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14th near Noe
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14th near Noe

6 Borden's Cottage Cheese Trucks, in front of brick building. Franklin Hospital, now California Pacific Medical Center.

Duboce Triangle
Noe near 14th
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Noe near 14th

German Hospital, Later Franklin Hospital, now Davies Medical Center

Duboce Triangle
Noe & 14th
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Noe & 14th

German Hospital, Later Franklin Hospital, now Davies Medical Center. Built 1905-1908. To the right is old German Hospital of 1878, likely torn down soon after. [WMK]

Duboce Triangle
Market & Church
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Market & Church

View West on Market from Church St showing traffic islands and streetcar track crossing. [D-5001-9-14-45 M.St.Rec.Traffic Islands & Crossing at Church St View W.]

Duboce Triangle
Market & Buchanan
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Market & Buchanan

View looking northwest toward remnant hill and future site of the U.S. Mint.

Mint Hill
Protestant Orphan Asylum
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Protestant Orphan Asylum

View northeast from about Hermann and Buchanan toward Nob Hill in background, over Hayes Valley. Where UC Berkeley Extension was, now condominiums.

Mint Hill
Duboce Tunnel East Portal
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Duboce Tunnel East Portal

DPW [A-4592 8-19-35 Duboce Tunnel East Portal] Hill in background is Buena Vista park. Muni B-Type Car #148 West Bound, about to enter the tunnel. Wooded block to the left was Franklin Hospital, now CA Pacific Medical Center Davies Campus.

Duboce Triangle
William Babcock Home
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William Babcock Home

Man and woman pose beside front door of house [Wm. Babcock Home 11 Essex St Rincon Hill, S.F. 1881, RE-1]

Rincon Hill
Milton Latham Residence
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Milton Latham Residence

Elevated view north from Folsom and Hawthorne, Rear of Howard Street Church at left, Advent Protestant Episcopal Church at right. Masonic Temple in background left center. [RE-19 Res of Milton S. Latham N.S. Folsom St Near Second St SF Cal 1872] 636-38 Folsom St. Latham (1827-1882) was a Congressman, Senator and Governor of California.

South of Market
Rincon Hill Cut
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Rincon Hill Cut

[#107, SS-169, Cutting Through 2nd St in 1869.] Plate taped.

Rincon Hill
Harrison near Hawthorne
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Harrison near Hawthorne

641, 651-653, and 655 Harrison, showing original steep slope before regrading. At time of sale in 1890, 651-3 was described as "two large bay window dwelling houses in fashionable part of Rincon Hill". Owned by Oliver S. Merrill, who served on the Board of Supervisors from Ward 9 in 1882. [ E 821 MB. Coll. RE-25, Supervisor I Merrill 651-3 Harrison St SF 1882]

South of Market
Mission & 5th
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Mission & 5th

View northwest across intersection towards Old U.S. Mint. Ivy covers a portion of facade.

South of Market
Franklin near California
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Franklin near California

Left to right, Charles S. Howard, president of Howard Automobile Company in a circa 1910 Buick 60 Special, known as the "Buick Bug", and his sons Charles S. Howard Jr. and Lindsay C. (Lynn) Howard in Howard Specials.

Pacific Heights
Fulton near Hyde
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Fulton near Hyde

View north to promo event for SF YMCA, boys in back of truck holding sign. Building in background is the business office of the Red Cross Hospital, on the site of what is now the old federal building. Argyle Apartments in background, Dome of St Boniface church at right.

Civic Center
Baker & Fell
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Baker & Fell

Seasonal Christmas installation at Shell gas station on the southeast corner. (Current site of California Department of Motor Vehicles, DMV) Auto promotion for the Sterns-Knight 1928 model, so it is most likely the photo was taken at Xmas time, 1927. (JF) Oversize Toy Soldiers with Santa Claus.

Panhandle