Contains 25 photos
Mayor Rolph, tennis star Helen Wills (first American woman athlete to become a global celebrity], former U.S. Senator and San Francisco Mayor James D. Phelan , on steps of City Hall. Sculpture is Haig Patigian's "Helen of California", now in the de Young Museum, a gift of Phelan [dpwbook40 dpwA669 ]
Civic Center
View east on O'Farrell to Call Building illuminated at night. Call Building Annex, Bancroft History Building on south side of Market Street. Original Phelan Building on right.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northeast to Senator Estes Kefauver, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, during his unsuccessful campaign for President, speaking to crowd. American Trust Company bank (later Wells Fargo) in background. [SF Examiner]
Mission
Looking east on California Street near Montgomery showing from left Wells Fargo in Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Express Building, Safe Deposit Building, the second Merchants' Exchange Building, Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. at far right with pole in front. Watkins mobile studio at right, horsecar.
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Dynamiting the Examiner Building] View south to Palace Hotel at left, Chronicle, Call and Mutual Savings Bank Buildings at right.
Downtown / Union Square
[Art gallery at Woodward's Gardens, Helios] Eadweard Muybridge seated.
Mission
Advertising engraving of east block face of Montgomery. Commercial Street at center. Opposition Daguerrean Gallery, Braun & Co. Dan's Oyster Saloon, G. E. Higgins Gold Pen Manufacturer, Holladay & Carey Law Office, P.W. Shepheard Law Office, T.C. Hambley, E.B. Mastick, Fisher & Co., E. Crowell & Co. Wholesale Druggists, S.J. Straus Cigars. On right, Sam Brannan's Armory Hall ("for the Atlantic states and Europe", completed Nov. 1853), Saulmann's Coffee Saloon, Freeman & Co, Dr. L.J. Czapkay at northeast corner Montgomery & Sacramento. [View of Montgomery Street, between Sacramento and Clay, (East Side.)] [G57 SSS-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view northeast to Hibernia Bank Building with I.W. Taber & Co., Photographic Parlors signage, Taber photography wagon in street. Hibernia Bank on street level. Building demolished 1893 and replaced with the Union Trust Building the following year.[F810 OF-076] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [N.E. Corner Montgy & Market 1880 OF-76 701]
Financial District
Market Street Railway (MSRy) 25-line streetcar #855 with zip stripe livery passing by while rail fan takes photo.
Bernal Heights
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