Mechanics Monument
Market & Bush Streets. View southeast to buildings on south side of Market, Sheldon Building at right. Donahue Mechanics Monument with pool, later removed.
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Pioneer Monument
View north to Pioneer (James Lick) Monument at Marshall Square. Hall of Records in background. Current intersection of Grove and Hyde. Henry Johnson & Son Delicacies, 12 Marshall Square. City Hall demolished, Grove street would be extended to Market at this location in 1914. In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library. French-made cannon to right of the monument was a Spanish-American war prize. It is now in the Presidio.
Civic Center
Union Square
View west. St. Francis Hotel, First Congregational Church spire and Dewey Monument
Downtown
Old City Hall
Marshall Square and Lick Monument (also Pioneer Monument) in foreground.
South of Market
Golden Gate Park
Francis Scott Key monument in front of old Academy of Sciences.
Golden Gate Park
Union Square
Looking southeast to City of Paris. Dewey Monument at left.
Downtown
Union Square
Looking southeast, from the St. Francis Hotel tower.
Downtown
Bush, Front, & Market
Mechanics Square - View northwest to Donahue Monument, with fountain. Street car passing on Battery Street.Hoffman, Rothchild & Co. clothiers, 11 Battery St.
Financial District
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park. Models dressed with Egyptian headers with sphinx on front steps of Memorial (later de Young) Museum. Sundial by M. Earl Cummings, installed October 1907, in background left. [8069]
Golden Gate Park
Geary, Kearny, & Market
Elevated view west over crowded street scene to Geary; Flannery building at left with large billboard atop, Lotta's Fountain; Chronicle Building on the right, Schmidt Building with Korn Hats, Rosenstock Building with Golden Pheasant restaurant, Whittell Building in distance. Outbound D-Line streetcar at Kearny, inbound D-Line approaching on Geary. Flannery Building signage on 2nd and 3rd floors for dentist Dr. Charles Henry ('Doc') Strub, who, in 1919, became part owner and president of the San Francisco Seals baseball team until 1938. J. Edlin Merchant Tailor on 4th Floor, Slavin Hair Grower on 5th Floor, General Cigar Co. at street level. United Cigars, William T. Valentine Suits at northwest corner Geary & Kearny.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
Elevated view northeast from St. Francis Hotel; over Union Square to Stockton & Post Streets. Hotel Plaza, Standard Oil Building (completed 1922), Whittell Building. Schroth Building (1908, architect Cunningham & Politeo) at center.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
Elevated view north from Geary. Chancellor Hotel, Fitzhugh Building under construction.
Downtown / Union Square
Mason & Turk
View South on Mason toward Turk and Market. Newly installed streetcar tracks, Admission Day Monument, Native Sons Monument, Streetcar, south of market Ruins in the distance.
Tenderloin
Top of Mt. Olympus
Triumph of Light statue, surveyor, steam shovel, with man in car parked in front.
Buena Vista
Market & 3rd
Street scene looking north to Lotta's fountain, Chronicle Building, bicyclist in center of picture
South of Market