Contains 186 photos
Cropped duplicate of wnp24.0027a. View north from Union Square to National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864), Post between Powell & Stockton Streets, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street behind. Portion of Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) on left. [G57 SBU-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View from Nob Hill southeast past earthquake ruins to reconstruction. Towne Mansion portal (later moved to Golden Gate Park), Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Temple Emanu-el with reconstructed shorter towers, Mutual Savings Bank building, Call building, Whittell Building, Spring Valley Water Co. Building, Butler Building on Union Square, Humboldt Bank Building. At right, Union Square building and wing of St. Francis Hotel under construction at far right. [G57 SEF-031] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
Looking SE from near Pine & Taylor on Nob Hill. Selby Shot Tower, Palace Hotel, Temple Emanuel. [G57 SV-035](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
View north across Union Square towards buildings on Post Street. Temple Emanu-el in background, showing modified steeples from post-earthquake renovation. People sitting on benches. Union Square Building, Union Square Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view north across Union Square between Powell and Stockton to dedication ceremony for the Dewey Monument by President Theodore Roosevelt. Temple Emanu-el in center distance. Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions background left. Grace Church tower background right. Walkerley Building on far right. [F45 SUS-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
The Howard Block four-story building on northwest corner with residences on left and right side. Temple Emanu-El in right distance. Before construction in 1872 or 1873, the site was an empty lot, used sometimes for tent revivals and traveling circuses. The building always had multiple tenants, such as the headquarters of the Pacific Division of the U.S. Army and The Howard lodgings in 1873, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1877, the California Supreme Court in 1881, and the Concordian Club. (PF) [Cor O'Farrell & Stockton Sts. 1874 BU-37 TEH287] [F810 BU-037] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
[Jewish Synagogue, Sutter St 1866 CHU-16] Elevated view north to Temple Emanu-El. Superior duplicate (more detail) of stereoview wnp37.00606. [F810 CHU-016] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northwest toward Nob Hill from above Sutter and Stockton. Rebuilt Temple Emanu-El (Now location of 450 Sutter medical building) at left, Hotel Colonial Annex and Stockton Tunnel at center. In distance, early buildings on Grace Cathedral site, Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel), 1001 California Morsehead Apartments (1915), Hopkins Institute of Art, Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) and Fairmont Hotel at center distance. The Angelus, Calvert Hotel Apartments, Yorkshire Apartments, Grant Hotel, Windemere Apartments, Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel, above tunnel entrance at far right.
Downtown / Union Square
[2174 SF 1883 PA-22] Knights Templar Parade. Elevated view looking north on Powell St. over Union Square to crowds lining streets for parade. Trinity Episcopal Church, Temple Emanu-el, Stanford, Flood, Mark Hopkins and other Nob Hill mansions in background left. [F810 PA-022] (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
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view northeast over rubble and cleared lot after 1906 earthquake and fire to busy scene of reconstruction, pedestrians, horses and wagons. Flood Building under repair with scaffolding, Western National Bank at corner has reopened. Towers of Temple Emanu-El in left distance. Tents, shacks and small temporary buildings set up, with signs such as "We Buy Gold", "Smith Rice Co. Riggers, General Contractors." [4268 James Flood Building September 1906] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
South of Market
View northeast across intersection to crowd posing in front of Bay State Market grocery in three story building. Metropolitan Hotel sign, Temple Shaari Zedek, barber shop. Harness & Carriage shop on right. The synagogue was built in 1854 as Temple Sherith Israel, but that congregation moved in 1870. A dissident group elected to stay at the synagogue, forming an Orthodox congregation with the new name. [Synagogue Sharrey (Sic) Zedek, SS-4 Showing the N.E. cor Bdway - Stockton St. Year 1889] [F810 SS-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
Elevated view northwest across Union Square to Trinity Church, National Guard Armory and Crocker, Hopkins and Stanford Mansions on Nob Hill. Temple Emanu-el at far right. Cropped from image at wnp37.00998-R. [SS-31 From Geary-Stockton Looking N.W. 1880] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view north from Market between 4th and 5th Streets. Powell Street at extreme left. Tin, Copper & Sheet Iron Manufacturer, Lawton & Co Carriage Factory, Temple Emanu-El in background. St. Francis of Assisi church on horizon, center, Starr King's church in distance far right. The sheds in the foreground are for storage of construction materials for the SF school district since when it was bought in 1860. Not visible here, the Fifth and Market School is just to the left of the sheds.(PF) Cropped from original image wnp37.02062. [F810 SS-092] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
View east to First Congregational Church (dedicated May 19, 1872) in center distance. Helmering & Plege. Plank streets and sidewalks. on left, south side of Temple Sherith Israel, built in 1870. Past the Temple is St. John's Presbyterian Church, built circa 1866. In 1870, the congregation bought the building from St. James' Episcopal Church [Post Street East Taylor St. 1885 (?) SS-152] [F810 SS-152] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Lower Nob Hill