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View north from center of 8th Street towards Marshall Square and ruins of City Hall. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument in center. City Hall dome being demolished. At right, Bird Store among storefronts. (G810 EF-132) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Looking northeast from the corner of Larkin and City Hall Avenue, dismantling City Hall Dome. Hall of Records and rebuilt St. Boniface Church in background. (G810 EF-139) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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[CK002 Embassy SF as American June 1909] American Theatre (later Embassy Theatre) Production of The Blue Mouse
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Portola Festival Parade, Elevated view northeast across Market near 8th (at Marshall Square), Chinese Dragon, crowds of people, campaign signs. St. Boniface Church spire in the background. Marshall Square Market. Flags and banners strung over street.
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Parade on Market St. between Hyde and Leavenworth during 1909 Portola Festival. Military personnel carrying huge American flag. Old Hall of Records in background. Stereoview negative.
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Parade on Market St. between Hyde and Leavenworth during 1909 Portola Festival. Mission Dolores float. Old Hall of Records in background
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Elevated view across Market St. to parade between Hyde and Leavenworth during 1909 Portola Festival. 'Queen Virgilia & Portola' on horseback. Hall of Records dome in background top right. Campaign sign for Mayor P.H. McCarthy (in office 1910-1912).
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Parade on Market Street near 8th Street during Portola Festival. [M-G 102] Elevated view to northeast, with St. Boniface Church steeple at center, Fairmont Hotel at upper left, and Flood Building at extreme right. Storefronts at left are now the site of Orpheum Theater. Baths, Marshall Square Market. Flags and banners strung across street, Crowds along street and on rooftops.[M-G 102]
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Parade on Market Street near 8th Street during Portola Festival. Elevated view to northeast, with St. Boniface Church steeple at center, Fairmont Hotel at upper left, and Flood Building at extreme right. Storefronts at left are now the site of Orpheum Theater. Baths, Marshall Square Market. Flags and banners strung across street, Crowds along street and on rooftops. [M-G. 108]
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View of north side of street between 8th and 9th Street. Night school, business college, Robison Bros. birds 1260 Market, The Thoroughfare bar, Porcher & Seagrave hats, C. C. Hornung pianos, All three buildings still standing 2018.
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View west across Van Ness and up Oak Street to California Volunteers Memorial by Douglas Tilden at Van Ness and Market Streets, later moved to Market and Dolores Streets in 1925. Note advertisements in the background for Ghirardelli's and the Alcazar Theater, on lot where Masonic Temple would later be built. At right, rear of St. Cecile Hotel on Fell St.
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Pioneer Monument by F.H. Happersberger located at Marshall Square near Hyde and Grove Streets. The French cannon in the foreground was a Spanish-American war prize and is now at the Presidio of San Francisco.
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Looking south toward Market, Hotel May, Hotel Whitcomb from Old City Hall site. At fright, rear of Robison Bros. Bird Store,(which stands in 2019 as the Wells Fargo Bank Building (1908), 1256-1264 Market, one of only two buildings remaining along the City Hall Avenue alignment).
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Parade on Van Ness Avenue. Dr. Mohun 401 Van Ness
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Elevated view northwest to Labor Day parade coming down Van Ness Ave. 'Motion Picture Projecting Operators Union' float. Van Ness Theater (1907-1910) being demolished.
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Larkin near McAllister [100ft from Corner of Larkin St East of McAllister Street, looking SW] Wall in foreground used to surround City Hall. Commerce High School, later moved to Franklin & Fell, in background left (Damaged in 1989 earthquake.) Hotel Astor, 40 Fulton St. - United Railroads [U03305]
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view southwest. Commerce High School building in left background was later moved from Civic Center to Fell and Franklin. School and Hotel Astor on right demolished or moved to make way for Civic Center Plaza
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[Wright, Rushforth & Cahill Architects] Elevated view south across Market to facade. Originally built as San Francisco's temporary City Hall and served as such from 1912 to 1915. Then became Hotel Whitcomb.
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Auto accident. Old Hall of Records in background.
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View north to James Lick (Pioneer) Monument in Marshall Square (current corner Grove and Hyde) After the 1906 Earthquake but before the 1914 extension of Grove Street to Market. In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library. The cannon the foreground is on display in the Presidio of San Francisco.
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