Contains 311 photos
View north, Franklin Hall is tallest building on left, towards Bush intersection. Chinn-Beretta Optical 1821 Fillmore, Chronicle sign, Spiegel Signs, Laib Signs, Sweeny & McCarthy Men's Furnishings, L.& M. Alexander & Co. Typewriters, 1820 Fillmore. From the period when earthquake-damaged businesses temporarily relocated to Fillmore St. and city offices moved to Franklin Hall.
Japantown
View west on California to busy street scene. Grace Church, Fairmont Hotel in distance. Kohl Building, Brown & Power stationers, Bank of California, Friedlander's Building in center distance. Cable Car #2, Presidio Avenue, California and Market Streets at lower right. [California St. looking West toward Nob Hill, just before Earthquake]
Financial District
View northwest across Market down Post, Crocker Building at Market at Post, Chronicle Building , 700 Market Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building on left [601 Market (left) and Post Streets, Looking West, San Francisco, USA]
View north to approaching MSRy 9-line #1599. H.S. Thompson Lumber, Schwarz Sausage Co., Heists Taxidermy 1793 Mission. Jeep with speakers mounted on fenders.
Mission
View east from center of Market. N-Judah #213 approaching, Muni bus #608 at right. Multiple Muni buses approaching on left. Roos Bros., Phelan Building, Central Tower, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of American Sign atop, Farros Theatre, State Theatre, Pacific Building, Lerner Shops. Ferry Building in distance.
South of Market
View north down 1st to 8-line #149, turning at East Bay Terminal. Shell Building, Western Neckwear Co., J.R. Rosenthal Co., The Commuter, Foster's Cafeteria.
South of Market
View southeast across Geary & from Boswell (intersection no longer exists) to Fillmore Auditorium, Beth Israel Synagogue. Muni B-Line #153 with wings livery, last day of service.
Western Addition
View southeast down Mission to 11-Line Hoffman Streetcar #838 with wings livery on last day of service of line. Hotels Thomas & Hale. Chronicle Building, Pacific Telephone Building at background left. Tall building at center is the California Casket Co. Building, 965 Mission St., Albert Pissis Architect, built 1906.
South of Market
View from Presidio north toward Marin
Presidio
Looking north on Powell, St. Francis Hotel on left
Downtown / Union Square
Looking West from center of California. Metroplitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College, Ritz-Carlton), Mark Hopkins Hotel up hill on left. Financial Center Building (1927), later Omni Hotel, with lower stories modernized with stone sheathing, at far right.
Financial District
Vew north down 3rd to Market, Hearst Examiner building on right, Mutual Savings Bank Building with S.L. Piper dentist sign. Flannery Building with large billboard atop roof, J. Edlin Merchant Tailor and Dr. Chas. H. Strub Dentist, Slavin Hair Grower signage. ABC Bakery truck. [Burton Photo Album]
South of Market
View north from Fell; showing City Hall and St. Mary's Cathedral in background, J.S. Godeau Funeral Services at left [Burton Photo Album]
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest across Market to Flood building in the distance, Mutual Savings Bank building in the center, Ruins of Flannery Building, Rebuilding de Young/Chronicle building on the right, Lotta's fountain, from Grahame Hardy collection
South of Market
Looking east to Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished)Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Cogswell College, Ritz-Carlton).
Nob Hill