
California Pioneers Bldg.
Elevated view of California Pioneers Building, south side of 4th St. near Market, completed 1886, destroyed April, 1906. [F810 BU-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of MarketContains 12978 photos
Elevated view of California Pioneers Building, south side of 4th St. near Market, completed 1886, destroyed April, 1906. [F810 BU-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of MarketOcean House close up with horses, men, and surrey. [Ocean House, 6 1/2 miles from City Hall. BU-17] [F810 BU-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
LakeshoreElevated view west to first Phelan Building. O'Farrell St. at right. [Phelan Building, Market & O'Farrell SF 1890 BU-20] [F810 BU-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union SquareView south to Sentinel Building, also called Columbus Tower. Calegaris Pharmacy, Caesar's Grill, United Cigar Co. 15-line streetcar #1734. [Abe Reueff (sic Ruef) Building, 1910 BU-23] [F810 BU-023] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North BeachElevated view northwest across the intersection of Broadway and Sansome. Telegraph Hill in the background. Sacks and bales piled up on sidewalk, with people posed on top and in street, laden horse-drawn dray wagon. [San Francisco Wool Exchange 1868. NW corner Sansome St Broadway. Props. D. McLennon, Whelan, Grisar BU-25] [F810 BU-025] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North BeachView south across California to Hayward's Building, an office building at 415-423 California, built in 1867 and 1868 by Alvinza Hayward. Sherwood & Freeborn, Daily Times, World Mutual Life, and California Trust Co. Elevated passageway over Leidesdorff at right to Merchants Exchange Building. [S.E. corner Calif. Leidesdorff 140 BU-28] [F810 BU-028] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) Same image as Houseworth stereoview card, 'Hayward's Building-California Street, between Montgomery and Sansom Streets. # 351'
Financial DistrictView west across Market to four story flatiron building with domed tower on corner, the Union Block (Board of Trade) Building. Sign for Sroufe & McCrum on 4th floor. Western Union Telegraph Co. [F810 BU-039] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Union Block Pine & Market 1888 BU-39]
Financial DistrictUnion Hall (S.C. Bugbee, architect) with sign 'It Shall Be Preserved' over entry. Omnibus Railway horse car #6 in front. Later the site of Morosco's Theater in the 1880's, which specialized in melodrama and cheap prices, according to Walter Morosco's 1901 obituary. The ground floor was used by the Omnibus Railroad as a horse car barn from 1862 until 1895. The building was destroyed by fire on May 2, 1898. [Omnibus R.R. Depot, South side Howard bet 3rd & 4th Morosco Theatre 1886 BU-41 Aug 6 1863] [F810 BU-041] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of MarketView northeast to Southern Pacific locomotive, Southern Pacific Headquarters , and horsecar on Townsend St. 4th story has been added to building.[1880 Fourth Townsend St. Central Pacific & Southern Pacific Bldg.] [F810 BU-044] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of MarketMan identified as P. A. Finigan with horse in street. Norfolk livery with Finigan's name on building behind. This was originally White's Stables when built in 1866. Finigan moved his stable there later that year and was there to 1874. From that point on, others ran it as a stable until the 1890s. In 1897, The Ramona, a hotel, was built on the site of the stable. It was rebuilt as the Hotel Ramona in 1909, and was rehabbled into the Maria Manor in 1975, which it remains in 2018. (PF) [Norfolk Stable - 1869. Ellis St. West Powell St. P. A. Finigan] [F810 BU-045] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union SquareView northeast across intersection to building housing Fook Woh Bazaar, 731 Clay. Posters for 'The World' at the California Theatre, which opened for a one week run in February, 1887. Building at center demolished late 1887. Same image as Kilburn Bros. stereoview wnp24.187a. [F810 C-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [China town, DuPont St. N.E. corner Clay St. C-5]
ChinatownView west, Clay and Grant, man crossing Grant with children in traditional Chinese dress. Cable car track in street. [SF Chinatown 1898 C-8] [F810 C-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
ChinatownChinatown parade with large crowd. Horse-drawn float. [C-9] [F810 C-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
View east on Post to four women in Chinese traditional dress walking on sidewalk past Post Keller restaurant and bar, located at southeast corner Post & Kearny. Woman with parasol behind. Mechanics Institute Building in background. [Single-file promenade on Post St. C-10] [F810 C-010] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square[SF Chinatown 1898 C-12] Two men in formal Chinese dress walking in an alley. [F810 C-012] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)