Contains 142 photos
Pre-Earthquake View west from center of Market Street. (2nd Street) On left, Grand and Palace Hotels, Spreckels (Call) Building, on right Chronicle Building, Crocker Building, original Hobart Building with Postal Telegraph Co office.
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Woodward's Gardens, Looking Northwest
Mission
Horse car passing South Park [492. South Park from Third Street]
South Beach
View south across Market between Main and Spear. Market Street horsecar passing California Door Company, 113-115 Market.
Financial District
View northeast from intersection to parade to celebrate opening of Argonaut Bay (now Maritime Museum). Comstock locomotive J.W. Bowker took passengers to this location, where they switched to where they transferred to horse car from Sutter St. line. People in period dress pose for photographers. Purpose of event was to raise funds for proposed Argonaut Bay Roundhouse at Aquatic Park, displaying historic rolling stock. The roundhouse was never built. Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop in background. Yale Luggage Shop, Terminal Jewelry Co. at left.
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[Post-Market 1864] [Crocker Estate Album] Elevated view west on Post Street. Crowds in the street, horsecars, buggies, wagons.
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View northwest across Square to north side of Post, Trinity Episcopal Church, National Guard Armory, Pacific Business College, Union Club (Walkerley Building). [Union Club 390]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building with carriages, cabs, and cable cars in front. Cable car #13 of Market Street Cable Railway Co on turntable. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). [San Francisco Ferry Landing. A. J. McDonald]
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Elevated view northeast to group of men and a few women, marching band, cable cars, and horse cars. Men are mostly in uniforms or Odd Fellows costumes in front of original Ferry Building. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). Valencia Street #18 cable car on turntable at center. Likely on the occasion of the arrival of IOOF Grand Sire John H. White on October 3, 1887. [Odd Fellows Receiving 'Grand Sire' at Ferry Landing. Foot of Market St., S. F. CAL. A. J. McDonald]
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View northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building 'C.P.R.R. Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley Ferry' terminal. Market Street Cable Railway Co. cable cars and horse cars. Signage for real estate auctions for Lincoln, Placer County. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). [451 Ferry Landing, San Francisco]
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View west from center of Market to Crocker Building (Built 1891). At left, Chronicle Building. In distance on Post St., right, steeple of First Congregational Church. Utility poles with many crossbars. [6152 The Crocker Building, Corner Market and Post Streets, San Francisco]
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Elevated view west down California. Cable car tracks. [6162 California St from Sansome St.]
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[B 2344 Market St.] Taken between 1883 and 1887. Palace Hotel and Nucleus Block. Duplicate of wnp37.0359.
South of Market
Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building. Castro Street cable car, wagons, carts, cabs, and horses. Signage for real estate auctions. Station D. Post Office (Opened October, 1884).
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Elevated view northwest across Montgomery to buildings on west side of street, from Eureka Theater, which was at 320 Montgomery Street. Selleck's Photographic Gallery, Kennedy & Bell Carpets. Wells Fargo Express and Bank in Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams) at center. Two horsecars approaching. [150. Montgomery Street, from Eureka Theater]
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