Contains 4015 photos
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
[TEH294 1874] Elevated view across Market Street to Grand Hotel. Market St. Railway horsecar. Empty lot where Palace Hotel to be constructed. [G57 SSS-057] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view northeast across intersection to Fisher & Co. Hatters, 300 Montgomery, Universal Life Insurance Co., 304 Montgomery, Diaper & Saeltzer Architects 302 Montgomery (Frederick Diaper, Alexander Saeltzer). Goodwin & Co. Furniture, 322-324 Pine (opened on January 1, 1868 in the Academy of Music building), McElwee & Ackermann, Duncan & Co. Delivery wagons and chairs, beds piled on sidewalk and street. Original Houseworth stereoview title 'Pine Street, east of Montgomery # 174' [TEH280 Down Pine St. from Montgomery 1870] [G57 SSS-058] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
[TEH668 Post Street 1884] View west from center of street to distant church steeples at Union Square. Cobblestone street and horsecar rails. Mechanics Institute, 31 Post built 1866, at left. Less clear version of wnp37.03481, wnp71.1985 (Taber B30). [G57 SSS-059] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northwest from What Cheer House balcony to north side of Sacramento, Alta California newspaper office, William Higgins Druggist, and Marine Insurance, Hartford Insurance Co., Home Insurance Co. Lights of What Cheer House at lower left. [TEH160 Sacramento St. 1867] Broader duplicate of wnp37.01400 [G57 SSS-062] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
[TEH662 Sansome St. South of California] View south on Sansome. Bank of British Columbia on left, Fireman's Fund Insurance Building on right, Market Street in distance. [G57 SSS-065] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view northwest across intersection to Clock Tower Building (Later Savings and Loan Society Building) with J. W. Tucker & Co. Importers (jeweler & watchmaker), buildings on west side of Montgomery. Lick House at far left. [TEH87 N.W. Cor. Sutter & Montgomery Sts. 1867] [G57 SSS-068] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
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
Part of a panoramic series by Charles Leander Weed from his home on the future Nob Hill. View southeast from about Sacramento and Taylor toward Mission Bay, 3rd street at left, in the middle of the image is the famous giant sand hill that blocked the further expansion of Market Street bet 3rd & 4th until it was cleared by David Hewes and his steam shovel during the construction of the Market Street Railroad in 1859 and 1860. Also shown is great sand hill blocking Stockton Street between O'Farrell and Geary (just in front of the right side of the Market Street hill.) .Finally, it also shows what may be the earliest known photo of Union Square Park before it was named in 1860 and fixed up. (PF)[G57 SV-013](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
[TEH245 View south from about Main and Bryant, across Mission Bay. Gas Works and Long Bridge rom Rincon Point ] [G57 SV-023](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Rincon Hill
View north on 1st Street from Harrison, Telegraph Hill & St. Francis of Assisi Church in the distance[First Street looking North up Harrison Street] [G57 SV-024](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
[TEH225, Jewish Cemetery 1865 now Mission Park] Looking east from Church St. See less cropped version wnp24.0029a. [G57 SV-028](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Mission Dolores
Sternwheeler Riverboat 'Regulator'. Possibly Columbia River [G45 SBO-011](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
View north across Union Square towards buildings on Post Street. Temple Emanu-el in background, showing modified steeples from post-earthquake renovation. People sitting on benches. Union Square Building, Union Square Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
Pacific Rolling Mills, looking northeast from 25th Street and Illinois. The tall building in the center of the photo was located on the north side of 23rd Street between the present-day former PG&E Station A structure and the Potrero Power Plant, and was demolished in the 1990s. Lots of smoke from the chimneys. Warm Water Cove at center, note the small boat.
Central Waterfront