Market & Powell
View east on Market St. [4. Market St. San Francisco, Cal. Call Bldg, Flood Bldg, Emporium] Cable cars, pedestrians. Ferry Building in distance.
Downtown / Union SquarePeople
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Market near 4th
View east on Market St. to cable car, pedestrians, street sweeper. Chronicle Building at left. Ferry Building in distance. On right, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex, Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Cineograph Theatre. [5. Market St. San Francisco, Cal. Call Building]
Downtown / Union Square
Jones near McAllister
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south from empty lot (future site of the Hibernia Office Building/Hotel Boyd) on Jones between Golden Gate And McAllister. Fire burning on Market Street in the background. Murphy-Grant Building at left, Hibernia Bank at right. Many refugees with furniture and belongings in lot where construction was in progress.
Tenderloin
O'Farrell near Powell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on O'Farrell between Stockton and Powell before the fire. Debris, bricks in the street, Orpheum theatre with round awning at right. People wandering through the street. Original Phelan Building in distance center, portion of Alcazar Theater at far left.
Downtown / Union Square
Valencia near 19th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, elevated view northwest across Valencia to collapsed Valencia Street Hotel between 18th and 19th Streets before fire burned the block. Many people in street. (Different cropping but superior version of wnp27.4951)
Mission
Francisco near Mason
View northwest to Abe Warner's Cobweb Palace. Foot of former Meiggs' Wharf, Francisco St. between Powell and Mason. People lined up in front of building. Proprietor Abe Warner in top hat at left.
North Beach
Market near Main
View northeast on Market between Main and Spear, a large trench dug with water pipe at the bottom. Ferry Building in the background. Cox Seed Co., 125 Market, at right. [592 Sept 6, '07]
Financial District
Unknown Location
1906 Earthquake and Fire, A group of 18 people posed in front of unknown ruins. Possibly a large extended family of three generations, the patriarch at center. (Speculation regarding whether is this SF or not)
Unknown Location
SF Mayor John Shelley and Chief Administrative Officer Thomas Mellon display a large reproduction of Call Chronicle Examiner front page from 1906. (Probably taken in an office at City Hall.)
Civic Center
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park. Employees of the Bank of Italy on front steps of main entrance to museum. Michael deYoung in front with dark suit. (same day as wnp70.10103)
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
Music Concourse. Group of men from Bank of Italy gathered in front of statue of General John J. Pershing. [Bank Day] (same day as wnp70.10102)
Golden Gate Park
Hollywood
Movie set with a cable car from the O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde St. line for the RKO movie 'I Remember Mama.' Camera crew at right. Note the fake tracks. [Authentic Cable Car - Workmen inspect a cable car brought to Hollywood from the streets of SF to appear in RKO Radio's nostalgic drama of life in SF in 1910...] [IRM-Pub-457}
Sutro Heights
Group of men and boys posing in front of the well house at Sutro Heights. Boys are similarly dressed, wearing military-type pillbox caps. Possibly a school group. Several boys appear to be Native American.
Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights
Group of people gathered on the parapet alongside a large cannon. Statues atop the crenellations flank the group. The gun was an obsolete U.S. Navy 'Parrott Rifle' that Sutro purchased from a scrap dealer in 1896. There was a twin gun located further north on the parapet overlooking the Cliff House.
Sutro Heights
Turk near Franklin
House moving crew on lunch break, view north towards Turk between Franklin and Van Ness. Building visible across street with arched windows and up on blocks is 770 Turk Street, moved to 1249-1251 Scott Street in November 1974. The house was built circa 1868 for John K. Wood. Oasis Motel visible through the block on Eddy Street.
Cathedral Hill