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Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

View east from center of busy Market Street. At left, original Phelan Building, Mutual Savings Bank (1902), Ferry Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building and Annex, Kamm Building (1906), Bancroft History Building, Midway Theatre.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Taylor
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Market near Taylor

View east down Market toward Ferry Building. Mark Strouse Bay City Market at left, Admission Day (Native Sons) Monument beyond. Call Building and Emporium at right. Alisky's Art Studio. (Flood Building not yet constructed.)

Tenderloin
Market at 2nd
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Market at 2nd

Elevated view west down crowded Market Street to Crocker Building, Chronicle Building. Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel Call Building at left. Postal Telegraph Co. in original Hobart Building at right. [679. Market St. From Second St. Waters Nickel Series]

Financial District
Market & Jones
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Market & Jones

View southeast across Market to N-Line PCC Car #1032, Weinstein Co., California Western States Life sign, Don's Beauty School, Guild Theatre, Centre Theatre. David Hewes Building at far left, before modern cladding on exterior.

South of Market
Embarcadero near Mission
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Embarcadero near Mission

Elevated view north from building window towards Ferry Building from Mission. Embarcadero closed at Ferry Building for freeway. Vehicle underpass blocked off. Ferry Station Post Office in distance left. Wellman Coffee. California State Agricultural Building at right.

Financial District
Union Square at Geary
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Union Square at Geary

Powell Street in foreground. View east along Geary towards Market Street. [DPW A120]

Downtown / Union Square
Fillmore & Fulton
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Fillmore & Fulton

View north from center of Fillmore, New Yorker Steak House on northeast corner. New Fillmore Hotel. New Fulton Market on northwest corner. [DPW A5042] Ornamental iron arches with hanging globe lights and Christmas banners over intersections.

Alamo Square
Market  & Mason
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Market & Mason

View east down Market to SFMR #5 N-Line during 4 track days - people with umbrellas in the rain, Humboldt Bank Building, Emporium, Hale's, Penney's, Pix and Esquire theaters, Flood Building. Annual Shriner Convention banners strung overhead. Unusual rain in July.

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery at California
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Montgomery at California

Elevated view south on crowded Montgomery street to Russ Bldg (1927), Commercial Union Assurance Building (1921, 315 Montgomery), Building with large hanging lamps in front is Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, demolished 1969) Palace Hotel in distance. Birdcage traffic light.

Financial District
Palace Hotel
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Palace Hotel

Monadnock Building, from Kearny and Market, looking east, showing buildings and Palace Hotel

Downtown / Union Square
Phelan Building
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Phelan Building

Market & O'Farrell, Elevated view looking west, Savings Union Bank at right, V-Odeon Theatre (1912-1914) at left [Phelan Bld. 998]

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

Elevated view west to Savings Union Bldg.; Union Trust Co.; Kohler & Chase Pianos [Cor. Market, O'Farrell & Grant Ave., SF]

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Post
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Powell & Post

View south from center of Powell, St Francis and Chancellor Hotels at right, Fitzhugh Building, Roos-Atkins, Union Square at left.

Downtown / Union Square
St. Francis Circle
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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
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San Jose Avenue

Looking north to Martha Hill (Dorothy Erskine Park); Removing streetcar tracks

Mission Terrace