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Elevated view north to 430-444 Bush St construction site for new main office for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. St. Anne Street running through the site in the process of being removed. Grand View Tea Garden with large electric sign on roof, Quincy Apartments in background left. Tower of Old St. Mary's Cathedral in distance center.
Downtown / Union Square
View east to construction of Pacific Telephone Co. building, rear of 4th Ave residences in background
Richmond Inner
View west to work on Pacific Telephone Co. building Mission Exchange, 1045 Capp Street, between 25th and 26th, under construction. Houses on north side of Capp in background, 3 extant 2018.[Steel work from Western Iron Works] on beams [257?] (see also wnp26.1710 wnp26.1711)
Mission
View north on Polk from Filbert, Men working on trench line with telephone conduit at bottom, streetcar in distance, bare hillside on right. See wnp26.1846. (Pacific Telephone Inventory)
Russian Hill
141 Minna Street, just west of New Montgomery St. It was built in 1901 as Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph's instrument factory and warehouse. A five-story showroom and factory was located right behind it at 147-151 Minna. A four-story HQ office fronting on New Montgomery was completed just in time to be destroyed in 1906. (WMK) [61]
South of Market
View northwest over construction site for addition to Pacific telephone company Randolph Central Office. [San Francisco, Calif. Randolph Office Addition Progress 3-9-25] Pandora Market. Buildings in distance are on west side of Mission near Leo St. intersection.
Excelsior
View east on Mission to street work in progress with sign 'Growing with San Francisco Means More Telephones.' Large rooftop sign in distance for Lipton's Tea Coffee Cocoa, Wm. Cluff Co. (southwest corner of Mission & Spear), Wihr Printing Co., Horsford Bros. Co. pullies and belting 235 Mission, E.C. Atkins & Co. saw manufacturers 257 Mission. In distance center, California State Agricultural Building, Audiffred Building. Horse drawn dray wagons at right. [Commercial Advertising Display, Typical Plant Operations]
Financial District
View north on Leavenworth across Sutter. Pacific Telephone crew digging a trench for underground conduit and tunneling under streetcar tracks. Posters indicate probable 1913, Swiss Societies picnic, Sonoma and Marin District Fair.
Lower Nob Hill
Dirt street with streetcar tracks, street work in progress, line of private homes with landscaping. Not San Francisco.
View southeast on 12th Street. Street work in progress, First Congregational Church at 12th and Clay Streets, at left.
Outside SF
View north on Stockton near Bush to Muni F-line streetcar. Colonial Hotel, McAlpin Apartments on left. Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel) in background right.
Downtown / Union Square
View east down Bush to St. Francis Hospital on left, Pacific Telephone employees feeding hose into street. Apartment building in distance at Leavenworth corner extant 2018.
Lower Nob Hill
Chinatown Exchange, also called the Chinese Telephone Exchange Building, under construction.
Chinatown
Employees posed in carriage factory shop.
[S.F. Cal, Mar, 17 '09] Elevated view west across track work and up McAllister Street. Hotel Apollo, Hibernia Bank, Pragers store on its pre-quake site. Old City Hall dome being demolished, dome of Hall of Records in distance center.
Tenderloin