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Panama Pacific International Exposition. Scale model of Ferry Building, with pennants and flags and 'California Thanks The World' and '1915' signs. Alcatraz and anchored warship in distance.
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Ferry Building
Elevated view of Ferry Building and ferry loop. [A926. 1928. Ferry Building]
Financial District
Ferry Building
Viewed from boat in bay. Tower surrounded by scaffolding to repair earthquake damage
Lower Market
Elevated view east from Crocker Building, corner Montomery & Post, during reconstruction. Steel structure for Fife Building in front of Ferry Building, Drumm & Market. Rooftops, Alexander-Yost Hardware, Direct Line Telephone Co., Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Island. Painters hanging from painting platforms on west side of Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market, Stevenson Building at southeast corner. Signs for E.D. Co., Eugene Dietzgen Co. Drawing Materials, H.S. Crocker Co., Waterman & Levy, American Import Co. Few if any of these building (excepting Ferry Building) stand in 2022.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
Elevated view east on Market Street from Kearny. Chronicle Building (with clock above entry) and Lotta's Fountain at left, Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop in distance. Metropolis Trust and Savings Bank Building, Palace Hotel (with Schwabacher & Co. in corner retail space) and Monadnock Building (with Canadian Pacific Railway) at right. Ferry Building, PG&E and Matson Buildings in distance. Muni K-line streetcar #83 and Market St. Railway (MSRy) 21-line streetcar #1738. Line of automobiles. [A 119 3-15-27 Market St. East of Kearny St.] DPW
Downtown / Union Square
Downtown View
View West from Ferry Building Tower. Southern Pacific, Shell Building, Russ Building
Financial District
Market near Mason
View East on Market from the Hewes Building (6th and Market) [DPW A625]
South of Market
Market & Powell
Elevated view East down Market, Flood Building at left. Streetcars, Call Building, Humboldt Bank
Downtown / Union Square
Washington & Van Ness
View toward Russian Hill; autos on display
Polk Gulch
Larkin & Bush
View east, Fred W. Hauger Motor Co. auto dealership under construction on corner; motoring garage
Lower Nob Hill
Van Ness & O'Farrell
CView south on Van Ness toward City Hall. At right, Countryman Building, Hotel Savoy, Masonic Temple in distance. At left, group of men in front of wooden shack with piles of wood, Henry Apartments 864 Ellis. Shell Oil Co. Gas station with decorative lamp posts at Ellis St. corner, Geneva Apartments 840 Van Ness. Same image with different cropping at wnp4.1403.
Tenderloin
Van Ness & McAllister
Looking north at a May Day parade; St. Mary's Cathedral in distance
Civic Center
Lombard & Polk
View north down Polk to Fontana Warehouse; D. Ghirardelli Mustard works; Russian Hill homes; Alcatraz in distance
Russian Hill
Polk & Filbert
View southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Catholic Church up on hill side at Broadway and Van Ness. Corner estate with gardens in foreground belonged to E. Willard Burr, house at right to his son C.C. Burr. Burr's property was fenced along Laguna Survey lines, which were roughly diagonal to the main street grid. Rails on roadway for Sutter Street Railroad horsecar line to Harbor View, abandoned in 1873 in favor of a more direct route. Van Ness Avenue was extended through the property in 1894. Lafayette Park in background right. Same image as wnp71.2098.
Russian Hill
Polk & Broadway
Elevated view southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Church (1864-1897) at Van Ness and Broadway. Lafayette Park at background left. Large house with Mansard roof and rear tower left of center is William C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect, built 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin, demolished 1931). Duplicate of wnp26.538.
Polk Gulch