Contains 12978 photos
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins and gutted buildings; View southeast to Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York on southeast corner. Bottom stories later retained and reconstructed. Ruins of Friedlander's Building at left. [81. Mutual Life Ins. Bldg.; Western Photographic Co. L.A., Cal.][Calif. & Sansome]
Financial District
[Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.] Market, Geary and Kearny Streets. View southeast across Market St. to Palace Hotel. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated September, 1875) in foreground, portion of Grand Hotel at far left, Nucleus Block building at right, in early stages of construction. People on street corner and around fountain. Duplicate of wnp37.02342. Variant of wnp24.261a. Same original image as wnp24.261a with slightly different cropping.
Downtown / Union Square
[No. 106 Lotta's Fountain, San Francisco, Cal.] Lotta's Fountain, looking northwest to Geary St. Men posing around the fountain. 'McAllister Dentist' and 'Holt's Patent Printing Wheel' signs on Flannery Building at left. (Gold tooth which inspired Frank Norris' use in "McTeague" hanging from building at right. Left image from stereograph card, similar to wnp24.0033a, wnp37.02308.)
Downtown / Union Square
[B 924 Instantaneous View of Market St.] View east from near center of Market St. to St. Ann's building and Baldwin Hotel in distance on left. Horse car and cable car tracks. Utility poles with 8 crossbars on south side of Market.
South of Market
Real photo postcard image of children and staff in front of Maud B. Booth Home for Children at 832 Shotwell Street. Maud Ballington Booth was a well-known Salvation Army leader who formed the Volunteers of America. Operated on Shotwell Street from 1905-1914. [Maud Booth Home for Children, SF]
Mission
Band posing possibly in the Chutes?
Mayor Sutro on far right? Supervisors?
Civic Center
Victorian house with streetcar tracks. Three boys, a dog, and two bird cages out. Garage addition under bay.
Man with cane and hat in apparent front yard and picket fence. Not San Francisco?
[Palace Hotel, Market St. No. 5 Market Street] Looking southeast to Palace Hotel and Grand Hotel. Portion of Lotta's Fountain at left. Cable car, buggies, people walking. Same image as wnp27.3380.
Downtown / Union Square
French-American Bank, 110 Sutter (The bank reopened at its new location by April 1907) View towards Market Street. Savings and Loan Society on the northwest corner of Sutter and Montgomery in the background. Street lamps with bears on top. Woman with umbrella and big hat passing.
Downtown / Union Square
[3722 Chinese Bagnio. Chinatown, S.F.] Woman in doorway with grilled peek-throughs, stars.
Chinatown
View north on Fillmore to United Railroads (URR) 22-line streetcars, #1318 and #1402. Decorative steel arches with hanging glass globes. Jitney car. Old Homestead delivery truck. Billy's Cigar Store 1800 Fillmore, The Sweeterie candies and ice cream, Alpha and Lewis Winthrall Chiropodists 1805 Fillmore. [URR U06961]
Lower Pacific Heights
View northeast across intersection to Powell Street Cable Car #7 passing northbound cable car. Utility poles with 8 crossbars on north side of Sutter.
Downtown / Union Square
Pacific Sightseeing Co. tour posing in front of bus. Concessions in background including Mike's Cliff Cafe.
Sutro Heights