View from Twin Peaks
View north from near Christmas Tree Point, Market Street at left center, Castro Hill at right. [Bay Bridge ship clearance 200-218 ft.]
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Clay & Leavenworth
[1320. The Golden Gate, from Clay Street Hill, San Francisco.] View northwest from Nob Hill over future Marina District towards Presidio, Fort Point, Golden Gate and Marin Headlands. St. Brigid Catholic Church (1864) in middle distance center, at Broadway and Van Ness, early houses. Larkin St. Presbyterian Church (Larkin & Pacific, completed 1864) at right.
Nob Hill
View NE from Russian Hill
North Beach, looking East from Russian Hill near Hyde and Lombard. Sailing ships at anchor, Yerba Buena Island in distance. Toland Medical College and Home for the Inebriate in distance center. The octagonal house at the left, one of five in the city, was built in 1859 for Arden Ellis, a laborer, at the NW corner of Lombard and Leavenworth. North Beach in middle distance. Yerba Buena Island in background. [2708. Telegraph Hill and Goat Island] Also published as stereoview card with title '1316. North Beach and Goat Island San Francisco' by John P. Soule.
Russian Hill
Fleet at anchor in bay
[16507 - San Francisco Bay during the Visit of the Pacific Fleet, View from the Call Building, Calif.] Elevated view southeast to U.S. Navy battleships and cruisers of 'Great White Fleet' anchored in the bay. California Ink Co. 33-41 Clementina, Geo. W. Caswell Co. coffee 530 Folsom between 1st and 2nd Sts., Brooklyn Hotel 365-373 1st St. at center. Rincon Hill at right.
South of Market
Troop ship Pennsylvania
[9391 - Transport 'Pennsylvania' Leaving San Francisco with 1,300 Volunteers for Manila.] Troop transport loaded with soldiers of the 51st Iowa Volunteers alongside pier at foot of Pacific Street. Crowd of onlookers in foreground.
Northern Waterfront
Embarcadero
Elevated view southeast across Embarcadero (then East St.) near Ferry Building, Spanish-American War California Volunteers departing for the Philippines. Pier 2 and Pier 4 Coal Bunkers, Harbor Commission Fire House in background. [9306 - 'Our Boys' Leaving San Francisco for Manilla (Sic)] Keystone
Financial District
Bay Bridge Construction
Real Photo postcard view of the towers of the Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island [SF July 1935]
Bay Bridge Construction
Real Photo postcard view of the towers of the Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island [SF July 1935]
Financial District
View northeast from Mills Building. Royal Globe Insurance Building, San Francisco Landmark #160 at far left (1907, Architect Howell & Stokes). Newhall Building with arched windows at left (1910, expanded 1915, Lewis Hobart architect) Exposition Building (demolished) center. Yerba Buena Island and Ferry Building in background.
Financial District
San Bruno Mountain Aerial
View north over San Bruno Mountain toward San Francisco.
Outside SF
View from Twin Peaks
Telephoto view from Twin Peaks across Mission District south of Market and SF Bay, filled with navy ships. Mission High School at center, Seal Stadium and National Guard Armory. [Fleet's in]
Clarendon Heights
Nob Hill
Elevated view southeast from the Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) toward Nob Hill summit. Huntington Park, Pacific-Union Club (Flood Mansion), Fairmont Hotel at center. Brocklebank Apartments, Park Lane Apartments (after 1929 addition of 3 stories, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect), William Sproule Mansion (1907-1967) northeast corner Sproule Lane and Sacramento St. on left. Mark Hopkins Hotel, Shell Building under construction in the distance. Russ Building, 450 Sutter at right. Hunter-Dulin Building (1927) in distance center. to right of center, Morsehead Apartments, 1001 California, on the southwest corner of California and Mason, Hotel Huntington. Grace Cathedral grounds and rectory at lower right. [12848]
Nob Hill
Pierce & Green
View northwest to Pierce between Green and Union, with Presidio, Fort Point, Marin Headlands, tidal slough and Golden Gate in Background, from Fillmore Street. Large corner mansion with gardens front and back was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Four story windmill and water tank on Union. Chapel at left was built in 1887 with funds provided by Stephen S. Smith, deacon of the Plymouth Congregational Church and publisher of the Pacific. In 1895, it became the Pierce Street Congregational Church. Front fence of landmark Casebolt mansion at lower left. Same image as wnp37.00223, different cropping. [367 A View of the Golden Gate from Fillmore Street]
Pacific Heights
View from Coit Tower
View north toward SF Bay, Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf from Coit Tower while under construction, showing scaffolding.
Telegraph Hill
Aquatic Park
The derelict riverboat 'Fort Sutter' beached at east end of Aquatic Park. Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill in the background. View from the Municipal Pier. Entrepreneur Barney Gould purchased the old riverboat and brought it to Aquatic Park in February 1953 with hopes to convert it into a showboat. It was beached at the east end of Aquatic Park near the rowing clubs. The boat was later moved to west end of beach where it burned on May 1, 1959.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason