Downtown / Union Square

Contains 2840 photos

Market near Kearny
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Market near Kearny

Looking west. Mutual Savings Bank Building, Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Bldg. Signs for Dr. Goodnight, Dentist, Dr. Strub

Downtown / Union Square
View Up Market Street
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View Up Market Street

Elevated view west up Market Street, probably from the Hobart Building at Montgomery and Market. Palace Hotel, Monadnock Building, Hearst / Examiner Building, Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building at left. Crocker Building, Chronicle and Chronicle Annex Buildings on right. Twin Peaks and City Hall dome in distance. Banners strung across Market Street. [16743]

Downtown / Union Square
Market near New Montgomery
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Market near New Montgomery

Rendering of unbuilt high rise from 27.4457, from different angle, elevated view northwest across Market, showing Crocker Building on right and Chronicle and Chronicle Annex buildings on left. Signed Lewis P. Hobart, Architect. [Unit 1 - New Crocker Building] [Crocker Estate Album]

South of Market
Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

Elevated view to drawing of unbuilt replacement skyscraper on site of Crocker Building. Signed Lewis P. Hobart, Architect. [A Proposal for the NEW CROCKER BUILDING] [Crocker Estate Album]

South of Market
Market & New Montgomery
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Market & New Montgomery

View north across Market [Realty Property | Crocker Building. Crocker Estate Album] Detail of wnp27.4460A.

South of Market
Post near Grant
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Post near Grant

Rothchild Building, 165 Post,south side between Kearny and Grant. Built 1908, Lewis Hobart, Architect. The bottom two floors have been modified. Rosenthal's Shoes, H. Liebes & Co. Annex [Rosenthal Bldg. 151 to 165 Post St.] [Crocker Estate Album]

Downtown / Union Square
Post & Grant
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Post & Grant

Elevated view northwest from rooftop to Shreve Building on corner. Hammond Building to left.

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

[O'Farrell St. at Market & Grant S.F. Cal] View west on O'Farrell from Market, Savings Union Bank & Trust, Union Trust Company of San Francisco in foreground

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Sansome
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Market & Sansome

Elevated view east down Market (with 4 sets of streetcar tracks) to Yerba Buena Island in distance. Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect) on left. Southern Pacific Building in distance right. Ferry Building, boats.

Downtown / Union Square
Nob Hill
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Nob Hill

Elevated view northwest toward Nob Hill from above Sutter and Stockton. Rebuilt Temple Emanu-El (Now location of 450 Sutter medical building) at left, Hotel Colonial Annex and Stockton Tunnel at center. In distance, early buildings on Grace Cathedral site, Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel), 1001 California Morsehead Apartments (1915), Hopkins Institute of Art, Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) and Fairmont Hotel at center distance. The Angelus, Calvert Hotel Apartments, Yorkshire Apartments, Grant Hotel, Windemere Apartments, Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel, above tunnel entrance at far right.

Downtown / Union Square
Post & Stockton
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Post & Stockton

View to northeast corner. Mason-McDuffie Co. office advertising St. Francis Wood garden homes. Kabo Corset Co.

Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Market
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Geary & Market

Army officer standing next to woman driving a convertible automobile in front of the Chronicle Bldg, large crowd around her

Downtown / Union Square
Powell near Sutter
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Powell near Sutter

View north on Powell between Post and Sutter. Two Cable Cars. Detail from wnp36.02585, dpwbook29 dpw7162.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Turk
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Market & Turk

3 Pedestrians trapped by automobiles, MUNI K-line streetcar #73 & MSRY 8-line streetcar #285 in background

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery near Sutter
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Montgomery near Sutter

View North on Montgomery toward Sutter, California Pacific Building (Reid Brothers, 1910) at left, further down the Alexander Building under construction at Bush Street, beyond that is Commercial Union Assurance Building, 315 Montgomery at Pine, under construction with cupola on top. Notably missing in this view is the Hunter-Dulin Building (1926) on the near left corner and the Russ Building (1927) between Bush and Pine. Telegraph Hill in distance. Autographic negative. Construction or demolition under way at right. [Montgomery St. S.F.]

Downtown / Union Square
Powell near Post
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Powell near Post

View north on Powell St. from Post St. to Sutter St. [dpwbook29 dpw7162]

Downtown / Union Square
Montgomery near Sutter
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Montgomery near Sutter

View North on Montgomery toward Sutter, to groups of men in suits, cars, Alexander Building (155 Montgomery at Bush, 1921) at left, beyond that is Commercial Union Assurance Building, 315 Montgomery at Pine, (now) Bank of America, under construction with cupola on top. Notably missing in this view is the Russ Building (1927) between Bush and Pine. J.C. Pearson, cigars, Club Grill. Telegraph Hill in distance. (Autographic negative)[Looking down Montgom. St.]

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

View northeast past 9 men on park benches to Dewey Monument, Hotel Plaza.

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

View west from Stockton toward St. Francis Hotel. Dewey Monument, Elkan Gunst Building at left. Large building under construction at right.

Downtown / Union Square
View from Alexander Bldg
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View from Alexander Bldg

Elevated view east down Bush Street to Yerba Buena Island, South of Market and Bay in distance. From left, Mills Building, 1912 Standard Oil Building (Benjamin G. McDougall architect, 2 stories added in 1916), 20 foot wide Heineman Building, Postal Telegraph Building. 1922 Standard Oil Building under construction at lower right, across from building on Sansome with Cooper Underwear, Gerson & Breyer hosiery, Willner-Levy Co. Ferry and Southern Pacific Buildings at upper left. [Looking East from Alexander Bldg 1921] [Crocker Estate Album]

Downtown / Union Square