Adolph Sutro
Adolph Sutro in Stetson hat in Sutro Heights, poking a monkey with a walking stick
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A group portrait of men and women holding a drum reading 'Panama Pacific Exposition Band.' Automobile at left with lots of shiny brass.
Mason near Union
View north toward the bay, Presidio & Ferries cable cars in intersection. Group of children in front of German Bakery on corner. Before installation of Powell-Mason cable car line, which started service in March, 1888. (film copy of glass neg wnp71.0421) [F810 STC-026] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Russian Hill
Presidio & Sutter
View north on Presidio Avenue (then Central Avenue) from Sutter. Cable cars of the Sutter Street. Railroad Co. (#43) and crews posed. Laurel Hill Cemetery at left. [F810 STC-037] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Lower Pacific Heights
Market near Castro
View north across Market at Castro Street. Men posed with Market Street Railways steam dummy and trailer at the end of the line. This steam line preceded the Castro cable line and operated from September 1880 - July 1888. The three Victorians in the background still stand on Castro between Market and 16th. [Market St. Extension Dummy S.F. Wagstaff 375 Sanchez] [F810 STC-043] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Duboce Triangle
Geary near Presidio
View south across Geary to Geary Street steam dummy #2 pulling three passengers cars labeled 'G St. P & O R.R. Co. / Geary St. and Golden Gate Park'. Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railway started operations in 1880 and was purchased by the Market Street Railway in 1887. Calvary Cemetery in background.[San Francisco 1882] [F810 STC-044] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Anza Vista
Blairmore, Sailing Ship
Group of people posed in front of iron sailing ship Blairmore tied up at pier. U.S. Navy battleship anchored offshore, possibly the USS Oregon. [F810 SH-026][Ship Blairmore at Ridson Iron Works, Beal & Howard Sts.] Should be 'Risdon Iron Works.' Their offices were at Beal and Howard. Yard was on waterfront of Potrero Hill on Georgia St. between 19th & 20th.
Central Waterfront
SS China, steamship
Hunters Point, Bow view of side-wheel steamer in dry-dock at Hunters Point. People posing on bow. [S.S. China 1868 in dry dock SF CAL No 42] Same image as Carleton Watkins stereoview 'Docking the China, Hunter's Point Dry Dock 1719' [F810 SH-053]
SS China, steamship
Hunters Point, Stern view of side-wheel steamer 'China' in dry dock. People posing on stern. Cropped from Carleton Watkins Stereoview. [1868 Hunters Point Dry Dock S.F. Cal No 39] [F810 SH-055]
Juno, sailing ship
[Juno 420] 3-masted bark-rigged sailing ship tied up at wharf. People posing on deck. [F810 SH-176]
Logan, sailing ship
2-masted schooner Robert W. Logan (architect Hugo P. Frear, naval architect at Union Iron Works) tied up on San Francisco waterfront. Numerous people posed on board and on dock. It sailed from San Francisco to Ruk (now Chuuk) Micronesia on November 15, 1895 to engage in missionary work. It was owned by the American Board of Missions of the Congregational Church. It replaced a schooner of the same name built in 1890 and reported missing in 1895. This picture was printed in the January, 1896 Missionary Herald. It was fitted at the Main Street Wharf. [Logan trial trip of missionary schooner, Foot of Clay St. No. 100] [F810 SH-190]
Financial District
Alhambra Theater
Elevated view south across Bush to Alhambra Theatre (325 Bush) between Montgomery and Kearny St, which opened on May 22, 1868. Men in bowlers & top hats pose under marquee. Frank Elwell, Merchant Tailor, 321 Bush. [F810 T-003] [Alhambra Theatre on Bush St., opened 1867 (Sic)]
Financial District
Telegraph Hill
[Telegraph Hill S.F. TH-6] View north from Alta Street of three boys and a girl standing on hillside. Cottages with laundry drying and Layman's Castle on top behind. Behind them on Filbert Steps is 228 Filbert, carpenter gothic Philip Brown House, built 1869, extant 2019. [stereo] [F810 TH-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Telegraph Hill
California & Presidio
Municipal Railways (Muni) California Street cable car #23 at the terminal in front of the Jewish Community Center
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Carl near Stanyan
Dapper man leaning on car. View east to Buena Vista Park.
Cole Valley