Port of Oakland
U.S.S. Constitution at dock beside Market Street Pier in Oakland. Crowd milling about to board 'Old Ironsides.' Gas holders. [F810 SH-629] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Outside SFPeople
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Port of Oakland
U.S.S. Constitution at dock beside Market Street Pier in Oakland. Crowd milling about to board 'Old Ironsides.' [F810 SH-630] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Outside SF
Broadway & Stockton
View northeast across intersection to crowd posing in front of Bay State Market grocery in three story building. Metropolitan Hotel sign, Temple Shaari Zedek, barber shop. Harness & Carriage shop on right. The synagogue was built in 1854 as Temple Sherith Israel, but that congregation moved in 1870. A dissident group elected to stay at the synagogue, forming an Orthodox congregation with the new name. [Synagogue Sharrey (Sic) Zedek, SS-4 Showing the N.E. cor Bdway - Stockton St. Year 1889] [F810 SS-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
California near Kearny
View east down California to Cable car approaching. On left, San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett, architect), German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Kohl Building. On right, Safe Deposit Building with tower, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building beyond. Clearer version with different cropping at wnp37.02807. [California St. July 3, 1905 SS-12] [F810 SS-012] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Powell & California
View east past cable car, Shaari Zedek synagogue, Old St. Mary's Cathedral. [SS-20 Calif St 1890 from Nob Hill] [F810 SS-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
Grant & Pine
Elevated view northeast across Grant (then Dupont) to Old St. Mary's Church. Flags for Independence Day. Line of military on horses, Governor Stanford on balcony. [328. Dupont St. 4 July 1862 Gov. Stanford on balcony. SS-34] [F810 SS-034] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Chinatown
Kearny & Broadway
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 wnp37.00809, different cropping. [Kearny St South from Broadway St 1870 SS-45] [F810 SS-045] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
Market & Kearny
Looking north to west side of Kearny St., Lotta's Fountain at right. Centemeri Kid Gloves, gold tooth which inspired Frank Norris' use in "McTeague" hanging from building at left. Large "Dentistry" sign with eagle on roof. Flannery Building at far left with "Holt's Patent Printing Wheel", "California Elastic Truss Co.", and Dentist signs.. Same image as Taber B 17. Kearny Street, wnp37.00324, different cropping. [Kearny Street SS-50] [F810 SS-050] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 9th
Just before the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, View of south side of Market between 8th and 9th with Majestic Theatre, 1281 Market St. showing 'Nellie Stewart, Sweet Nell of Old Drury.' That Australian production played the Majestic in early 1906, and closed a few weeks before the earthquake and fire destroyed the Majestic. Bare Bros. furniture. [SS-58 Market St Bet 8th-9th St] [F810 SS-058] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
Market & Stockton
View east toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Call Buildng, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904. Clearer original image at wnp24.349a. [SS-64 Market St. East 4th St. 1898.] [F810 SS-064] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
View east across intersection to south side of Market Street. Bancroft History Building 721-723 Market, Bijou Opera House 729 Market (opened August 1888 as Bijou Theatre), Headquarters Democratic County Committee. Centre House 719 Market, Shirek & Co. Carpets 733 Market. Examiner newspaper offices at far left, on northeast corner. Freud Corset Co., New Home Sewing Machine, Volapuk Saloon 731 Market, Waldo House [SS-70 Opp Grant Ave-Mkt St San Francisco 1887] [F810 SS-070] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Market near Kearny
Elevated view north across Market St. between Kearny & Grant, at intersection of Brooks Alley (no longer extant). Rear of Weinstock, Lubin & Co. at southeast corner of Grant & Geary, Max Charles & Co. 764 Market, Baron's Cloak & Suit House, Sign for Spence Optician 76 Geary [Brooks Alley, Baron's Cloak & Suit House] [Brooks Alley SF 1900 (?) Market St. Bet. Kearny & Grant Ave.][F810 SS-072] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
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. Same image as wnp37.02723. [Market St., East Mason St.] [F810 SS-078] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
Market & Mason
View northwest across Market Street toward the intersection of Mason and Turk. A crowd is gathered around the Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument) at its original location, unveiled in 1897 (this may be an Admission Day Celebration). The five-story building at center is The Metropole, a lodging house built around 1883. Pacific Shirt Co. at right. [F810 SS-079] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
View east from the sidewalk on Market Street toward Mason. Pacific Shirt Co., Admission Day Native Sons Monument at left, 'Socialist Labor Party' banner across the street, R.P. Doolan for Supt. of Streets (and many more political banners. Banners), Baldwin Hotel (at Powell, destroyed November 1898) and Call Building in the distance (completed 1898) date this to Fall 1898. [F810 SS-080] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin