Downtown Scenes Early 20th Century

Unfinished History

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Mission Street at 1st, c. 1910.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection

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First Street looking south from Market, c. 1928.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

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Sansome and Market streetcar crash, c. 1929.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection

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Southeast view across Market from Battery, looking down First Street, November 10, 1936.

Photo: SFDPW, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

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New Montgomery south from Market Street, November 10, 1936.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection

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Geary Blvd. looking weset at Grant, Union Square and St. Francis Hotel visible in distance, c. 1929.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy Charles Ruiz collection

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Streetcar Number 6 has gone off the rails on Market near Powell, c. 1940.

Photo: Charles Ruiz collection