McLaren Lodge
Two automobiles and touring parties posing. Same as group in wnp37.01112?
Golden Gate ParkContains 2699 photos
Two automobiles and touring parties posing. Same as group in wnp37.01112?
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, somewhere on Market Street. [Gussie, Tom, Mayme, Joe, Gladys, George]. People drinking out of bottles. Earthquake ruins in background. Postal Telegraph tent in background. (3 couples, Frances Augusta 'Gussie' Luce, Thomas F. Rogers, Mayme, Joe, Gladys VanDyke, George W. Luce) (Postal Telegraph Company only had one location in the city immediately after the 1906 earthquake: 534 Market St.)
Financial District
Couple of Ocean Beach surrounded by gulls. Cliff house in background
Sutro Heights
California Street Railroad (1878-1884) Gripman and conductor posed with Car #21, dummy and trailer, in front of a row of Victorian row houses. The line was extended to Central (now Presidio) Avenue from Fillmore on May 30, 1879. The car reads Kearny, Polk, and Fillmore, which would date this image to close to the time of the extension.
Pacific Heights
View soutwest across Sacramento to men with carriages and hearse posing in front of Nathaniel Gray Coffin Warerooms, 641 Sacramento St at Spring, then Webb.
Chinatown
Military families in garden. Planter beds, cannon balls, gun carriages, soldiers and families in garden on south side of Citadel.
SF Bay
The three-story brick building at 300-304 O'Farrell Street, at the northwest corner of Mason, was built in 1865 as the groceries and liquors store of Robert Hampton. The three two-story houses next to it, on Mason Street, were built in 1871. [WMK] Charles Crocker mansion on Nob Hill visible at extreme right.
Tenderloin
View southeast across Kearny to Lotta's Fountain, man dressed as Confederate soldier. Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Point Stuart Battery, Army officer holding parasol with two women and a dog. Three 32-pounder cannon on wooden carriages, which appear deteriorated. These guns were installed during the Civil War and decommissioned in the 1870's. (One source attributes this photo to Carleton Watkins.)
Outside SF
View northwest across intersection to people posing in front of 1301 Montgomery St., brick building built 1852 as store or factory and dwelling, by the time of this photo stuccoed on the south side. Still stands in 2021 fully stuccoed. Pioneer Park atop Telegraph Hill in background.
Telegraph Hill
View west across Presidio Avenue (then Central) toward Laurel Hill (Lone Mountain) Cemetery. (location is disputed) Five workers pose in front of Sutter Street Railway Company Cable Car #19 and others. Water tower with outside stairway in distance.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
View West on Oakdale toward Phelps. 'Haley & O'Neill Homestead', South San Francisco M.E. Church on left
Bayview
3 Soldiers resting, Officer's House.
Yerba Buena Island
View west on Union St. to Steiner St. terminal for cable section of the Presidio & Ferries line. Henry Bartels Saloon, Belle View Exchange 2232 Union at right. 4 story water tower and windmill in distance on Union west of Pierce. Sign for Damiana Bitters, U.S. Brewery beer.
Union Street
View North on Noe at Duncan. Woman waves in car at top of hill on Duncan Street, sorrounded by kids and an incredulous neighbor in a window. (Steep portion of Duncan Street was never paved and was later blocked on top by a low concrete wall.) The house is 1449 Noe.
Noe Valley