Contains 940 photos
View northeast across Sutter to shoppers crossing Sutter Street. Peanut Wagon at left. W.J. Sloane furniture (1300-1320 Van Ness), Henry Lyons & Sons (clothiers, 1332-1338 Van Ness), Charles Berwin (furriers, 1330-1332 Van Ness) in background. Following the 1906 earthquake and fire, this part of Van Ness Avenue became the temporary site of many relocated downtown stores.
Downtown
View northwest across intersection of Post and Kearny to 101 Kearny. Alfred Lilienfeld and Co. men's furnishings store decorated for the Portola Festival.
Downtown / Union Square
Chinatown. View northwest across Grant Ave. Sing Fat Company on corner with stained glass globe streetlamps in front. Sing Chong Building at right.
Chinatown
1443 Fillmore Street. Citizens State Bank 1447 Fillmore, Hyman & Lipman men's clothing, The Shop of Swellness, 1449 Fillmore. J.B. Dunphy & Co. Real Estate (Millbrae Villa Tract) sign.
Western Addition
View southeast to Geo. Haas and Sons; Clothing store decorated with flags, paintings of ships for Great White Fleet visit. Orpheum Theatre in background. Steel arch over intersection also decorated with flags and boughs.
Western Addition
View north down Fillmore to decorative steel arches over intersections with American flags, electric lights strung over street, and S.N. Wood store at right. At left, Puritan Dining Room 1433 Fillmore.
Western Addition
View at night northwest across intersection of Post and Kearny toward 101 Kearny. Alfred Lilienfeld and Co. men's furnishings store brightly illuminated and decorated for the Portola Festival.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast from Union Square to City of Paris Department Store/Spring Valley Water Co. Building, Butler Building under construction at right - Union Square, Stockton and Geary [#2 S.V.W.W. Building]
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Market Street to City Hall, Hall of Records and nearby businesses: Gallagher-Marsh Business College 1382 Market, I.N. Eisenberg Shoes 1384 Market, Dore Photo Studio 1380 Market, Schrader Bros. City Hall Market, L.E. Clawson Chimneys 1340 Market.
South of Market
Baldwin Hotel Fire. The November 23, 1898 fire illustrated the inadequacy of the emergency water system. As water was pumped to the fire, all taps south of Market Street ran dry.
Downtown
View northwest across Market to cable car and businesses on north side of Market, with City Hall dome behind. Lundstrom Hatworks 1458 Market, Wilfert Bros. sausage makers, A. Berbert & Bro. Surgical Instruments 1450 Market, La France 1446 Market, St. Helena Sanitarium 1436 Market.
South of Market
View north from center of Mission. Grand Theatre (formerly the Mission, later the Realart, demolished 1925) at right.
Mission
View to southeast corner, Quong Wah Ying & Co, Chinese & Japanese Fancy Goods, 940 Dupont.
Chinatown
View west to Knights Templar Decorations on Roos Brothers Store.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Grant Avenue in Chinatown, between Sacramento and California Streets. Canton Bazaar at left, Sing Fat Co., Astoria Hotel in distance.
Chinatown