Union Square
View southeast towards Geary & Stockton. Great White Fleet Decorations. Temporary building in square, Whittell Building, City of Paris, Call Building in background.
Downtown / Union SquareMonument
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Market near Mason
Market St between Taylor & Mason. View northeast, Flood Building in background. Mechanics Savings Bank Building under construction (N.E. Cor. Market Mason), Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument). At left, Dean Building built 1906, demolished 2018.
South of Market
Donahue Statue
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to people sitting around Donahue (Mechanics) Monument, Market Street Earthquake Damage, temporary shack. [Donohue (Sic) Statuary on Mkt. St. Chas. A. Bailey L.A. #22]
Downtown
Mission & Otis
Colorized photo of National Humane Alliance Fountain at intersection of Missio and Otis Streets. The fountain was dedicated July 4th, 1911 and was part of a national effort to place similar fountains around the country. Drinking troughs for horses were on the upper level and bowls for dogs on the lower.
South of Market
Palace Hotel
Third & Market. Lotta's Fountain in foreground. Detroit Photographic Co./San Francisco, Co.
South of Market
Golden Gate Park
Schiller & Goethe Statue in original location on the west side of the Music Concourse, (current site of the de Young Museum Sculpture Garden) on August 11, 1901. It would be moved to the current east side of the Concourse in the early 1920s.
Golden Gate Park
St. Francis Hotel
Elevated view west across Union Square to Dewey Monument, people enjoying park, St. Francis Hotel, steeple of First Congregational Churdh. Hotel St. Francis, SF, Ca. issued by Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Co.
Downtown
Native Sons Monument
View north to Mason, Turk & Market Sts, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument, Tivoli Opera House in background at southwest corner of Eddy and Mason, showing musical comedy "The Burgomaster" starting March 10, 1905. Golden State Hotel. Hotel Inverness, Pacific Shirt Co. Monument moved to Golden Gate Park in 1948, moved to Market at Post and Montgomery Streets in 1977.
Downtown
Market & Dolores
View north from Dolores to south side of US Mint, SF Muni PCC streetcar #1140. California Volunteers Memorial at right. Billboard for Joe Bortin who ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1960 and 1964.
Castro
Market & Mason
View north across Market to Mechanics Savings Bank Building (Bank of Italy). Admission Day (Native Sons) Pioneer Monument, Poodle Dog Restaurant & Hotel. Garfield Building (Reid & Reid Architects, 1908) with Brittain & Co. Hardware, C.F. Adams Co. Clothing. Monument moved to Golden Gate Park in 1948, it was returned to Market at Post and Montgomery Streets in 1977.
Downtown
Union Square
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
Pioneer Monument
View north to Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at Marshall Square. Hall of Records in background. Current intersection of Grove and Hyde. Henry Johnson & Son Delicacies, 12 Marshall Square. City Hall demolished, Grove street would be extended to Market at this location in 1914. In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library. French-made cannon to right of the monument was a Spanish-American war prize. It is now in the Presidio.
Civic Center
Market near Mason
Portola Festival Parade, View east from center of Market toward Mason, Market, Turk intersection, Dean Building, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Flood Building, Emporium in background.
Downtown
Lotta's Fountain
View northwest across Market to Kearny, Geary intersection. Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building at right( with Dr. Willett Chiropractor, Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars Liquor signs). Buildings on west side of Kearny include 2 Geary Building (with Granville's Jewelers), Schmidt Building (with Pastine's Restaurant), Baldwin Building (with O.P.O. Clothes), Oscar Luning Building (with Brooks Camera).
Downtown
Turk & Market
View east to Native Sons (Admission Day) Monument, Pacific Shirt Co. at left, Call Building, Emporium in distance. Turk, Mason, Market Intersection pre-earthquake
Tenderloin