Contains 2840 photos
View northeast from center of Market toward Montgomery St. Municipal Railway (Muni) C-line Streetcar #4 passing Crocker Building (demolished mid 1960s). Union Trust and Hobart Buildings in background. Red cross banners strung across Market Street. Robt. Kirk Ltd. store.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast across Market to approaching Municipal Railway (Muni) N-line Streetcar #1007 with wings livery. Palace Hotel in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View south across Grant between Geary and O'Farrell. Flower stand near Union Square, possibly promotional picture with woman shopping. I. Magnin and Co., 90 Grant, across the street.
Downtown / Union Square
View east on Sutter toward Stockton. Municipal Railway (MUNI) 2-Line streetcar #248. Paul Elder Books at right. Hunter-Dulin building, White House Department Store in the distance at left. Buildings on right have been demolished, now the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
Man and woman embracing. View to east
Downtown / Union Square
Smiling couple holding bottle of Seagram's whiskey in front of palm tree
Downtown / Union Square
View west across Market toward Phelan Building at Market and O'Farrell. Flood Building in distance left. Union Trust Building, Spiros. (black and white positive film)
Downtown / Union Square
North side of Market between Powell and Mason (this part of the block now demolished for 5th Street North and Hallidie Plaza) Esquire Theatre showing 'Lost Boundaries' and 'Not Wanted', Telenews showing 'Nanook of the North' (black and white positive film)
Downtown / Union Square
View west on Eddy from Powell. Powell Street cable car #501 on the turntable. Eddy street is now blocked to traffic at this point and most building on the left were demolished for Hallidie Plaza. Bank of America with large electric clock in entry in background.
Downtown / Union Square
[Medical Dental Bldg, San Francisco R20PV] Elevated view west toward 450 Sutter, Mark Hopkins Hotel in right background. Photographer was at Sutter and Stockton.
Downtown / Union Square
Market between 4th and 5th Street. Hales Department Store at right.
Downtown / Union Square
California Street Cable Railway O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde Line cable car decorated and advertising Roos Brothers. Cable Car Carnival
Downtown / Union Square
California Street Cable Railway O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde Line cable car decorated for Playland and the Cliff House. Cable Car Carnival
Downtown / Union Square
California Street Cable Railway O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde Line cable car decorated for and advertising Roos Brothers. Cable Car Carnival
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest to Municipal Railway (Muni) B-line streetcar #89 with wings livery passing de Young / Chronicle Building. Fosters cafeteria, Casten's Thirty Geary Restaurant, Schmidt Building, Rosenstock Building, Granville's Jewelers in background. Florsheim Shoes, Security Finance Co. in Chronicle Building. [M0089-B-08 EB ON GEARY AT MARKET 1950]
Downtown / Union Square
View east from the roof of 301 Geary (southwest corner of Powell and Geary). Man and woman posing. Whittell building, I. Magnin, Hunter 0dulin Building in background
Downtown / Union Square
View north on Powell from Sutter. Cable car passing Munson School of Business at right. Billboard for Henry King at the Mark Hopkins.
Downtown / Union Square
View northwest toward Nob Hill from Sir Francis Drake Hotel at Sutter and Powell (opened 1928). Left to right: Grace Cathedral, Hotel Huntington, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio transmission tower atop, Morsehead Apartmentsf (1001 California), Mark Hopkins Hotel, Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel).
Downtown / Union Square
[Hotel Plaza, facing Union Square, San Francisco Zan 2511] Northwest corner of Stockton and Post. 450 Sutter Medical Building in background.
Downtown / Union Square
Window washers on scaffolding cleaning I. Magnin Building. City of Paris and H. Liebes in background, Palace Hotel in distance. (Curiously, the neearest worker is wearing a slicker with legend 'P USDB' on back, for 'Prisoner, U.S. Disciplinary Barracks.')
Downtown / Union Square