Contains 55 photos
View east on Commercial from about 110 feet east of Drumm toward The Embarcadero & Ferry Building. Ferry Building pedestrian overpass in background. Truck loading milk cans, doorway to Pioneer Rubber Mills Shipping Department on right. At upper left, rear entrance to Maritime Hall Building, which fronted on 59 Clay Street. [dpwbook28 dpw6867]
Financial District
View north across Market up Battery. 22 Battery, Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect) at right. In center distance, ten story Newhall building on northeast corner of California and Battery (1910, Lewis Parsons Hobart architect). At right Donahue Mechanics Monument plaza with high-backed stone bench. [Market St. looking north in Battery St.] [dpwbook32 dpw8588]
Financial District
Elevated view northwest to Old U.S. Mint at 5th & Mission Sts. Wagons and carriages parked along curbs. 2 utility poles with 8 crossbars, overhead streetcar electrical wires.
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Burning on April 18, 1906. View southwest across Market to New Montgomery intersection and Palace Hotel, with Grand Hotel at left. Same original image as wnp37.01186. [E.F. Ford, Palace Hotel, Copyright 1906, 'Sunday July 6, 1906, With best wishes from Jack, wife and little daughter, J. Edwards']
Financial District
View east to crowded street scene with Flood, Call, Humboldt Bank, Pacific, Emporium and Lincoln Buildings. 7-Line #1666 streetcar. [Market Street near Fifth St. San Francisco, California]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic View east on Market from Turk and Mason, Flood Building, Call Building and Emporium at center. Flood Mansion in far left distance, Lincoln School on 5th Street at right. [View Down Market St from Turk St]
Tenderloin
View northwest across Bush Street to Denman School. Plank sidewalks. [230. The Denman Grammar School, Bush Street]
Lower Nob Hill
Elevated view west on Clay to Clay St. Cable RR cable car on Kearny Street Terminus. Portsmouth Square on right. R. Cutlar Dentist, H. Traube watchmaker and jeweler at left. Watkins stereo card number 2368. Original Title: 'Clay St. Hill R.R., San Francisco, Cal. Run by A.S. Hallidie's patent Endless Steel Wire Rope and Gripping Attachment. Overcomes an Elevation of 307 feet in a length of 2800 feet. Worst grade, one foot in six.'
Chinatown
Elevated view southeast across Market Street decorated for President McKinley's visit. Palace Hotel, Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Midway Plaisance theater in background. Dixon's Wear ad, carriages, wagons, Call Building, parade crowd and cable cars. [49-5949 Busy Market Street of the City of the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to woman cooking at street kitchen. Earthquake and fire ruins behind. Wagon, horses, barrels. Lick Baths (10th St., between Mission and Howard) and City Hall ruins in background center. [Stereoview card caption 'Making the best of trying circumstances. Cooking [...?] streets of San Francisco]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across Market to New Montgomery intersection. Fire at the Palace Hotel, smoke pouring down street beside Grand Hotel at left. Same original image as postcard at wnp70.1233.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast from Van Ness & Golden Gate towards Civic Center. Refugees from earthquake, burned area, City Hall and Hall of Records domes in distance.
Civic Center
View north across intersection to relocated stores on Van Ness after 1906 earthquake and fire, showing temporary storefronts built in front of existing Victorian houses. Buggies, carriages, shoppers.
Cathedral Hill
View west across Market to Crocker Building, built 1892, demolished 1966. Steeple of First Congregational Church in distance on Post Street at far right. Chronicle Building at far left. Same image as wnp71.1086.
Financial District
Elevated view southwest across busy Market Street to Bancroft's History Building (with Morley's Billiards, Ayres' Business College, Butler-Schutze Co., D.C. Hager Tailor and McDermott Sandblast hanging platform), Spreckels Market, Dr. Holsman, Stanford Studio photographer, Goldstein & Co. theatrical supplies 733 Market, Montgomery Market, Sanborn Vail, Boston Dental College, Shreve & Barber guns & cutlery, Midway Theatre. In distance old 1887 Flood Building at 4th St. corner, Emporium. [TEH500 South side Market St between 3rd & 4th. Aug 1905]
Downtown / Union Square