Chinatown

Contains 1085 photos

Clay & Kearny
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Clay & Kearny

Elevated view northeast to track work. Cable car line with its innards exposed. Cable car track crossing a street car track. Near site of the first cable car turntable. McDonough Bros. Bail Bonds on northeast corner. - United Railroads [U00312]

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Grant & Bush
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Grant & Bush

[519TEH Cor. Dupont & Bush Sts. 1905. T.E. Hecht #519] View north along Grant (Dupont) to Misfit Clothing Parlors and Abbott's. West side of California Hotel at right.

Chinatown
Kearny & Washington
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Kearny & Washington

View north on Kearny to busy street scene. A Penny Arcade is in what was formerly the entry to the Bella Union Theater at left. At this time, Peter Bacigalupi, a pioneer in bringing moving pictures to San Francisco in 1894, ran this and another Penny Arcade. Also, Pioneer Tom & Jerry Saloon, Saloon with Wunder Beer sign, rooming houses, laundry wagon, restaurants, streetcars and bars. California Hotel in distance at Columbus (then Montgomery Ave.) corner. Telegraph Hill in the distance. [TEH498 Kearny St North of Washington. Aug 1905] (AS)

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Chinatown children
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Chinatown children

Two boys dressed in traditional Chinese clothes, posing in front of an unidentified building. Same original image as wnp71.0055.

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Waverly & Sacramento
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Waverly & Sacramento

Two Chinese girls crossing street

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Chinatown
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Chinatown

Boy formally dressed in traditional Chinese attire in front of Tin How Temple.

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Chinatown
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Chinatown

Portrait of two boys in traditional Chinese clothing. Cropped from larger original image at wnp71.0055.

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Chinatown
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Chinatown

Portrait of two boys in traditional Chinese clothes. Tightly cropped version at wnp37.04304. [C-25] [G810 C-025] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Clay near Waverly
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Clay near Waverly

View in colorized tinted photograph northeast across Clay between Waverly and Grant (then Dupont). Clay Street cable tracks, people on the sidewalk. Building with lanterns and balcony housed Yoot Hong Low restaurant at 810 Clay.

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Old St. Mary's Church
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Old St. Mary's Church

Grant Ave and California St. View north across intersection. Cable car with passengers stopped in front of Old St. Mary's.

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Hall of Justice
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Hall of Justice

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east from Portsmouth Square to damaged old Hall of Justice. [Hall of Justice and Police Tents] [Copyright 1906 by Clinton Johnson 156]

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Portsmouth Square
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Portsmouth Square

[Eastside Portsmouth Square, March 13, 1906] View East of old Hall of Justice.

Chinatown
Bush near Stockton
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Bush near Stockton

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to fire south of Market Street after 1906 earthquake. Palace Hotel, Chronicle Annex, Hearst Examiner Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Call Building, Shreve Building, Goldberg Bowen sign at left.

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California near Grant
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California near Grant

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west up California toward ruins of Grace Church ruins at California and Stockton. Bricks in street people walking uphill

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Fire from Nob Hill
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Fire from Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east toward Financial District on fire. Billowing smoke. [Maynard Building, Merchants, Exchange, Mills Building] Probably from Grace Church.

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Grant near California
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Grant near California

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [View from California & Dupont Sts.] View northeast across earthquake ruins toward Telegraph Hill; Hall of Justice Building

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Grant near Sacramento
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Grant near Sacramento

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View through archway at Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square. [74. Ruins in Chinatown. Western Photographic Co., L.A., Cal.]

Chinatown
California & Grant
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California & Grant

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Old St. Mary's Church, earthquake damage

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Bush near Grant
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Bush near Grant

Main telephone switchboard, Bush between Kearny and Grant. Group of women telephone operators sitting on barrels working the first multiple switchboard after the earthquake and fire.

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Portsmouth Square
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Portsmouth Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Looking east across Portsmouth Square. Ruin of the Hall of Justice at Kearny & Washington Streets. Soldiers, horses, tents [G45 SEF-006](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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