Contains 675 photos
Sansome Hook & Ladder Company, Elevated view of ornate stone facade of fire house with carved hook and ladder in upper window frame and reclining lion sculptures around main door. Organized in 1850, disbanded in 1860.[East side Montgomery St. bet Jackson - Pacific 1854 FD-8] [F810 FD-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View west to Russian Hill. On Powell between Greenwich & Lombard is Roman Catholic convent school run by Sisters of Presentation. [San Francisco 1855 Third convent in Calif CHU-9] [F810 CHU-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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[Fardon] Old Custom House and Post Office, Washington & Battery Streets. (Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album, title 'The Custom House') (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Crescent Engine Co. No. 10, founded on November 4, 1852 on Ohio Street (now Osgood Pl.) between Broadway and Pacific. Hand operated pumper truck (fire engine) surrounded by members of the fire company. Other men sit on second story ledge. The Company moved to the north side of Pacific, between Montgomery and Kearny (where this photo was taken) by 1856, and to 1804 Stockton in 1865, but became extinct in 1866 at the advent of the paid fire department. At right, Washington House, 160 and 162 Pacific. [F810 FD-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Organized Nov. 4, 1851 (sic) Cresent (sic) Engine Co. J.P. Casey Forman FD-4]
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[NE Cor Battery Washington St. Merchants Exchange 1858. BU-8B] Elevated view east to construction in lot across from first Merchants Exchange Building, with dome. E.V. Joyce Notary Public sign. Custom House at left. [F810 BU-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Telegraph Hill from Russian Hill, across North Beach and Washington Square
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Elevated view west on Filbert St. to Russian Hill on July 4, 1862. Muster of soldiers parading into Washington Square in North Beach. Lombard St. Reservoir at upper right. Caption on photo incorrect. [F810 PA-010] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[PA-10 4th July Parade 1865 (sic) Powell & Filbert Sts.] Watkins photo?
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Elevated view west on Filbert St. to Russian Hill on July 4, 1862. Muster of soldiers parading into Washington Square in North Beach. Lombard St. Reservoir at upper right.Looking west on Filbert St. to Russian Hill on July 4, 1862.
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View southwest toward Russian Hill. Soldiers assembling in square. Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869) in background. [Washington Square July 4th 1862. 326.]
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[Washington Square 4 July 1862 NB-2] North Beach, Washington Square, July 4 1862. Soldiers in formation, crowds, houses. [F810 NB-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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[177. San Francisco-The deep cut on Broadway, Between Kearny and Montgomery] View east on Telegraph Hill. Men, horses and wagons. Homes visible on each side of rock cut.
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View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (before major landscaping). Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869) on top of Russian Hill
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176. San Francisco - Broadway. The deep cut, Looking West toward Russian Hill from Montgomery street. Mule-drawn water cart.
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[TEH283 North East cor. Sansome & Washington Sts. 1865. SS-164] Bookseller stall, horse & cart, tracks, and Old Post Office behind. [G810 SS-164] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View northeast across Washington Square, before major landscaping, to Telegraph Hill. Taber republication of Watkins original, but more tightly cropped. See wnp37.00740.[Panorama from Russian Hill (No. 7) 768]
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[176. San Francisco-Broadway, Looking West toward Russian Hill, from Montgomery] View west from Telegraph Hill at Kearny, with horse hitched to water wagon. Homes visible on each side of rock cut.
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Carpenter Gothic houses in foreground, Broadway and Broadway Wharf at right center. Yerba Buena Island. Cropped version at wnp71.2131. A cropped version published as Houseworth stereoview 200 "San Francisco Bay, from corner Broadway and Montgomery Streets." [TEH59 View of Waterfront 1867.] [G810 V-093] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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[B'way Warf 1866 Water Front S.F. WA-9] Elevated view over waterfront towards Broadway Wharf and ships at anchor in bay. [F810 WA-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View south from near Broadway & Montgomery Sts., from slopes of Telegraph Hill. Miner's Exchange Bank Building, with cupola, at Montgomery and Jackson (Peter Portois, architect), Montgomery Block to its left. [Year 1866. From Broadway - Montgomery Looking South] [F810 V-090] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View South from elevated position towards downtown. Montgomery Block at center left, Rincon Hill background left.
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