Palace of Fine Arts
Standing on Baker Street looking west, between Bay and North point. Building hasn't started falling apart yet.
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Ferry Building
Looking East from roughly Mission & Spear. Joseph Fetz Co, Haviside, Wood & Co., Steuart St.,
Financial District
Market & 3rd
Elevated view southeast across Market to L to R: Balboa Building, Metropolis Bank Building, Palace Hotel, Monadnock, Hearst / Examiner Building, Claus Spreckels Building(Call Building) with electric sign on front for Municipal Light & Power Co. Before 1918 and after 1913, because of tracks.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Call Building
Looking North up Kearny St Toward Telegraph Hill, Angel Island, and Bay. Hall of Justice, de Young Building. Part of Panorama with wnp27.5657.
South of Market
View from Call Building
View northwest toward Nob Hill and Russian Hill. Fairmont Hotel, Alcatraz, Angel Island, and Bay. Part of Panorama with wnp27.5656. L to R: Addison Head Building (1908), Shreve Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Foxcraft Building (bottom). In distance left on Nob Hill, Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (aka California Art Institute (former site of Mark Hopkins Mansion and later site of Mark Hopkins Hotel), Fairmont Hotel. Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel) not yet built. Old St. Mary's Cathedral in distance right.
South of Market
Prayer Book Cross
AKA The Drake Memorial. Commemorating the first Anglican services in 1579. Erected in 1894, right before Midwinter fair.
Golden Gate Park
Montgomery & Market
Elevated view north from Metropolis Bank Building. L to R: Crocker Woolworth Building, Crocker First National Bank Building, Wells Fargo & Union Trust Building, Hobart Building. Hunter Dulin, Russ Building in distance.
Financial District
Polk near Grove
Civic Center, parade in front of City Hall. Nurses or Nuns carrying an American Flag. 'Shriners Red Cross Sack of Flour' on truck.
Civic Center
Geary & Market
Parade. Looking down Market, soldiers parade of some kind passing Palace Hotel. Cars with flags. After 1918 because there are 4 tracks on Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & New Montgomery
Elevated view northwest across Market. [Looking up Market Street at Post. The Crocker Building in the foreground; On the left, in order, are the 660 Market St. Realty Building, Chronicle, Mutual Savings Bank and Phelan Buildings] Flannery Building with signage for C.M. Wooster Co. Country Lands, Golden State Irrigated Farms Co. in front of the Mutual Savings Bank Building. At far left, scaffolding over sidewalk for Palace Hotel construction (opened December, 1909) Very similar image to wnp13.231.
Financial District
O'Farrell near Powell
View east on O'Farrell. Tait-Zinkand Cafe (168-178 O'Farrell, Opened August 1909, left) and Orpheum Theatre (Opened April 1909, third of that name, later the Columbia, demolished 1938) (right). O'Farrell Street Cable car. Call and Phelan Buildings in distance. (Near duplicate print in collection of SF Public Library's History Center: AAB-4825.)
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Market
Elevated view southeast to busy street scene. L to R: de Young / Chronicle Building, workers pushing Geary St. Cable Car from turntable, Ferry Building, Balboa Building, Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building, Lotta's Fountain, Palace Hotel (with Western Pacific in corner retail space), Monadnock Building.
Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery near Post
View south on Montgomery. Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank Union Trust Building on left, Metropolis Bank Building, Palace Hotel, Crocker Building, First National Bank (Crocker Woolworth) Building. Thomas Magee & Sons real estate, 5 Montgomery, on right. National Ice Co. wagon.
Downtown / Union Square
California & Leidesdorff
View northeast across California to Bank of California, Alaska Commercial Buildings.
Financial District
Grant near California
View north on Grant between Pine and California. Sing Fat Co. with stained glass globe streetlamps in front and Sing Chong Co. Delivery men.
Chinatown