Downtown / Union Square

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Union Square
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Union Square

View west. St. Francis Hotel, First Congregational Church spire and Dewey Monument

Downtown
Market & Powell
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Market & Powell

Pre-Earthquake view east down Market, Call Building in the distance at center. The new Flood Building appears at left, Emporium at right. Horse and wagon and cable car passing through the street.

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

Electrical Display, 3rd & Market Streets, Knights Templar Convention

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

View east to men sitting on bell-shaped Knights Templar decoration above intersection, cable cars in street. Chronicle Building, Crocker Building at left.

Downtown / Union Square
Post & Grant
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Post & Grant

View northwest across Post to U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation on Post Street. Buildings on north side of Grant in background. Vogue Cloak & Fur Co., 217 Grant, at Campton Pl. (then Stockton Pl) with flags on front of building.

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny near Market
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Kearny near Market

View southwest from the sidewalk on Kearny toward Market. A rainy day with people shopping at sidewalk flower stand. Flannery Building with Hale Dental Co. and projecting corner electric dentist sign at right, Mutual Savings Bank Building beyond. Call Building in the background

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Powell
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Market & Powell

View east on Market St. [4. Market St. San Francisco, Cal. Call Bldg, Flood Bldg, Emporium] Cable cars, pedestrians. Ferry Building in distance.

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

Call Building, Hearst Building, Palace Hotel, Grand Hotel

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Post
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Market & Post

View southwesterly across Market toward the Crocker Building at intersection of Market, Post, and Montgomery Streets. [Crocker Building Market St. S.F. Cal. 1014]

Downtown / Union Square
Eddy near Powell
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Eddy near Powell

View east on Eddy from center of street showing work crew building tracks. St. Ann's Building, Louvre restaurant on left. Flood building, Emporium and Red Front stores in distance.. - United Railroads [U00573] [Eddy & Powell Sts.]

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

View north across Market toward Kearny Street, Lotta's Fountain, de Young / Chronicle Building, cop with young lady, Hayes and Stanyan Park Ferries Cable Car at right.

South of Market
Sutter & Montgomery
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Sutter & Montgomery

Elevated view northeast across intersection to Occidental Hotel Building, A. J. Rich & Co., Briggs Bros. & Co. NE Corner Sutter & Montgomery, Mills Building at left [B-28] [G810 B-028][B-28 Donahoe Kelly Bank] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Bush & Kearny
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Bush & Kearny

[California Hotel - Bush St. April 21, 1905] Elevated view northwest across intersection. An electric sign above the theater entrance advertises the residency of prominent actress Margaret Anglin. The hotel's chimney fell through the roof of the fire station (to the right of hotel in this photo), mortally injuring Chief D.J. Sullivan on the morning of the 1906 earthquake. St. George Alley at bottom. At bottom left, Paris Dental Parlors, at right, St. George Stables, Branch and Factory of The Big Trunk Store. Same image as wnp71.0712. [No 143 Same image as wnp37.02283. [G57 SHO-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery near Sutter
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Montgomery near Sutter

Montgomery Street looking north from Sutter. Mills Building at right center. [G45 SSS-022] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny near Geary
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Kearny near Geary

Panorama 1905, part 1. View northwest, likely from Chronicle Annex Building. Nob Hill, Hopkins and Stanford mansions, Fairmont Hotel (before completion), Grace Church, California Hotel & Theatre (with conical towers). At lower left, W.&J. Sloane Building (1900, Tharp & Holmes architects). Following the 1906 catastrophe, it was demolished down to its steel frame and rebuilt into the present-day Jewelers Building. At bottom center, White House department store. [Panorama 1905 #1] [F810 PAN-007a] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Post
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Kearny & Post

Panorama 1905, part 2. View north, likely from Chronicle Building Annex, to Telegraph Hill. Dohrmann Company, Kohl Building, Nevada Bank Building, Merchants Exchange, Mills Building, Occidental Hotel, French Savings Bank Building, Savings & Loan Society Building (earlier known as the Clock Tower Building, showing added fifth story). [F810 PAN-007b] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny, Grant & Market
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Kearny, Grant & Market

Elevated view east to Geary Street cable car turnaround with cable car #359 and trailer, Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle/de Young Building at left, Grand Hotel at center, Palace Hotel at right. Monadnock Building under construction at far right.

Downtown / Union Square
Market, Turk, & Mason
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Market, Turk, & Mason

Elevated view east on Market to Flood Building, Ferry Building, Call Building, The Emporium, top of Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument) in foreground bottom.

Downtown
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

Lotta's Fountain. Ferry Building in distance. Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel at right, Chronicle Building at left.

Downtown
Market near 3rd
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Market near 3rd

Unidentified Storefront Shop Window - partial lettering reads 'Outfitters.' Call Building at 3rd St. and Market reflected in window.

Downtown