View northeast across intersection to building housing Fook Woh Bazaar, 731 Clay. Posters for 'The World' at the California Theatre, which opened for a one week run in February, 1887. Building at center demolished late 1887. Same image as wnp71.1219. [Chinatown]
Chinatown
View west on California to busy street scene. Grace Church, Fairmont Hotel in distance. Kohl Building, Brown & Power stationers, Bank of California, Friedlander's Building in center distance. Cable Car #2, Presidio Avenue, California and Market Streets at lower right. [California St. looking West toward Nob Hill, just before Earthquake]
Financial District
Firth Wheel at site of Midwinter Fair. Wheel could be under construction or being disassembled prior prior to its relocation to Merrie Way near Sutro Baths.
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins, view west on Market Street [General view of burned area (Market St. on left)from Ferry Tower
View of one of the first streetcars to operate after fire and earthquake. Fillmore Street car overloaded with passengers hanging onto roof. [18733 First car service after earthquake, rush to take advantage of trolleys]
Western Addition
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View East, Old St. Mary's at left Grace Church at right [8709. Looking down California St.--Ferry Building in distance. Duplicate of wnp24.0089a.jpg
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View south on Kearny Street from Telegraph Hill. Rubble, man walking with cane up the hill, damaged buildings in background, cable car tracks. Various buildings in background: Columbus Tower, Hall of Justice, de Young Building Annex, Call Building, Mills Building, Kohl Building, Merchant's Exchange Building. [(18) 8718 Overlooking Kearney St. - lower burned area from Telegraph Hill - San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. Copyright 1906 by H. C. White Co.]
North Beach
[Woodward's Gardens, Helios] Woodward's Gardens, 14th & Mission. Elevated view northwest toward Protestant Orphan Asylum in background. Group of men and boys pose at corner, one on a white horse.
Mission
View southeast over city from Nob Hill. Same image as wnp71.2106, different cropping. [THE CITY--From Jones and California Sts, looking towards Mission Bay]
Nob Hill
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]
North Beach
[At the Cliff House, San Francisco 772] First Cliff House from Cliff Road, pre-1868 additions
Sutro Heights
[Synagogue Emanuel 786] View northwest across Sutter to Temple Emanu-el, present site of 450 Sutter Medical building. Building on right, at northwest corner of Sutter & Stockton was the mansion of pioneer physician Augustus J. Bowie until 1871, when it was converted to a theatre and beer garden, the Vienna Garden. It was demolished in 1892. Also the home of Judge Burritt and banker Lucien Herman. Plank sidewalks.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Damage, View southeast across Union to road subsidence and soldier with rifle posing. Chinn-Beretta Optical sign painted on fence. At left, St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church (1891). [8224 Union Street sunk by the great earth convulsion which destroyed the city] (travel notes on back)
Cow Hollow
Flower girls with photographer, Firth Wheel and Scenic Railway
Golden Gate Park
Elevated view southeast across Market to parade honoring President McKinley's visit. Palace Hotel, Examiner Building, Call Building, Bancroft History Building, Midway Plaisance theater in background [The President captures the Golden Gate City---San Francisco's magnificent reception to President McKinley, Cal]
Downtown / Union Square
President McKinley leaving the Henry T. Scott Mansion after spending the night.
Pacific Heights
Van Ness between California and Sacramento, in front of Judge Sloss's residence. [President McKinley reviewing the 45,000 school children of S. F.--speaking from his carriage.]
Pacific Heights
[5067 Christian Endeavors, Golden Gate Park, July, 1897] Bandstand on site of future tennis courts. Duplicate of wnp24.322a.jpg
Golden Gate Park
View south on Harrison from the Rincon Hill Bridge [9382 Volunteers on Second Street, San Francisco, going to join the Fourth Expedition for Manila.]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Damage, elevated view southwest over Chinatown to Nob Hill. Montgomery Block at left [13288. View from the rear of the Hall of Justice -- Fairmount Hotel in the distance. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Disaster of April 18, 1906.] Notes on back.
North Beach