Camp Merritt
Soldiers of 1st Colorado Infantry, with rifles kneeling and standing, Lone Mountain in background
Richmond InnerPeople
Contains 12978 photos
Kearny & Market
Elevated view north across busy Market St, horsecar crossing intersection. Many horsecars on Kearny street. Telegraph Hill in the distance. Lotta's Fountain visible behind awnings of Nucleus House on right. Signs for "Rubber Stamps & Printing Wheels" and "California Elastic Truss Co." on building across Market Street on left. Building on northwest corner of Geary & Kearny with large Dentistry sign on roof with eagle on top. Building at northeast corner of Geary & Kearny has large "Eagleson & Co. 4 and 6 Kearny St. Shirts Underwear" sign, C.N. West Electro Medical Belts sign, partially visible sign for E. Mansbach Fancy Goods, 26 Kearny, partially visible. Banners strung over Kearny for Verein Eintracht masquerade ball benefit for sufferers from East Germany. [No. 136 Kearny St.]
South of Market
Lombard & Hyde
View east on Lombard Street from Hyde before grading of either street. A man and child pose in the middle of the street, while what may be the rest of the family poses in front of the house on the right. Just above that house, in center distance, is the North Cosmopolitan (later Hancock) Grammar School (opened 1867, William Patton architect) on Filbert between Jones and Taylor. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex in left distance at Powell, Yerba Buena Island beyond. St. Francis of Assisi Church in distance right. Taken in or soon after 1869, when landscaping was completed in Washington Square. Same original as wnp24.378a, with significantly less image on left and more on right. (WMK)[984. Russian Hill, San Francisco, Cal.]
Russian Hill
Hunters Point
View northwest from Hunters Point towards southern section of Long Bridge towards Point San Quentin. Berthed boats; man, woman & child sitting. (stereoview caption "1326. Long Bridge, and South San Francisco")
Hunters Point
Woodward's Gardens
Families strolling, rotary boat ride on little lake, summer house observatory on hill. Western hills in background. [Woodards Garden, San Francisco, Cal.]
Mission
Market & 5th
Elevated view northeast across Market Street. St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel (destroyed by fire 1898, site of later Flood Building) at right on Powell St. Flags strung from utility poles with 7 crossbars on south side of Market, and banners hung across street. The Louvre Restaurant, Unsworth Sign Co. 1028 Market.
South of Market
Market at Embarcardero
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake-damaged Ferry Building. Building rubble, buckled street, horse drawn carts, people walking.
Financial District
Palace Hotel Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west on Market Street with Monadnock Building and Call Building in distance, people walking, horse drawn cart. ["8703. Palace Hotel, undamaged by earthquake. Interior burned out. San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A."]
Financial District
Post near Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins. View west down Post to Whittell Building at left, First Congregational Church in distance right. Men walk down street filled with rubble. [8706 Post St., once a busy shopping district, now a scene of desolation, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
Downtown / Union Square
3rd near Jessie
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north up 3rd Street toward Market with debris still in street and burned out streetcar. Ruins of Kamm Building, Call Building and Annex, Mutual Savings Bank Building. [8726, Call Bldg. and U.S. Savings Bank, trolley caught in wreck, 3rd St., San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.]
South of Market
Market & Embarcadero
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View of Market Street from Ferry Building tower with ruined buildings, people walking, automobiles, tents, smoke rising
Financial District
1st Streetcar After Quake
Looking south on Fillmore Street, Sacred Heart Cathedral visible in distance. People packed on trolley and hanging on the outside. Horse drawn carts, tent, men standing and walking.
Western Addition
Clay & Kearny
View north along Kearny to crowded street scene. Telegraph Hill in background.
Chinatown
Corner Ellis & Jones
View east to women distributing food to 2 men (possibly soldiers), Whittell Building, Butler Building, Call Building, Flood Building, Hotel Hamilton in distance, damaged chimney, rubble, damaged electricity poles.
Tenderloin
Glen Park
May Festival. Glen Park and the Mission Zoo, from Bosworth near Congo, looking north. Gold Mine Hill on right, Red Rock Hill behind in distance. Glen Park Pavilion near site of today's Glen Canyon Park Recreation Center. [SC18]
Glen Park