Contains 945 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, elevated view west from upper story of a building near California St and Montgomery St. Prominent landmarks include ruins (left to right) of Grace Church, Old St. Mary's and Fairmont Hotel
Financial District
Elevated View east on O'Farrell from the parking structure at Mason. Crowd of anti-war marchers. Building with Pianos sign at right, the Travelers Hotel at 249-255 O'Farrell on the southwest corner of Carlos Street (built as Hotel Eugene in 1914), was demolished for Hotel Nikko. [5/13/72 - Antiwar protesters march through downtown San Francisco 5/13 in a peaceful demonstration againts President Nixon's Vietnam war policies. The crowd numbered about 1,000 which marched to the Civic Center. UPI]
Tenderloin
Elevated view southwest from center of Market toward Montgomery and New Montgomery. Grand Hotel (with Hall's Safe & Lock Works 609-611 Market and Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Freight and Ticket Office 613 Market) and Palace Hotel at left, Crocker Building at right, Call Building and Chronicle Building in the distance. Castro Street cable car #102 at center. [No. 680 Market St. from Montgomery St. west]
Financial District
Elevated view west toward Nob Hill from a building on California St. between Kearny and Montgomery. California Street at center, Old Saint Mary's Church, Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brockelbank Apartments in background. Pine Street wing of Metropolitan Life Insurance Building under construction. [California Street Hill Piggott Photo]
Financial District
Elevated view southeast on Market from the intersection of Kearny and Geary. Lotta's Fountain in foreground. Chronicle Building with clock above entrance, Palace Hotel (with Schwabacher Co. in corner retail space), Metropolis Bank Building with United Bank sign atop, Santa Fe building/West Coast Life Insurance, Balboa Building, Underwood Building, PG&E, Matson Lines and Ferry Buildings in distance. [South side of Market showing Palace Hotel 68]
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast from the roof of the Fairmont Hotel. (Fairmont Tower now obscures this view) Hall of Justice and adjoining County Jail on Portsmouth Square and Sentinel Building at center, Appraisers Building behind. Treasure Island in early stages of construction in the background. Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, East Bay Hills.
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast from Jones between Clay and Washington. Ruins of Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion at right. Ferry Building in distance at left.
Nob Hill
View west on Broadway from Drumm, showing Southern Pacific rail yard. Accident report 5470 - Gorman Case. A United Railroads streetcar #689 in an accident with Pacific Fruit Express freight car. Hotel Evans in the background. [U03288]
Northern Waterfront
View southeast across Market to Call Building, Academy of Sciences, Emporium, Red Front clothing store 857-859 Market. Approaching horsecar (tracks pulled out in 1897), wagons. Baldwin Hotel at far left (destroyed by fire November, 1898). Cropped version at wnp67.0270.
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Geary toward Grant. Municipal Railway (Muni) E-line Excursion Streetcar #371. Hotel Graystone and Safeway store at right
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view south on Van Ness Avenue between Grove and Hayes, crowd assembled for a naval parade related to the visit of the Atlantic Fleet (Great White Fleet). Grand Central Hotel (10th & Market) at left. Potrero Hill in the background left. [No. 49, Naval Parade, May 8th, 1908]
Civic Center
Elevated view toward Fairmont Hotel on California and Mason.
Nob Hill
Elevated view west across Union Square toward the St. Francis Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
View north on Jones from Geary. Hotel Gaylord and Bellevue Grocery at right. Cable car tracks in the street.
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east from a rooftop on Jones between Post and Sutter toward billowing smoke south of Market. Temple Sherith Israel and steeple of First Congregational Church at center. Rear of St. Francis Hotel in background. (copy negative by Mulin 1952)
Lower Nob Hill