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Elevated view northeast across Market to crowds on street and rooftops watching parade (probably Portola Festival) heading west. Fairmont Hotel, St. Boniface church, Marshall Square Market, Flood Building. Electric streetcar tracks, flags and banners strung across Market Street. [M.G 110]
South of Market
Elevated view southeast over crowd, including sailors, in Civic Center Plaza. Civic Auditorium, Hotel Whitcomb in background.[The Liberty Boys. San Francisco's Farewell to ... Sept 21st 1917. Photo by Cardinell-Vincent Co 577 Market St.]
Civic Center
[324 - Ordnance Yard at Alcatraz Island.] Soldiers, stacks of cannonballs, and dismounted cannon. Portion of Citadel at left.
[Naval Parade May 7, 1908] Elevated view southeast to parade of sailors from Great White Fleet in front of reviewing stands on Van Ness Avenue between Fell and Market. Back of Grand Central Hotel at left.
Civic Center
Elevated view northeast to parade heading west on Market Street, celebrating the arrival of the Great White Fleet. St. Francis Hotel, Hotel Hamilton, Shirley's Billiards, Dean Building (built 1906, demolished 2018), Mechanic's Savings Bank Building, Flood Building. Large flagpoles set up on both sides of Market.
South of Market
Elevated view east to military parade heading west on Market, likely to honor returning soldiers from Spanish-American War. Alisky's Art Studio, Call Building, Ferry Building in distance. Large crowds in street and on rooftops. Emporium department store at Center. Note that Baldwin Hotel is gone but Flood Building hasn't been built. [Copyright 1899 Waters]
Downtown / Union Square
View west from northern waterfront to Fort Point and Golden Gate past scow and sailing ship. Selby Smelting works, Fort Mason (Black Point) at left. [701 Fiske] Possibly taken from Meiggs' Wharf.
Fishermans Wharf
View north across square from Geary to Temple Emanu-El and National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864). Sarsaparilla drink ad on bottom of picket fence. Left half of stereoview. Notably, Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) built on Post Street to the left of the Armory, has not been built.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Stockton St. Two National Guard soldiers in street, one holding a rifle, amid earthquake ruins; From left: Butler Building under construction, City of Paris and Whittell Building. In far distance, steeple of Grace Church at Stockton and California Streets. [#11 Ellis [Sic] & Market Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
[320--San Francisco from Alcatraz Island.] Soldiers posed while loading a 15-inch caliber Rodman cannon in Battery Prime at southeast tip of island. Telegraph Hill and North Beach in distance.
[209--San Francisco, from Alcatraz Island.] Soldiers posing next to 15-inch caliber Rodman cannon in Battery Prime at southeast tip of island. Telegraph Hill in distance.
View north to soldiers posing at gateway of today's Presidio Avenue, Lover's Lane, Main Post and Marin Headlands in distance. [B 432 The Presidio, from Central Avenue Gate, S.F. Watkins New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 427 Montgomery St. and 26 New Montgomery St., S.F.]
Presidio
[N. W. Jones] View northeast across Van Ness to parade, possibly G.A.R. First Presbyterian Church, southeast corner Van Ness & Sacramento, David N. Walter mansion, northeast corner, in background.
Pacific Heights
[55.] View northeast from center of Market to parade of volunteers for World War I; 'Battery A, The Grizzlies, We are going to camp. Still Recruiting Good Men. 210 Montgomery St.'; Union Trust Bank on left. The Grizzlies were the Second California Field Artillery.
Downtown / Union Square
View east to Portsmouth Square and Hall of Justice under construction in distance (building opened late 1900). 752 (Washington) sign under awning, soldier with rifle passing.
Chinatown