Market near Kearny
Wendell Willkie waves from motorcade during campaigning; Hyman's Leasing in Chronicle Building, Crocker Building.
Downtown / Union SquareNews
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Market near Kearny
Wendell Willkie in auto while campaigning; Hyman's Leasing in Chronicle Building, Peck Judah, Crocker Building.
South of Market
1907 Graft Trials
4 men in a car, Maurice Foley, Abe Ruef, Police Chief William Biggy, unidentified, outside of the temporary courtrooms at Synagogue Sherith-Israel
Pacific Heights
Golden Gate Park
[ROOT OF AN EVIL - Police officer Bernard Gallagher uproots a marijuana plant in Golden Gate Park. Tended by a gardener who said he didn't know what it was, the plant was capable of producing about $100 worth of dope. It was turned over to narcotics agents]
Golden Gate Park
Potrero Hill Aerial
Western Pacific Railroad tunnel fire. View northwest from above Sierra Street. [A stubborn fire in a railroad tunnel, Aerial view made 7/3 shows entrance to tunnel (center bottom) whose timbers are still burning, and large hole in street where top of tunnel ha started to collapse, necessitating the evacuation of a dozen homes so far.]
Potrero Hill
Fillmore & Fell
[Firemen ascending ladders in four-alarm blaze here in which four persons died, 17 were hurt, some 16 persons were carried to safety down ladders. 200 firemen fought the blaze.]
Lower Haight
Lyon & Haight
San Francisco Mime Troupe Gorilla Band descending steps from Buena Vista Park for Freedom Festival Week parade.
Buena Vista
Miraloma near Yerba Buena
Willie Mays' house, 175 Miraloma Drive [This is the new home 175 Miraloma Drive, for which Willie Mays, SF Giants center-fielder, offered $37,500. Willie's offer was turned down, the owner Walter A. Gneadiloff, explaining there was great neighborhood pressure against the deal. Gneadiloff commented:
Sherwood Forest
Cityview & Knollview
View northwesterly toward Golden Gate Heights. Russian builders visit Twin Peaks to look at building [A serious and businesslike group of Russian builders, showing interest in hillside home construction, inspected a new series of homes being constructed on the slopes of SF's Twin Peaks... Ed Schuhauser, Standard Building Company, I.K. Kozuilia, head of the Russian Delegation]
Midtown Terrace
Golden Gate Park
Groundbreaking for PPIE at Polo Fields, American opera star Mme. Lillian Nordica (1857-1914) singing for crowd. [dpwbook3 dpw428]
Golden Gate Park
Kearny & Market
View north Lotta's Fountain and Kearny, Chronicle Building [dpwbook10 dpw2188]
Downtown / Union Square
Dedication of City Hall
Dedication of City Hall, Mayor Rolph [dpwbook14 dpw2908]
Civic Center
Buchanan & Oak
505 Buchanan on the Northwest corner of Oak. It was the site of a gun battle and siege between police and bank robber George Nelson on September 12, 1915, resulting in Nelson's suicide. Building was demolished by 1922. [dpwbook16 dpw3473]
Hayes Valley
Grant, O'Farrell & Market
Elevated view east from north side of Market over crowd waiting for Spanish-American War news. Call and Examiner Buildings, Palace and Grand Hotels in background. Montgomery Market, German Sausage Factory, Schlueter & Volberg Carpets on right. [9255 Waiting for News from the Seat of War. San Francisco, Cal., U. S. A.]
Downtown / Union Square
Telegraph Hill
crowds assembled to witness fleet leaving for Philippines; German Castle (Layman's Castle), taken from top floor 292 Union Street east of Montgomery
Telegraph Hill