Hermann & Buchanan
Looking northeast toward Nob Hill. Protestant Orphan Asylum and its schoolhouse in foreground left, St. Ignatius Church and College in background right
Duboce TriangleOrphanage
Contains 40 photos
Protestant Orphan Asylum
View northeast from near Waller and Laguna to rear of Protestant Orphan Asylum. [Protestant Orphan Asylum DHW 10-17-1901]
Mint Hill
Alamo Square
View west from Alamo Square. The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society Orphanage seen from rear (Gymnasium, laundry and carpentry shop buildings in back) is visible on Divisadero between Hayes and Grove. Mt. Sutro in the distance. Photographer with camera on tripod.
Alamo Square
View From Mint Hill
View northeast from Hermann and Buchanan, Protestant Orphan Asylum and its schoolhouse at left, St. Ignatius Church and College at right, Nob Hill with prominent mansions in the distance. Same image, different cropping wnp13.381.
Mint Hill
Alamo Square
View west from Alamo Square. The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home is visible on Divisadero between Hayes and Grove. Mt. Sutro and Affiliated Colleges in the distance.
Western Addition
Protestant Orphan Asylum
Photogravure of front drive, with women and children out on a sunny day.
Lower Haight
Hayes near Divisadero
Elevated view northeast across Hayes toward Divisadero from the steps of 1309 Hayes. Crowds gathered in the street during the streetcar strike to protest United Railroads streetcar staffed by strikebreakers. Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society Orphanage (Gymnasium building in back) is visible at the far corner of Hayes and Divisadero. The corner building at left still stands in 2021.
Panhandle
Hayes near Divisadero
Elevated view northeast across Hayes toward Divisadero from the steps of 1309 Hayes. Crowds gathered in the street during the streetcar strike to protest United Railroads streetcar staffed by strikebreakers. Mounted police escorting the streetcar and strike breakers. Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society Orphanage (Gymnasium building in back) is visible at the far corner of Hayes and Divisadero. The corner building at left still stands in 2021.
Panhandle
Hermann & Laguna
Protestant Orphan Asylum, looking northwest toward Waller
Mint Hill
Salinas near Gould
View north at the Southern Pacific tracks between Salinas and Paul Avenue, train approaching. Mt. St. Joseph and Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in the background. [S.P. Engine 2443 - T.R. 131 - North End Tunnel 4-Line]
Bret Harte
S.P. near Williams
View north toward Mt. St. Joseph and Orphanage. Approaching Southern Pacific engine 2401 southbound. Tunnel number 3 in the background. Williams Avenue Bridge at center. [S.P. Engine 2401 Tr. 170 - South End Tunnel 3]
Bayview
Church & 20th
View north toward the intersection of Church and 20th, Dolores Park, Mission Park at the time, on the right. Large building is the Youth Directory, Catholic Orphanage [dpwbook8 dpw1809]
Dolores Heights
18th near Church
View south across 18th toward Dolores Park and J-Church (J-Line) showing tracks and pedestrian overpass. (Likely this documents the newly completred J-Church line, which had its official opening August 11, 1917) The Catholic Youth Directory at 19th and Church (which replaced the Youth Directory at 19th near Valencia destroyed in 1906 - see wnp14.0974) in the background. [Church RR S from 18th] [dpwbook18 dpw4144]
Mission Dolores
Protestant Orphan Asylum
View north from about Hermann and Buchanan. Laguna between Haight and Waller. [216. Protestant Orphan Asylum] Image cropped from wnp4.1808
Mint Hill
Divisadero & Hayes
Looking north from center of Divisadero to work crew installing tracks in intersection. To the right is The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home. [Devisadero & Hayes Sts.]- United Railroads [U00278]
Alamo Square