Transit

Contains 8537 photos

View from Mint Hill
wnp71.0496

View from Mint Hill

View East from Reservoir Hill (now Mint Hill), Market & Buchanan, Vicinity Market & Valencia. Woolen Mills in distance. Sand hills. San Francisco and San Mateo train tracks. [TEH377 Mission in 1865 V-48] [G810 V-048] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)(Superior duplicate to WNP37.02090)

Mint Hill
View from Merchants Exchange
wnp71.0529

View from Merchants Exchange

[V-140] Elevated view northwest from the Merchants Exchange Building to scene showing much reconstruction and some buildings still in ruins. William Tell House, Mergenthaler Linotype (638 Sacramento), Chy Lung & Co. Chinese & Japanese Bazaar (676 Sacramento). Russian Hill at left, Chinatown (Dr. Ong Ting Shew Tea and Herbs, Dr. Chow Juyan Tea and Herbs) Portsmouth Square (with Lyceum Theater near Kearny and Washington corner), North Beach, Columbus Ave, St. Francis of Assisi Church (still gutted from fire), Bay in distance, Telegraph Hill at right. On Kearny: Dr. Field & Co's Free Museum, Lundstrom Hats, Harris' Loan Office, 615 Kearny, City Loan Office 621 Kearny, Hotel McDonough 706 Kearny. Streetcar on Washington near Kearny. [G810 V-140] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Market & First
wnp71.0579

Market & First

Elevated view southeast across Market to five story Sheldon Block, Macondray & Co., W. F. Bowers & Co. [G57 SBU-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [TEH233 Sheldon's Block, cor. Market & First Sts. Sept 1888.]

Financial District
Market & Embarcadero
wnp71.0590

Market & Embarcadero

Elevated view west down Market to departure of the California Volunteers off to Spanish-American War. Large crowd, Alpha House boarding house, 5 Market, on corner. See also wnp71.0592 [G57 SCB-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
California & Montgomery
wnp71.0729

California & Montgomery

Southeast corner of California and Montgomery. Horsecar in foreground. Imperial London, Northern, and Queen Insurance Cos. Safe Deposit Building. [engraving] [G57 SOF-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Bush & Kearny
wnp71.0834

Bush & Kearny

[NE cor Bush & Kearny Sts 1884 TEH326] Elevated view across intersection to crowd gathered on steps of Chronicle Building, perhaps excited about a current event. Horsecar passing. [G57 SSS-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Market & Grant
wnp71.0844

Market & Grant

[TEH883 Grant Ave. from Market St 1885 (Sic)] View north. Cable car, dentists offices, Hammam Baths. Utility poles with 9 crossbars on east side of Grant. Examiner newspaper offices at right, on northeast corner. Sanders & Johnson Merchant Tailors, Phelan Building at left. [G57 SSS-016] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
wnp71.0846

Market & Kearny

Elevated view north at Flannery Building, Geary cable car, Lotta's Fountain, Raphael's, banner over Kearny and signs for Iroquois Club, possibly with portraits of political candidates, Chronicle Building. [G57 SSS-018] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Columbus & Montgomery
wnp71.0851

Columbus & Montgomery

Elevated view north down what was then called Montgomery Avenue. Presidio and Ferries cable cars with connecting horsecar waiting. P. H. Hink wines and liquors, corner building at right. [TEH693 New Montgomery San Francisco, looking west (sic) 1884][G57 SSS-024] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Chinatown
Montgomery & Pine
wnp71.0852

Montgomery & Pine

View north to Kohl Building (completed 1901), Safe Deposit Building. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building in distance at Sacramento corner, wagons and carriages, approaching streetcar. [Montgomery St N. from Pine] [G57 SSS-027] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Haight & Market
wnp71.0855

Haight & Market

[TEH816 Cor. Haight & Market Sts 1880] Early houses, wagons, cable car, the future Mint Hill and open space. Same image as wnp27.6098, with 1880 handwritten at bottom. [G57 SSS-034] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Civic Center
Market & 3rd
wnp71.0867

Market & 3rd

Elevated view southeast across Market to Nucleus House and Palace Hotel. [TEH253 S. Side Market from 3rd to New Montgomery St. July 1888.] Beamish's shirts, W & J Sloane & Co, G.W. Clark & Co. Wallpaper & Window Shades 645 Market. Cable cars. [G57 SSS-055] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
5th Ave near Fulton
wnp71.0882

5th Ave near Fulton

View north on 5th Avenue, the Geary, Park & Ocean steam train terminal at Fulton, with Bay District Race Track site at left. Men painting ad on fence at right. [502 Steam line to GG Park (unreadable) Geary St. 188x] (Bancroft/Jesse Cook Collection has this as Harbor View) [G57 SSTC-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Richmond Inner
California near Kearny
wnp71.0885

California near Kearny

California Street Cable Car 19 on California Street above Kearny, View east on California, Morrell's Banjo School, Poster for Satanella at the Tivoli Opera House, Wm. Patterson Metal Signs, W.E. Lane Plumber 505 Kearny. [G57 SSTC-009](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Chinatown
Telegraph Hill Cable Car
wnp71.0888

Telegraph Hill Cable Car

Cable Car, Greenwich Street looking east to Telegraph Hill [Layman's Castle atop Telegraph Hill] [vertical][Taber] [G57 SSTC-013](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

North Beach