Downtown / Union Square

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Market & Stockton
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Market & Stockton

View east toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Call Buildng, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904. Clearer original image at wnp24.349a. [SS-64 Market St. East 4th St. 1898.] [F810 SS-064] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Call Building at night
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Call Building at night

View east down O'Farrell to Call Building outlined in light bulbs. Louvre Restaurant at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

[No.95 R] View northwest across Union Square. St. Francis Hotel and Dewey Monument construction sites, pedestrians, streetcar tracks.

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

Elevated view southeast across Market to troops in parade (led by mounted band) for President McKinley's visit. Palace Hotel, Examiner Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex, Bancroft History Building, Midway Plaisance theater in background Crowds of onlookers.

Downtown / Union Square
Fourth & Market
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Fourth & Market

View east on Market near 4th Street. Call (Spreckels) Building at center. People wagons, streetcars. Chronicle Building, Ferry Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building in the distance. Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Dixon's Hatters, Midway Theatre on right.[No. 96, Market St. and Call Bldg., San Francisco, Calif.]

South of Market
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Elevated view northeast across Market, showing buildings on north side. Parade or procession on Market, possibly for assassinated President McKinley. Vaughan & Keith Photographers (14 Grant) in 5-story Central Block Building at far left, J.J. Gildea Clothier 756 Market, Eagleson's Shirts at 750 Market. Chronicle Building, Crocker Building at far right. Large Nathan Hale sign on west face of 700 Market, later site of Flannery Building. [Leather Rose Album]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Elevated view north across Market up Grant, showing buildings on north side. Parade or procession on Market, possibly for assassinated President McKinley, Vaughan & Keith Photographers (14 Grant) in 5-story Central Block Building, J.J. Gildea Clothier 756 Market, Eagleson's Shirts at 750 Market. . Small portion of Chronicle Building at far right. [Leather Rose Album] Elevated view northeast across Market, showing buildings on north side.

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

Elevated view southeast across Market to parade honoring President McKinley's visit. Palace Hotel, Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Midway Plaisance theater in background [The President captures the Golden Gate City---San Francisco's magnificent reception to President McKinley, Cal]

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Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

Elevated view northeast to Chronicle Building with clock tower, Lotta's Fountain, Crocker Building. [014032 Chronicle Building San Francisco Copyright 1901 Detroit Photographic Co]

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

Elevated view southeast across Market to troops in parade (led by mounted band) for President McKinley's visit. Palace Hotel, Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Midway Plaisance theater in background

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

Elevated view east over intersection to crowds of people assembling during President McKinley's Visit. Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Lotta's Fountain, horse drawn laundry cart and other cars, cable cars, Detmer Woolen Co. building, A.A. Jacob Millinery building, people riding horses and bicycles [52 Market Street, San Francisco, California Copyright 1901 by C.H. Graves Phila.

Downtown / Union Square
Grant & Market
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Grant & Market

Elevated view east down Market. View of Call Building with Annex under construction, Examiner Building, Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Dixon's Hatters, Midway Plaisance, Lion Drug Co., cable cars, street sweeper, carriages. Dupe of wnp37.00971

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Fourth
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Market & Fourth

Elevated view southeast across Market Street decorated for President McKinley's visit. Palace Hotel, Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Midway Plaisance theater in background. Dixon's Wear ad, carriages, wagons, Call Building, parade crowd and cable cars. [49-5949 Busy Market Street of the City of the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California]

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

Elevated view looking northwest across Square onto foundation for the Dewey Monument. St. Francis Hotel construction site at left. [F810 US-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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O'Farrell near Stockton
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O'Farrell near Stockton

View east on O'Farrell toward intersection with Market and Grant. Call Building in background. Oberon Music Hall in Shiels Building (38 O'Farrell, offices and lodge halls) left of center. In the Kohler & Chase building (with Decker Bros. Piano sign) basement is site of the Belvedere Music Hall (began operations about July, 1904). The three-story building just after it is the Fire Station for Truck No. 1. Phelan Building at right. (PF) Bancroft History Building across Market St. in distance with Ayres' Business College sign. Sign on building across Market for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne in 'The First Duchess Marlborough' at the Columbia Theatre, which played there in November, 1901. (see also wnp27.7791 taken minutes apart) [O'Farrell Street San Francisco Caliufornia 1904 (Sic)]

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Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

View east on Market St. to cable car, pedestrians, street sweeper. Chronicle Building at left. Ferry Building in distance. On right, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex, Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Cineograph Theatre. [5. Market St. San Francisco, Cal. Call Building]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Stockton
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Market & Stockton

View east on Market toward Call Building. Midway Plaisance 'Big Show Burlesque', Sanborn Vail & Co. Dixon's Hatter & Furnisher, Hearst Examiner Building, Palace Hotel in distance. Lion Drug Co. listed in City Directories 1901-1904

Downtown / Union Square
O'Farrell & Stockton
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O'Farrell & Stockton

View east on O'Farrell toward intersection with Market and Grant. Call Building in background. Oberon Music Hall in Shiels Building (38 O'Farrell, offices and lodge halls) left of center. In the Kohler & Chase building (with Decker Bros. Piano sign) basement is site of the Belvedere Music Hall (began operations about July, 1904). The three-story building just after it is the Fire Station for Truck No. 1. Phelan Building at right. (PF) Bancroft History Building across Market St. in distance with Ayres' Business College sign. Sign on building across Market for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne in 'The First Duchess Marlborough' at the Columbia Theatre, which played there in November, 1901. (see also wnp27.7594 taken minutes apart)

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

Elevated view west across Union Square. Dewey Monument in place, first part of St. Francis Hotel complete. [F810 US-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

Elevated view northwesterly across Market from New Montgomery. Chronicle Building at left, Crocker Building at right. Cable car and street construction, morning light.

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