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1906 Earthquake and Fire, [No 48. Southeast from Bush & Powell Sts EF-78] From left, ruins of Temple Emanu-El, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Call Building, Whittell Building, Spring Valley Water Co. Building, Butler Building, Union Square and Dewey Monument. MJB Coffee 'Why' ad on wall] [F810 EF-078] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view north to Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, Sacramento and Montgomery (1893). Telegraph Hill with Layman's Castle (burned July, 1903) atop. Falkenau Assaying Co. and School of Assaying, 538 Sacramento Street at lower right. St. Francis of Assisi Church on horizon at left. Panorama 1890 [Sic] part 1. [F810 PAN-004a] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
California & Mason, Panorama 1902 part 4. View northeast to Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Island. Shaari Zedek synagogue at northeast corner California and Stockton. Grace Church, Old St. Mary's Church, Kohl Building, Savings Deposit Building, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York in distance right. Portsmouth Square, Hall of Justice, Montgomery Block and Appraisers Building at left. Kohl Building, Montgomery and California at right in distance. Merchants Exchange Building (1904) not yet built. At lower left, Stanford Stables. [F810 PAN-006d] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
Panorama 1905, part 2. View north, likely from Chronicle Building Annex, to Telegraph Hill. Dohrmann Company, Kohl Building, Nevada Bank Building, Merchants Exchange, Mills Building, Occidental Hotel, French Savings Bank Building, Savings & Loan Society Building (earlier known as the Clock Tower Building, showing added fifth story). [F810 PAN-007b] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
California & Mason, Panorama 1905 part 5. View southeast to Palace Hotel, Chronicle Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Call building. Temple Emanu-El and Third Baptist Church (African-American, 1869), Powell Street bottom right. [F810 PAN-007e] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
View SW from Treasure Island. Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, skyline of San Francisco.
Treasure Island
Waterfront looking west from SF Bay to approximately foot of Howard St. L to R: Pier 16, Pier 14, Pacific Telephone Building, Embaracadero YMCA, ferryboats in slips, Southern Pacific Building, Ferry Building at right. 57 Sign.
View east from cable car on California between Grant and Stockton to House of Lee, Yamato Sukiyaki in Sing Fat Building, Cathay House at left. Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Russ Building. Clunie Building with Bank of America ad on west side. St. Mary's Parking Garage and Park (1954) at center. Garage for Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College and Ritz-Carlton Hotel) at right.
Chinatown
View east from near center of Market St. to St. Ann's building and Baldwin Hotel in distance on left. Horse car and cable car tracks. Utility poles with 8 crossbars on south side of Market. [B 924 Instantaneous View of Market St., S.F. - Taber]
South of Market
Elevated view looking east on Market Street near 3rd Street showing the Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel and Nucleus Hotel at right, Davis Brothers Golden Rule Bazaar, Easton & Eldridge Real Estate and Auctioneers, F.W. Krelling & Sons, Beamish's Shirts, cables cars and horse drawn wagons. Towers of Masonic Temple and original Hobart Building at left. [B 2145. Market Street - Taber]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower up Market Street. From left, Pacific Telephone Building, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, Hotel Terminal, Standard Oil Building, Russ Building. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels in distance right. John L. Prior Co. Sail Makers, Johnson, Joseph & G.M. Josselyn & Co., numerous billboards, including one for Bernstein's Fish Grotto. '57' sign. Shell Building (1929) not yet built. Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop. [on back: Moulin Market St. & Twin Peaks from Ferry Bldg]
Financial District
View from bay towards Ferry Building and downtown buildings. Pacific Telephone, Call Building, Hobart Building, Shell Building, Russ Building. Ferry boats. 57 Sign.
View of downtown high-rises. L to R: Appraisers Building, Transamerica Pyramid, Alcoa Building, International Building, Bank of America Building
Nob Hill
View east from Portola Drive near Burnett; part of a panorama over Noe Valley to Potrero Hill. St. Philip The Apostle Church, Castro Hill at center left. S.F. General Hospital, gas storage tanks on Pennsylvania St. and Army (Cesar Chavez) St. (since removed). James Lick School right of center, Clipper St. at lower right.
Upper Market
View over Huntington Park and Russian Hill apartment towers to Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands in distance. Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Sproule Mansion, Park Lane Apartments at lower left. [San Francisco Jan. 57. Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Palace of Fine Arts, Marina, Golden Gate]
Nob Hill