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Night view east from Nob Hill to illuminated ships at anchor in bay, the 'Great White Fleet'. Ferry Building visible at left with lights on tower and giant electric stars and stripes shield decoration in front. Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907), Merchants Exchange, Clunie Building, Mills Building. Pagoda of Sing Fat Building (1907) outlined with electric lights. Sacramento & Powell intersection at lower right.
Nob Hill
[TEH409 Mills & Vantine Wines & Liquors, Fort Vigilance 1856, BU-36, 4073] Also called Fort Gunnybags, south side of Sacramento St. between Front and Davis. . Headquarters of vigilantes. Bell and guards on top of building. Where Casey and Cora were hanged. Brown & Crowell. (Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album) [G810 BU-040B] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (T.E. Hecht copy)
Financial District
Elevated view northwest across Market to parade welcoming back troops from Spanish American War. Large crowds, men standing on telephone poles. Chronicle Building, Crocker Building, original Hobart Building. Duplicate of wnp27.4468. [Return Calif Boys, CB-9] [G810 CB-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view north across Market to parade welcoming back troops from Spanish American War. Metropolitan Tailoring Co., Kahn Bros. foreign dress goods 516-518 Market, James S. Webster & Co. [Return Calif Boys] [G810 CB-010] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
View north over battle towards Alcatraz and Angel Island. A mock military battle staged on July 3rd, 1876, in honor of the US Centennial anniversary. Watkins Boudoir Card B3588. Boats in water, people on grass. Ships at anchor in the Bay. [Harbor View 1876 July 3, Sham-Battle, HV-3] (G810 HV-003) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Presidio
View northeast over 'battleground' towards Alcatraz. A mock military battle staged on July 3rd, 1876, in honor of the US Centennial anniversary. Same image as Watkins Boudoir Card B3586. Boats in water, people on grass. Ships at anchor in the Bay. Presidio House is at center. [Sham Battle at Harbor View July 3rd 1876, HV-4] (G810 HV-004) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Presidio
Elevated view southwest of military parade going west on Market St. 'Swan the Painter', Ayres Business College in Bancroft History Building 723 Market, Montgomery Market, German Sausage Factory, Sanborn, Vail & Co, 741 Market. Call Building at far left. Taken from scaffolding of Mutual Savings Bank Building, under construction. Original Phelan Building in distance right.[Looking West on Market St 1890 sic] [G810 PA-027] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
U.S. Army vessel 'General Mifflin' in San Francisco bay. [G810 SH-548] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
U.S. Army transport service (USAT) ship 'Sherman' at USAT dock. [G810 SH-558] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Rincon Hill
U.S. Army transport service (USAT) ship 'Sherman' at USAT dock Pier 12. [G810 SH-559] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Rincon Hill
View east to US Navy Armored Cruiser USS New York (ACR-2) entering dry dock 1 at Bethlehem Hunter's Point shipyard. Pump house with tall smokestack at end of pier [G810 SH-592] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Hunters Point
View east to US Navy Armored Cruiser USS New York (ACR-2) entering dry dock 1 at Bethlehem Hunter's Point shipyard. Pump house with tall smokestack at end of pier. [G810 SH-593] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Hunters Point
View northeast across Market to 660 Market St (Realty Building, built 1907, demolished 1923). Army recruitment effort with soldier standing behind podium with large Victrola phonograph, tank vehicle with signs: 'The Dominant Tractor Built by C.L. Best Gas Traction Co., San Leandro, Cal.', 'Tracklayer Best 75', 'Enlist Today & Help California to furnish 3000 men in 30 days for the Duration of the War.' In April, 1917 the C.L. Best Co. gave the Army an armored prototype of one of its Tracklayer line of farm tractors for use in recruitment. Signs on Realty Building for Lyon & Hoag Real Estate office, North Pacific Steamship Co., The Waldorf, A.J. Henry Notary Public. The Ocularium Henry Kahn & Co., Quarg's Bar, Pioneer Assay Office. Crocker Building at right. [SS-198] [G810 SS-198] (GGNRA/B
South of Market
Elevated view southeast across Van Ness to large packed grandstand and 'Vallejo Welcomes the Fleet' Mare Island float pulled by horses in naval parade for Great White Fleet. Sailors marching with rifles in opposite direction in the foreground. St. Cecile Hotel at 115 Fell Street, Twin Peaks in background. (Duplicate wnp37.02976) [G810 ZMISC-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
Cropped duplicate of wnp24.0027a. View north from Union Square to National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864), Post between Powell & Stockton Streets, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street behind. Portion of Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) on left. [G57 SBU-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square