Workers

Contains 570 photos

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Front near California

View south to men clearing the street for 'House Cleaning Day'(sometimes called Cleaning-Up Day'), an organized effort to boost community spirit and show the world that progress was being made in reconstructing San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. (JF) Men with shovels working in front of Ehrman Bros. & Co. 134-138 Front. Most have visible watches on chains, seem not to be regular workingmen. See wnp4.1591 (same original image), wnp71.0095 [EF-111] [G810 EF-111] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1907 Financial District

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Front near California

View southeast to men posing while clearing the street for 'House Cleaning Day' (sometimes called Cleaning-Up Day'), an organized effort to boost community spirit and show the world that progress was being made in reconstructing San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. (JF) Men with shovels working in front of Ehrman Bros. & Co. 134-138 Front. Most have visible watches on chains, seem not to be regular workingmen. See wnp37.00182, wnp4.1591, wnp71.0093 [EF-113] [G810 EF-113] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1907 Financial District

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Montgomery & Pine

View northeast across intersection to work crew repairing the street. Telegraph Hill, Kohl Building, Safe Deposit Building (remaining lower stories refurbished for use), Security Savings Bank, Merchants Exchange in background. New one story wooden building next to Security Savings Bank has 310 Montgomery, Friedrichs Cafe, Louis Wiell (Weill) Cigars and Tobacco signs, 312 Edmond Godchaux, Stock broker. [EF-114] [G810 EF-114] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1907 Financial District

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Embarcadero near Mission

View east to Pier 2 at foot of Mission (at left) and Pier 4 (on right), formerly called Mission St. Wharf Nos. 1 and 2. New Wellington Coal, Western Fuel Co. coal bunker with moveable derricks on right. Garbage scow on left, ferry approaching in distance. Farmers Transportation Co. and Steamer Valletta freight shed on Pier 2 at left. Yerba Buena Island in distance. [G810 SH-576] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1909 Financial District

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Hunters Point

View east to US Navy Armored Cruiser USS New York (ACR-2) entering dry dock 1 at Bethlehem Hunter's Point shipyard. Pump house with tall smokestack at end of pier [G810 SH-592] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1903 Hunters Point

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Hunters Point

View east to US Navy Armored Cruiser USS New York (ACR-2) entering dry dock 1 at Bethlehem Hunter's Point shipyard. Pump house with tall smokestack at end of pier. [G810 SH-593] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1903 Hunters Point

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2nd & Harrison

Superior duplicate to wnp4.1862. [TEH107 Cutting through 2nd St. in 1869 SS-169] View north from just south of Harrison Street of 2nd Street cut through Rincon Hill. [G810 SS-169] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1869 South of Market

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Ferry Building

Elevated view northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building 'C.P.R.R. Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley Ferry.' Market St. Cable Railway Co. Valencia Street cable car #23, Hayes Street cable car #25, City R.R. horsecar. Signage for East Bay real estate auctions. [G810 STC-050] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [B 424 Ferry Landing, Foot of Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. (cut off: Watkins New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 26 New Montgomery St. under Palace Hotel, S.F.]

1886 Financial District

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Sacramento & Battery

View east across Battery St. to M. Esberg & Co. Shirt Factory at 300-302 Battery. Damage from earthquake with buildings shored up. Muybridge 445 'Battery Cor. of Sacramento St. after Earthquake October 21, 1868'.[TEH434 Front (sic) & Sacramento Sts 1868] Same image, different cropping from wnp37.01346. [G57 SSS-015] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1868 Financial District

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Grant Avenue

Right hand image from stereoview card. [Dupont St. Wood Carriers of Chinatown C-17] [F810 C-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)"A Street Scene in Chinatown"

1890 Chinatown

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Sutter near Kearny

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to large group of men searching though safes among the ruins in front of Nathan-Dohrmann & Co., large retail store with street clock in front at far right. [EF-95 1906 photo S.F. 45.] [F810 EF-095] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1906 Downtown / Union Square

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Ferry Building

[Foot Market St. 1887 FB-9] Elevated view across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building, banner says 'At Auction 18 Choice Residence Lots', Castro Street cable car. [F810 FB-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

1887 Financial District

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Tank Hill

Construction of Clarendon Heights tank on what would become known as Tank Hill, view west toward Twin Peaks, sign for Raphael's department store. [703 Clarendon Heights Tank: Method of lowering lower portion of tank on to concrete foundation 1421] [121A]

1894 Ashbury Heights

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Laguna Honda Reservoir

View of north end of reservoir while under construction. (scanned from a 1904 copy of an 1861 photo)

1861 Forest Knolls

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California & Battery

Elevated view northwest across intersection toward construction of 320 California. At left, Bank of California and Alaska Commercial Buildings, at right rear of Federal Reserve Bank Building, Newhall Building. [320 Calif St - Cahill]

1946 Financial District