Downtown / Union Square

Contains 2840 photos

Market & 4th
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Market & 4th

View southeast across intersection to south side of Market Street between 3rd & 4th. Stack of lumber, pile of bricks across from Carriage Manufactory, Heverin's Marble Works at 783 Market. Original caption "Market Street, from corner Stockton Street, looking west, San Francisco. # 508". Same image as wnp37.02063, different cropping. [SS Mkt bet 3 & 4 St] [F810 SS-103] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Post near Powell
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Post near Powell

Cropped duplicate of wnp24.0027a. View north from Union Square to National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864), Post between Powell & Stockton Streets, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street behind. Portion of Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) on left. [G57 SBU-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Geary & Stockton
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Geary & Stockton

View northwest to large wooden structure on east side of Union Square, the Mechanics' Pavilion. Windmills, circus/theatre building and Temple Emanu-el in background. [F810 MP-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Mechanics' Pavilion, Union Square 1867 MP-3 TEH200]

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Geary & Stockton
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Geary & Stockton

View west on Geary toward flats and St. Mark's German Evangelical Lutheran Church on the middle of the block. The streetcar tracks are for the Central Railroad.(PF)[Geary St. West from Stockton St. 1867 SS-30] [F810 SS-030] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Temple Emanu-El
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Temple Emanu-El

Elevated view north to Temple Emanu-El. Same image as Lawrence and Houseworth #235. Jewish Synagogue, Sutter Street, front view, San Francisco

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Post near Powell
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Post near Powell

View north from Union Square to National Guard Armory (dedicated on March 6, 1864), Post between Powell & Stockton Streets, Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street behind. Portion of Trinity Episcopal Church (Cornerstone laid late 1866, dedicated September 22, 1867) on left

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Geary & Stockton
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Geary & Stockton

View northwest to large wooden structure on east side of Union Square, the Mechanics' Pavilion. Windmills, circus/theatre building and Temple Emanu-el in background. Cropped version of image at wnp71.1466.

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New Montgomery & Market
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New Montgomery & Market

Elevated view southeast across market to Grand Hotel. B. B. Thayer chemist, druggist. #5 horsecar. From Muybridge stereoview 'The Grand Hotel, Market and Second Streets, Fronts' # 350.

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Post & Montgomery
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Post & Montgomery

View northwest across intersection to Masonic Temple on corner of Montgomery and Post (with tower completed 1868). Union Pacific offices on ground floor. [G57 SFR-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Post & Powell
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Post & Powell

Elevated view to Trinity Church (1867-1893) at northeast corner. Third Baptist Church (African-American)(1869) visible on left on Powell near Bush. Mechanics Pavilion in Union Square at right. [G57 SCHU-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

[180. The Grand Hotel, New Montgomery street front] Elevated view southeast across intersection.

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Grand Hotel
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Grand Hotel

Elevated view across Market southeast to corner of Market & New Montgomery

Downtown / Union Square
Grand Hotel
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Grand Hotel

[Grand Hotel, Birds' Eye View. 1400] Elevated view southeast, probably from Masonic Temple, to Market and New Montgomery Streets. Selby Shot Tower, Rincon Hill, in background.

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Grand Hotel
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Grand Hotel

[Grand Hotel, San Francisco - Market Street Front. 1398] Elevated view southeast across Market.

Downtown / Union Square
Pacific Business College
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Pacific Business College

View south across Post to Mechanics Institute, 31 Post Street between Kearny and Montgomery (built 1866). Blake Dentist, Taylor & Hallett Wine Merchants.

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Sutter near Grant
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Sutter near Grant

Elevated view northwest across Sutter to Young Men's Christian Association Building, R.E. Washburn & Co., 234 Sutter, Pianos and musical instruments, Jas. F. Crosett & Co., 230 Sutter, Employment agency. Nob Hill in background left. [106. Young Men's Christian Association Building - Sutter Street.] Same photograph with different cropping wnp71.0880

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Bush near Kearny
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Bush near Kearny

View northwest across Bush to California Theatre (which opened in January, 1869) and Columbian Engine Company No. 11 Firehouse at right. Theatre signs advertising John E. Owens in 'She Stoops to Conquer' and 'The Rivals.' California Theatre building replaced in 1889 by a much larger building combining the California Hotel and New California Theatre. Version with wider view at wnp71.0968.

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Trinity Church
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Trinity Church

[Trinity Church, cor. Post and Powell Streets., San Francisco 1395.] During the Mechanics Fair. Third Baptist Church (1869) at left. Mechanics Pavilion in Union Square at right.

Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

Elevated view northwest to corner of Geary, Market, Kearny, Wm. Monahan Real Estate, Haskell's Tea Store, Larrabee's Stationery, Temple Emanu-El in distance right. Calvary Presbyterian Church (site of St. Francis Hotel) in background left. [109 Junction of Kearny, Geary and Market Streets, San Francisco]

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Sutter near Kearny
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Sutter near Kearny

Elevated view northwest across Sutter to Young Men's Christian Association Building, R.E. Washburn & Co., 234 Sutter, Pianos and musical instruments, Jas. F. Crosett & Co., 230 Sutter, Employment agency. Nob Hill in background left. Same photograph with different cropping wnp37.00630-R.[TEH73 Sutter St. W. of Kearny 1867] [G57 SSS-069] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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