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Brannan & 1st
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Brannan & 1st

View west on Brannan from 1st Street (now Delancey). H.S. Crocker, stationery and printing building still stands (2020)at 250 Brannan. Rosenberg Brothers & Co. dried fruits and D.N. & E. Walter Company warehouse at 2nd Street all still stand. (part of the South of Market Historic Resource Survey). New Neptune Restaurant and Coffee Saloon, Marine Sheet Metal and Plumbing Co. at right. [dpwbook27 dpw6696]

South Beach
Pacific & Hyde
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Pacific & Hyde

View east on Pacific from Hyde. Men working in the street on an open trench. Cable car tracks in the foreground. [Pacific Ave. - Hyde to Leavenworth] [dpwbook27 dpw6697]

Nob Hill
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

View East on Market near Grant Ave, Call Building at right, shot from top of streetcar. American Flags lining Market Street, possibly for President Woodrow Wilson's visit. [Market E bet 3rd & 4th dpwbook26 dpw6240]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Eureka
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Market & Eureka

View east on Market from Eureka, showing Eureka Valley Station Subway entrances [ East on Tunnel right-of-way from Eureka St.] [dpwbook25 dpw6171]

Eureka Valley
Market near Diamond
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Market near Diamond

View East on Market from Diamond East on Tunnel right-of-way from Diamond, prior to Market Street roadway being extended above the tunnel. Horse and wagon, entrance to Eureka Valley Station in Twin Peaks Tunnel on left. ( detail of wnp27.0538.jpg) [dpwbook25 dpw6173]

Eureka Valley
Market & Collingwood
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Market & Collingwood

View southwest on Market between Diamond and Eureka. Twin Peaks in the background. Eureka Valley Station stairway entrance at center. Kids playing on the unpaved Market Street. Twin Peaks School in background. [dpwbook25 dpw6175]

Castro
3rd St. near Marin
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3rd St. near Marin

View South on Kentucky (now 3rd Street) from Marin Street, Islais Creek Bridge with streetcar at center [dpwbook28 dpw6747]

Central Waterfront
3rd St. at Islais Creek
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3rd St. at Islais Creek

View North on Kentucky (now 3rd Street) from Islais Creek Bridge [dpwbook28 dpw6748]

Central Waterfront
Stanyan near Carl
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Stanyan near Carl

Stanyan Sewer Washout bet. Frederick & Carl [dpwbook28 dpw6902] From the San Francisco Chronicle on February 22, 1921: "Scene of the explosion on Stanyan street, caused by gas from a leaking main being ignited by flame from warning light hanging on rear of A.M. Beever's automobile."

Parnassus Heights
Stanyan near Carl
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Stanyan near Carl

Stanyan Sewer Washout bet. Frederick & Carl [dpwbook28 dpw6905] From the San Francisco Chronicle on February 22, 1921: "Scene of the explosion on Stanyan street, caused by gas from a leaking main being ignited by flame from warning light hanging on rear of A.M. Beever's automobile."

Parnassus Heights
Stanyan near Carl
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Stanyan near Carl

Stanyan Sewer Washout bet. Frederick & Carl [dpwbook28 dpw6906]

Parnassus Heights
18th & Storrie
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18th & Storrie

View north across 18th Street toward Storrie and Market. Storrie Street marks the the underground route of the Twin Peaks Tunnel. House in center is 160 Ord, previously in the middle of the block, it became a corner lot once Market was extended and has since had windows added on the south side. Corona Heights in the background. [18th & Mkt N.E. corner] [dpwbook28 dpw6964]

Eureka Valley
Stanyan near Carl
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Stanyan near Carl

Exposed streetcar track work on Stanyan Street south of Carl St. [dpwbook28 dpw6983]

Parnassus Heights
Sterling near Harrison
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Sterling near Harrison

View suuthwest across Sterling (now the Bay Bridge on ramp) between Bryant and Harrison. Apartment Building (flats) on the west side of the street. This site now part of the Bay bridge approach. Schmidt Lithograph Company clock tower (still stands in 2020, a landmark next to the Bay Bridge), is visible in the background center. Schmidt water tank at far left. [Sterling St. - west side- south of Bryant Street] [dpwbook28 dpw6991]

Rincon Hill
Harrison near Fremont
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Harrison near Fremont

View north across Harrison to California Perforating Screen Co., W.H. Binns Machine & Tool Works, 416 Harrison, with water tank at rear; Bay View Meat Market (signs for horse shoes and Star Tobacco) and Rincon Hill Bar (with broken windows). Rear and side of Brooklyn Hotel on 1st Street at left. [Harrison St- north side bet. 1st & Fremont Sts][dpwbook29 dpw7014]

Rincon Hill