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Elevated view northwest towards Portsmouth Square. Clay street cable car at terminus. Coaches and cabs lined up for hire. Portsmouth House, Exempt Fire Co. firehouse with bell tower on far side of plaza. [Clay Street Hill] [Views of American Scenery]
Chinatown
View north on 3rd Street from Mission, Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank in the background. [16879. Majestic sky-scrapers, the pride of San Francisco just before the Earthquake]
South of Market
View southeast past a man seated on a wagon, to busy street scene on the 900 block of Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets. At far right is 935-931 Market, built in 1887 and first occupied by Keane Brothers dry goods. In distance left, tall building is the Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market. [WK] [Market Street towards the ferries]
Tenderloin
First Cliff House from Cliff Road (now Point Lobos Ave) before 1868 additions. [Watkins Pacific Coast at the Cliff House. 772]
Sutro Heights
View southeast across Van Ness Avenue showing the east side of the street between Austin and Bush. The Knights Templar Parade with mounted equestrian contingents. Victorian homes on the site of the Marie Antoinette Apartments.
Lower Nob Hill
View east across Van Ness Avenue between Pine and Austin for the Knights Templar Parade. Crowd assembled. The Van Ness Avenue Methodist Episcopal Chapel, 1412 Van Ness, at right. The Van Ness Ave. M. E. Chapel was reported by the Call in February 1892 to be "recently built" as a "temporary" structure until a more substantial edifice could be built. It was listed as the Van Ness Ave. M. E. Church in the 1892-1894 city directories.(PF)
Lower Nob Hill
View southeast across Van Ness Avenue showing the east side of the street between Austin and Bush. The Knights Templar Parade with large marching contingents. Victorian homes on the site of the Marie Antoinette Apartments.
Lower Nob Hill
View southeast across Van Ness Avenue showing the east side of the street between Austin and Bush. The Knights Templar Parade with mounted equestrian contingents. Victorian homes on the site of the Marie Antoinette Apartments.
Lower Nob Hill
View northwest across 1100 block of Stockton Street between Jackson and Pacific showing the west side of the street. A funeral procession with horse-drawn hearse leads mourners walking in the street. Quen Hop (or Quon Hop) underwear factory 1119 Stockton, in background right. [Chinese Funeral Procession, Chinatown]
Chinatown
View northerly from 8th and Market Street across City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) to City Hall. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at center. Gardner works on new landscaping around Monument. [198. City Hall]
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southwest across Market toward the Palace Hotel burning. Grand Hotel at left. Same original image in wnp37.01186. [E.F. Ford Palace Hotel copyright 1906]
Financial District
View north from Mt. St. Joseph (Silver Terrace) toward Potrero Hill showing open space and a horse before development.
Silver Terrace
Reopening of N-Judah Streetcar, Mayor George Moscone and dignitaries with Muni Streetcar #1
Sunset Outer
Demonstration at Jack Tar Hotel (Later Cathedral Hill Hotel, demolished in 2014), mounted police
Lower Nob Hill
View south on Haight and Ashbury towards two mounted police passing under banner with Einstein quote
Haight Ashbury