Contains 4847 photos
Elevated view west on Clay to Clay St. Cable RR cable car on Kearny Street Terminus. Portsmouth Square on right. R. Cutlar Dentist, H. Traube watchmaker and jeweler at left. Watkins stereo card number 2368. Original Title: 'Clay St. Hill R.R., San Francisco, Cal. Run by A.S. Hallidie's patent Endless Steel Wire Rope and Gripping Attachment. Overcomes an Elevation of 307 feet in a length of 2800 feet. Worst grade, one foot in six.'
Chinatown
1706. Jewish Cemetery. Windmill. Now Dolores Park
Mission Dolores
Golden Gate Park Conservatory when new, before fire of January 5, 1883. Possibly Watkins #359
Golden Gate Park
Elevated view west on Clay to Clay St. Cable RR cable car at Kearny Street Terminus. Portsmouth Square on right. R. Cutlar Dentist, H. Traube watchmaker and jeweler at left. Watkins stereo card number 2368 (Variant). Original Title: 'Clay St. Hill R.R., San Francisco, Cal. Run by A.S. Hallidie's patent Endless Steel Wire Rope and Gripping Attachment. Overcomes an Elevation of 307 feet in a length of 2800 feet. Worst grade, one foot in six.'
Chinatown
Second bandshell in Golden Gate Park with concert in progress. On site of present tennis courts. American flags flying and crowd with parasols. Present site of tennis courts
Golden Gate Park
View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with grading and landscaping completed April, 1869) towards Russian Hill. Filbert St at lower right. Same image as wnp24.184a. [984. Russian Hill]
Telegraph Hill
[Telegraph Hill from Russian Hill] View east to man and three children in view, Washington Square with trees at left center. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Original Ss. Peter & Paul church at Filbert and Grant. Layman's Castle visible on summit. Yerba Buena Island in distance.
Telegraph Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east across North Beach to Telegraph Hill from Russian Hill. All ruins, cable car tracks, Washington Square and men walking.
Russian Hill
View from near Green and Taylor Streets, northeast to Washington Square (with mature trees) and Telegraph Hill. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Original Ss. Peter & Paul church at Filbert and Grant. Duplicate of wnp24.186a.
Russian Hill
[4435. San Francisco from the Park, Cal.] View up Powell St. from corner of Union Square to Nob Hill from nw corner of Union Square. Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford residences in distance. Trinity Church at right. Very similar to wnp26.593.
Downtown / Union Square
["Nob Hill" from Phelan Building, San Francisco] Elevated view northwest across Union Square. Homes, Trinity Episcopal Church, National Guard Armory, Nob Hill mansions, and Temple Emanu-El. Building at lower left, Howard Block, built in 1873, then home of the Concordia Club at 102 O'Farrell.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest over earthquake refugee camp with tents to Sacred Heart Church in distance. Clothing distribution, women standing around piles of clothes. [8732, Distributing clothes to the destitute, Refugee Camp, Lafayette Sq., San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.] Other image from this stereoview card at wnp24.0105a. (Description from from original stereoview incorrectly identifies the location as Lafayette Park - DG)
Cathedral Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest across debris on Post St. toward Dewey Monument and St. Francis Hotel with north wing under construction. [8725 St. Francis hotel, the interior of which was burned out, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [8237 A crude post-office - reorganizing the mail service after the earthquake. Tent in refugee camp with "Post Office Station Q" sign and flag.
Lower Pacific Heights
Men, women, and child in row of tents. Golden Gate Park?