church (old 1st Church). - United Railroads (one of these) [U00600]

Polk Gulch
2nd & Stevenson
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2nd & Stevenson

Elevated view north across 2nd Street from Stevenson to track construction, west side of Cunningham Block, Arnstein Simon & Co. (formerly Stein Simon & Co.), woolen goods. [2nd & Market Sts.] United Railroads [U00644]

Financial District
5th  & Stevenson
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5th & Stevenson

Elevated view northeast across 5th Street, showing track construction. Building on the right is Lincoln School The very first statue ever erected for Abraham Lincoln was here. Cracked negative. [Terminal of the San Mateo Line] [Standing at 5th and Mint] United Railroads [U00645]

South of Market