Market & Kearny
Looking east toward Ferry Building in distance. Palace Hotel. MSRY streetcar #1579.
Downtown / Union SquareHotel
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Market & Post
Elevated view southwest across Market to Metropolis Bank Building, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Examiner Building, Call Building, and Humboldt Bank Building in distance. D-line and other streetcars.
Financial District
View E from Nob Hill
View east from Stanford Court Hotel, Powell near Pine, Metropolitan Life Building (now Ritz-Carlton) under construction. Negative retouched
Nob Hill
Nob Hill
Elevated view northwest toward Nob Hill from above Sutter and Stockton. Rebuilt Temple Emanu-El (Now location of 450 Sutter medical building) at left, Hotel Colonial Annex and Stockton Tunnel at center. In distance, early buildings on Grace Cathedral site, Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel), 1001 California Morsehead Apartments (1915), Hopkins Institute of Art, Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) and Fairmont Hotel at center distance. The Angelus, Calvert Hotel Apartments, Yorkshire Apartments, Grant Hotel, Windemere Apartments, Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel, above tunnel entrance at far right.
Downtown / Union Square
Fairmont Hotel
Nob Hill, Elevated view northwest across intersection of Powell and California, unrestored Flood Mansion (restored 1910 for Pacific-Union Club) at left background, 1906 ruins of Stanford Mansion at left. United Railroads Powell Street cable car
Nob Hill
Powell & California
Elevated view to northwest corner and Fairmont Hotel. Garage entrance, original East Garden above. Same as wnp59.00122, cropped differently.
Nob Hill
Union Square
View west from near Stockton Street to St. Francis Hotel. Dewey Monument. Elkan Gunst Building behind flagpole on Geary-Powell corner.
Downtown / Union Square
Bush & Powell
View northeast across intersection past United Railroads cable car #513 on Washington-Jackson route in front of Kenilworth Apartments, built 1907, architects Sutton & Weeks. To its right, Beck Apartments, built 1909, architects Cunningham & Politeo. Both apartment buildings still stand in 2023. [The Kenilworth. N. E. Cor. Bush and Powell St.]
Downtown / Union Square
Pine near Jones
Somerset Apartments, 1111 Pine between Jones and Leavenworth, built 1909, C.O. Smith architect. View south from across the street. Cable car tracks. J. Allec dyeing and cleaning rig with horse, early automobile.
Nob Hill
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
O'Farrell near Stockton
View west to Tait-Zinkand Cafe and Hotel Belle Clair on north side of street. Hotel Manx farther west on opposite corner of Powell. Cable car tracks, early automobiles.
Downtown / Union Square
Bush near Stockton
[Hotel Victoria] View to northeast corner. Empty lot on left, street construction, and a line of horse teams with carts.
Downtown / Union Square
Lake & 3rd Ave
View to apartment complex in Pueblo or Mission style. Boys on steps.
Presidio Terrace
Church & Duboce
View to northwest corner at Duboce Apartments Building at 400 Duboce.
Duboce Triangle
Powell near Ellis
View north to Golden West Hotel, Old Louvre restaurant. Powell Street cable cars, early automobile.
Downtown / Union Square