23rd & 3rd
View looking west on 23rd Street towards Potrero Hill. 3rd Street Car House at left. [DPW A6487]
DogpatchTracks
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Aquatic Park
View west from near Hyde and Jefferson Streets towards Fort Mason. State Belt railroad tracks and trestle. SF Fire Department Pump Station #2 with smokestack at right. [6650 Aquatic Park looking West 8-23-20] [dpwbook27 dpw6650]
SF Bay
Ferry Building
View east from center of Market St. at Main to Ferry Building with '1925' on tower and 'Welcome To California For The Diamond Jubilee' sign. Hotel Terminal, Lincoln Hotel, Southern Pacific Building. Streetcars on 4 tracks, including 4-Line #292, A-Line. [9815]
Financial District
Sutro Depot
Elevated view northeast to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 2-line streetcar #231 with zip stripe livery departing Sutro Baths terminal on private right-of-way. Merrie Way fence at upper right. Concrete block at left center is believed to be a foundation remnant from the either the Haunted Swing or Mystic Maze attractions on Merrie Way. Marine Exchange Lookout (Octagon House) visible in distance.
Sutro Heights
Sacramento & Grant
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast across intersection of Grant Ave (then Dupont) and Sacramento Street. Hall of Justice ruins in distance. Two photographers, one may be Chas. Bailey. [#48. Chinatown. Chas Bailey L.A.] Hall of Justice]
Chinatown
26th & Valencia
View west across Valencia to Buckingham and Hecht - True Merit Shoes Factory. Built 1888, Macy & Jordan, Architects. Still stands in 2024.
Mission
Eddy Near Mason
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east down Eddy to ruins of Poodle Dog Restaurant, Flood Building, Emporium
Tenderloin
O'Farrell near Jones
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to downtown earthquake ruins and workers clearing debris. In distance from left, Whittell and Butler Buildings under construction, Call Building, Flood Building. The two story brick and stone facade with double archways at left is the remains of the Eureka Benevolent Society building (1900) at 436 O'Farrell. The Society was established in 1850 by August Helbing to assist immigrant Jews in San Francisco. It was rebuilt to a similar design in 1910 and that building still stands, with a fortune telling business occupying the first floor in 2019. [Looking Down O'Farrell St. from Jones]
Tenderloin
Downtown in Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast from Nob Hill, Powell near Pine. Call, Whittell Buildings, Butler Building, ruins of Temple Emanu El.
Nob Hill
St. Francis Circle
View north to Arden Wood Christian Science Sanatorium behind trees at left, billboards for Lakeshore Park development ("For Prestige Living, Homes of Character and Distinction", Kraft Mayonnaise.
West Portal
San Jose Avenue
Looking north to Martha Hill (Dorothy Erskine Park); Removing streetcar tracks
Mission Terrace
Dupont & Clay
View north on Dupont (Grant Ave). Storefronts written in Chinese, people in streets,
Chinatown
Fillmore & Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View SW to Temple Beth Israel and Albert Pike Memorial Temple, earthquake damage
Western Addition
Fillmore & Geary
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View SW to Temple Beth Israel and Albert Pike Memorial Temple, earthquake damage
Western Addition
Clayton near Corbett
Clayton Street looking Northerly towards Corbett, before sidewalks installed, tracks of the 33-line (18th & Park Line) at left.
Eureka Valley