Souvenir of San Francisco, California : the "Queen City."

LIGHT HOUSE. GOLDEN GATE.

tbc "Queer? city.

SEALS ON SEAL ROCKS

PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED (1914) BY

The Pacific Novelty Co., of
San Francisco.

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FERRY BUILDING

THIS building is a landmark and a seamark as
well, for here rail and tide meet. To the
millions of people who yearly pass through its
portals it is the connecting link between home and
abroad.

It is a comely building- and is a joy to the eye of
the returned traveler. Here are housed many ^state
and national commissioners and an interesting state
exhibit of products and possibilities.

The building is of Colusa sandstone wainscoted
with marble, and was completed in 1896 at a cost of
a million dollars.

FERRY BUILDING.

THE WATER FRONT, APPROACH TO FERRY

AX KKAXCISCO from the water front shows

a varying sky line of the city, accentuated by the

tall buildings of the business section. Telegraph
Mill is picturesque with the homes of the Italian
quarters. On Nob Hill the palatial Fairmont Hotel
gleams in white stone as a conspicuous landmark. The
magnificent Ferry Building in the foreground was
erected in 1896 at a cost of one million dollars. Over
fifty thousand people cross the bay on ferryboats in
both directions daily.

FROM THE BAY

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF CITY, LOOKING
TOWARDS FERRY AND BAY

THE San Francisco of to-day is built Up solidly
from the Ferry Building to the Twin Peaks on
Market Street, and the tunneling of this hill
opens a new section of the city.

The section from the Palace Hotel to the Ferry
Building is devoted to wholesale establishments and
loft buildings, while the section on the other side <>t
the Palace Hotel is largely massive office buildings
and large retail establishments.

The trans-bay cities, Oakland, Berkeley and
Alameda, are visible in the distance.

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW FROM CALL BUILDING

THIS view shows the new City Hall in the back-
ground, with the Auditorium adjoining the
Masonie Temple to the left.
The wedge-shaped building in the foreground is
the Phelan Building, and in the next block is the
Flood Building. The building on the left with the
tall tower is the Humbolt Bank Building.

Market Street is the one to the left, and O'Farrell
street is on the right. Here is the center of the
retail district.

MARKET STREET, LOOKING TOWARDS
THE FERRY

MARKET STREET, the Broadway of San
Francisco, the principal retail business street
of the city. The lofty buildings make it a
canyon of shade on one side and sunshine on the
other, swarming with the gay throng of strollers,
shoppers and business men. The street is a-whir with
cars and automobiles, the whole a panorama of life
and energy. By night the electric displays that rival
Broadway emphasize the scenes.

MARKET STREET, LOOKING TOWARDS THE FERRY.

FLOWER VENDERS, KEARNEY AND
MARKET STREETS

ON Kearney Street, at its junction with Market,
are the stands and baskets of the flower vend-
ers, who day after day the whole year around
keep the corner gay and fragrant with blossoms.

During the violet season trays heaped with the
flowers are found on ever}- corner, but the other
flowers, including roses, carnations, poppies and sweet
peas, are sold in front of the Chronicle Building.

FLOWER VENDERS, KEARNEY AND MARKET STREET.

PALACE HOTEL

THE PALACE to-day is the newest of the three
large hotels in the city. The original Palace
was the oldest and its fame the broadest spread.
From coast to coast, through the Orient and the
Occident, the name "Palace" of San Francisco is a
by-word.

For forty years this hostelry has been associated
with the traditions and progress of the city, and is
to-day close to the banking, theatrical and retail
center.

MARKET STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM
POWELL STREET

MARKET STREET is the main artery of San
Francisco, and leads southwest from the
ferries through the heart of the city.
The street is one hundred and twenty feet in
width and is bordered with massive modern buildings
from the ferry to Twin Peaks, where it is proposed
to build a tunnel to connect with the outlying district.

Market Street is the "Great White Way" of San
Francisco,

MARKET STREET LOOKING EAST FROM POWELL STREET.

FAIRMONT HOTEL

CROWNING Nob Bill, one of the highest points
in this city of hills, is the Fairmont Hotel. The
hotel occupies an entire city block and over-
looks the city, bay, trans-bay cities and mountains.

The location is but a step from the center of the
shopping district, yet away from the dust and noise
of the busy downtown streets.

The building was erected by the daughters of
the late James Fair and given the family name. It is
elegant, refined, dignified and in all fireproof.

STREET SCENE IN CHINATOWN

AMONG the attractions of cosmopolitan San
Francisco, none compares in uniqueness with
this quaint Oriental section.
This community vies with China itself in the life,
color and glamor. Chinatown is a hit of Oriental life
transplanted to America. All the effects that made
the old Chinatown, prior to 1906, famous still exist
and have been accentuated. Here was the first section
of San Francisco to rebuild after the fire, and repre-
sented many millions of dollars.

The interiors and structural portions of the
buildings are modernized American, but the exteriors
still retain their splendor of balconies, balustrades and
pagoda-like roofs, so typical of Chinese architecture.

STREET SCENE IN CHINATOWN.

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, UNION SQUARE

THE St. Francis is one of the three large hotels
in the city. The location is central with the
open space and charming outlook afforded by
Union Square.

The walls alone of the former building remained
alter the lire, and the interior has been entirely
rebuilt and a wing added to cover the block,

The structure is of sandstone and steel and the
interior decorations are the most elaborate of any
hotel in the West. The present hotel contains one
thousand guest rooms and suites.

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, UNION SQUARE.

THE CITY HALL

WITH a great public demonstration of opti-
mism, San Francisco decided to issue
$8,800,000 of bonds to build a new City Hall
and provide lands for a civic center.

The City Hall will cost $4,000,000, and will be
the most imposing structure of its kind anywhere.

The group surrounding the civic center will
include an Auditorium, State Building, Opera House,
Public Library and Museum of Art.

THE CITY HALL.

POSTOFFICE AND FEDERAL BUILDING

ON Seventh Street, between Market and Mission
Streets, is located the beautiful United States
Postoffice Building, which also bouses the
United States Courts.

The building, including the grounds, cost
S3, 000,000, and is one of the handsomest Federal
Buildings in the United States.

It is constructed of white granite, and the interior
is embellished with a great variety of costly marbles,
choice woods, mosaics and finely wrought stucco and
metal work.

UNITED STATES MINT

THIS mint is the second in size in the United
States. In addition to turning out money for
the United States, and for other American
countries, such as Salvador, the San Francisco mint
coins money for the Philippines.

During the recent great fire the building was sur-
rounded by flames, but escaped practically without
injury, due to the valiant efforts of the employees and
others.

The record coinage here was fifty-two million
dollars in fifty da vs.

UNITED STATES MINT.

MISSION DOLORES, 1776

THIS Mission stands on Dolores Street, near
Sixteenth Street.

The Mission was the sixth Mission estab-
lished in California under the direction of Father
Junipero Serra. A temporary church was erected in
1776, which was replaced by the present structure in
1782.

The building was built entirely by Indian labor,
under the supervision of the Padres, and the thorough-
ness of their work preserved it from earthquake and
fire to the present day.

MISSION DOLORES. 1776,

CLIFF HOUSE AND SEAL ROCKS FROM
THE BEACH

THE Cliff Mouse is an objective viewpoint for all
tourists. Here royalty meets the plebeian in an
appreciation of the view over the broad Pacific.
The Cliff House is built on a high cliff overlook-
ing the entrance to the Golden Gate. The breakers
at high tide dash against the superstructure. The
present building is of concrete and was erected in
1909 to replace the one destroyed by fire in 1907. The
first building was completed in 1861, the second in
1863 and the third in 1897

Here is the outing ground for all the Bay country.
Immediately adjoining are the Sutro Baths and a
beautiful beach stretches for miles to the south.

CLIFF HOUSE AND SEAL ROCKS FROM BEACH.

CLIFF HOUSE AND SEAL ROCKS FROM
BOULEVARD

LOOKING down upon the Cliff House and Seal
Rocks gives one a delightful perspective, with
the boulevard extending along the beach to the
south and the Cliff House in the immediate fore-
ground. At the right are located the Sutro Baths
housed in an immense structure covered with glass.

Across the entrance to Golden Gate are seen the
Marin County hills, and at your back are the beautiful
Sutro Gardens.

CLIFF HOUSE AND SEAL ROCKS FROM BOULEVARD.

CLIFF HOUSE AND SEAL ROCKS FROM
BOULEVARD

OOKING down upon the Cliff House and Seal

Rocks gives one a delightful perspective, with

the boulevard extending along the beach to the
south and the Cliff House in the immediate fore-
ground. At the right are located the Sutro Baths
housed in an immense structure covered with glass.

Across the entrance to Golden Gate are seen the
Marin County hills, and at your back are the beautiful
Sutro Gardens.

OCEAN BOULEVARD AND BATHING BEACH FROM CLIFF HOUSE.

THE PARAPET, SUTRO HEIGHTS

THE Parapet of Sutro Heights is located imme-
diately back of the cliff on an eminence over-
looking the grand old Pacific to the westward,
the Golden Gate to the north and a beautiful boule-
vard and beach to the south.

It is a panorama of which one never tires, with
the Cliff House and Seal Rocks at his feet and
surrounded by beautiful statuary and luxuriant
verdure.

These grounds were the private gardens of Adolf
Sutro, but have always been open to the public.

THE PARAPET, SUTRO HEIGHTS.

CONSERVATORY IN WINTER, GOLDEN
GATE PARK

THIS building houses some of the rarest plants
known, and in the central rotunda are palms,
tree ferns, papyrus, black pepper vines, and
many other curious shrubs and vines.

In the wings are ferns of many varieties, bego-
nias, hibiscus, orchids, the holy ghost flower, the bird
of paradise flower and others equally as curious and
beautiful. Adjoining the building are the beds of cacti
and century plants, and beautiful flower beds border
tlie lawns in front, and these plantings are, many of
them, symbolic of the conventions San Francisco
entertains from time to time.

CONSERVATORY IN WINTER. GOLDEN GATE PARK.

PORTALS OF THE PAST,
GOLDEN GATE PARK

»*

OLLOWING the devastating fire in 1 ( XX>, many

■ ^ pathetic incidents occurred. Homes were de-
vastated without a vestige to indicate their past,
and others withstood the scourge without a mark.

The home of A. N. Towne, a wealthy banker, was
entirely destroyed except the marble entrance portals,
which remained a watchful guardian over the debris.

These portals were so typical and expressive thai
they were removed and re-erected in Golden Gate
Park as the "Portals of the Past."

JAPANESE TEA GARDEN, GOLDEN
GATE PARK

THE Japanese Tea Garden is a fairyland of
picturesque beauty. Passing through a Jap-
anese gateway, the visitor steps at once into a
bit of old Japan.

On one hand is a real Japanese house, with
matted floors and sliding partitions, and on the other
a stream bordered with dwarf shrubbery and crossed
by a high bridge and tiny foot bridges of stepping
stones.

Everywhere are the flowers of Japan following
each other in season. Tea is served here daily by a
Japanese family in truly Oriental fashion.

JAPANESE TEA GARDEN, GOLDEN GATE PARK.

MUSIC STAND AND ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
MUSEUM, GOLDEN GATE PARK

THE Temple of Music is one of the most formal
structures in Golden Gate Park and is the gift
of Claus Spreckels, the sugar king.
The band-stand will house one hundred musicians,
and the terraced grounds in the valley will seat twenty
thousand. The covering of the auditorium is a nat-
ural grove of trees, with seats beneath where one may
sit and listen to the concerts in this great natural
auditorium.

Concerts are held here Sundays and holidays and
are always well attended.

STONE BRIDGE AT STOW LAKE,
GOLDEN GATE PARK

HIS beautiful lake was named for W. W. Stow,
who conceived the idea and interested Collis P.

Huntington in the plan. The lake encircles
Strawberry Hill, down one side of which pours the
Huntington Falls.

Stow Lake is bordered by a roadway on its inner
and outer edges and is crossed by two bridges. The
lake is large enough for boating, and black and white
swan and other waterfowl abound.

STONE BRIDGE AT STOW LAKE, GOLDEN GATE PARK.

THE MUSEUM, GOLDEN GATE PARK

THE Museum Building* is a memorial of the
Midwinter Fair of 1894, and houses many of
the interesting* exhibits that remained from that
event. These have been added to from time to time
until to-day the building* is overcrowded with a most
interesting* and valuable collection.

The specimens number about 95,000 and consist
of Colonial relics, early days of California, Indian
remains, an Indian basket collection and bead work,
South Sea Island specimens, Egyptian, Chinese and
Japanese curios, etc. One room is devoted entirely
to local artists and a large number of paintings by
renowned artists.

THE MUSEUM. GOLDEN GATE PARK.

CACTUS GARDEN IN GOLDEN GATE PARK
WITH THE AFFILIATED COLLEGES
IN THE DISTANCE

THE Affiliated Colleges comprise the Medical,
Dental and Pharmaceutical Departments of the
University of California. The other colleges of
this University are located at Berkeley, a suburb of
San Francisco. Here is held every year the largest
summer school in the country.

WESTERN ENTRANCE TO GOLDEN GATE

PARK

^ OLDEN GATE PARK extends from the eastern

VJ boundary, near the centre of the city, three and
one-half miles to the western border and Ocean
Beach, south of the Cliff House. At the western
entrance is situated the United States Life Saving
Station and picturesque Dutch Windmills, which add
much to the beauty of the landscape. These Wind-
mills are used for pumping a water supply into the
lakes and for irrigation purposes in Golden Gate Park.

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO BAY

4 LCATRAZ is the small island with the rugged

j \ outline which one notes on entering Golden
Gate. It is the property of the United States
Government and is used as a military prison.

A lighthouse with an exceptionally powerful light
is located on the west end of the island. The light
is visible twenty miles at sea. A fog bell is also a
part of the equipment.

The island takes its name from the pelicans
(aleatraces), which formerly frequented it in myriads.

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO BAY.

FORT WINFIELD SCOTT, FORT POINT,
ENTRANCE TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY

ORT WINFIELD SCOTT is the old red brick

Fort located on Fort Point, and is the most con-

spicuous landmark to vessels entering the
harbor.

Work was begun on the fort in 1854, and since
its completion it has stood sentinel day and night over
the Golden Gate. Its squared and forbidding port-
holes are always read}', but never used.

The Federal Government has prepared the build-
ing for use as a Federal Prison.

FORT WINFIELD SCOTT. FORT POINT, ENTRANCE TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY.

GOLDEN GATE AT SUNSET

THE straits between the northern and southern
peninsulas which enclose San Francisco Bay are
known as the Golden Gate. These straits are
five miles in length and a mile in width at the nar-
rowest point.

The name originated with General Fremont, who
describes it in his memoirs in 1848. The golden
setting sun lends much to the appellation, as did the
fact that this is the entrance to the Golden West
of '49.

Through this gate passes much of the Oriental
travel of the West, and more shipping passes than the
combined ports of the Pacific Coast of America.

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