Contains 12978 photos
View northeast across the intersection of 4th and Townsend to Southern Pacific Railroad headquarters. [General Office of the Southern Pacific at 3rd & Townsend in the '70s.] Horse cars running on Townsend Street. (Original caption is incorrect)
Mission Bay
Golden Gate Park, view towards Drum Bridge and tea house. Many people and children gathered.
Golden Gate Park
Elevated view north on Kearny from Market, showing parade of Christian Temperance Army marking south on Kearny St. Lotta's Fountain at right. The 16th International Christian Endeavor Convention held in San Francisco from July 7th to 12th, 1897. [5068-The Christian Endeavor Army July 1897]
South of Market
View north on 3rd Street from Mission, Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank in the background. [16879. Majestic sky-scrapers, the pride of San Francisco just before the Earthquake]
South of Market
View southeast past a man seated on a wagon, to busy street scene on the 900 block of Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets. At far right is 935-931 Market, built in 1887 and first occupied by Keane Brothers dry goods. In distance left, tall building is the Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market. [WK] [Market Street towards the ferries]
Tenderloin
First Cliff House from Cliff Road (now Point Lobos Ave) before 1868 additions. [Watkins Pacific Coast at the Cliff House. 772]
Sutro Heights
Golden Gate Park. View north across Main Drive (now JFK Drive) towards the Conservatory of Flowers. (Hand-tinted photo). [3724 Golden Gate Park. San Francisco, Cal.]]
Golden Gate Park
View west on JFK Drive near the Conservatory of Flowers, the street lined with cars and automobile traffic
Golden Gate Park
View west on JFK Drive near the Conservatory of Flowers, the street closed to cars filled with pedestrians, bicycles, and children
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west on Hill Street between Valencia and Guerrero, women with street kitchens set up, Victorian homes still stand.
Dolores Heights
Studio portrait of two women and a man in front of painted backdrop of Second Cliff House.
Studio portrait of a woman and two girls in front of painted backdrop of Second Cliff House.
View southwest across Flood Avenue between Foerster and Gennessee. Man and two women in tennis outfits posed with 1955 Oldsmobile with 1951 license plate. North side of the 400 block of Flood avenue in the background.
Sunnyside
View southeast from the sidewalk on Market Street toward the Call Building at 3rd and Market, Chronicle Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, and Bancroft History Building(Built 1887, Ayres' Business College, Whitaker & Ray Book Sellers) are visible. Billboard for Goodwin & Elliott at the Columbia Theatre (they played there in 1900 and 1902). Stanford (photo) Studio, 725 Market; Johnson's Creamerie, 725 Market; Spreckels Market, 729 Market; Goldstein & Co. theatrical supplies, 733 Market; Hofmann & Woenne butchers, Montgomery Market, 735 Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view looking down from Examiner Building of Luisa Tetrazzini singing at Lotta's Fountain after being introduced to the crowd by Mayor P. H. McCarthy, Christmas eve 1910. Stage was set up in front of the Chronicle Building. [Tetrazzini. Xmas Eve 1910.]
South of Market