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Elevated view northeast toward Market and Taylor World War I Welcome Home Parade, people on rooftops and leaning from windows, including some on parapet of Eastern Outfitting Building. Mechanics Savings Bank and Flood Building on north side of Market in background. Huge "Welcome Home" arch over Market in distance. - [Return of 363 & 347 Regiments][DPW 5952]
Downtown
Elevated view northeast toward Market and Taylor World War I Welcome Home Parade, people on rooftops and leaning from windows, including many on parapet of Eastern Outfitting Building. Mechanics Savings Bank and Flood Building on north side of Market in background. Huge "Welcome Home" arch over Market in distance. - [Return of 363 & 347 Regiments] [DPW 5950]
Downtown
Elevated view south on 3rd Street from Market Street. Ad on Examiner Building for Bay Bridge souvenir edition. Call Building on right with Owl Drug Co. in corner retail space. United Cigar Store, Hotel King with Hotel Doric sign on side, Kane's Log Cabin Dairy Lunch Cafeteria, Aronson Building in center distance, Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) 6 and 15-Line streetcars. [DPW A4957]
Downtown
Inauguration ceremony for Angelo Rossi in Board of Supervisors chamber at City Hall. [Rossi Inaugurated Mayor] [DPW A2832]
Downtown
Van Ness Avenue. Team of 32 Horses passing City Hall construction. [DPW 1181]
Downtown
View northwest from Duboce & Noe toward the Sunset Tunnel under construction. Kids posing in the street. Houses on Carmelita Street visible in the background. [DPW 10424]
Duboce Triangle
View west on Sansome to northwest corner of California, Bank of California building.
Financial District
View across Portsmouth Square toward reconstruction of the Hall of Justice on Kearny Street (now the site of the Hilton Hotel)
North Beach
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View down rows of tents separated by roadway. Man sits on bench. Washington Square?
North Beach
1906 Earthquake and Fire, early view of the Jefferson Square camp before camp cottages were erected. Makeshift kitchens
Western Addition
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west on Page toward Central Avenue. Women cooking in a street kitchen in the middle of Page. Soldiers, streetcar tracks. Side view of 160 Central Avenue, built 1894, at left.
Haight Ashbury
View north on Leidesdorff to Bank of California on northwest corner; the building was originally the London and San Francisco Bank, built in 1873-1874. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire and was rehabbed by Willis Polk, who added a short top story, shown here under construction. Side of Merchant's Exchange Building in foreground left.
Financial District
View northeast across Sutter to shoppers crossing Sutter Street. Peanut Wagon at left. W.J. Sloane furniture (1300-1320 Van Ness), Henry Lyons & Sons (clothiers, 1332-1338 Van Ness), Charles Berwin (furriers, 1330-1332 Van Ness) in background. Following the 1906 earthquake and fire, this part of Van Ness Avenue became the temporary site of many relocated downtown stores.
Downtown
Elevated view southwest across California. Merchants Exchange on left, Nob Hill in distance right. Safe Deposit Building (California Safe Deposit & Trust Co. Bank) on southeast corner, reduced from 6 stories by demolishing top 4 stories of ruins and refurbishing bottom 2. On southwest corner, 7-story Thomas Clunie Building under construction (demolished 1969).
Financial District
View southeast across crowded intersection to policeman, 7-Line streetcar. Monadnock Building and Palace Hotel in background. Flags, electric lights over street.
Downtown