Financial District

Contains 2366 photos

View West toward Nob Hill
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View West toward Nob Hill

Metropolitan Life Building, Fairmont Hotel and Russian Hill viewed across Chinatown through the top arches of 315 Montgomery St. building.

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Spear & Market
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Spear & Market

Traffic signal tower at southwest corner of Spear and Market with operator inside, Sander Supply Company on far corner in Southern Pacific Building. [dpwbook27 dpw6724]

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Grant & Pine
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Grant & Pine

View east on Pine near Grant. Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), before addition of northern wing. Top of Merchant's Exchange Building, background left. Crown Hotel, 538 Pine, later site of St. Mary's Square Garage. Matson Building with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Building under construction, completed 1925, in the background (Market between Main & Beale)

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Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Looking north along Embarcadero.

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Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Looking north along Embarcadero.

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Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Looking north along Embarcadero. Note: Duplicate of wnp4.1347

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Pacific Telephone Building
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Pacific Telephone Building

[San Francisco, Coast Division Executive Building. Progress -- 12-9-24] View south from rooftop of 79 New Montgomery past Rialto Building to Pacific Telephone Building under construction.

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Market near Sansome
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Market near Sansome

Elevated view north across Market to Diamond Jubilee Parade with Mission Dolores Float on Market St, Photo Postcards [Great Jubilee Parade SC109] Victorien M. Meyer Rugs, 38 Sansome in background. Flatiron Building at left, Anglo California Trust Company Building at center.

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Montgomery & Market
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Montgomery & Market

View east to from center of Market to Ferry Building. Flags flown from streetlamps. At right, Santa Fe/West Coast Life Building, Balboa Building. At left, Hobart Building. Snapshots from SF photo albums

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Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Looking north along Embarcadero. Streetcars in front of Ferry Building. [7408]

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Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Looking north along Embarcadero. REO auto with passengers in foreground.

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Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Illuminated at night, from Market Street. [9959 9-12-25]

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Embarcadero
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Embarcadero

Group of five men posing for photo in front of Ferry Building. Automobile behind them.

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Embarcadero
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Embarcadero

Group of men and women posing for photo in front of Ferry Building. Automobile behind them.

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Embarcadero
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Embarcadero

Group of men and women posing for photo in front of Ferry Building. Automobile behind them.

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Market near 2nd
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Market near 2nd

Elevated view east, probably from the Hobart Building. Southeast corner of Standard Oil Building at far left, Flatiron Building, Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect), Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop, Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, PG&E Building completed 1925, Cunard Line sign on Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market (renamed Cunard Building in 1917), Stevenson Building at southeast corner. Underwood Building 525 Market at lower right. Sansome Street at lower left. At center left, at 130 Bush Street, is a rare view of the 20 foot wide Heineman Building, before the construction of its much larger neighbors the Adam Grant and Shell Buildings, with a painted sign for H.M. Heineman Sons, manufacturers of neckwear.

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New Montgomery near Mission
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New Montgomery near Mission

[San Francisco, Coast Div. Executive Bldg. Progress 2-18-25] View south from rooftop of 79 New Montgomery past Rialto Building to Pacific Telephone Building under construction.

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Telephone Building
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Telephone Building

[San Francisco, Coast Div. Executive Bldg. Progress 2-18-25] View south from rooftop of 79 New Montgomery past Rialto Building to Pacific Telephone Building under construction.

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Beale & Mission
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Beale & Mission

View east on Mission to street work in progress with sign 'Growing with San Francisco Means More Telephones.' Large rooftop sign in distance for Lipton's Tea Coffee Cocoa, Wm. Cluff Co. (southwest corner of Mission & Spear), Wihr Printing Co., Horsford Bros. Co. pullies and belting 235 Mission, E.C. Atkins & Co. saw manufacturers 257 Mission. In distance center, California State Agricultural Building, Audiffred Building. Horse drawn dray wagons at right. [Commercial Advertising Display, Typical Plant Operations]

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Pacific Telephone Building
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Pacific Telephone Building

[San Francisco, Calif. Coast Div. Executive Bldg. Progress 6-10-25] Elevated view south from rooftop of 79 New Montgomery past Rialto Building to Pacific Telephone Building near completion. Construction on roof of Palace Hotel at right.

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