Contains 8537 photos
View East on Haight toward Shrader. United Railroads Streetcar #611 on the 33-line parked in front of Haight Street Carbarn, dash sign advertising 3rd & Harrison & Park.(Accident Report 2312) [ United Railroads U05252]
Haight Ashbury
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east on O'Farrell to ruins and rubble in street after 1906 earthquake and fire. Monadnock Building, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex, Kamm Building, Bancroft History Building across Market. Mutual Savings Bank Building at far left, Phelan Building at far right.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, URR Powerhouse Ruins Old car barn and powerhouse, Sutter and Polk Streets
Lower Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast with smoke and fire in distance. Alhambra Theater, cable car on Eddy. The sign on the Alhambra Theater advertises the play Queen of Highbinders. The Alhambra was built as the Republican Wigwam in 1890, and was remodeled into the Alhambra Theater in 1899. The four-story brick building down the block is The Lexington lodging house at 212-214 Eddy, built in 1893. The six-story brick building across Eddy Street from The Lexington is another lodging house, The Colonnade, at 219 Eddy, built in 1905. (PF)
Tenderloin
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast across intersection of City Hall Avenue and Larkin St. (near present day Larkin and Grove) to ruins of City Hall, cable car track, earthquake rubble.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north across City Hall Avenue (since removed) to ruins of City Hall near present Larkin and Grove intersection. cable car track, temporary rail track, earthquake rubble.
Civic Center
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to people walking, Eddy streetcar approaching, Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel at left, Call Building at right background.
Tenderloin
Ferry Building, cable cars, people walking, water wagon.
Financial District
View from Chronicle Building including Claus Spreckels Building and Hearst Building
South of Market
Elevated view south over Playland from slopes below Sutro Heights. Intersection of La Playa and Balboa Sts. with streetcar loop in foreground. Left to right: Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park, Big Dipper roller coaster, Fun House, Circle Swing, Shoot the Chutes, Rocket Speedway.
Sutro Heights
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking East on California. Old St. Mary's, Merchants Exchange Bldg and Grace Church. Image cropped from wnp37.00190
Nob Hill
California Street Railroad (1878-1884) Gripman and conductor posed with Car #21, dummy and trailer, in front of a row of Victorian row houses. The line was extended to Central (now Presidio) Avenue from Fillmore on May 30, 1879. The car reads Kearny, Polk, and Fillmore, which would date this image to close to the time of the extension.
Pacific Heights
Elevated view east on Market from Third St. 700 Market Building, Masonic Temple and original Hobart Building on left. Palace Hotel, Grand Hotel and Nucleus Hotel with Beamish's Shirts in corner retail space at right; cable cars; horsecars; old Ferry Building in distance. Davis Bros. Golden Rule Bazaar at lower left. Tower of Masonic Temple background left. Same image as Taber B 2145, see wnp37.02867. [Market St. San Francisco Before the Fire]
Downtown / Union Square
View southwest from center of Market, Crocker Building at right under reconstruction. Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank Building (under construction, completed early 1908) and Palace Hotel under construction at left. Monadnock Building, Call Building, uncompleted Humboldt Bank Building in left background. In right background, Flood Building, Chronicle / de Young Building reconstruction, 660 Market Realty Building, completed late 1907. Behind Chronicle Building scaffolding, Flannery Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building. Electric streetcar #1540 on cable car track.
Financial District
View East to Ferry Building. Street decorated with American and other flags. Probably for the 1909 Portola Festival.
Financial District