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Elevated view west on Market across Battery. Many streetcars, automobiles, pedestrians. The block at right, with Selig Bros. Wholesale Tailors, is now the site of Zellerbach Plaza. Remington Rand Inc. at left. (negative badly deteriorating, discarded)
Financial District
View southeast across Market to Call Building, Academy of Sciences, Emporium, Red Front clothing store 857-859 Market. Approaching horsecar (tracks pulled out in 1897), wagons. Baldwin Hotel at far left (destroyed by fire November, 1898). Cropped version at wnp67.0270.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast across intersection of Mission and 16th Street. Market St. Railway (MSRy) 14-Line streetcar #1591. Mission 16th Market with Owl Drug in background (demolished for 16th Street BART plaza). Birdcage traffic signal.
Mission
View northeast across the intersection, Market Street Railway (MSRy) 22-line Streetcar #862, westbound on 18th Street making turn onto Connecticut. Better Val-U Market
Potrero Hill
View north on Connecticut across 18th Street to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 22-line streetcar #867 with zip stripe livery turning from Connecticut onto 18th. Downtown skyline in background.
Potrero Hill
View northeast across Market, Market Street Railway (MSRy) streetcar #1229 on fan trip excursion passing the Warfield Theatre. Hotel Oxford, Dean Building (1906, demolished 2018, with Art Deco remodel), Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Garfield Building, Esquire and Telenews Theatres, and Flood Building in background. Stanley's suits and coats, Margaret Burnham's Cottage Candies on left. Birdcage traffic signals. Banners strung over Market, some with 'U.S. Army.'
South of Market
View northwest across Church between 30th and Day Street. Municipal Railway (Muni) J-line streetcar #97 with wings livery. Carmichael & McDonald Plumbers, Veteran's Liquors, St. Paul's Church in the background.
Noe Valley
Elevated view south across Market toward the Emporium Department Store, Market Street between 4th and 5th. Cable car on Market Street, horse and buggies.
Downtown / Union Square
View north on Grant between California and Sacramento. Sacramento Street cable car passing in the background. [Chinatown - Grant Ave.]
Chinatown
View north on Grant between California and Sacramento. Sacramento Street cable car passing in the background. [Chinatown - Grant Ave.] [Chinatown - Grant Ave.]
Chinatown
View south on Stockton from O'Farrell, entire block demolished. Billboard for Painless Parker Dentist at the corner of Ellis.
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Stockton from O'Farrell, entire block demolished.Billboard for Painless Parker Dentist at the corner of Ellis.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market St. of parade with military color guard marching west past Emporium.
Downtown / Union Square
U.S. Marines marching in formation heading west on Market Street, passing Emporium and Hale Bros.
Downtown / Union Square
View northeast to the corner of Turk and Divisadero towards Hilldebrandt's Groceteria, these four Victorian buildings were demolished or moved.
Western Addition