Contains 7784 photos
Elevated view southeast on Market from the intersection of Kearny and Geary. Lotta's Fountain in foreground. Chronicle Building with clock above entrance, Palace Hotel (with Schwabacher Co. in corner retail space), Metropolis Bank Building with United Bank sign atop, Santa Fe building/West Coast Life Insurance, Balboa Building, Underwood Building, PG&E, Matson Lines and Ferry Buildings in distance. [South side of Market showing Palace Hotel 68]
Downtown / Union Square
VIew north from Ocean Beach toward Seal Rocks and 1st Cliff House. Cliff Road (today's Point Lobos Ave) at right.
Sutro Heights
View northeast from the roof of the Fairmont Hotel. (Fairmont Tower now obscures this view) Hall of Justice and adjoining County Jail on Portsmouth Square and Sentinel Building at center, Appraisers Building behind. Treasure Island in early stages of construction in the background. Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, East Bay Hills.
Nob Hill
Telephoto View north toward Marin Headlands with dramatic clouds over Golden Gate Bridge, Kezar Stadium in the foreground, Golden Gate Park, Richmond District [10505]
Clarendon Heights
Elevated view looking northeast from 7th St & Market. Jones Street Shuttle cable car, (Jones Street Dinky), Prager's Department Store (Murphy Building) at center. [Market and Jones Streets, March 6, 1905]
South of Market
View south from the future Mint Hill toward Mission District. Guerrero Street at left. Bernal Heights in the distance. Judson Acid Works on 15th near Guerrero. Market Street cut in foreground.
Mint Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast from Jones between Clay and Washington. Ruins of Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion at right. Ferry Building in distance at left.
Nob Hill
Telephoto view northeast from Twin Peaks toward Civic Center and downtown. Market Street at right.
Clarendon Heights
View northerly from Buena Vista Park, toward Lone Mountain, The Presidio, Marin headlands, and Mt. Tamalpais.
Buena Vista
View south from the Cliff House toward Ocean Beach, crowds of people wading in the surf. Ocean Beach Pavilion, Cyclers Rest, Golden Gate Park with both windmills
Sutro Heights
View north from Ocean Beach near Balboa toward the 3rd Cliff House. Waders and picnickers dot the beach. Cliff House still under construction. [New Cliff House]
Richmond Outer
[Seal Rocks & The Cliff House no. 973] View northwest to Seal Rocks and 3rd Cliff House. Crowds on the beach
Sutro Heights
View west on Broadway from Drumm, showing Southern Pacific rail yard. Accident report 5470 - Gorman Case. A United Railroads streetcar #689 in an accident with Pacific Fruit Express freight car. Hotel Evans in the background. [U03288]
Northern Waterfront
View west on Fulton from Stanyan showing Park House, a saloon on the north side of Fulton Street, located on the present alignment of Stanyan. Golden Gate park at left, United Railroads cable car tracks, Fulton Chutes at 10th Avenue in the distance. [U00182] (Stanyan Street was later re-aligned to its current configuration. Original Stanyan is visible at far right.)
Lone Mountain
Elevated view east from Nob Hill probably from the Mark Hopkins Hotel toward the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at center, Bay and Yerba Buena Island beyond. Notable skyscrapers include Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Standard Oil Building, Hobart Building, Matson Building, PG&E Building (under construction, completed 1925). Pacific Telephone Company business offices (430-444 Bush) under construction between Bush and Pine at right center, across from Pacific Telephone Building at 445 Bush. Original Federal Reserve Bank, Montgomery Block, Appraisers Building, Bank of Italy at left. At right of center, Mills Building, Alexander Building. (Notably absent is Russ Building, 1927).
Nob Hill