Downtown / Union Square

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Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

View East on Market near Grant Ave, Call Building at right, shot from top of streetcar. American Flags lining Market Street, possibly for President Woodrow Wilson's visit. [Market E bet 3rd & 4th dpwbook26 dpw6240]

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Post near Powell
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Post near Powell

View west on Post to President Woodrow Wilson in open automobile with Mayor James Rolph in procession. Hotel St. Andrews, Marsh's Japanese & Chinese goods store in Argonaut Club Building (Built 1909, with additions in 1920, Sylvain Schnaittacher, architect, still stands 2021). [Blum]

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Post near Powell
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Post near Powell

Women waiting in line along Post Street between Powell and Mason; St. Francis Hotel.

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Market near Mason
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Market near Mason

Welcome Home Parade for the 363rd and 347th Regiments, World War One. East on Market near Mason and Turk,, Dean Building, Mechanics Savings Bank (Bank of Italy) Building, Flood Building

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Market near Turk
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Market near Turk

Welcome Home Parade for the 363rd and 347th Regiments, World War One. East on Market near Mason and Turk, Troops in Trucks, Military Parade, Dean Building, Admission Day Monument, Native Sons Monument, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Flood Building in background

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Kearny & Vermehr Place
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Kearny & Vermehr Place

View east across Kearny to 122-130 Kearny, White Lunch Co. with delivery trucks and drivers in front. "Never Closed", "Ascend The Marble Stairway to the White Lunch Cafenet"; D.C. Heger Art Neckwear 116-118 Kearny; W.J. Hesthal Golden Gate Loan Office, 110 Kearny.

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Market & Geary
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Market & Geary

Police officer talking to driver of Marmon Auto stopped in intersection as crowd looks on. Chronicle Building in background. Lotta's Fountain at left.

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Kearny, Geary, & Market
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Kearny, Geary, & Market

Elevated view looking southeast across Market St toward's Palace Hotel and Monadnock Building decorated with flags, bunting. Lotta's Fountain, in foreground.

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Geary near Kearny
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Geary near Kearny

Elevated view east across Market with flags and bunting toward Annie Street. Clock on Chronicle Building at left at 10:00; Palace Hotel with electric sign atop and Schwabacher & Co. at Annie corner. Monadnock Building with signage for Union Pacific System, Canadian Pacific Railway, H. Bercovich cigars, Ground Gripper Shoes. Lotta's Fountain. Flannery Building at right with J. Edlin Merchant Tailor, Chas. H. Strub dentist signage, General Cigar Co. at street level, large billboard on roof. Muni A-line street car westbound on Geary, many streetcars on Market.

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Market, Geary, & Kearny
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Market, Geary, & Kearny

Elevated view southeast across Market to crowd of pedestrians at Lotta's Fountain. Palace Hotel in background. B-line street car on Geary. Birdcage traffic signal.

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Geary, Market & Kearny
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Geary, Market & Kearny

Traffic policeman at Lotta's Fountain.

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Market at 3rd
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Market at 3rd

Lotta's Fountain Series, Market & Geary Streets. 12 noon on clock, looking down Market to Ferry Building. Chronicle Building at left, Palace Hotel on right. 'US Army Builds Men' banner over street.

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Market at 3rd
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Market at 3rd

Lotta's Fountain Series, 11:05 on clock, looking down Market to Ferry Building

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Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

Lotta's Fountain Series, elevated view north from across Market to Chronicle Building with large clock above entrance. Handwritten news on building: "Mrs. Virginia Clark of Oakland today confessed today that she shot and hilled her husband"

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Market at Grant
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Market at Grant

Elevated rooftop view looking east to Union Trust, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Kamm Building (Sorensen Jewelers and Kelly Tires billboard), Call Building, Hearst Examiner Building, Monadnock Building, Palace Hotel, streetcars, Boos Bros. [Market St. at Grant]

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Downtown Aerial
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Downtown Aerial

View northwest to Union Square at lower left, Nob Hill at center, Russian Hill and Fort Mason beyond.

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Union Square
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Union Square

View southeast from Fitzhugh Building. Whittell Building at center. City of Paris. Post Street at left. Dewey Monument at right. [07XX-34B-02 POST & STOCKTON 1920s]

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Union Square
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Union Square

View from Dewey Monument to Plaza Hotel at corner of Post and Stockton, present site of Apple Store.

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Union Square
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Union Square

Elevated view from St. Francis Hotel looking east over Union Square. Dewey Monument, Hobart Building, Call Building, Whittell Building

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Market near Powell
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Market near Powell

View east from center of Market Street. Parade in progress, with automobiles decorated with American flags and sailor on motorcycle. Bunting across Market in several locations. Emporium, Commercial Building, Pacific Building at right. At left, West Bank Building, Phelan Building. Humboldt Bank Building, Call Building in distance.

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