26th & Castro
View west from Castro at 26th Street, crew posing with Castro Street cable car #103 marked with Market Street Cable Railway Company. 4229-4231 Castro still standing (2021) in background.
Noe ValleyUnbuilt
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Drumm near Clay
View southwest across empty lot between Drumm, Davis, Sacramento, and Clay ready for Embarcadero Center II construction. Buildings slated for demolition in foreground including, Linderman's Garage, 222 Sacramento (it had frontages on Davis, Sacramento and Commercial) , and Thomas J. Davis & Son Printers, 222 Davis Street. At far left, 100 California (Bethlehem Steel Building), rear and north side of Schroeder's German Restaurant. In background, Russ Building, 555 California (Bank of America Building), Embarcadero Center I.
Financial District
Market & Stockton
View northeast across the intersection of Market, Stockton, and 4th Street toward the Humboldt Bank Building. Many pedestrians crossing the street, Rouse Atkins at left, Paris Theatre next to Humboldt Bank. Allright Autopark parking lot on the corner of 4th and Market.
Downtown / Union Square
Webster near Golden Gate
View northeast toward Golden Gate Avenue from Webster toward empty block with one flat front Italianate on blocks at the rear of Rosa Parks Senior Center, 1251 Turk Street (SFHA), once informally known as 'The Pink Palace'. The building formerly 848 Octavia, now sits at 45-47 Beideman Street, between O'Farrell and Ellis.
Western Addition
Portsmouth Square
Elevated view north across plaza to Telegraph Hill. Bella Union, Verandah Saloon, El Dorado, City Hall at far right.
Chinatown
Market near Powell
Elevated view north from Market between 4th and 5th Streets. Powell Street at extreme left. Tin, Copper & Sheet Iron Manufacturer, Lawton & Co Carriage Factory, Temple Emanu-El in background. St. Francis of Assisi church on horizon, center, Starr King's church in distance far right. The sheds in the foreground are for storage of construction materials for the SF school district since when it was bought in 1860. Not visible here, the Fifth and Market School is just to the left of the sheds.(PF)
South of Market
View from Mint Hill
View northeast from Mint Hill. Protestant Orphan's Asylum, Hayes Valley at left, Nob Hill, Temple Emanu-El and old Hall of Records (constructed 1877), Market St at far right [Looking east from Market St. Cut 1876]
Mint Hill
View from Russian Hill
View northwest from about Green and Jones, an octagon house at 1008 Green Street, now demolished, in the foreground, hills dusted with snow from February 1887 Snowstorm, Green Street between Jones and Leavenworth in the foreground.
Russian Hill
20th & Church
View north from hillside above Church Street near 20th, Jewish Cemetery (later Dolores Park) at right. [From a suburb]
Dolores Heights
View from Mark Hopkins
View east from Mark Hopkins Hotel toward the Financial District, Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island at center, intersection of California and Powell at bottom. [14970]
Nob Hill
View from SF Bay
View southeast from SF Bay towards Yerba Buena Island and Bay Bridge under construction. SF piers at right.
SF Bay
View west looking towards Golden Gate (pre-bridge), full-rigged sailing ships, and Black Point at left behind steamer. Point Bonita in far distance.
Meiggs Wharf
View south from SF Bay towards the end of Meiggs Wharf. Taylor Street at center. [188. San Francisco from boat.]
Fulton & Market
View east on Fulton Street toward City Hall, large parade with military units marching toward Market Street. Orpheum Theatre, Main Library, empty lot where the Federal Office Building would be built in 1936.
Civic Center
Camp Richmond
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view north from about Balboa and Funston towards 1906 refugee camp known as Camp Richmond, refugee cottages lined up on the site of Park Presidio Boulevard. The Presidio in the background. [J-16 2400 Refugee Cottages, after great fire - 13th Ave.]
Richmond Inner