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Contains 675 photos

Broadway from Kearny
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Broadway from Kearny

[Broadway street from Kearny-looking East. 1383] Wood sidewalk, Broadway cut in rock face of Telegraph Hill. Buggy with 'F. Klatt' stenciled on. Five story building behind. Group of boys standing next to barber pole.

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View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

[Panorama from Telegraph Hill SF 1867] Elevated view southeast to U.S. Marine Hospital (Spear and Harrison), Selby Shot Tower (First and Howard) and Rincon Hill in distance. Telegraph Hill houses in foreground. [F810 V-091] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Pacific & Kearny
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Pacific & Kearny

View west on Pacific toward Kearny. Prescott House 933 Kearny on the Southwest corner at left. Many of the buildings down the street were moved or demolished here for Montgomery Avenue. (later Columbus Ave.) construction. [Pacific street from Kearney (Sic)- looking West. 1385]

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Sansome & Broadway
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Sansome & Broadway

Elevated view northwest across the intersection of Broadway and Sansome. Telegraph Hill in the background. Sacks and bales piled up on sidewalk, with people posed on top and in street, laden horse-drawn dray wagon. [San Francisco Wool Exchange 1868. NW corner Sansome St Broadway. Props. D. McLennon, Whelan, Grisar BU-25] [F810 BU-025] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Old Custom House
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Old Custom House

[Old Custom House before earthquake 1868. PB-22 TEH175] [G810 PB-022, #175] Battery & Washington Streets. Buggies, horses, wagons. (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Old Custom House
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Old Custom House

Battery and Washington Streets. Buggies, horses, wagons. [Old Custom House before earthquake 1868. TEH175] Superior duplicate to wnp71.0217. [G57 SPB-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Washington & Montgomery
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Washington & Montgomery

View to Exchange Buildings block. Piles of lumber and rocky fill on street. Egyptian Hair Coloring sign. [N.W. cor Washington-Montgomery St. 1869 SS-145] [F810 SS-145] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Washington Square
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Washington Square

View west to Russian Hill up Union Street. Grading and landscaping of Square was completed in April, 1869.

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View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with grading and landscaping completed April, 1869) towards Russian Hill. Filbert St at lower right. Same image as wnp24.184a. [984. Russian Hill]

Telegraph Hill
Grading Telegraph Hill
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Grading Telegraph Hill

[255. Grading Telegraph Hill] Broadway Street cut

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Kearny & Broadway
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Kearny & Broadway

View south on Kearny St. to busy street scene with horsecars and pedestrians. Old St. Mary's Church steeple in distance right. Same image as wnp71.1915, different cropping.

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View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with landscaping growing in) towards Russian Hill. Columbus Avenue not yet cut through. Filbert St at lower right. Same image as wnp24.184a. [984. Russian Hill]

Telegraph Hill
Montgomery near Washington
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Montgomery near Washington

Elevated view northwest across Montgomery to Metropolitan Theatre with signs advertising 'Hudson', Curtin & Co. dry goods, Metropolitan Restaurant. Banner over street for "Black Bess". New Almaden Water Depot on the far corner, in the former Miner's Exchange Bank building. A cupola on top had been razed by this time, but the octagonal pavilion remained. [West side Montgomery St. Bet. Wash & Jackson 1865 T-13 TEH150] [G810 T-013] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Kearny & Broadway
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Kearny & Broadway

View south on Kearny St. to busy street scene with horsecars and pedestrians. Old St. Mary's Church steeple in distance right. Same image as wnp37.00809, different cropping. [Kearny St South from Broadway St 1870 SS-45] [F810 SS-045] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Montgomery & Gold
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Montgomery & Gold

Elevated view northeast across Montgomery to intersection with Gold St., Pioneer Hall 808 Montgomery (Samuel Charles Bugbee, 1812-1877, architect, built 1862), Society of California Pioneers, first home of Hastings College of the Law (in 1879). Vanderslice & Co. Silversmiths (810 Montgomery). Pacific Street at upper left. Cannon on corner sidewalk points to doorway. (AS) [260. Hall of California Pioneers Helios]

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View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with landscaping growing in) towards Russian Hill. Columbus Avenue not yet cut through. Filbert St at lower right. Same image as wnp24.0068a, wnp71.2136. [984. Russian Hill]

Telegraph Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with landscaping growing in) towards Russian Hill. Columbus Avenue not yet cut through. Filbert St at lower right. [984. Russian Hill]

Telegraph Hill
Toland Medical College
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Toland Medical College

At Stockton and Francisco Sts. Medical College, and Home for the Inebriate uphill. [HOS-4, Toland Medical College 1871] (G810 HOS-004) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Stockton near Francisco
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Stockton near Francisco

View east across Stockton to Toland Hall with students in front, on steps and on window sills. [TEH806 1875 Toland Medical College, Stockton bet Chestnut & Francisco] [G57 SHOS-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Jackson & Battery
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Jackson & Battery

[Looking SW from Jackson & Battery St. June 20, 1874 WA-15] Early construction work on Custom House. [F810 WA-015] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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