Contains 940 photos
View northwest across intersection to Russ House (opened April, 1862), occupying the west side of Montgomery Street between Bush and Pine Streets. E. & F. Shrier men's clothing story in corner storefront, left. Mutual Life Insurance Co., J. C. Meussdorffer hats at right. Nevada Bank Building (1875) at Pine street corner in distance. [The Russ House, Montgomery St. Front, S.F. 3676]
Financial District
Elevated view southwest across Montgomery and Sutter intersection. Lick House, C. C. Hastings & Co. Tailors; Logan & Co., Masonic Temple, painted sign for omnibus stop at left. [1733. Lick House, Montgomery Street Front, S. F.]
Financial District
[3721 Chinese Apothecary, Chinatown, S. F. Cal. Taber Photo., San Francisco, Cal.] Man and child inside Quong Sang Tong & Co. apothecary, 900 Dupont (later Grant) Street. Same apothecary as wnp37.03625.
Chinatown
View northwest across California St. to Cable Car in intersection. Leesmont Apartments (790 California, Stone & Smith architects, built 1916 still stands 2022). Sing Chong Building.
Chinatown
View southwest across Market to Muni 8-line streetcar #202 (with Market Street Railway MSRy shield not yet painted out), Muni K-line streetcar. James E. Townsend & Co. office equipment, Ditto Business Systems. Underwood Building at right. Banners strung over street.
Financial District
View southwest across Market to Municipal Railway (Muni) 8-line streetcar #827 with zip stripe livery; Bimbo's 365 Club at 365 Market at far left. Williams Bros. Drafting Supplies, Navlet's Plants. PG&E Building annex under construction at upper left.
Financial District
North Beach and Mission horsecar headed south, people passing. F.S. Chadbourne & Co. furniture in background.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Food Stand. [Ice Cream]. Ad for Dreamland at Post & Steiner (opened August, 1906).
Elevated view south over Market Street. Storefronts, including the St. Lawrence House (616-617 Market St.), Justice's Court (613 Market), Market St. Restaurant, Montgomery House, and W. L. Richardson House Moving. Rincon Hill, churches on Bryant St. (Church of the Advent completed February 1861, Howard Street Methodist (aka Second Methodist Episcopal Church) dedicated September 27, 1863), and Mission Bay in the background. From Lawrence & Houseworth No. 116, 'San Francisco-From Market Street, Corner Montgomery, looking South.' Same image as wnp71.0376, with different cropping.
Financial District
View north on Fillmore toward Ellis, people in the street, streetcar tracks turning east on Ellis, streetcar in distance. Pencovic-Harris druggists 1407 Fillmore, Pacific Syndicate Co. varieties, 1415 Fillmore, Puritan Dining Room 1433 Fillmore in distance left.
Western Addition
View southwest across Fillmore to pedestrians, horses and wagons, shops. California Baking Co. at Eddy corner, Marks Bros. ladies wear clearance sale banner, Gilsey Cafe 1315 Fillmore, Lasky's optician and photography supply 1319 Fillmore, Continental Tailoring 1323 Fillmore, Keene's Music Store 1325 Fillmore. [Fillmore near Eddy]
Western Addition
View north across intersection to relocated stores on Van Ness after 1906 earthquake and fire, showing temporary storefronts built in front of existing Victorian houses. Buggies, carriages, shoppers.
Cathedral Hill
View east on California Street to intersection with Grant Avenue and beyond. Reconstruction in progress, some ruins still present. Sing Chong and Sing Fat Buildings. Old St Mary's steeple at left. Kohl and Merchants' Exchange Buildings in distance. Alaska Commercial Building, Clunie Building. In far distance, Fife Building (opened 1909) is under construction.
Chinatown
Elevated view northeast on Kearny toward Telegraph Hill, visible in the distance. Mercer & Bernheim Confectioners, McColgan & O'Kane Saddlery at 136 Kearny. The two-story brick building in the center is the Tattersall Stables, at the southeast corner of Kearny and Sacramento streets; built in 1855. Daguerrean Gallery of J. M Ford in distance left, at the southeast corner Clay & Kearny. Signs for Porter & Flenner Empire Livery Stable, 133 Kearny, Catholic Books, Hardware, Painting, Tin Ware, at left. (The address of 136 Kearny is misleading, because the system of addresses was changed to increase addresses by 100 per block, in 1860.)
Chinatown
Elevated view east above 3rd Street, then Kentucky, to two crowded United Railroads streetcars (one is #958] over commercial area near Union Iron Works, with crowded streets behind. In distance, Olympia Hotel 500 20th and Western Hotel 507 20th. [California Promotion Committee. No. 70 Workers Returning From ?]
Dogpatch