Workers

Contains 570 photos

Market & Embarcadero
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Market & Embarcadero

View southeast across Market to K-Ingleside PCC #1016 with wings livery, 8 Castro Line #776. Ferry Building (with Port of San Francisco sign) Ensign Cafe, 3 Market Liquors in background [9757]

Financial District
Market & Fremont
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Market & Fremont

View from Center of Market at Fremont, track repair. Ferry Building in distance. At left, Oceanic Building, 2 Pine Street (Originally Tillman & Bendel Building. George A. Applegarth architect, 1908, 3 stories added 1918), Boyd Block with Snider Catsup sign, Bourn (earlier Sherwood) Building, Hansford Building 268 Market (1908), Glenwood Building and Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop (1909, demolished 1966). At right, PG&E, Matson and Southern Pacific Buildings, original 365 Club at far right. [17256-25]

Financial District
Sacramento & Battery
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Sacramento & Battery

View east to northeast corner. Damage being repaired after the October 1868 earthquake. M. Esberg & Co. Shirt Factory, 300-302 Battery. Same image, different cropping from wnp71.0843. Muybridge 445 'Battery Cor. of Sacramento St. after Earthquake October 21, 1868.'

Financial District
California near Kearny
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California near Kearny

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across California to ruins of Safe Deposit Building before demolition of upper floors, Merchants Exchange Building. In distance left, Mutual Life Insurance Building at Sansome Corner. [Clearing of Rubbish, Merchants Exchange Copyright 1906. Pillsbury Picture Co. No 159] Earthquake ruins

Financial District
Streetcar on Market St
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Streetcar on Market St

[#6354 Turrill. 1st Electric Streetcar] 1906 Earthquake and Fire aftermath Detail of WNP4.1337

Financial District
Larkin Theatre
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Larkin Theatre

East side of Larkin near O'Farrell ( now New Century Theatre) two men with truck and Billboard magazine posed in front. Far right portion of facade still extant 2017.

Tenderloin
Van Ness near Post
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Van Ness near Post

View northwest past busy scene of street work and shoppers to temporary Emporium store (former Hecht residence) at northwest corner. Duplicate of wnp26.662.

Lower Nob Hill
California & Webster
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California & Webster

View north across California St. to northwest corner of California and Webster. Cooper Medical College (Later Stanford University Department of Medicine and Pacific Medical Center, Sacramento & Webster) in background. Temporary home of County Clerk Office (Harry Mulcrevy), District Attorney, and Sheriff's Office. People, probably staff, posed in front and on steps.

Pacific Heights
Noe & 14th
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Noe & 14th

German Hospital, Later Franklin Hospital, now Davies Medical Center. Built 1905-1908. To the right is old German Hospital of 1878, likely torn down soon after. [WMK]

Duboce Triangle
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

[Zan 316 Powell St. Cable car on its turn-table at Powell and Market Sts. San Francisco] View east to Cable Car #513, Flood Building, Owl Drug, Clinton Cafeteria.

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View west to Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car #504 being turned by operators. [Powell St. Cable Car on its Turn-table at Powell and Market Sts. San Francisco] [Zan 2497]

Downtown / Union Square
Sacramento near Powell
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Sacramento near Powell

View east to Ferry Building. Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Old St. Mary's, cable car, side of Fairmont Hotel. Duplicate of wnp14.4824.

Nob Hill
Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, 822 Market; New San Francisco Regal Shoes for Men & Women; Earthquake ruins around new store; City of Paris and Whittell Building in background

Downtown / Union Square
26th & Castro
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26th & Castro

View northwest across intersection with roadwork around cable car partly on turntable. Victorians in the background all extant 2020, though 4 of the 5 beyond the corner have lost their large gable pediments atop their bays. Row of rectangular bay Italianates built by Fernando Nelson 1892. [26th & Castro Streets. Accident Report 7892-14] United Railroads [U04746]

Noe Valley
Market & 4th
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Market & 4th

Photo postcard view east from middle of street to Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building. Phelan Building and Pacific Building at left and right. Two streetcars. [330 - Market St. near Fourth St., San Francisco, CA; Weidner Photo, S. F.]

Downtown / Union Square