California & Sansome
Firemans Fund Insurance Building. [350. Fireman's Fund Insurance Building - cor. California and Sansome Streets.]
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Market & Bush
Elevated view north to October 21, 1868 earthquake damaged Coffey-Risdon Bldg.; northwest corner Bush & Market. Horse trough, ruins. [Effects of the Earthquake, Oct 21 1868, Market and First [Sic] Streets. 984].
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Masonic Temple
View northwest across Market to Masonic Temple (with tower completed 1868); 'New Corner, Branch of The Old Corner' saloon on corner of Post. Copied from Watkins stereocard no. 1368 [Masonic Temple, corner Montgomery and Post Streets. 1368]
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Clay near Battery
October 21, 1868 Earthquake damage. Rail Road House at 316-320 Commercial Street (with entry on Clay), and S. P. Taylor & Co. (paper) between Front and Battery. Two men look out of window at right. Facade braced with long wooden beams.
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Clay near Battery
October 21, 1868 earthquake damage to A.S. Rosenbaum Tobacco & Cigar Warehouse on 300 block of Clay Street, long wooden beams shoring up facade. [Photographed by Oscar Foss, 606 Kearny St., S.F.]
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Grand Hotel
'Grand Hotel, New Montgomery Street Front'. Watkins No. 1397. elevated view southeast across intersection of Market and New Montgomery.
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1868 Earthquake
October 21, 1868 earthquake damaged Coffey-Risdon Bldg.; northwest corner Bush & Market. [Photographed by Oscar Foss, 606 Kearny St., S. F.] Duplicate of wnp37.01595 and wnp37.01488.
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Washington & Cedar
D.N. Robison & Son, SE corner of Washington & Cedar Streets (an alley between Davis & Front, from Clay to Washington) Greengrocer displaying very large melons. [F57 SOF-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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California & Sansome
[Bank of California 1868 B- 4] Elevated view Northwest [F810 B-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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California & Leidesdorff
View south across California to Hayward's Building, an office building at 415-423 California, built in 1867 and 1868 by Alvinza Hayward. Sherwood & Freeborn, Daily Times, World Mutual Life, and California Trust Co. Elevated passageway over Leidesdorff at right to Merchants Exchange Building. [S.E. corner Calif. Leidesdorff 140 BU-28] [F810 BU-028] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) Same image as Houseworth stereoview card, 'Hayward's Building-California Street, between Montgomery and Sansom Streets. # 351'
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Alhambra Theater
Elevated view south across Bush to Alhambra Theatre (325 Bush) between Montgomery and Kearny St, which opened on May 22, 1868. Men in bowlers & top hats pose under marquee. Frank Elwell, Merchant Tailor, 321 Bush. [F810 T-003] [Alhambra Theatre on Bush St., opened 1867 (Sic)]
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California near Battery
[TEH741 Earthquake 1868 San Francisco] Elevated view south across California to earthquake damage. Pacific Pump at 319 California St. Men standing in street. [F810 EF-130] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Montgomery near California
[East side Montgy St. between California & Sacramento St.] Elevated view southeast across Montgomery to San Francisco Assaying and Refining Works, Liverpool & London Globe Insurance Co., Express Building. Clock tower of second Merchants' Exchange Building in background. [F810 SS-130] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Montgomery & California
Elevated view southeast to south side of California. The second Merchant's Exchange building (completed July, 1867), People's Insurance Co., B. L. Schmitt, Bowen Bros. Express Building at left. [Calif-Montgy St 1866 SS-13] [F810 SS-013] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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California near Battery
View northwest to Earthquake damage, people posed in front of collapsed building. Pacific Pump Manufacturing was located at 319 California Street. Muybridge 447 'California street after Earthquake, October 21, 1868.'[Helios]
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Battery & Clay
People (some wearing badges) in front of 'A.S. Rosenbaum Co. Tobacco & Cigar Warehouse' at southeast corner of Battery & Clay Streets. Superior version of WNP26.649. Muybridge 'Railroad House after Earthquake, October 21, 1868'.
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California & Sansome
Elevated view southwest above construction site of Friedlander's Building. From left: Bank of British North America, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Building, California Building Savings Bank, A. Buswells Book Bindery, Hayward's Building, second Merchants' Exchange Building, Bank of California. (B-2) Cropped from image at wnp100.10050. [F810 B-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Pine & Montgomery
Elevated view northeast across intersectipn to Fisher & Co Hatters 300 Montgomery, Duncan & Co., Universal Life Insurance 304 Montgomery, Diaper & Saeltzer Architects 302 Montgomery (Frederick Diaper, Alexander Saeltzer), Goodwin & Co. Furniture, 322-324 Pine (opened on January 1, 1868 in the Academy of Music building), Delivery wagons and chairs, beds piled on sidewalk and street. Original Houseworth stereoview title 'Pine Street, east of Montgomery # 174'[Down Pine St from Montgomery 1870 SS-149] [F810 SS-149] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Bush & Sansome
Elevated view northwest across Bush. Brooklyn Hotel with cabs and a stagecoach in front and men posed in front and on the balcony (opened at this location in late 1868). Mercantile Library, built 1867-68. Empty lot beyond was site of Calvary Presbyterian Church, indicating this photograph is from 1869, when a replacement structure was built by Nicholas Luning. California Neck Tie Factory (Mrs. A.H. Makins), 206 Bush, James Swain bootmaker, 206 Bush, Dietle & Beck bootmakers, 204 Bush. [Bush St. from Sansome 1875 (Sic) SS-5 Turrill & Miller] [F810 SS-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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California & Sansome
An advertisement for Fireman's Fund Insurance Company's Building showing view southwest to southwest corner of California & Sansome. The construction site in the foreground was for Friedlander's Building, at northeast corner of California and Sansome, built 1869-1870. Two of the small buildings on California Street (#409 and #411-413) are shown here in their original appearance; they were enlarged and remodeled in early 1870. Fireman's Fund was built in 1866-1867. (WMK) Bank of California at right. Hayward's Building, 415-423 California (completed 1867), second Merchants Exchange Building, with tower (completed July, 1867) is at right. See also wnp71.1133.
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