Contains 1085 photos
Elevated view west on Clay Street from Kearny to Clay Street Cable Railroad car #2 approaching the turntable at the terminus of the Clay Street line. H. Taube jeweler, R. Cutlar dentist. Portsmouth Square at right. Portsmouth House and fire station in background. [188 Kearney Street, San Francisco.]
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Looking east. St. Mary's Church at Grant (Dupont) corner, Edouart and Cobb Photographic Art Gallery building at Kearny corner, First Congregational Church (until 1872, then Academy of Sciences) at right, ships docked, little boy in foreground, horse drawn cart
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Elevated view northwest over plaza to horse drawn carriages, cable car terminus with cable car on platform, trees
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Elevated view west on Clay. Portsmouth Square at right, Portsmouth House at northwest corner of Clay Street and Brenham Place, Fire house, with tower at top right. Newsboys pose at bottom. Variant of wnp37.02319. [No. 126 Clay Street Hill]
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Daily Evening Bulletin offices, savings bank, gun maker. Men posing.
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U.S. Sub-Treasury Building & Mint under construction at 608 Commercial. [April 24, 1876 South side of Commercial St. in front of Sub Treasury Bld. PB-13] [F810 PB-013] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View north on Bartlett Alley, now called Beckett Street, from Jackson. Chinese men on one side, and Caucasian men on other. Signage on second story of building at right indicates it was a restaurant, Wui Fong Low restaurant, listed as "Wauy Fong, Restaurant" in the 1878 Wells directory. Watkins stereoview 3752 is the same image with different cropping. [Bartlett Alley, Chinese Quarter, San Francisco]
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Elevated view west to California St. Cable Car at original terminus while another waits uphill. California House, Old St. Mary's cathedral at upper right, J. Lindo & Co. Auctioneers at left with furniture on sidewalk Stereoview cropped version wnp37.00810.jpg.
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Elevated view northwest towards Portsmouth Square. Clay street cable car at terminus. Coaches and cabs lined up for hire. Portsmouth House, Exempt Fire Co. firehouse with bell tower on far side of plaza. [Clay Street Hill] [Views of American Scenery]
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Bruce's Printing House at 618 Sacramento St. (Taber's Album of Principal Businesses). People posed in front and in upper windows.
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[Boys] Little girl with basket and two boys in traditional garb crossing unidentified street
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[464. St. Mary's Cathedral, California St] Advertising sign for California theatre and play: Wild Oats.
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Interior view of Hang Far Low Chinese Restaurant at 713 Dupont St. (now Grant Ave.). [Smoking Divan, Chinese Restaurant, Dupont St., San Francisco - Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street]
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View north, Presidio and Ferries Cable Car, with horse car tracks connecting. Former Miner's Exchange Bank building at Jackson Montgomery corner at right.[#105]
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View west from Grant (then Dupont Street) up Jackson. Men unloading large sacks from dray wagon parked across Jackson. Sign for Philadelphia Lager Beer on corner of building, Globe Hotel (built 1860, Victor Hoffman architect). Gas streetlamps on corner and on south side of Jackson, cobblestone streets with stone crosswalks, plank sidewalk.
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Elevated view northwest towards Portsmouth Square. Clay street cable car at terminus ramp. Coaches and cabs lined up for hire. Exempt Fire Co. firehouse with tower on far side of plaza at left.
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View soutwest across Sacramento to men with carriages and hearse posing in front of Nathaniel Gray Coffin Warerooms, 641 Sacramento St at Spring, then Webb.
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View northeast across California St. to cable cars, ships and bay in distance. Telephone or telegraph poles with 8 crossbars on north side of street. California House restaurant, Alexander Carpenter shop, florist.
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View across cobblestone street to two men posing outside building [Chinese Restaurant East side Dupont Street] also published by Taber as "B3. Chinese Restaurant, S. F., Cal"
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Elevated view north on Stockton to [Chinese New Year?] Dragon Parade, crowds, people on rooftops. Porch with iron railing at far left is part of First Presbyterian Chinese Church, 911 Stockton. Parade participants carry a portable gate preceding the main procession of the dragon. Two Chinese ideograms across the top of the gate read “Yu Gate", referring to a near-mythical sage-king of ancient China, known as Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer. To the ancient Chinese, the fish jumping over the Dragon Gate symbolized the sudden elevation and advancement of one’s social status into the upper class. In this use, it called on this pioneer community’s will and courage to strive for transformative accomplishments. (Interpretation by Doug Chan). [Chinese Parade With The Dragon #465]
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