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Contains 595 photos

Taylor & Market
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Taylor & Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Up Taylor St. from Market] View north up Taylor to earthquake ruins. Rubble blocking street.

Tenderloin
Market near Powell
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Market near Powell

Elevated view north across Market, St. Ignatius Church (1862, on the right), Temple Emanu-El (1864, center distance). Between Powell and Stockton. Tin, Copper & Sheet Iron Manufacturer, Lawton & Co. Carriage Factory. Starr King's Unitarian Church in distance far right. [TEH86 T.E. Hecht 430 35th Ave., Market St. in 1865 bet. Powell & Stockton Sts. SS-93]. Inscription says 1865, but it's 1866.

New Montgomery & Market
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New Montgomery & Market

[TEH30 T.E. Hecht Grand Hotel April 1874] Elevated view across Market to intersection of Market and New Montgomery Street. Five carriages outside entrance of Grand Hotel on New Montgomery, City Railroad Co. horsecar #53. Palace Hotel construction site excavated at right. Market St. Inferior duplicate of wnp71.0149. TEH30.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & O'Farrell
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Powell & O'Farrell

View north on Powell to Union Square, Nob Hill. Horses, carriages, cable car. Temple Emanu-El in background. [TEH557 Powell St. Feb 6, 1905. T. E. Hecht]

Downtown / Union Square
Battery & Jackson
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Battery & Jackson

View southwest across the intersection of Battery and Jackson to the U.S. Customs house with Appraiser's Building in the background. The streets are paved with stone and horsecar tracks lead up Jackson Street. [TEH491 Custom House, Battery & Jackson sts. 1903 T. E. Hecht]

North Beach
California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

[TEH495 Cal St. West of Sansome T. E. Hecht] View west from center of street to Nob Hill, California Street cable car, Fireman's Fund Insurance Building with added Mansard roof and 4th story, Hayward's Building and 3rd Merchant's Exchange building on left at Leidesdorff corner, Bank of California on right, Kohl Building beyond. Grace Church, Fairmont Hotel in distance.

Financial District
Sansome & California
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Sansome & California

[Sansome street from California- looking North 1381] Elevated view North to Telegraph Hill. Horsecar tracks, wagons, giant pitcher on top of a crockery store. Same image as Watkins stereograph 1381 'Sansome Street from California, looking North', with different cropping. Edges of Bank of California (left) and Friedlander Building (right).

Financial District
Folsom & 1st
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Folsom & 1st

View southwest to south side of Folsom St. Slosson Brothers (W.E. & James W. Slosson) groceries and liquors store at left on Southwest corner, row of 8 houses with rounded and slanted bays. Carriage in the road. Original image on stereoview card.[1315 Folsom St. corner First, SF]

South of Market
Pacific & Kearny
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Pacific & Kearny

View west on Pacific toward Kearny. Prescott House 933 Kearny on the Southwest corner at left. Many of the buildings down the street were moved or demolished here for Montgomery Avenue. (later Columbus Ave.) construction. [Pacific street from Kearney (Sic)- looking West. 1385]

North Beach
View from Ferry Building
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View from Ferry Building

Elevated view west up Market street over cable car turntable with United Railroads cable car #253 on turntable to approximately 13 other cable cars. United Railroads California Street #38 horsecar at left. Sacramento Street cable car at center right. Magnolia Cafe, Pacific Ticket Office, Aug. Wessell and Co., Smiths' Cash Store Building, [551]

Financial District
California near Leidesdorff
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California near Leidesdorff

View southwest across empty street to south side of California, from left: Hayward's Building (1867) with New Orleans Cafe in basement space, second Merchant's Exchange Building (1868), Safe Deposit Building (1875). In distance far right, Stanford and Mark Hopkins mansions.

Financial District
California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

[California St. from Sansome to Montgomery sts, SF Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] Elevated view northwest across intersection to Bank of California, North Beach and California horsecar tracks. Parrot Block, Cast Iron Bank. London & San Francisco Bank building (constructed in 1874), 424 California, at left at Leidesdorff corner.

Financial District
Sacramento near Leidesdorff
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Sacramento near Leidesdorff

View west to What Cheer house on left, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Martin's Restaurant on right. Fairmont Hotel, cable cars in distance. [No. 4 Sacramento St. west from Sansome, 1905]

Financial District
Sansome near Merchant
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Sansome near Merchant

View south from center of Sansome, cobblestone street with horsecar tracks, Branch House, 424 Sansome, on left, Coso House, 411 Sansome, on right. A. J. Leary book bindery, 402-408 Sansome, down street on left.

Financial District
California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

View west on California. Cable car in street. At left, Fireman's Fund Insurance Building (with added Mansard roof and 4th story), Hayward's Building, second Merchants Exchange Building, Safe Deposit Building. At right Bank of California and corner of Friedlander's Building, tower of Grace Church in distance.

Financial District