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Market & Mason
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Market & Mason

View East on Market during reconstruction, Native Sons Admission Day Monument, Flood Building, Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Emporium. Mechanics Savings Bank Building under construction. Flags and decorations line Market Street.

Tenderloin
Market & 4th
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Market & 4th

View West on busy Market Street toward 4th Street corner. Old 1887 Flood Building at Southwest corner, California Academy of Sciences, Emporium

South of Market
Market & Post
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Market & Post

View southwest from center of Market, Crocker Building at right under reconstruction. Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) and Palace Hotel under construction at left. Monadnock Building, Call Building, uncompleted Humboldt Bank Building in left background. In right background, Flood Building, Chronicle / de Young Building reconstruction, 660 Market Realty Building, completed late 1907. Behind Chronicle Building scaffolding, Flannery Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building. Electric streetcar #1540 on cable car track.

Financial District
Lower Market
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Lower Market

Elevated view east from Crocker Building, corner Montomery & Post, during reconstruction. Steel structure for Fife Building in front of Ferry Building, Drumm & Market. Rooftops, Alexander-Yost Hardware, Direct Line Telephone Co., Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Island. Painters hanging from painting platforms on west side of Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market, Stevenson Building at southeast corner. Signs for E.D. Co., Eugene Dietzgen Co. Drawing Materials, H.S. Crocker Co., Waterman & Levy, American Import Co. Few if any of these building (excepting Ferry Building) stand in 2022.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

Elevated view east on Market Street from Kearny. Chronicle Building (with clock above entry) and Lotta's Fountain at left, Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop in distance. Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank Building, Palace Hotel (with Schwabacher & Co. in corner retail space) and Monadnock Building (with Canadian Pacific Railway) at right. Ferry Building, PG&E and Matson Buildings in distance. Muni K-line streetcar #83 and Market St. Railway (MSRy) 21-line streetcar #1738. Line of automobiles. [A 119 3-15-27 Market St. East of Kearny St.] DPW

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Pearl
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Market near Pearl

Elevated view from north side of Market looking easterly toward Market & Valencia [DPW 1016]. First Baptist Church, City Hall Dome at left. ( Valencia Powerhouse smokestack at right) [DPW 10615]

Mint Hill
Van Ness & Sacramento
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Van Ness & Sacramento

View South on Van Ness at Sacramento

Pacific Heights
Van Ness near California
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Van Ness near California

View South on Van Ness between Sacramento and California (detail of wnp4.1400)

Pacific Heights
Van Ness near California
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Van Ness near California

View South on Van Ness between Sacramento and California (detail of wnp4.1400)

Pacific Heights
Geary & Van Ness
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Geary & Van Ness

View north to Reo Car behind streetcar, Reo dealership, Concordia Club behind.

Lower Nob Hill
Van Ness & Chestnut
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Van Ness & Chestnut

F-Line streetcar #29; Galileo High School in background

Marina
Van Ness near Sacramento
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Van Ness near Sacramento

View northwesterly on Van Ness toward Sacramento. The Paige Motor Car Company building under construction at left (an addition with 2 more bays was made in 1922 and the building still stands in 2022), J. W. Leavitt & Co. Oldsmobile Dealership, Claus Spreckels Mansion at Clay Street.

Pacific Heights
Van Ness & Geary
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Van Ness & Geary

Northwest corner of Van Ness and Geary, Van Etta Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership; Sloss & Glikbarg Studebaker dealership on corner of Post. Built in 1913 as a Kissel Kar dealership.

Cathedral Hill
Baker near Greenwich
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Baker near Greenwich

View south on Baker toward Pacific Heights. 2898 Broadway (Bliss & Faville, architects built 1899) is on horizon at northeast corner of Broadway and Baker, still stands 2023. Upper left is rear of Grant Primary School, which was on Pacific Street. Northbound Steam Dummy pulls car in distance.

Cow Hollow
Geneva & San Jose
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Geneva & San Jose

Municipal Railway (Muni) work car #0131 behind the Geneva Car Barn

Cayuga