Financial District

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Post & Market
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Post & Market

View west up Post, Crocker Bank Building (demolished except for colonnaded first floor), The Foxcroft Building, later known as 68 Post St., now demolished at far left. At right, Union Trust Building (demolished)

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Montgomery & Sacramento
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Montgomery & Sacramento

Looking north. Bank of Italy sign. Anglo Bank Building with columns at right.

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California near Montgomery
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California near Montgomery

View west past approaching cable car to Old St. Mary's cathedral, Grand Union Hotel.

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Ferry Building Aerial
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Ferry Building Aerial

View east to Ferry Building and Ferry Loop with pedestrian overpass and vehicle underpass. Central median is landscaped oval. [Aerial Ferry Bldg dpwbook44 dpwA1990] U.S. Army Air Service photo code at bottom left

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Market & Post
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Market & Post

[Crocker Bldg 1926. Market and Post sts.] [Crocker Estate Album] Elevated view northwest across Market.

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California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

Accident of #17 cable car collided with second California Street cable car; bystanders and police officers; Fireman's Fund Insurance Building at 401 California Street on SW corner in background.

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Montgomery & Pine
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Montgomery & Pine

View west toward California Street, Old St. Mary's, and The Fairmont, though the arches at the top of the Commercial Union Building ( Montgomery and Pine)

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Pacific Telephone Building
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Pacific Telephone Building

Elevated view looking south to completed building at 140 New Montgomery. Rialto Building.

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Cable Car Accident
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Cable Car Accident

Elevated view west to crowd surrounding wrecked California Street Cable Railroad cars at California and Sansome Streets. J. Harold Dollar Building at left. Alaska Commercial Building at far right. buildings on north side of California, include Bank of California, London & San Francisco Bank Building with 4th story addition, Mercantile Trust Co. Building (1903,Albert Pissis, Architect), Kohl Building. Streetlamps with multiple globes.

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California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

View southeast across intersection to cable car accident. California Street Cable Railway car #17 slid downhill to collide with another car at intersection of California and Sansome Streets. J. Harold Dollar and Robert Dollar Buildings in background.

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Market near Fremont
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Market near Fremont

View east on Market, Auto Parade with men riding on running board with flags. Ferry Building in the distance. Market St. Railway (MSRy) streetcar #159? on right. Ferry, Southern Pacific, Matson & PG&E Buildings in background. Moise-Klinkner Co at Fremont St. corner in background.

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Paul Whiteman
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Paul Whiteman

Bandleader Paul Whiteman shaking hands with a child outside the Ferry Building.

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Ferry Building Loop
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Ferry Building Loop

Elevated view east to streetcars on loop tracks in front of Ferry Building. Ferries and Yerba Buena Island in background. Pedestrian overpass at left. Circular grassy median at center.

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Sansome & Sacramento
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Sansome & Sacramento

View south on Sansome toward Sacramento Street, Federal Reserve Bank George Kelham, built 1924 SFLandmark 158 [San Francisco 6/28 - 7/1-26]

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Montgomery & California
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Montgomery & California

View west on California from Montgomery. White and Farnsworth Stationers on left, Mark Hopkins Hotel under construction at the top of the hill. New building at right being constructed on site of Parrott Block (built 1852, demolished 1926). Building under construction is Financial Center Building, opened 1927, later Omni Hotel. [San Francisco 6/28 - 7/1-26]

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Embarcadero near Howard
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Embarcadero near Howard

View west across the Embarcadero to Army & Navy YMCA Building, opened in 1926 afor soldiers returning from war. Eagle Shaving Parlor barber, billiard hall, Northern Bakery diner.

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Hunter-Dulin Building
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Hunter-Dulin Building

Southwest corner of Montgomery and Sutter. Newly constructed. [Hunter-Dulin Bldg. - Morton & Co]

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California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

View to southwest corner and Firemans Fund Insurance Company Building, the Insurance Exchange Building.

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Russ Building
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Russ Building

View from Pine and Montgomery of Russ Building under construction. [George W. Kelham, architect. Dinwiddie Construction Co., general contractors. Date: Feb. 24, 1927. No. 47]

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Market near Fremont
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Market near Fremont

View northeast from center of Market to Charles Lindbergh motorcade and tickertape parade. Fife, Ferry, Southern Pacific, Matson and PG&E Buildings in background.

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