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Mission Creek
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Mission Creek

China Basin, wrecked auto being raised out of creek. 6th Street swing bridge on left. Derelict steamboat 'Capital City' in the background. The boat would partially sink in the creek in 1952, and would be wrecked and removed in 1958.

Mission Bay
San Jose & Randall
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San Jose & Randall

View Northerly toward Randall and Mission, from San Jose Avenue. Traffic accident with overturned auto. Entire block with Norwalk Gasoline station and Jebbie's Hotdogs, demolished for gas station. Bernal Heights in background right.

Holly Park
16th & Potrero
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16th & Potrero

Accident with bus crash into power pole. See wnp26.2023.

Mission
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Traffic accident between truck and Dodge automobile. Better copy of duplicate wnp 26.1998.

Fillmore & Hayes
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Fillmore & Hayes

Elevated view southeast from Hayes towards Fillmore. Fire at apartment building 957 Hayes, fire department truck, crowds of onlookers gathered. [3/3 Fillmore Hayes] (folder: Fire, Smokey Roof)

Alamo Square
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Group of men in coats and hats, possibly a traveling sports team in matching coats with broad stripes, pose in front of Ferry Building. [G57 SPE-038] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Bush & Kearny
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Bush & Kearny

[NE cor Bush & Kearny Sts 1884 TEH326] Elevated view across intersection to crowd gathered on steps of Chronicle Building, perhaps excited about a current event. Horsecar passing. [G57 SSS-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Sherman Transport
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Sherman Transport

[Return of the Calif Boys 1899 CB-1] Ships with flags, USAT Sherman with volunteers returning from Spanish-American War. Embarcadero and Telegraph Hill at left. [F810 CB-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

SF Bay
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SF Bay

[Return of the Calif Boys 1899 CB-2 No 118] USAT Sherman troop transport at center, Telegraph Hill at right. Escorted by ships with flags, Executive Reception Committee aboard steamer. Volunteers returning from Spanish-American War. [F810 CB-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

SF Bay
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SF Bay

[Return of the Calif Boys 1899 CB-3 No 117] Ships with flags, USAT Sherman with volunteers returning from Spanish-American War. Off north waterfront. Telegraph Hill in left distance. [F810 CB-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Sherman Transport
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Sherman Transport

[No 115 Ret Calif Boys 1899. CB-4] USAT Sherman on San Francisco Bay with flags carrying volunteers returning from Spanish-American War. [F810 CB-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Elevated view to north side of Market during parade for returning volunteers of Spanish-American War. John W. Baker's photographic gallery above Edison phonograph agency (1028 Market), St. Ann's Building with tower. Soldiers standing in formation. [Market West Powell St Return Calif Boys 1899 CB-5] [F810 CB-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

Elevated view northeast from building of military parade turning off Market onto 3rd Street. Masonic Temple in background center. Original Hobart Building background right. Easton & Eldridge Real Estate Co., 618 Market. [CB-6] [F810 CB-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

Parade for volunteers returning from Spanish-American War, soldiers marching with rifles on shoulders. View northeast across Market toward Phelan Building. Chronicle Building on far right. [SF Return of the Calif Boys 1899 CB-7] [F810 CB-007] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
Market & Drumm
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Market & Drumm

Beginning of parade for volunteers returning from Spanish-America War. W. S. Ray Manufacturing (Stoves, ranges, and furnaces), Ferry Building. [CB-8] [F810 CB-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District