Larkin near Fulton
[Zan 113 San Francisco Library with Hotel Empire at right] (Open lot at right is future location of present Main Library)
Civic CenterHotel
Contains 945 photos
Kearny & Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Monadnock Building under construction; gutted Palace Hotel; Lotta's Fountain at right
Downtown / Union Square
California & Mason
Fairmont Hotel; Ferry Building in far right background corner
Nob Hill
Palace Hotel
View from Montgomery and Market. Architectural rendering (not entirely accurate) of Palace Hotel. Patent Notice by Muybridge 1874, who made a photographic copy of the original architectural illustration.
South of Market
Stockton & Geary
Union Square, view northwest from City of Paris department store. Dewey Monument. Plaza Hotel before renovation of facade 450 Sutter under construction.
Downtown / Union Square
Taylor & California
Elevated view east over Nob Hill to Bay, East Bay and Yerba Buena Island on clear day. Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club), Park Lane Apartments (at left, after 1929 addition of 3 stories, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect) Brocklebank Apartments (1927, Weeks & Day architects), Fairmont Hotel, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Huntington Hotel at right (1924, Weeks & Day architects) and Ferry Building. Grace Cathedral Rectory at lower left.
Nob Hill
Stockton & Geary
[Union Square San Francisco. S.P. 73] Saint Francis Hotel, Dewey Hotel, Chancellor Hotel, Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
Fairmont Hotel
View from Powell, looking northwest
Nob Hill
Fairmont Hotel
View northeast across California toward the main entrance.
Nob Hill
Broadway near Kearny
Broadway between Kearny and Columbus. African-American man smoking atop a car, St. Ives Hotel, Mike's hamburger shop in background.
North Beach
Palace Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Another view of Palace Hotel S. F.] view on New Montgomery to Market; man standing amid rubble in front of gutted Palace Hotel
South of Market
Pacific & Kearny
View west on Pacific toward Kearny. Prescott House 933 Kearny on the Southwest corner at left. Many of the buildings down the street were moved or demolished here for Montgomery Avenue. (later Columbus Ave.) construction. [Pacific street from Kearney (Sic)- looking West. 1385]
North Beach
Market & Powell
Elevated view across Market to Baldwin Hotel, northeast corner of Powell and Market (present site of the Flood Building) burned 1898. Stanford Mansion and Trinity Episcopal Church at background left. Horsecar tracks were installed in 1879 and replaced by cable car tracks in 1888. Trinity Episcopal Church and Stanford Mansion in background left. [183 Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre, NE corner Market and Powell]
Downtown / Union Square
St. Francis Hotel
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 174] View northwest across Geary to hotel's north wing under construction, after earthquake and fire. Refugee tents in Union Square.
Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
Baldwin Hotel (on the site of the Flood Building) Spectacularly burned in 1898, the fire demonstrated the inadequacies of the emergency water system, which was born out in April 1906. [9870 The Baldwin Hotel]
Downtown / Union Square