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Elevated view northwest across Union Square to Trinity Church, National Guard Armory and Crocker, Hopkins and Stanford Mansions on Nob Hill. Temple Emanu-el at far right. Cropped from image at wnp37.00998-R. [SS-31 From Geary-Stockton Looking N.W. 1880] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View south on Kearny St. to busy street scene with horsecars and pedestrians. Old St. Mary's Church steeple in distance right. Same image as wnp37.00809, different cropping. [Kearny St South from Broadway St 1870 SS-45] [F810 SS-045] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
View west from Ferry Building tower down Market Street. Sacramento St. and Market St. cable cars, horsecars, wagons, Call Building in distance. Ad for Rainier Beer. Tonner Duehrsen & Co. boxes in Smiths' Cash Store building 25 Market, H. Levi & Co. Wholesale Grocers, Pacific Coast Steamship Co. at Sacramento St. gore corner 10 Market, Riverside Furnished Rooms, Luning Building at Drumm St. corner. [SS-59 1896 SF Foot Market St] [F810 SS-059] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view over Market St., looking southwest from Montgomery to future site of Palace Hotel. Wood plank sidewalks, dirt street. McFadden's Block building. Lawrence & Houseworth No. '362 South side of Market Street, above Montgomery.' [F810 SS-086] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[1865 Market St West Montgy]
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Market toward south side, from the original Phelan Building toward the future site of The Emporium (built 1895) [Market St. snowstorm, from the Phelan building] [F810 SS-087] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
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) Cropped from original image wnp37.02062. [F810 SS-092] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
View east on Market Street between Van Ness and Polk Earthquake damage in street would indicate 1868. Conklin Bros. Circus Ad [Market St. east of near Van Ness Ave] [F810 SS-110] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad Fairmont Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market. [No. 15 Mason St. North from Market][F810 SS-114] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
Elevated view east on McAllister toward Leavenworth from the Hall of Records. Murphy Building (Prager's Department Store) at center. Cable Car crossing McAllister from Leavenworth to City Hall Avenue. (Notably missing is the Hibernia Bank building, an empty lot here.) The two houses in the middle of McAllister between Jones and Leavenworth are, from east to west, The Waldeck lodging house at number 26, and former county tax collector and Eighth Ward supervisor Charles R. Story, who lived there since 1865. Across Leavenworth Street is the New Record lodging house, built in 1872 by owner James Cosgrove. (PF) The People's Theatre Family Resort, Yosemite House, Sterling Furniture Co. [McAllister St. SF 1890 City Hall Ave C. SS-115] [F810 SS-115] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
Elevated view south on Montgomery from near California. B.F. Butler Lithographer, Bowen & Brother Grocers on the southeast corner of California and Montgomery. Express Building at left. Men work on roof at far right. [Montgomery St., looking S from California St. 1862 SS-125] [F810 SS-125] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view north on Montgomery from California, showing buildings on west side of street. 2 horsecars, Silas Selleck's Photographic Gallery (415 Montgomery), Wells Fargo Express office and bank on the northwest corner in Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams). Telegraph Hill in distance. [F810 SS-127] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Elevated view north up Powell Street with horsecar rails (installed 1879, replaced with cable 1888). St. Ann's building on left. Baldwin Hotel on right. Trinity Episcopal Church and Stanford mansion in distance. [Looking up Powell 1888 SS-157] [F810 SS-157] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view north from window of Baldwin Hotel. Cable car tracks, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Trinity Episcopal Church, Temple Emanu-El. Stanford and Hopkins mansions in background left. Cable car tracks on Powell ending at Geary. Same image as wnp24.0154a, different cropping. [San Francisco from Baldwin House. S-158] [F810 SS-158] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view south across Market down 2nd Street. Temperance Legion Headquarters Central Hall, Wand & Co. Dry Goods. From Lawrence & Houseworth No. 293. [SS-167 Second Street from Market Street 1866] [F810 SS-167] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Duplicate of wnp4.1188. Stockton St. looking N toward the bay. Alcatraz and Angel Island in distance. Telegraph Hill at right. (Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album, title 'View down Stockton Street') [F810 SS-173] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Chinatown