Contains 1085 photos
From below Stockton looking east with ascending Cable Car in foreground. Kohl Building, Merchant's Exchange, Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery) in background. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (later Cogswell College, Ritz-Carlton Hotel) at right. [Burton Photo Album]
Chinatown
View north across intersection. Dragon lantern streetlamps dedicated September, 1925. [Chinatown, Grant Av.]
Chinatown
View south to five tourists on Grant between Clay & Washington.
Chinatown
Elevated (possibly from roof of Shanghai Low Restaurant) rooftop view north on Grant. Sing Chong and Sing Fat Buildings, New Lincoln Hotel. Stained glass globe lights in front of Sing Fat and dragon streetlamps (dedicated in September, 1925). Telegraph Hill in distance.
Chinatown
Looking west, Mark Hopkins Hotel under construction, [San Francisco 6/28 - 7/1-26]
Chinatown
View north from center of Kearny from near Washington St. towards slopes of Telegraph Hill. Sentinel Building (also Columbus Tower), International Hotel at right center. [Kearny St Looking North from Jackson St.] [dpwbook36 dpw10162]
Chinatown
View east to Old St Mary's Church, Sing Chong Import Co., Kohl Building, Yerba Buena Island, Southern Pacific Building in distance, Lenox Apartments, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building at far right. At left, construction under way, probably for 720 California Street (completed 1926).
Chinatown
Elevated 'Bird's Eye View' northwest from the Russ Building across California Street with Old St. Mary's Church, Chinatown, Guadalupe Church, Russian Hill and Marin County, Mt. Tamalpais in the background. Hotel Yolanda, SW corner, Kearny and California, at bottom. [67. Birds Eye View Nob Hill SF]
Financial District
Snapshot, View South on Grant from Pine, east side of the street. Tung Sing Co. 444 Grant, Pacific Dry Goods Co. Washington Hotel on Bush St. corner in distance. [The beginning of Chinatown]
Chinatown
Jackson near Grant. Snapshot, cobblestone street, child in white smock. [In Chinatown]
Chinatown
View southeast across California Street through doorway of Old St. Mary's cathedral to St. Mary's Square. Crown Hotel in background. [Old St. Mary's. 1927 Moulin #5089] [view to Portsmouth Square(sic)]
Chinatown
Chinatown. View north on Grant Ave. from Sacramento St.
Chinatown
(Looking east) Old St. Mary's Church and rectory at left. Stained glass globe street lights at right in front of Sing Fat Co. Hotel Lafayette, Merchants Exchange, Financial Center Building (1927) in distance. Sing Chong Building at left.
Chinatown
View southeast to Sing Fat Building, Merchant's Exchange, American National Bank Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Lafayette, Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Alexander Building, Hunter Dulin Building. At right, expansion of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building in progress. [When East Meets West on the edge of Chinatown]
Chinatown
View east down California towards Sing Chong Building, Old St. Mary's Church, Financial Center Building (1927) at center, later Omni Hotel. Hotel Lafayette, Stained glass street light globes at lower right in front of Sing Fat Building. Southern Pacific Building in far distance on Market St.
Chinatown
View northeast across intersection to Italian Popular Bank building (Fugazi Banca Popolare Operaia Italiana) (built 1908) at gore corner. Building is also known as the Fugazi Bank Building, and exists today as San Francisco Landmark #52. Before 1914, a third story was added, shown her. The cupola was removed after that. In addition, the building was extended northward. At this time it was the Bank of America, later the Transamerica Building. Buildings along east side of Montgomery Street with Italian businesses including Canessa Printing Co. at right.
North Beach
Family of five on rooftop of 335 Kearny, Elevated view east, back of Russ building in background
Financial District
Probably Grant near Jackson. Chinese Parade on Grant Ave.; Children posing with American and Chinese flag
Chinatown
Elevated view south. Chinese Parade from Grant & Jackson; children in white sailor suits marching. Crowds line Grant. Old St. Mary's in distance.
Chinatown
Chinese Parade viewed from Grant and Jackson; Band and Chinese flag
Chinatown