Elevated view southeast across intersection to Lotta's Fountain and surrounding crowd of pedestrians. Palace Hotel (with Western Pacific Railroad office in corner retail space), Monadnock Building (with signage for Santa Fe and Oceanic), Metropolis Bank Building in background left. D-Line streetcar destination reads Exposition. Chronicle Building on left with large clock above entry. El Camino Real Bell at right. String of lights and planter baskets hung from streetlamp poles. [Lotta's Fountain]
Downtown / Union Square
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Market Street Parade
Cavalry on parade for PPIE opening, looking east from Phelan Bldg.,
Downtown / Union Square
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Market Street Parade
Elevated view east from center of Market to Marching Band in parade for PPIE opening, Phelan Building on left.[7302]
Downtown / Union Square
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Transcontinental Phone Call
First public test of the transcontinental telephone line, as seen at the San Francisco end at Pacific Telephone's building at 333 Grant Ave., shortly before the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In New York, Alexander Graham Bell and others spoke with Mayor James Rolph and other dignitaries in San Francisco, including Thomas A. Watson, who was the recipient of Bell's first words over the telephone in 1876. Bell began the call by repeating those words "Mr. Watson, are you there?" Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell in background.
Downtown / Union Square
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Grant near Bush
[New Pac T.&T. Co Office - 333 Grant Ave Formerly Home Tel. Bldg. S.F.]Elevated view west across Grant to Pacific Telephone office, San Francisco Historic Landmark number 141, designed by Coxhead and Coxhead in 1908.
Downtown / Union Square
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Grant near Bush
Elevated view northwest to 333 Grant Ave., Home Telephone Co. building, San Francisco Historic Landmark number 141, designed by Coxhead and Coxhead in 1908, before acquisition by Pacific Telephone.
Downtown / Union Square
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Stockton Street Tunnel
View north on Stockton near Bush to Muni F-line streetcar. Colonial Hotel, McAlpin Apartments on left. Hotel Victoria, built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel) in background right.
Downtown / Union Square
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Bush near Stockton
Vacant lot at northeast corner. Wooden viaduct.
Downtown / Union Square
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Eddy & Mason
View to northeast corner, Poodle Dog Restaurant and Hotel Building. Spider Kelly bar on left. Ramona Hotel building extant in 2018 as Olympic Hotel. [Poodle Dog 151 [sic] Mason St.]
Downtown / Union Square
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Market near 4th
View east on Market from 4th Street. Roos Bros., Phelan Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Hearst Examiner Building, Call / Spreckels Building, Portola Theatre and Humboldt Bank. Large open air tour bus turning from Market at left, 9-Line streetcar. Sheerin's Laundry cart, 7-Line streetcar. [1099 Market St. east of 4th, St A.I.P.] Photo Postcards [SC109]
Downtown / Union Square
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Market & 3rd
Elevated view looking east, downward to Preparedness Day Parade heading up Market Street, crowds lining street. Examiner Building at upper center. Call Building, Sorenson Jewelers, 715 Market at right.
Downtown / Union Square
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Market & 4th
View east on Market from 4th Street. Roos Bros., Phelan Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Hearst Examiner Building, Call / Spreckels Building, Portola Theatre and Humboldt Bank. Large open air tour bus turning from Market at left, 9-Line streetcar. Sheerin's Laundry cart, 7-Line streetcar. [1099 A.I.P., Market St. east of 4th st. San Francisco, Cal.]
Downtown / Union Square
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Market near 4th
View south across Market to crowds lining streets and filling windows to watch Preparedness Day Parade; Portola Theatre ("Strictly High Class") showing Edith Storey in The Shop Girl. Bohemian Cafe, Tom Dillon Milliner 720 Market, entry to Humboldt Bank Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
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Market & Kearny
Elevated view easterly toward toward Market from Kearny & Geary showing streetcar and automobile traffic. Palace Hotel at top. (same spot 4 views)[dpwbook17 dpw3488]
Downtown / Union Square
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Market & Kearny
Elevated view easterly toward toward Market from Kearny & Geary showing streetcar traffic and Municipal Railway (Muni)C-line streetcar #63 turning from Geary onto Market. Palace Hotel at top. (same spot 4 views) [dpwbook17 dpw3489]
Downtown / Union Square
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Market & Kearny
Elevated view easterly toward toward Market from Kearny & Geary showing streetcar traffic and Municipal Railway (Muni)C-line streetcar #63 turning from Geary onto Market. Palace Hotel at top. Crowds of People loading onto Market Street Railway streetcars at bottom. (same spot 4 views)[dpwbook17 dpw3491]
Downtown / Union Square
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Market near Kearny
View northeasterly on Market between Kearny and Montgomery showing a line of waiting streetcars, Palace Hotel, Balboa Building in the distance at 2nd Street. [Market E from Kearny 5:30] [dpwbook17 dpw3499]
Downtown / Union Square
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Stockton & Market
Elevated view east; Roos Bros. (Albert Pissis, Architect) at left, many streetcars on and crossing Market, Humboldt Bank Building, Portola Theater, Call and Hearst Buildings, Preparedness Day Banner in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
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Union Square
View northeast from Geary and Powell. Welcome sign above entrance. [4641]
Downtown / Union Square
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Union Square
Francis Lambertson sitting in Union Square with St. Francis Hotel in background [Francis - Age 16]
