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Civic Center
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Civic Center

Washington's Birthday Parade. Crowds viewing parade on Polk Street side of City Hall.

Civic Center
Third & Market
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Third & Market

Elevated view looking northwest. Temple Emanu-el at center, Denman School in distance left. The big brick structure in the middle right is Dashaway Hall with its front on Post between Kearny and Dupont (now Grant), and its rear on Morton Street (Maiden Lane). White building to right of Temple Emanu-el with gables and veranda, at northwest corner of Sutter & Stockton, was the mansion of pioneer physician Augustus J. Bowie until 1871, when it was converted to a theatre and beer garden, the Vienna Garden. It was demolished in 1892. Also the home of Judge Burritt and banker Lucien Herman. Plank sidewalks. Different cropping of wnp71.2095

South of Market
View SE from Nob Hill
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View SE from Nob Hill

View looking southeast from approximately California near Mason on Nob Hill, over downtown towards Mission Bay. Church steeples (left to right) Temple Emanu-el, Third Baptist, St. Patrick's, and Trinity Church.

Nob Hill
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

Passengers waiting at turntable for cable car. View to southwest across Market St. Zucker's Diamond Palace, Manning's, United Luggage, Hales, Gallenkamp's Shoes.

Downtown / Union Square
Arguello near Irving
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Arguello near Irving

View north on Arguello between Parnassus and Irving (this block has been developed into the UCSF parking garage) showing the results of an auto accident that damage 5 parked cars. Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line streetcar in the background at Irving street. [A total of $500 damage was caused yesterday when a driverless auto rolled the steep grade on Arguello Boulevard near Parnassus and caused a pile up of a total of 5 cars....Julius Kunz, 1570 Sutter, owner of the runaway auto, was cited for neglecting to properly cramp his wheels against the curb.]

Parnassus Heights
Texas near 19th
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Texas near 19th

View north on Texas between 18th and 19th Street toward undeveloped Mission Bay, South of Market and Downtown. [auto accident - truck into building env 53938]

Potrero Hill
Bayshore Station
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Bayshore Station

Bayshore near Geneva, Southern Pacific (now Caltrain ) Bayshore Station and Bayshore Yard. View south toward San Bruno Mountain and Brisbane.

Little Hollywood
1906 Fire
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1906 Fire

1906 Earthquake and Fire, distant view of fire and billowing clouds of smoke.

View W from Telegraph Hill
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View W from Telegraph Hill

View west to 1930s high-rise apartment houses on Russian Hill. 945 Green built 1927), 1000 Green (built 1950), and 1101 Green at Leavenworth (built 1930) behind.

Telegraph Hill
Steiner near Vallejo
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Steiner near Vallejo

View north on Steiner between Broadway and Vallejo, St. Vincent de Paul Church (Steiner and Green) at left. A dog walking in the street.

Pacific Heights
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, elevated night view of entrance to Court of Flowers. Scintillator searchlights in background.

Marina
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, View east from the Massachusetts Building showing the Utah Building (left) and the Indiana Building (right) in the foreground; also shown are the Ohio and New York Buildings (left) and the Canada Pavilion (right).

Presidio
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, entrance to Union Pacific System's Yellowstone Park exhibit and Old Faithful Inn

Marina
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone Park exhibit.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, giant relief map of Yellowstone National Park inside Union Pacific's exhibit. Part of Old Faithful Inn at left.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason