Union Square
View northwest across Square to north side of Post, Trinity Episcopal Church, National Guard Armory, Pacific Business College, Union Club (Walkerley Building). [Union Club 390]
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Old Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building with carriages, cabs, and cable cars in front. Cable car #13 of Market Street Cable Railway Co on turntable. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). [San Francisco Ferry Landing. A. J. McDonald]
Financial District
Market near Mason
View east towards St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel, Chronicle Building, The Matinee Millinery, Jno. Steinbach Jeweler 1016 Market, (Ernest) Essman Dry Goods, 1022 Market. Painted pole for C. Curtin dry goods at right, 911-915 Market. Two story building erected on lot at far left by July, 1895. Same image as wnp27.6768 with slightly different cropping.
South of Market
Old Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast to group of men and a few women, marching band, cable cars, and horse cars. Men are mostly in uniforms or Odd Fellows costumes in front of original Ferry Building. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). Valencia Street #18 cable car on turntable at center. Likely on the occasion of the arrival of IOOF Grand Sire John H. White on October 3, 1887. [Odd Fellows Receiving 'Grand Sire' at Ferry Landing. Foot of Market St., S. F. CAL. A. J. McDonald]
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Chronicle Building
Elevated view northeast to the Chronicle Building at the corner of Market, Kearny and Geary showing Lotta's Fountain, Nucleus Hotel, tower of Masonic Temple. Crocker Building (1891) not yet built. 700 Market building at left, California Hotel and Theatre (1889) in distance beyond [344 The Chronicle]
South of Market
Montgomery & Market
Elevated view northwest across Market to Crocker Building, at left Chronicle Building, 700 Market building. At right, west up Post St., steeple of First Congregational Church in distance. Utility poles with many wires and crossbars. [Crocker Building, Cor Post, Market & Montgomery Streets]
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Chinatown
View north from center of Stockton to throng watching Chinese parade with dragon. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church on the left just beyond Sacramento. First Presbyterian Chinese Church in left distance just beyond Clay. Cable car in background, center. [North on Stockton Street from Sacramento. A Street Scene in Chinatown]
Nob Hill
Palace Hotel
[303 Palace Hotel] Grand Hotel on left. Market Street cable cars.
South of Market
Old City Hall
Elevated view northwest across City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) and Pioneer Monument to City Hall with dome and rotunda still under construction, Cable car on City Hall Avenue. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument was dedicated on November 29, 1894. Statue on dome was installed in April, 1896. [City Hall S.F. Cal. Perkins 1227]
South of Market
Ferry Building
View northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building 'C.P.R.R. Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley Ferry' terminal. Market Street Cable Railway Co. cable cars and horse cars. Signage for real estate auctions for Lincoln, Placer County. Station D Post Office (Opened October, 1884). [451 Ferry Landing, San Francisco]
Financial District
Old Civic Center
[City Hall. S.F. Cal. 1601] View west from City Hall Ave & McAllister to Hall of Records, Mechanics Pavilion. Market Street cable car, bills and posters vendor wagon. Supreme Court Building (Larkin & McAllister) at right.
Civic Center
Baldwin Hotel
[439 Baldwin Hotel. Perkins] View north across Market to Powell. Cable car, Louvre restaurant, and Baldwin Hotel. St. Ann's Building on left. Trinity Episcopal Church on Union Square in left distance.
South of Market
Mission near 4th
[Gooden Mtg & Loan Co. 9-15-27 Mission Street East Above 3rd.] View east to Shield Hat Co., Triest & Co., Pacific Telephone building. Aronson Building in distance left. Area on right became Yerba Buena Gardens.
South of Market
Powell near Post
View south down Powell between Geary & Post. Goodfriend Hotel, Elkan Gunst Building in background, St. Francis Hotel at right, Union Square on left.
Downtown / Union Square
California & Montgomery
Elevated view west from Montgomery. Old St. Mary's Church at center, with First Congregational Church opposite on California. California House. Cable cars terminate at Kearny. Edouart's Gallery, German Savings & Loan Society, Saulmann's Coffee Saloon, Spring Valley Water Works at right. Mark Hopkins residence top left.[B 517 California Street from Sansome Street (Sic), San Francisco, looking west.]
Financial District