Contains 12978 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
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
French Residents commemorative arch for Independence Day centennial. [Arch at Kearny and Sutter Streets. SF. 3578]
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Kearny St. to busy street scene with horsecars and pedestrians. Old St. Mary's Church steeple in distance right. Same image as wnp71.1915, different cropping.
North Beach
View west on Market from 2nd Street. Grand Hotel and Palace Hotel at New Montgomery on the left. Market St Railway. 4 Tracks on Market Street. Billboard for James W. Burnham & Co, Carpert and Furniture. [Market St. S. F. View west. 3668]
Financial District
Victorian duplex flats with people posing on stairs, brick-fronted building next door. Cable car tracks in the street.
Exhibit. Advertising the Globe Business College.
Horsecar in distance. First Presbyterian Chinese Church past interection with Clay St. in left distance. [Stockton St from California (view north) 2226]
Nob Hill
[Chinese Lady. 2458] Seated woman wearing traditional Chinese clothing.
[1704. Mission Church, Mission Dolores.] View southwest across Dolores St. to Mission Doloers with two-story parish house addition, cemetery, Mansion House at right. Woman poses in street. Cropped from Watkins stereoview image with less image left and right.
Mission Dolores
Lake House on Ocean House Road presently near Lake Merced Boulevard and Skyline Boulevard. [Watkins Stereoview No. 1709. Lake House. Ocean House Road.]
Lakeshore
Elevated view northwest from across Dolores St. to cemetery, old Mission and adjacent parish house, Mission Hills in background. Two women posed in doorway. Variant of Watkins 1702 'Mission Church, Mission Dolores' with less image on right and top, more on left.
Mission Dolores
View northeast across intersection to North Beach and Mission horsecar on 4th in front of Southern Pacific headquarters building. That line went to Powell and Jefferson.
South of Market
[1770] Elevated view north on Montgomery. Market Street Railway horsecar, Masonic Temple, Lick House, Clock Tower Building (later Savings and Loan Building), Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Association office.
Financial District
[Railroad Buildings, 4th and Townsend Streets., S.F. 2452] View northeast across intersection to North Beach and Mission horsecar in front of Southern Pacific headquarters building.
South of Market