Contains 2840 photos
View southeast from Alexander Building to South of Market and beyond. From left, corner of Sansome & Bush with Standard Oil Building under construction. Underwood Building 525 Market, Sheldon Building at southeast corner of 1st and Market, Hooker & Lent Building (renamed Cunard Building in 1917) at southwest corner. Holbrook Building 58 Sutter, Flatiron Building. [Looking South-East from Alexander Bldg. 1921] [Crocker Estate Album]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northeast to Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery) with tower on top still being constructed, Montgomery Street and Telegraph Hill. Bank of Italy, American National Bank Building, Merchants' Exchange, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects, Balfour Building (later J. Harold Dollar Bldg.), Mills Building at lower right. [Crocker Estate Album] [Looking North from Alexander Bldg. 1921]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view south down Montgomery to Hobart Building, Wells Fargo Nevada Bank (Union Trust) Building, Metropolis Bank Building, Palace Hotel, Crocker First National Bank Building, Mechanics Institute, California Pacific Building. Building under construction at southeast corner of Montgomery & Sutter. Top of Call Building at upper right. [Looking South from Alexander Bldg.] [Crocker Estate Album]
Downtown / Union Square
Entrance under construction[Alexander Bldg. Montgomery St. Entrance.] [Crocker Estate Album]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view northeast over Union Square decorated for Shrine Week. Dewey Monument at center, Hotel Plaza in background. [Shrine Week June 11-18 1922] [Burton Photo Album]
Downtown / Union Square
Shriners Week; [6-15-22 late - left for Honolulu on the 16] [Burton Photo Album]
Downtown / Union Square
From window of St. Francis Hotel; Temporary Shriner's pavilion around Dewey Monument, with Whittell Building and Call Building on the right
Downtown / Union Square
[Square decorated in Frisco for Shriners] Close up of Shriner dais around Dewey Monument
Downtown / Union Square
North side of Market Street, east of Kearny. A study for the construction of replacement for 660 Market Street (Realty Building, built 1907, demolished 1923). [de Young (Chronicle) Building , 660 Market St (Old Building), Realty Property, Crocker Building] [Crocker Estate Album]
Downtown / Union Square
Parade. Looking down Market, soldiers parade of some kind passing Palace Hotel. Cars with flags. After 1918 because there are 4 tracks on Market.
Downtown / Union Square
View east onf Market near 4th. California Theatre, Humboldt Bank building, Call Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Line of autos parked along curb with banners advertising 'The Gray Dawn'
Downtown / Union Square
View southerly on Stockton toward Geary. City of Paris department store at center. Wolfe & Hawley, S. Strozynski Co. People walking on sidewalk next to Union Square.
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest across Union Square towards St. Francis Hotel, Chancellor Hotel. Municipal Railway (Muni) A-line streetcar at left. Dewey Monument at right. Two sailors standing on the corner.
Downtown / Union Square
View east from center of Ellis. Humboldt Bank Building, Roos Bros. Clothing, California Theatre in background. On left, Painless Parker Dentist, Federal Grill, Hotel Cort. The Crystal Inn at right in West Bank Building.
Downtown
Elevated view northeast from St. Francis Hotel; over Union Square to Stockton & Post Streets. Hotel Plaza, Standard Oil Building (completed 1922), Whittell Building. Schroth Building (1908, architect Cunningham & Politeo) at center.
Downtown / Union Square
Car in Front of Venetian Art Shop, 281 Post Street at Stockton
Downtown / Union Square
View east across Grant near Maiden Lane (then Union Square Street) to uniformed men with musical instruments in and around truck with sign for California Grays Fashion Show Military Pageant & Ball, Civic Auditorium, Sept. 30th. In background Worth's menswear, 130 Grant, in Juvenile Building, built 1909, A.C. Lutgens architect. At right, Livingston Bros. Building, built 1920, G. Albert Lansburgh architect. Both buildings still stand in 2022.
Downtown / Union Square
Crowd in front of Century Theatre, previously Cort, Curran, later Morosco and Capitol (home of Capitol Follies burlesque). Premiere of HUNTING BIG GAME IN AFRICA WITH GUN AND CAMERA, by Oakland hunter explorer H.A. Snow (1869-1927). On Ellis near Stockton. Theatre demolished in 1941
Downtown / Union Square
Crowd in front of Century Theatre, previously Cort, Curran, later Morosco and Capitol (home of Capitol Follies burlesque). Premiere of HUNTING BIG GAME IN AFRICA WITH GUN AND CAMERA, by Oakland hunter explorer H.A. Snow (1869-1927). On Ellis near Stockton. Theatre demolished in 1941.
Downtown / Union Square