Conservatory Valley
First Bandshell, Golden Gate Park. West end of Conservatory Valley [rodolph831]
Golden Gate ParkOpen SF History Photos
Golden Gate Park.
Music Concourse. View SE from top of Spreckels Temple of Music Bandshell. Francis Scott Key monument and original Academy of Sciences Building (North American Hall) visible through trees.
Golden Gate Park
Great Highway near Balboa
Chutes at the Beach. Surf Building. "Freaks of the World" display. View east. Ocean Beach Pavilion at left.
Sutro Heights
Powell & Post
Elevated view northeast over Union Square from St. Francis Hotel. Crowds assembled for Portola Festival. Grandstand set up in empty lot at northeast corner Powell & Post, former Trinity Church site. Temple Emanu-El in background showing post-earthquake changes to steeples. Union Square Building at right. Some of the ten 40-foot carp banners donated by George Shima on behalf of the San Francisco Japanese community at right. [511]
Downtown / Union Square
SF General Hospital
San Francisco General Hospital, Potrero Avenue near 22nd Street
Potrero Hill
View of Downtown
View northwest from St. Francis Hotel. On Nob Hill from left, Huntington Hotel in center distance (1924, Weeks & Day architects), Morsehead Apartments, 1001 California (1915, Houghton Sawyer architect), Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (aka California Art Institute (former site of Mark Hopkins Mansion and later site of Mark Hopkins Hotel) has For Sale sign, Fairmont Hotel at top right, At far right Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel). Grant Hotel and Hotel Herbert also in view.
Downtown / Union Square
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.
Financial District
View North over Portola
View north from near Cambridge and Shelley Drive. Bernal Heights and Potrero Hill in the background. Greenhouses from some of the many flower nurseries that occupied this area in the foreground. The large building at center, on University across from the reservoir, was built in 1875 as University Mound College, a Presbyterian boys' boarding school. In 1879, the building was sold to the Lick Old Ladies Home, funded by one of the charitable bequests in James Lick's will. In 1896, their name was changed to University Mound Old Ladies' Home. The building was demolished in 1931 and replaced with a larger modern structure, extant in 2018. Most of the land seen in this view was later developed for single family homes.
University Mound
Spreckels Music Stand
Golden Gate Park Music Concourse Spreckels Temple of Music bandshell, with Show Girls, car has 1920 license plate. de Young Museum in background.
Golden Gate Park
Stow Lake
Golden Gate Park. View east from Northern Bridge to people in rowboats and along path. tibbitts22313
Golden Gate Park
SF Bay
Ships anchored off fairgrounds of Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). USS Oregon at left. Angel Island and Alcatraz in background
Market & Van Ness
Masonic Building and Spanish American war Memorial statue at original site
Civic Center
Main Library
Larkin & Fulton Sts. San Francisco Main Public Library (image retouched on glass, two figures removed)
Civic Center
Great Highway near Balboa
Surf Building at Balboa & Great Highway. Freak show display. View east. Ocean Beach Pavilion at left.
Sutro Heights
View east from Nob Hill
Downtown skyscrapers, Standard Oil Building under construction
Nob Hill
First Cliff House
Closeup view from south. Sign at right reads: "Sutro Aquarium and Beach"
Sutro Heights
Golden Gate Park
Alvord Lake and Bridge, at Haight Street entrance to Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
O'Farrell near Jones
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to downtown earthquake ruins and workers clearing debris. In distance from left, Whittell and Butler Buildings under construction, Call Building, Flood Building. The two story brick and stone facade with double archways at left is the remains of the Eureka Benevolent Society building (1900) at 436 O'Farrell. The Society was established in 1850 by August Helbing to assist immigrant Jews in San Francisco. It was rebuilt to a similar design in 1910 and that building still stands, with a fortune telling business occupying the first floor in 2019. [Looking Down O'Farrell St. from Jones]
Tenderloin
Valencia &18th
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view south on Valencia to site of Valencia Hotel disaster. Ruins of Youth Directory (19th and Linda, then Angelica) at far right. Temporary sewer lines on both sides of street. [Valencia St From 17th (Sic) Valencia Hotel Stood Where Men are Sitting]
Mission Dolores
Old City Hall in Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [City Hall SF. Larkin St & City Hall Avenue Corner]
Civic Center