1818 California
[SF Landmark 1818 Calif.] Painter on scaffold stripping bay window. San Francisco Landmark #55, known as the Lilienthal-Orville Pratt House.
Pacific HeightsPeople
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Fillmore & Ellis
View northeast across intersection to S. N. Wood & Co. store under construction, remodeling street level of existing buildings (sign 'opening July 10th.'). In distance Chas. Lyon London Tailor 1432 Fillmore. [SF - EQ house raising Fillmore St.]
Western Addition
1334 Masonic
View east across Masonic Avenue between Waller and Frederick. Woman and three children posed in front of a Victorian row house, 1334 Masonic. These houses were part of a row of six houses built in 1891 by John A Whelan, a shipwright with a shop on Spear Street who also developed rows of Victorian houses as a sideline. These houses still stand, but the pediments and French caps have all been removed. (WMK) Buena Vista Park in background. [SF dev - Haight-Ashbury 1334 Masonic, from Shirryl Wilson] (Poorer quality and cropped version of wnp33.04099)
Buena Vista
Pacific Telephone Building
View east on Minna St. to Pacific Telephone Building
South of Market
Fillmore near Hayes
[S.F. - Block Distributions - 716 Fillmore Street - Aerial Construction 20] Two men on rooftop working on telephone pole. Queen Anne mansion in background
Hayes Valley
Washington near Grant
Elevated view across Washington to fireworks and Lion Dance ceremony in front of Chinatown Exchange, also called the Chinese Telephone Exchange Building. Police officers holding back crowd.
Chinatown
Clay near Montgomery
View southeast on Clay toward Montgomery. the southwest corner lot is filled with rubble. The Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) building, 550 Montgomery, is under construction on the southeast corner.
Financial District
Market near Sutter
Elevated view southeast across Market to men on horseback, military band. Sheldon Building and Hooker & Lent Buildings at 1st Street corner at left. Plymouth Cafeteria 509 Market, Hirschfelder & Meaney, Pittsburg Aluminum Co., Sherwin Williams Paints, Underwood Building 525 Market. All buildings in view have been demolished. [Preparedness Day Parade July 1916]
Financial District
Ingleside Golf Course
Golfer in field with houses behind
Ingleside Golf Course
Golfer at driving range, line of Eucalyptus behind him, possibly Ocean Ave.
McAllister near Fillmore
View northwest across McAllister to line of delivery wagons, L. Dresner the Tailor 1188 McAllister, Oyster and Chop House. Some or all of the men posing at right are very likely the same ones in front of the Davis Theatre (in distance left) in wnp26.1779 and wnp26.1728. Signage on the Davis Theatre indicates this was taken on or around the same date as wnp26.1728. [79]
Western Addition
Ellis & Fillmore
View southeast across Ellis toward Fillmore. showing telephone line construction, people posing in horse-drawn wagon. Harvard Dental Parlors 1358 Fillmore, The Carnation, Frank Bros. Clothing, Alfred Lilienfeld & Co. Tailors. 1363-1365 Fillmore. [S.E. Corner Fillmore and Ellis Streets - Aerial Construction 77]
Western Addition
Pacific Telephone Building?
Men working on construction new building at 140 New Montgomery St. Call Building in background
South of Market
Polk near Filbert
View north on Polk from Filbert, Men working on trench line with telephone conduit at bottom, streetcar in distance, bare hillside on right. See wnp26.1846. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Russian Hill
Unknown Location
View down alley to loading dock with horse teams. Possibly rear of a Pacific Telephone building on Mission Street.