Market near 4th
View east on Market Street towards Call Building. [1904] Examiner Building and Palace Hotel in distance. Cable car with sign reading 'CHUTES,' pedestrians and horse drawn carriages in street.
South of MarketLandmark
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View from Palace Hotel
View looking northwest towards Nob Hill from Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery. [13. Nob Hill San Francisco Cal.] Fairmont Hotel at top center, with Stanford Court Apartments (how Hotel) in front.
South of Market
View from Pacific Heights
View northwest from approx. Green and Baker Streets towards Presidio and Marin Headlands. [21. North Cantonment, Presidio San Francisco, Calif.] Far left: Letterman Hospital and officers quarters. Temporary WWI barracks at top. Siam Pavilion, Palace of Fine Arts, and Oregon Building from PPIE.
Cow Hollow
Japanese Tea Garden
Golden Gate Park. Young woman wearing flowered hat and overcoat standing in front of shrine in Tea Garden [JTG]
Golden Gate Park
McLaren Lodge
Golden Gate Park. Built in 1896, the McLaren Lodge was once the home of John McLaren, the Park Superintendent from 1887 to 1943. Also held Offices for the Recreation and Parks Department, a use that continues today.
Golden Gate Park
Stow Lake
Golden Gate Park. View across lake toward Strawberry Hill. Sweeny Observatory visible atop hill.
Golden Gate Park
Memorial Museum
Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. Originally constructed as Fine Arts Building for Midwinter Fair in 1894, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. It was demolished in 1929. Original sphinxes flanking stairs. Cider Press statue at left, and Dore Vase in center. Cupid cherub statuary groupings which were moved to front of the Spreckels bandshell from some time in 1900 until approximately 1915.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park.
Sharon Building (also Sharon Lodge). Built in 1888, a sandstone building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style to serve as a canteen for children and mothers visiting the Golden Gate Park Children's Quarters. It was damaged the 1906 Earthquake and by fire in 1974, but it was restored to its original appearance after each of these disasters.
Golden Gate Park
Conservatory of Flowers
Golden Gate Park. View over Conservatory Valley from near Main Drive (today's JFK Drive) towards Conservatory of Flowers.
Golden Gate Park
Market & Mason
View north across Market to Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument). Erected in 1897, sculpture by Douglas Tilden, located at the intersection of Market, Mason and Turk Streets. It commemorates California Admission Day (September 9, 1850), the date on which the state became part of the Union. In 1948 it was moved to Golden Gate Park, and in 1977 moved to its present location at Market and Montgomery St. The five-story building at the left is The Metropole, a lodging house built around 1883 at Turk and Mason. The Olympia Music Hall (later known as Tivoli Opera House), the large round building in the background, was built in 1884 as the Panorama Building and was later remodeled as the Tivoli Opera House. Two street sweepers at work. Pacific Shirt Co. at right. (PF)
South of Market
City Hall Square
View northwest across City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) to Pioneer Monument (James Lick Monument) and old City Hall rotunda. Gundlach's Wine Vaults (Philip Gundlach) in Marye Building at left. Monument later moved to Fulton Street between Larkin and Hyde.
Civic Center
Mission Dolores
Pedestrians and bicyclists on Dolores Street passing in front of Mission Dolores, after removal of large portion of cemetery that encroached on sidewalk, and installation of steps into church necessitated by regrading of Dolores St. Gothic basilica at right, mission graveyard at left.
Mission Dolores
Geary & Stockton
View northwest across Union Square towards St. Francis Hotel, Chancellor Hotel. Municipal Railway (Muni) A-line streetcar at left. Dewey Monument at right. Two sailors standing on the corner.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Stockton
View west across Union Square towards St. Francis Hotel. Municipal Railway (MUNI) B-line streetcar at left. Dewey Monument at right. Birdcage traffic signals. B-Line streetcar, trolley bus.
Downtown / Union Square
California near Mason
View east down California St. towards the bay. Ferry Building tower at left center. Fairmont Hotel at left, University Club. Stanford Court Apartments (now Hotel) at right. California Street Cable Car ascending hill from Powell. At far right Hopkins Institute of Art, later replaced by Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Nob Hill