Elevated view north across busy Market St, horsecar crossing intersection. Many horsecars on Kearny street. Telegraph Hill in the distance. Lotta's Fountain visible behind awnings of Nucleus House on right. Signs for "Rubber Stamps & Printing Wheels" and "California Elastic Truss Co." on building across Market Street on left. Building on northwest corner of Geary & Kearny with large Dentistry sign on roof with eagle on top. Building at northeast corner of Geary & Kearny has large "Eagleson & Co. 4 and 6 Kearny St. Shirts Underwear" sign, C.N. West Electro Medical Belts sign, partially visible sign for E. Mansbach Fancy Goods, 26 Kearny, partially visible. Banners strung over Kearny for Verein Eintracht masquerade ball benefit for sufferers from East Germany. [No. 136 Kearny St.]
South of Market
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Palace Hotel
Market, Geary and Kearny Streets. View southeast across Market St. to Palace Hotel. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated September, 1875) in foreground, portion of Grand Hotel at far left, Nucleus Block building at right, in early stages of construction. Man standing on street. Variant of wnp24.261a.
Downtown / Union Square
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Kearny from 3rd
Elevated view north from south of Market past Market St. Railway Co horsecar crossing intersection. Horsecar tracks on Kearny street, Telegraph Hill in the distance. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated Sept. 8, 1875) visible behind awnings of Nucleus House on right. "Holt's Patent Printing Wheel" sign on building on Market Street. Building on NW corner of Geary & Kearny has gold tooth hanging outside second story window.
South of Market
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Market near Montgomery
Elevated view northeast over busy street scene. Crocker Building on the left, Union Trust Building, original Hobart Building Ferry Building in the distance. Palace and Grand Hotels on the right. Cable cars, horse drawn carts, street sweeper. [16881. Market Street, looking East, just before the Earthquake]
South of Market
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Chinatown
Crowd of men and children waiting for news about the Boxer Rebellion outside Ning Yung Association, 23 Waverly Place. Yuen Fat & Co., Quong On Chong & Co. (23 Waverly in 1895 directory.[11659. Reading the war news--in Chinatown]
Chinatown
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Hall of Justice
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view of Hall of Justice and ruins after 1906 earthquake, towards Nob Hill. [13288 - View from the Rear of the Hall of Justice --- Fairmount Hotel in the Distance, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, ]
Chinatown
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View SE from Russian Hill
Post quake and fire, Ferry Building in distance, Financial District, ships on bay, brick building foundations, Hall of Justice, Kohl Building in right background.
Russian Hill
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Post near Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on Post to west side of Crocker Building in distance, ruined building held up with long beam at right, stone rubble filling street, downed power line on left. Top story of Chronicle Annex, under construction at time of quake, in distance top center. [13264 - The Once Throbbing Heart of the City Stricken - Market St. After the Great Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906.]
Downtown / Union Square
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North Beach Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View from Union and Leavenworth Streets, Washington Square Park in distance, buckled cable car rails, men standing, rubble [13286 - One of the Sights Which Beggars Description--Telegraph Hill Looking East from Union and Leavenworth Streets, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Disaster of April 18, 1906]
Russian Hill
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View from Buena Vista Park
[244 Looking West from Park Hill] View northwest from Buena Vista Park over Haight Ashbury, Golden Gate Park Panhandle, St. Ignatius Church, Lone Mountain, Masonic and Calvary Cemeteries, Lowell High School center right, St. Agnes Church center, Richmond District, Presidio, Marin Headlands, and Pacific Ocean in the distance.
Buena Vista
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First Cliff House
View of First Cliff House from Fisherman's Rock (Flag Rock). Beach below. [No. 981 Cliff House]
Sutro
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View toward Russian Hill
Intersection of Jones & Jackson streets on Nob Hill, looking NW to Russian Hill. At the corner is 1501 Jones, built in 1867 for Robert C Scott, the owner of a wines and liquors business. Next to the north is 1505 Jones, built in 1868 for Charles Murray, a clerk. The gabled house with a porch, partly obscured by a tree, is 1507 Jones, built in 1864 for Wilbur F Bayley, co-proprietor of a photography studio at 618 Washington. In the background is a mansard-roofed mansion at the NW corner of Vallejo and Leavenworth, Russian Hill, built in 1871 for brick manufacturer Jabez Clay and was later the home of a well-known judge, Delos Lake. At the extreme upper right is the octagonal house at 1067 Green Street, the only building in this photo that still stands. Same image wnp24.182a.jpg with dif
Nob Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with landscaping growing in) towards Russian Hill. Columbus Avenue not yet cut through. Filbert St at lower right. [984. Russian Hill]
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill
View northeast from Nob Hill. Houses. East Bay in the distance. Duplicate of wnp24.0178a
Telegraph Hill
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Lombard & Hyde
View east on Lombard Street from Hyde before grading of either street. A man and child pose in the middle of the street, while what may be the rest of the family poses in front of the house on the right. Just above that house, in center distance, is the North Cosmopolitan (later Hancock) Grammar School (opened 1867, William Patton architect) on Filbert between Jones and Taylor. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex in left distance at Powell, Yerba Buena Island beyond. St. Francis of Assisi Church in distance right. Taken in or soon after 1869, when landscaping was completed in Washington Square. Same original as wnp24.378a, with significantly less image on left and more on right. (WMK)[984. Russian Hill, San Francisco, Cal.]
