Contains 1113 photos
View west up California. Fife Building at left, which opened in 1909; ex-Sutro Railroad 5-Line street car. Flags and banners strung across street, probably for the 1909 Portola Festival. Marine Building, Merchants Exchange in distance center.
Financial District
View north on Third St toward Market. Magee Building at far left (with Owl Drug Co. 710 Market, Tom Dillon Hats 712 Market), Mutual Savings Bank Building (with Paul T. Carroll Knox Hats store), Flannery Building (with signage for C.M. Wooster Co. Country Lands), Johann Schmidt Building at far right (Herman Barth architect, 1908) with large ads for 'San Carlos Park' development on Peninsula. horse drawn wagons. Same image as wnp37.02884 with less cropping. [9446 Mutual Bank]
South of Market
Mayor James Rolph piloting an antique horsecar on Montgomery Street during a commemoration of the last streetcar, the 'Toonerville Trolley' on Montgomery Street.
Financial District
View southeast to Central Theatre, 1191 Market at 8th Street. Central Theatre lasted from 1906 until 1911, replacing an earlier version destroyed in the earthquake and fire. Frank P. McCann saloon on corner.
Civic Center
View east. GAR conclave. Cable cars, decorations. Phelan building, Mutual Savings Bank Building background left, Call Building at right. Duplicate of wnp32.0247
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north from Market St. to remains of the Humboldt Savings Bank office at 626 Market. The bank refurbished that small building and reopened before moving to a large skyscraper to the west, near 4th Street. Horse and Wagon, workers on Oakland Traction Company tower truck work on overhead streetcar wires. Sign for Lacey Saloon to right of bank entrance. East wall of Chronicle Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Mission to Dray Wagon & Streetcar, Audiffred Building, California State Agricultural Building in background, left. William Cluff Co. Wholesale Grocers (SW Corner Mission & Spear)at right.
Financial District
View east to O'Farrell-Jones & Hyde Street Cable Car, Call Building and Kamm Building in background left. Orpheum (later Columbia) Theatre and Orpheum Annex Hotel on right, Phelan Building in distance.. Keiner's and Tait-Zinkand Cafe, Hotel Adena on left. Richard Valentine Tailor on right.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast down Embarcadero from pedestrian bridge. Ferry Loop at left.
Financial District
View south on Great Highway between Wawona and Sloat. Auto in foreground heading north. Sunset Confectionery & Luncheonette at left, boardwalk at right. Hills of Fort Funston in distance.
Ocean Beach
View of curved section of streetcar track. Accident report image from United Railroads Claims Dept. [U03010]
Tenderloin
View north across McAllister of storefronts between Fillmore and Webster, to New Palm Bakery, F. Thomas Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works, Atlas Furniture and Auction (1140-1150 McAllister), Modern Market, Palm Home Bakery.
Western Addition
View northwest from Embarcadero. Horse drawn wagon at right.
Financial District
Construction of some kind. Possibly a stadium. 8th street? Ewing Field?
The Newton J. Tharp Commercial School (later Commerce High School) was constructed on Grove between Polk and Larkin. Just after completion, plans for the new Civic Center were developed and the building was moved to Fell and Franklin (where it stands today)
Civic Center