Contains 8537 photos
Elevated view east on Market from Powell. Hand tinted colorized, crowds of people streetcars, horses, automobiles. Flood Building at left, Emporium at right. Spreckels / Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building (with 1915 sign) and Pacific Building in the background.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Market Street from Battery. Mechanics Monument (also Donahue Monument) at center after removal of fountain and installation of horse trough and high-backed bench at left. New Orleans Coffee Parlor 445 Market, Board of Trade Building (with Emmons Draying Co., A.G. Hebgen Marine Engines, Nason & Co. paints, L.C. Smith & Bros. Typewriters, Haller-Cunningham Electric Co., Gunn Carle & Co. steel products). 6-Line and J-Line streetcars, utility truck with platform for servicing overhead wires (Tower Truck). In background, Moise-Klinkner rubber stamps and signs at Fremont corner, Charles H. Kewell Company fishing tackle, Charles C. Navlet Company, Halcun Radio Co. (Haller & Cunningham), The Army Goods Store. See companion photo at wnp14.12738.
Financial District
View north on Bryant from 16th Street. Municipal Railway Muni 25-Line streetcar #130. Seals Stadium at right
Mission
View east on Union from Buchanan, Muni D-line streetcar #168.
Union Street
View west on California, Bank of California at right. In far distance Old St. Mary's Cathedral and Fairmont Hotel. Center distance, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Kohl Building, Mercantile Trust Co. Building (1903,Albert Pissis, Architect), London & San Francisco Bank Building (completed 1874). At far left, Fireman's Fund Insurance Building. California Street Cable RR Cable Car. Birdcage traffic signals.. Birdcage traffic signals.
Financial District
View west on Hayes towards Scott. Alamo Square at right. St. Ignatius Church in the distance. SF Municipal Railway (Muni) 21-line Streetcar #102.
Alamo Square
View south on Powell toward Sutter, Muni cable car #518. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Fitzhugh Building, Union Square at left.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on McAllister from Polk. Municipal Railway (Muni) streetcar 5-line #104 outbound. State Building at left. Main Library at right. Empire Hotel and Hotel Astor in the distance.
Civic Center
View north on Hyde at Chestnut. Cable car #39. Angel Island and Alcatraz in the background. On the right is William Penn Humphreys House built in 1852 and demolished in 1948
Russian Hill
View south from in front of Ferry Building showing streetcars & carriages
Financial District
View west toward intersection of Falcon (now Market) and Moss Alley ( later Mono street, now 19th Street). Miller & Joost home (now 3224 Market) at the left. 18th and Park line streetcar, Twin Peaks and Tank Hill in the background. Two boys posing. The house at right, 98 Falcon, would survive into the 1950s as 3198 Market.
Eureka Valley
View looking east from Ferry Building to ferryboat 'Tiburon' departing slip. Yerba Buena Island in background.
Financial District
View east from the sidewalk on Market toward Spear. Ferry Building in background. Hotel Terminal, Market Street Railway 6-Line and 4-Line streetcars. Transit signal tower at center. [1034 San Francisco Marketstr. Ferry Bdg op achtergr. 7.3.'23]
Financial District
View westerly on Sacramento toward Broderick, 4-line Streetcar #251 passing Quong Hi Laundry 2924 Sacramento (building demolished) [Sacramento & Divisadero 1940]
Pacific Heights
Elevated view northeast toward Divisadero & Eddy, 31-line Streetcar #968 turning onto Divisadero. A different house now stands at the corner of Eddy, where Russian Craftsman (Russky Kustor) is in this photo, moved from 751 Turk in the 1970s.[Southbound Divisadero from Eddy 1949]
Western Addition