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Old Sonoma Adobe Barracks with Victorian facade (since removed), torn sign over entry. Building to right is Old Sonoma Mission, building to left is Toscana Hotel. Merchant Solomon Schocken purchased the Barracks from Mariano Vallejo and his wife Benicia in July, 1879. In May, 1879 he opened a general merchandise store there. (Cropped version of wnp14.0945)
Outside SF
Left building is Old Sonoma Adobe Barracks occupied by the U.S. Officers and Troops in 1846 (according to Jesse Cook). two men in a buggy pulled by a mule. same location as wnp13.202
Outside SF
1906 Earthquake and Fire, 25101 San Francisco - Market St. Elevated view east from roof of Old Phelan Building. Phelan Building tower, Mutual Savings Bank, Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building (under construction), Hearst Examiner Building, Call Bldg., Call Bldg. Annex, Kamm Building at right
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view down Market southeast from Powell. Left to right: Flood Bldg., Ferry Bldg., Call Bldg, Humboldt Bank Bldg (with 1915 sign), Pacific Building, Emporium. McIntosh Stereopticon Co. Chicago / Pacific coast states, looking east on Market St, 1915, 16 block east, is second busiest corner in U.S. SF Cal.
Downtown
Mission Dolores - SF, Ca. issued by Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Co.
Mission
At right, Pioneer Trunk Factory - C. A. Malm and Co.(1902, Architect Thomas J. Welsh, later known as Pioneer Building). At left, H. Friedrichs furniture factory, later Allied Box & Excelsior Co., 2169 Folsom, built 1902, still standing, converted to housing. Documenting SF Municipal Railway Accident Report 5012, car - people - United Railroads [U05871]
Mission
View southerly across empty lots on Mncada Way toward 90 Cedro Avenue (SFlandmark 213) at ther Corner of Moncada and Cedro. Merced Heights in background. 90 Cedro was built in 1911 as the home of Joseph Leonard, owner of the Urban Realty Improvement Company and builder of Ingleside Terraces. Later it was the home of Cecil Poole, whose family became the first non-white residents of Ingleside Terraces in 1957.
Ingleside Terraces
Blurry night view of the Ferry Building with decorations for the Great White Fleet. Tower outlined with electric lights, giant electric stars and strips shield decoration in front.
Financial District
MUNI E-Line streetcar #365 at its terminal just north of the Ferry Building.
Financial District
View north on Kearny from Clay, Portsmouth Square, Kearny St., Coit Tower, Sentinel Building, Market Street Railway (MSRY) 43-Line streetcar #303
North Beach
View east on Mission at 7th, Old Post Office (Now US Court of Appeals) at left SF Muni 12-Line Streetcar #868
South of Market
View northwest across Mission to Municipal Railway (Muni) 14-line streetcar #269 with passengers getting on and off. Land Hotel, Old U.S. Mint in background.[Mission at 5th 14-269]
South of Market
Facade of Mission Dolores, viewed from median strip of Dolores Street. Cemetery at left.
Mission Dolores
Intersection of Columbus, Montgomery, & Washington. Looking north across intersection, with Telegraph Hill in background right. Italian Popular Bank building (Fugazi Banca Popolare Operaia Italiana) (built 1908) at gore corner. Building is also known as the Fugazi Bank Building, and exists today as San Francisco Landmark #52. Before 1914, a third story was added. The cupola was removed after that. In addition, the building was extended northward. Sentinel Building aka Columbus Tower in distance left.
North Beach
Elevated view southeast from St. Francis Hotel. Schroth Building (1908, architect Cunningham & Politeo), Chronicle Building and Annex, Whittell Building, Call Building, City of Paris.
Downtown