Millbrae
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 40-line Streetcar #962 passing Millbrae substation, Millbrae Road. Site of present-day Caltrain/BART station.
Outside SFHorse
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Embarcadero near Market
View south from in front of Ferry Building showing streetcars & carriages
Financial District
14th near Sanchez
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View east on 14th from Sanchez. Meat distribution line on south sidewalk. [20648 Section of line of Refugees 3 blocks long, awaiting distribution of meat. Sanchez St. east from 14th unburned portion. San Francisco, Cal.]
Duboce Triangle
Ocean Beach
Crowd gathered on the beach watching a small steam ship and two lifesaving boats (possibly lifesaving drills?)
Golden Gate Park
McLaren Park
View east from about the current John Shelley Drive above the site of the McLaren Upper Reservoir toward the undeveloped ridge of McLaren Park with Bayview Hill in the distance. A large crowd assembled for possibly a Boy Scouts tree planting event. Boys in Mission baseball uniforms in the foreground. [photo printed in SF Examiner May 9 1970]
McLaren Park
Unknown Location
A horse. Location may be problematic if not 2303 Divisadero.
O'Farrell near Stockton
View east on O'Farrell between Powell and Stockton. Alcazar Theater at left. O'Farrell & Jones Cable Cars, Call Spreckels Building in the background [Alcazar #3 SF ALZ-04 1910s]
Downtown / Union Square
Mission & Eugenia
1906 earthquake and fire. View east across Mission, Eugenia at right. Heavily loaded cart being dragged by a man with woman pushing from behind.
Bernal Heights
Church & 20th
View north to J-Church right-of-way being constructed through Dolores Park. Old Mission High School at center. [5321. Church & 20th looking North. 10:05 A.M. 5-27-16]
Dolores Heights
California & Market
View north across Market toward businesses on the site of today's Hyatt Regency Hotel. California Wire Works was established in 1852 and acquired by Andrew Hallidie in 1876. In 1895 Hallidie sold out to Washburn and Moen Company. This was Hallidie's business office, at 6 California St., and the manufacturing was in North Beach. H. P. Gregory & Co., dealers in machinery; F. & P. J. Cassin, importers of whiskey, wine, liquors; Giant Powder Co.; California Paper Co.[View of Block from Nos. 2 to 12 California Street.] (Taber's Album of Principal Businesses)
Financial District
Unknown Location
Parade for the Golden Jubilee, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of gold. Crowds of people on sidewalks and residences watching the Calaveras County float with men dressed as gold miners around a giant gilded skull. Sign on float 'Calaveras County The County of Skulls ... Great Gold Producers ... production since 1880 would build this skull out of solid gold ... total over $100,000,000.' [San Francisco. The Golden Jubilee]
Deer Glen
Golden Gate Park, view northwest across Bowling Green Drive near Middle Drive (now Nancy Pelosi) toward the entrance to the Deer Glen (now the AIDS Memorial Grove). From at least the 1910's to the 1990's this was known as the De Laveaga Dell, named after settler and philanthropist Jose Vicente de Laveaga. who gave a monetary bequest for its development in the 1890's.
Golden Gate Park
Market & Annie
View northeast across Market Street. Crocker Building (1891) at left, Union Trust Building (1894) and first Hobart Building in distance. Palace Hotel at right.
South of Market
Golden Gate Park
Music Concourse, two men lounging in the grass, Memorial Museum (eventually part of de Young Museum) in the background
Golden Gate Park
Unknown Location
Admission Day Parade, 1925. Two horseback riders in Spanish costume: a girl wearing helmet and chainmail vest, and man wearing vaquero hat. The Parade (75th Anniversary of California's statehood) drew 650,000 spectators and took over 5 hours to complete.