Sacramento near Leidesdorff
View west to What Cheer house on left, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Martin's Restaurant on right. Fairmont Hotel, cable cars in distance. [No. 4 Sacramento St. west from Sansome, 1905]
Financial DistrictHorses
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Post near Stockton
View east down crowded Post to Market Street and Balboa Building (1907-1977) in distance. (AS) [730 Post St, center of retail shopping district, (five years after the fire), San Francisco, Cal, U.S.A. Copyright 1911 by H.C. White Co.]
Downtown / Union Square
Market & 10th
[This is where I am staying. Ella. Grand Central Hotel, with XX drawn in room window] View northwest across intersection to Grand Central Hotel, earthquake shacks down Polk St. Pedestrians and wagons. Same image as wnp70.1231.
South of Market
Mission & 3rd
View north on 3rd to crowded street scene, Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building in distance on Market. Aronson Building (1903) at left. Winchester Hotel,
South of Market
3rd near Market
View north down 3rd to Magee Building (with Owl Drug sign on roof, Nat Ellery for Governor HQ (unsuccessful candidate in August, 1910 primary)) Mutual Savings Bank Building (with Paul T. Carroll Knox Hat store) and Flannery Building (with signage for C.M. Wooster Co. Irrigated Lands, Easy Dental Parlors, Dr Hall's Electro-Vigor), Schmidt Building. (Bockman family)
South of Market
California & Sansome
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins and gutted buildings; View southeast to Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York on southeast corner. Bottom stories later retained and reconstructed. Ruins of Friedlander's Building at left. [81. Mutual Life Ins. Bldg.; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.][Calif. & Sansome]
Financial District
6th & Market
[B 924 Instantaneous View of Market St.] View east from near center of Market St. to St. Ann's building and Baldwin Hotel in distance on left. Horse car and cable car tracks. Utility poles with 8 crossbars on south side of Market.
South of Market
Market & Drumm
View northeast to Santa Marina Building (completed 1907), Pacific Steamship Co., Matson Navigation Co. at 112 Market Street. Ad for Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum on side of Scandinavian Hotel (Scandinavian Sailors Home) 116 Drumm (built 1907). California St. Cable Car, public drinking trough for horses at right. Marine recruitment and Liberty loan posters. [BU-34 1304] [G810 BU-034] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Market near Main
View northeast from center of Market to Cable Cars and Horsecars on lower Market Street, Ferry building in the distance. Luning Building at Drumm St. corner at left. On right, R.N. Nason & Co. paints, 117-119 Market beyond Main St. corner. [G57 SSTC-023](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
3rd & Howard
View northeast across 3rd to Hearst Building (opened September, 1911) under construction in left distance on Market Street. The Williams Building (Clinton Day Architect, 1907) on the southeast corner of 3rd and Mission, with Grand Rapids Show Case Co, Luttge Mfg. Co signage on south side. Present site of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at right. [Hotel Alta 165 Third St]
South of Market
4th near Mission
View north on 4th to Market Street and Roos Bros. store, St. Francis Hotel in center distance. Hotel Argonaut, Argonaut Tailors, Pacific Building.
South of Market
3rd & Mission
View north on 3rd to Call and Mutual Savings Bank buildings on Market Street. New Hearst Examiner building (opened September, 1911) under construction on right. Aronson Building, Pleasantry Cafe, Winchester Hotel, Hotel Navarre, and 16-line (?) streetcar. Cook Medical Co. on right.
South of Market
Golden Gate Park
View east from Favorite Point at Main Drive (now JFK Drive) and Bowling Green Drive. Horses, Buggies, people lounging on the grass. This small promontory was also called Chicken Point. [Golden Gate Park S.F. No. 5 Market St.]
Golden Gate Park
Van Ness & O'Farrell
View southwest across intersection to new construction of Delbert Block after 1906 earthquake and fire. R. P. Hurlbut, contractor and builder. Plans called for two very large 4-story matching office and retail buildings, holding 300 offices and 38 stores, with a second story bridge over Olive St. connecting them (Arthur A. Lamb, architect). Delbert Block was demolished in 1910. Hotel Savoy on far left at Ellis Street. Between Hotel Savoy and Delbert Block is the Countryman Building under construction. [4230 Van Ness Sept 06] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Tenderloin
Geary near Kearny
Elevated view northeast of reconstruction after 1906 earthquake, with crowded streetcar on Kearny. Site of United Cigar Stores Co. building at northwest corner of Geary & Kearny at lower right. Temporary building with several businesses across Kearny: M. A. Gunst & Co. A. J. Rich & Co. real estate, Maskey's Candies 32 Kearny. Streetcar, many steel frames for new buildings. In distance, surviving buildings on or near Montgomery St.: Mills Building, Merchants Exchange, Kohl Building. At left, steel framework for Oscar Luning Building 45-47 Kearny, at center (1907, Nathaniel Blaisdell, Architect). [4305 Kearny St from Market April 1907] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Downtown / Union Square