Contains 4015 photos
View northwest across Bush to S.F. Co-Operative Flower Market at center, City Flower Market 424 Bush, Firehouse Engine No. 2, Chemical No. 3, 460 Bush at left. Proposed site of Pacific Telephone Co. office. St. Anne St. at center later removed for building. [Site of proposed new main office, Bush street, San Francisco, California - 9-17-23]
Chinatown
View north towards proposed Pacific Telephone Co. site, Wayne Lumber & Millwork sign on front of building. At left, 150 Otis, built 1916 as Juvenile Detention Home, and later converted to Veterans housing. (SF Landmark # 248). Pacific Telephone Market exchange building in distance right at Otis & Gough.
South of Market
View northwest across intersection to corrugated metal and wood temporary buildings, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Executive offices in background. Executive offices were there from June, 1906 until August, 1907. [050]
Lower Haight
Group of workers raising telephone poles. View west, homes on 38th Avenue in background. 467 38th Avenue at center.
Richmond Outer
View westerly on Onondaga between Mission and future Alemany Blvd. (Ocean Shore Railway tracks cross behind the poles at right) In the background left are Merced Heights, United Railroads Elkton Shops. Firehouse at Ocean Avenue & San Jose Avenue (Balboa Park) at background right. The site of Balboa High School is farm land at center.
Cayuga
View north from vacant lot at southeast corner, later site of Sutter-Stockton parking garage to vendor with wheeled cart in front of 586 Bush St. (Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel) in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View west. Two residences at right are still extant on 14th Ave.
Richmond Inner
View west? Sand dunes and isolated residences. [Showing present end of 33rd Ave. after street had been graded, San Francisco, November 1914.]
Richmond Outer
View south on Mission from near Trumbull, Lineman working on splicing cable on telephone pole, watched by co-worker. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Mission Terrace
View north on Leavenworth across Sutter. Pacific Telephone crew digging a trench for underground conduit and tunneling under streetcar tracks. Posters indicate probable 1913, Swiss Societies picnic, Sonoma and Marin District Fair.
Lower Nob Hill
Numerous telephone poles on a bare hillside.
View east on Geary near 33rd Avenue. Two linemen working on telephone pole, sand dunes in background. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Richmond Outer
Railroad cars and rails stacked up, industrial area with telephone poles. East side of Potrero Hill?
Wooden warehouses in industrial area, line of telephone poles.
Country road, line of telephone poles.