Embarcadero
50 Green Street, NW Pacific Railroad Yard, Coit Tower, Busvan trucks.
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View from Shell Building
Elevated view east (possibly from the Shell Building) PG&E and Matson Buildings, Bay Bridge, Ferry Building. Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building. Construction in the foreground. Embarcadero Freeway not built yet. Southern Pacific Building with big S-P sign atop. Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands, East Bay Hills.
Financial District
3rd & Market
Elevated view north up Kearny from Market to crowded street scene. Mutual Savings Bank Building with Bank of America Branch, W.L. Growall Tailors, B.T. Brilliant Credit Jeweler, N.T. Turner Jeweler; Flannery Building with Dr. Ford Dentist and electric 'Piles Cured' sign, Grant Tailors, Ltd., Dinty's Kitchen and The Stag Bar. On Kearny, Johann Schmidt Building, Sherman, Clay & Co., Pauson's, Hotel Sutter, W.T. Carroll hats, Maskey's Candies in Maskey Building, Harvard Billiards & Snooker. Chronicle Building with Waldorf Buffet, W.T. Willett Chiropractor, Loew Brothers Tailors Telegraph Hill in distance. Birdcage traffic signals. Examiner Building on right.
South of Market
Palace of Fine Arts
Swans in lagoon in front of Palace of Fine Arts
Marina
Kearny & Market
Elevated view east. L to R: de Young (Chronicle) Building, Lotta's Fountain, Ferry Building, Palace Hotel. Streetcars autos, trucks, police officer. Howard Clinton Tibbitts (1863-1937) was a San Francisco based photographer who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad for 40 years starting in 1892.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & 10th
Elevated view southeast across intersection to San Francisco Merchandise Mart building, later renamed Market Square and home of Twitter in 2010s. Fox Theater at far left. Hotel Whitcomb in distance with radio tower atop. Banners strung across street and signs on street poles say "Welcome New Western Mart" (its original full name was Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart). The building opened on August 2, 1937. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 6-Line #172 and 6-Line #150? on Market Street.
South of Market
Hallidie Building
Sutter Street between Montgomery and Kearny. 1920s view of building with Robert S. Atkins business.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
Elevated view southeast across Market Street, to Hearst Examiner Building under construction, Call Building, Palace Hotel. Montgomery Market, Swan the Painter, The Oxford House 719 Market. Ettinger's Fringe Factory, New Creamerie Restaurant, Butler-Schutze Co., Whitaker & Ray Books in Bancroft History Building at right. [8703 Claus Spreckels Building, S.F. Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
Bancroft Library
[Hubert Howe Bancroft's Historical Library of Pacific Coast Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 1538 Valencia Street, San Francisco, Cal. To Subscribers to Bancroft's Works, with compliments of the Publishers.] View west across Valencia Street to Bancroft Library, brick building with shutters, fenced, on present site of St. Luke's Hospital (CPMC Mission Bernal Campus). Twin Peaks in background. The library moved to Berkeley in 1905, but the building remained until 1954. A plaque, California Historical Landmark 791, marks the spot.
Bernal Heights
Conservatory of Flowers
Elevated view north to main outside stairway and entrance. Man on horseback, people strolling.
Golden Gate Park
Ferry Building
Looking south on Embarcadero. Auto tunnel at lower right was there from 1920-1955. Muni Railway E Car #351, built in 1922.
Mission Dolores
View west across Dolores St. to old Mission with Original Parish House, which came down circa 1890. Gothic Revival church at right, dedicated February, 1884. [3027 Mission Dolores, S.F. CAL. Founded 1776].
Mission Dolores
Fort Mason
Quarters #4 on Upper Franklin Street, also called Palmer House. Two soldiers on grassy slope at left. [37 Officer's Quarters Hughes]
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Old Mint
View northwest across intersection of 5th and Mission Streets to the old U.S. Mint. Utility pole with 8 crossbars. [The Mint, South, East, Corner of Mission and Fifth Sts SF Perkins 218?]
South of Market
Mission Dolores
[Mission Dolores Church] View southwest across Dolores to Mission and cemetery. Gothic Revival church on right.
Mission Dolores