Downtown / Union Square

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3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

[5387 The 'New Chronicle' Building, Corner Market and Kearny St.] Elevated view across Market from Call Building.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

Elevated view east om Market from Kearny and Geary. Lotta's Fountain at center, Chronicle Building at left, Grand Hotel and Palace Hotel in the background. Geary Street cable car (trailer and dummy) dash sign reads 'Richmond Race Track via Geary.' McAllister cable car at right. [6695 View down Market St. Showing Lotta Fountain and Palace Hotel]

Downtown / Union Square
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

Baldwin Hotel (on the site of the Flood Building) Spectacularly burned in 1898, the fire demonstrated the inadequacies of the emergency water system, which was born out in April 1906. [9870 The Baldwin Hotel]

Downtown / Union Square
View NW of Nob Hill
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View NW of Nob Hill

A View of Nob Hill from Chronicle Building.] Temple Emanu-El, Crocker Mansion, Mark Hopkins Mansion, Stanford Mansion.

Downtown / Union Square
View North to Russian Hill
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View North to Russian Hill

Elevated view northwest from around Kearny and Market; Stanford Mansion on Nob Hill at upper left, Russian Hill beyond. Grace Church in center distance with high bell tower. Old St. Mary's church, Old Poodle Dog Restaurant and California Hotel and Theater at far right center.

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Baldwin Hotel
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Baldwin Hotel

Corner of Powell and Market. [#19, Baldwin Hotel, T.E. Hecht, HO-4] (G810 HO-004) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (T.E. Hecht copy)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Elevated view east to Emporium. Baldwin Hotel at far left. [Market Street below 5th Street SS-61] [F810 SS-061] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Bush & Grant
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Bush & Grant

View east from center of Bush at Grant (Dupont) Avenue. The California Hotel and Theatre (1889) on left, Mills Building (1891) beyond. "Male Employment Office" at left, Poodle Dog Restaurant at corner on right. In far center distance, across Market St. is Lachman Block (1887).

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 4th
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Market & 4th

View east from center of Market to basalt brick street, Phelan Building, Chronicle (de Young) Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Cineograph Theater, Midway Plaisance Theater, bicyclist. [Taken with the $5.00 Vive. Souvenir of Vive Day. Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar, San Francisco, Cal.]

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Powell & Geary
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Powell & Geary

View north to Nob Hill, Union Square on right, cable cars. Stanford and Hopkins mansions in distance left. Aronson Furniture Company, 340 Post. Signage for Pianos, Pope Manufacturing Co, Columbia Bicycles 334 Post, Pavilion Auction House.

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Geary & Market
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Geary & Market

See wnp24.0018a for conflicting date. [5680--'We are Soldiers of the Cross. Christian Endeavorers, San Francisco, Cal., July 7th, 1897.] Soldiers in parade. Lotta's Fountain.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

View east to welcome arch for Christian Endeavors convention. Call Building in background. Cable cars, horse drawn carriages, man sweeping street. The Sixteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention, held in San Francisco from July 7th to 12th, 1897. [5060 - Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. U.S.A.]

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Market near Powell
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Market near Powell

View east from center of Market Street towards arch built for Christian Endeavor convention. Call Building in distance. Haight Street cable cars, in center distance and #154 at right. On right, Emporium, California Academy of Sciences, old 1887 Flood Building. Flags and banners strung over street. [196. Market Street 'Arch of Welcome' and Emporium Building]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Elevated view southeast across Market Street, to Hearst Examiner Building under construction, Call Building, Palace Hotel. Montgomery Market, Swan the Painter, The Oxford House 719 Market. Ettinger's Fringe Factory, New Creamerie Restaurant, Butler-Schutze Co., Whitaker & Ray Books in Bancroft History Building at right. [8703 Claus Spreckels Building, S.F. Cal.]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Elevated view southeast across Market Street, to Hearst Examiner Building under construction, Call Building, Palace Hotel. Montgomery Market, Swan the Painter, The Oxford House 719 Market. Ettinger's Fringe Factory, New Creamerie Restaurant, Butler-Schutze Co., Whitaker & Ray Books in Bancroft History Building at right. [8703 Claus Spreckels Building, S.F. Cal.]

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Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

[5070 - We are Soldiers of the Cross, Christian Endeavors, San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A., July 7th, 1897.] The Sixteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention, held in San Francisco from July 7th to 12th, 1897. Elevated view North down Kearny, Likely fourth of July parade in advance of Christian Endeavorers convention Soldiers marching down Kearny Street. Crowds standing on the sidewalks and around Lotta's Fountain. Soldiers marching, de Young / Chronicle building at right. California Hotel and Theater (Turret in background), "Royal Worcester Corsets" sign on building at left.

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Market & Geary
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Market & Geary

Market & Geary, looking west. Lotta's Fountain, 700 Market building with Monaco Gallery, Dr. Reuben T. Leaner chiropodist. Russell's Family Shoe Store, S.N. Wood & Co. store. First Phelan building on left in distance. [Geary - Market - 1889 (Sic) SS-67] [G810 SS-067] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

Elevated view looking south on 3rd Street from Market. Two electric streetcars in foreground. Nucleus Hotel at left, Call Building under construction at right. [F45 SSS-070] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Powell
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Market near Powell

View southeast across Market to Call Building, Academy of Sciences, Emporium, Red Front clothing store 857-859 Market. Approaching horsecar (tracks pulled out in 1897), wagons. Baldwin Hotel at far left (destroyed by fire November, 1898). Cropped version at wnp67.0270.

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Powell
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Market near Powell

Spanish-American War Parade, Army Band marching up Market Street passing Lucas Detective Bureau, 906 Market

Downtown / Union Square