AAA Towing service
unknown location, Edgehill?
EdgehillLocation Mysteries
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AAA Towing service
unknown location, Edgehill?
Edgehill
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Gated estate. San Mateo County?
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1906 Earthquake and Fire, Post-quake rubble, men working, streetcar, possibly East Bay?
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Presumed to be the 1923 Berkeley Fire.
Outside SF
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Family Posing on Front Stairs of residence. addresses 457 & 459. Victorian duplex with bay windows
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Norris Brothers Circus Band Wagon on parade. (Norris Brothers Circus and trained animal show performed for 3 weeks in May 1898 at Central Park, 8th & Market, and held a daily parade.)
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Victorian Neighborhood, East Bay? West Oakland? Man posing in empty lot
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East Bay? Fire Damage? Empty lot and street
Earthquake Damage
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Unknown Location. H. MacDonald & Co. Real Estate. Possibly Ferndale, CA
Doraldina with Billboard
San Francisco-born Doraldina posing with billboard for the film - The Naulahka - in which she starred. Born Dora Saunders in 1888, the actress, writer and dancer died in 1936.
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Unidentified ship stranded on a beach.
Lands End
Fell & Stanyan
Shell Company of California / ShellMotor Oil gas station at northeast corner of Fell and Stanyan. Attendants nattily attired in white coats, pants and caps.
Panhandle
San Mateo
Sheriff's Office Building
Chinese Dragon parade
Chinese dragon passing posters for shows by Little Egypt, La Belle Fatima at unknown location. Reference to 'Seely Dinner' in poster at left refers to a notorious New York dinner (actually 'Seeley Dinner') in December, 1896 at which Little Egypt performed and subsequent legal proceedings.
Centennial, clipper ship
Full-rigged sailing ship, moored at a pier along the waterfront.
Henri Gouraud
On the left is French General Henri Gouraud, who was in San Francisco in July 1923. He arrived on July 25th, on a national tour occasioned by the reunion, in Indiana, of the 'Rainbow Division', the 42nd Infantry Division which had fought with him in World War 1. The general lost his right arm in battle in 1915. The other officer in the car appears to be American, but unidentified. General Gouraud's party left for Yosemite that same evening.
Ocean View District
Mother and child selling vegetables next to automobile.
Fire Trucks in the Rain
Pillar marking neighborhood entrance in foreground
Ocean Shore Railroad
Boxcar with 5 men on top next to large building. In front are 9 trucks with many men standing on the truck beds.