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Mission near 12th
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Mission near 12th

Glen Park Meat market, stationary store, men working on electric pole at center at 1655 Mission.

South of Market
Bush & Grant
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Bush & Grant

View east from center of Bush at Grant (Dupont) Avenue. The California Hotel and Theatre (1889) on left, Mills Building (1891) beyond. "Male Employment Office" at left, Poodle Dog Restaurant at corner on right. In far center distance, across Market St. is Lachman Block (1887).

Downtown / Union Square
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Man and two children in front of home, possibly addressed 290. Oakland?

4th Ave near Clement
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4th Ave near Clement

267 4th Avenue between Clement and Cornwall/California. Home of Dr. Stephen Cleary. Man and boy in early automobile in front of home. [original photo has been located with this inscription: March 25, 1909, My Dear Mrs. McGowan, ... This is a picture of my home with my Father on the steps. Husband and son in the machine. You will have no trouble in finding the house when you come to S. F. We have had so much rain this winter, that it is good to see the sun again. 267 4th Ave. S.F.]

Richmond Inner
Anderson near Tompkins
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Anderson near Tompkins

455 Anderson (built 1908), west side between Jarboe and Tompkins. Edwardian cottage that looks very similar today. Man poses in front.

Bernal Heights
Van Ness near Grove
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Van Ness near Grove

View northwest across Van Ness. Parade for the Great White Fleet. Mayor and Admiral in open carriage. Crowds on roof of Columbia Hotel, 321 Van Ness Ave (now site of War Memorial Opera House. [Military & Naval Parade, May 7th, 1908. Admiral Evans & Mayor Taylor. Patton Photo]

Civic Center
Market & Mason
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Market & Mason

View East on Market from Mason. Pacific Shirt Co., towers of St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel (destroyed November 1898) at left, Clock tower of Chronicle Building in the distance. Castro Street cable car #104 at center.Duplicate of wnp71.1937.

Tenderloin
Van Ness & O'Farrell
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Van Ness & O'Farrell

Elevated view southeast, probably from St. Mary's Cathedral, to crowded scene showing mostly retail stores which had relocated to Van Ness Avenue after the earthquake and fire. Joe Rosenberg The Price Cutter Corsets, Charles Brown & Sons Restaurant and Hotel Supplies 950-952 Van Ness, The Big Trunk Store, Korn The Hatter, Rucker Desk Co., City Hall ruins in distance left. Delbert Block (1906-1910) at right. [Van Ness Ave from O'Farrell St. 1907]

Cathedral Hill
Opium den
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Opium den

[14360 In the opium den, Canton, China] Posed studio shot of men smoking opium.

Elkton Rail Yard
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Elkton Rail Yard

Men stand in front of restored historic 'Dinky' streetcar, Ellis & O'Farrell Line Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy) #578, built in 1896.

Cayuga
Market & 10th
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Market & 10th

[This is where I am staying. Ella. Grand Central Hotel, with XX drawn in room window] View northwest across intersection to Grand Central Hotel, earthquake shacks down Polk St. Pedestrians and wagons. Same image as wnp70.1231.

South of Market
Armistice Day Postcard
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Armistice Day Postcard

[Armistice Day Greetings 1926] Woman dressed in World Peace Flag holding US and California State flags.

Haight Chutes
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Haight Chutes

Haight Street Chutes, Studio portrait of two men with squashed hats posing in a prop Chutes boat.

Southern Pacific Hospital
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Southern Pacific Hospital

Elevated view of hospital northwest across Panhandle, Baker and Fell streets. Lone Mountain college in background.

Panhandle
O'Farrell & Steiner
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O'Farrell & Steiner

Postcard/advertisement view of Hotel Milwaukee Apartments. 1800 O'Farrell. Building razed in 1960s, now site of Raymond Kimbell Playground.

Western Addition