18th & Mission
Gernhardt-Strohmaier Stove Store at 2205 Mission. Gernhardt-Strohmaier Co.Exterior of store window with model demonstrating ironing machine. Ads for furnaces and tray washers.
MissionPosed
Contains 2699 photos
1334 Masonic
View east across Masonic Avenue between Waller and Frederick. Woman and three children posed in front of a Victorian row house, 1334 Masonic. These houses were part of a row of six houses built in 1891 by John A Whelan, a shipwright with a shop on Spear Street who also developed rows of Victorian houses as a sideline. These houses still stand, but the pediments and French caps have all been removed. (WMK) Buena Vista Park in background. [SF dev - Haight-Ashbury 1334 Masonic, from Shirryl Wilson] (Poorer quality and cropped version of wnp33.04099)
Buena Vista
Fillmore near Hayes
[S.F. - Block Distributions - 716 Fillmore Street - Aerial Construction 20] Two men on rooftop working on telephone pole. Queen Anne mansion in background
Hayes Valley
McAllister near Fillmore
View northwest across McAllister to line of delivery wagons, L. Dresner the Tailor 1188 McAllister, Oyster and Chop House. Some or all of the men posing at right are very likely the same ones in front of the Davis Theatre (in distance left) in wnp26.1779 and wnp26.1728. Signage on the Davis Theatre indicates this was taken on or around the same date as wnp26.1728. [79]
Western Addition
Unknown Location
View down alley to loading dock with horse teams. Possibly rear of a Pacific Telephone building on Mission Street.
Pacific Telephone Building
Group photo on rooftop [L to R: Major John Churchill; Gerald Campbell; H. D. Pillsbury; Hon. Winston Churchill; Randolph Churchill; John Churchill, Jr.; F. J. Reagan; N. R. Powley.]
South of Market
Pacific Telephone Building
Older man with teenage boys looking upwards to top of building, 140 New Montgomery St.
South of Market
Unknown Location
Pacific Telephone repairman with truck helping boy on tricycle cross street. (Mission District?)
Unknown Location
Pacific Telephone repairman with truck talking to boy on roller skates (Mission District?)
Mission Viaduct
View south on Mission from near Trumbull, Lineman working on splicing cable on telephone pole, watched by co-worker. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Mission Terrace
Pacific Bell Baseball Team
View northerly from South Side Playground (aka Father Crowley Playground), on the site of the current Hall of Justice. Pacific Bell baseball players in uniform, lined up at unidentified ball field south of Market. Towers of Humboldt Bank Building and Call Building visible in distance. (handball courts in background, see wnp27.0592)
South of Market
Pacific Bell Baseball Team
Pacific Telephone Business Office Team posed at South Side Playground (Father Crowley Playground), Columbia Square in background, view north. [228 - S.F. Bus. Off. Baseball Team. Telco League 1920(?)]
South of Market
Sickles & Huron
View northwest on Sickles from Huron, Telephone linemen on pole in front of a row of Victorian residences. the two homes at center 102 Sickles and 120 Sickles still stand in 2020. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Outer Mission
743 Washington
Operator at switchboard, boy in uniform inside Pacific Telephone Chinatown Exchange, also called the Chinese Telephone Exchange Building.
Chinatown
Earthquake Refugees
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View down row of 1906 earthquake relief cottages, possibly Richmond Camp (Park-Presidio Blvd. today). Children, women, dog posing. [Bear Photo, S.F. 678]
Richmond Inner