Golden Gate Park
Music Concourse, a family of 6 posing near the Memorial Museum, later part of de Young Museum.
Golden Gate ParkStereoview
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Kearny near Clay
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Kearny from Clay, Hall of Justice at right. Telephone pole leaning into the street. Telegraph Hill in background. [8773 Kearney (sic) and Hall of Justice after the great disaster.]
Chinatown
Fort Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire, woman cooking in the street at Fort Mason. [3792 - Preparing dinner for her family - Old Lady cooking on the curb. SF Disaster] View north on MacArthur Ave near General's House, visible through trees at upper center.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Conservatory of Flowers
Golden Gate Park, view northeast to Conservatory of Flowers after January 5, 1883 fire. (New dome in place by 1884) (dupe of wnp24.423a.)
Golden Gate Park
Lincoln School
Elevated view east across 5th Street to Lincoln School with Lincoln statue in front. Construction materials at the curb. Plank sidewalk. Materials may be for construction of Metropolitan Temple, 1876-77. [No. 148. Lincoln School 5th Street, San Francisco]
South of Market
Baldwin Hotel
Northeast corner of Market & Powell. [No. 110. Baldwin Hotel, Market Street, SF, Cal.] Elevated view north across Market St. to Baldwin Hotel, destroyed by fire on November 23, 1898 (Present site of Flood Building). Stanford Mansion and Trinity Episcopal Church at background left. Horsecar tracks were installed in 1879 and replaced by cable car tracks in 1888.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & 5th
View east on Market St. towards Ferry Building. Chronicle Building, Call Building, Emporium. Notably, Baldwin Hotel is gone but Flood Building hasn't yet been built. Alisky's Art Studio. [3067 Market Street, SF Cal]
South of Market
Unknown Location
Parade for the Golden Jubilee, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of gold. Crowds of people on sidewalks and residences watching the Calaveras County float with men dressed as gold miners around a giant gilded skull. Sign on float 'Calaveras County The County of Skulls ... Great Gold Producers ... production since 1880 would build this skull out of solid gold ... total over $100,000,000.' [San Francisco. The Golden Jubilee]
Third & Market
Elevated view looking northwest. Temple Emanu-el at center, Denman School in distance left. The big brick structure in the middle right is Dashaway Hall with its front on Post between Kearny and Dupont (now Grant), and its rear on Morton Street (Maiden Lane). White building to right of Temple Emanu-el with gables and veranda, at northwest corner of Sutter & Stockton, was the mansion of pioneer physician Augustus J. Bowie until 1871, when it was converted to a theatre and beer garden, the Vienna Garden. It was demolished in 1892. Also the home of Judge Burritt and banker Lucien Herman. Plank sidewalks. Different cropping of wnp71.2095
South of Market
View SE from Nob Hill
View looking southeast from approximately California near Mason on Nob Hill, over downtown towards Mission Bay. Church steeples (left to right) Temple Emanu-el, Third Baptist, St. Patrick's, and Trinity Church.
Nob Hill
1st Cliff House
First Cliff House viewed from north end of Ocean Beach. [at the Cliff House, San Francisco.] Right-hand portion of stereoview by Carleton Watkins. (color version of wnp4.0371.jpg)
Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights, decorative 'partierre' plantings. Flower conservatory in right background. [107 Carpet Flower Beds, Sutro Heights]
Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights
A view north on Palm Avenue toward Main Gate. People strolling, Fort Miley hillside (then called the Point Lobos Military Reservation) in the background.
Sutro Heights
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park, view west toward the Arizona Garden and Conservatory of Flowers on the top of the terrace staircase. First band shell (music stand) in center distance.[140.Golden Gate Park from Terrace]
Golden Gate Park
Conservatory of Flowers
Golden Gate Park, view north to people gathered around sundial in Conservatory Valley. Conservatory of Flowers in background. [122. Conservatory, Golden Gate Park]
Golden Gate Park