Contains 1113 photos
Elevated view north across Market and up Kearny to Market St and Geary St cable cars, Mutual Savings Bank, Flannery Building (with Hale Dental Co. sign and projecting electric "Dentist" sign), Chronicle (de Young) Building, Hearst Building. [No. 3 Kearny St. north from Market 1905]
South of Market
[California St. from Sansome to Montgomery sts, SF Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] Elevated view northwest across intersection to Bank of California, North Beach and California horsecar tracks. Parrot Block, Cast Iron Bank. London & San Francisco Bank building (constructed in 1874), 424 California, at left at Leidesdorff corner.
Financial District
Elevated view southeast to south side of California. Hayward's Building at center, the second Merchants' Exchange Building, Safe Deposit Building under construction at right. August Weihe, stock broker, Mahogany Gold & Silver Mining Co. in Express Building at left [From Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, Portrait and Landscape, 26 Montgomery Street, opp. Lick House entrance]
Financial District
[No 11 Montgomery St. north from Pine 1905] View north to Kohl Building, Safe Deposit Building. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building in distance at Sacramento corner.
Financial District
Elevated view west on Geary past Geary Street cable cars (started service February 1880), Lotta's Fountain. 'Red Rubber Stamps' sign on 700 Market St. building, Bradley Rulofson Photograph Gallery, large 'Dentistry' sign on roof of building on northwest corner of Geary and Kearny with eagle atop. Calvary Presbyterian Church (site of St. Francis Hotel) in background center. [No.479 - Geary Street from Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
[Telegraph Hill] Man with horse and Cart, likely at Broadway Cut. Warehouses and Sailing Ships in distance.
Telegraph Hill
Elevated view west on Clay. Portsmouth Square at right, Portsmouth House at northwest corner of Clay Street and Brenham Place, Fire house, with tower at top right. Variant of wnp24.224a.
Chinatown
View north on Grant Ave, to Clay St. intersection. Pedestrians on sidewalk, carts and autos in the road. Sing Chong store, 800 Grant, on northeast corner of Clay and Grant.
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 174] View northwest across Geary to hotel's north wing under construction, after earthquake and fire. Refugee tents in Union Square.
Downtown / Union Square
[No. 110 Baldwin Hotel, Market St.] Elevated view north across Market to Baldwin Hotel. Stanford Mansion and Trinity Episcopal Church at background left. Horsecar tracks were installed in 1879 and replaced by cable car tracks in 1888.
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Mission Street near 5th Streets to Old U.S. Mint. Ivy covers a portion of facade. [A18 US Mint]
South of Market
View west from center of Mission Street to Rialto Building under construction at left, approaching 10-Line #1367 at center. Keystone Type Foundry at right. California Mill Co. wagon. United Railroads photo. [3232. Mission St West from New Montgomery A.R. 4805] [U03232]
South of Market
Northwest corner of 2nd and Bryant, Somers & Co. Butcher Shop. Men posed on corner. (Don Carlos Somers)[5-12-1874 Mr. Dixon, Butcher Shop, Herbert Nelson, Corner Second and Bryant]
South of Market
Liebes Building (I. Magnin Building) under construction on southeast corner. Mutual Savings Bank Building in background left.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View East on Market from Mason, Native Sons (Admission Day) Monument at left, Damaged Flood Building at Powell, Call Building in the distance, and The Emporium on right. Sepia duplicate of wnp15.739.
Tenderloin