Van Ness & Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north from center of Van Ness to Rosenthal's Shoes, 1100 Van Ness, on northeast corner. Shoppers and relocated stores after the disaster.
Cathedral HillOriginal Print
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Mission Dolores
Old mission. Remains of brick church on corner of Dolores and 16th Street and debris piled in cemetery.
Mission Dolores
California near Sansome
View west on California with Bank of California building at center. Old St. Mary's Church, Fairmont Hotel up hill. Merchant's Exchange Building at background left, Kohl Building, London & San Francisco Bank Building at right. Gigs, horses, wagons and rebuilding underway. Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects)almost complete at right. On left, Mutual Life Insurance of New York and Fireman's Fund Insurance Buildings, each reduced to two stories after earthquake and fire.
Financial District
Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero and Ferry Loop to foot of Market with streetcars, wagons, many people. Flags and giant stars and stripes shield on tower for visit of Great White Fleet. [Waters & Co. Photog.]
Financial District
Parilia Ball
Civic Auditorium. [Spirit of the South Seas--Or Something! San Francisco--Revelers revel at the Parilia, Annual Ball of the San Francisco Art Association, with the theme being 'Pacifica Fantasia.' Some 800 participants wore costumes of the South Seas---or little or nothing in the spirit of the affair.] Dancers.
Civic Center
Montgomery & Broadway
[Wall Street of West: Noontime on Montgomery Street, heart of the financial district in San Francisco...] Russ Building, Chevrolet dealer, Banco Printing.
North Beach
Mint Hill
View from Carona Heights. New U.S. Mint, Bay Bridge, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building in distance.
Corona Heights
Bay Bridge
View from tower with workman toward San Francisco. Road bed under construction.
Mason & California
View northwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel toward Golden Gate past Huntington Park. Grace Cathedral rectory and grounds at left. Chambord Apartments, Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Roof of Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) at bottom right. [Photo furnished through courtesy Burlington Route and Western Pacific R.R.]
Nob Hill
Corona Heights
View to downtown, Mint Hill, Bay Bridge past McKinley School, Franklin Hospital.
Corona Heights
Hall of Justice
Old Hall of Justice at Washington and Kearny. [Where Mooney Will Face Court. Pictured here is the San Francisco Hall of Justice where Tom Mooney, Famous Prisoner, will go to trial April 26 on an unused murder indictment...]
Chinatown
Kearny & Broadway
View up Kearny to Telegraph Hill past Fior d'italia restaurant. [It was in this district the Atherton graft investigators found the greatest number of house of prostitution...Patrolman Joe Murray, freed of bribery charges on an instructed verdict after Abel Ducayla, Atherton's star witness lost his nerve and refused to testify.]
North Beach
Civic Auditorium
[Where Democrats will pick Presidential Nominee. View of the San Francisco Civic Auditorium where the democratic national convention will open June 28---It was erected at a cost of one million dollars and will seat from 10,000 to 15,000 persons...] Landscaped Civic Center with bear statue.
Civic Center
Telegraph Hill Aerial
Aerial view of Coit Tower, Alcatraz, Marin County beyond. [In Julius Castle beneath Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill you can enjoy the Italian specialty called saltimbocca.] (Same image as wnp27.2683 but cropped larger and without UPI caption)
Northern Waterfront
Ferry Building
View east down Commercial, east of Drumm of the illuminated Ferry Building on a rainy night. Mohawk Tavern. Ferry Building pedestrian overpass.
Financial District