View from Twin Peaks
View northeast from Twin Peaks Boulevard, Market Street at center.
Upper MarketBay
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18th near Iowa
View east on 18th Street overpass from Iowa Street to approaching Municipal Railway (Muni) 22-line streetcar #876 with zip stripe livery. The I-280 Freeway now passes through this site, and this bridge was replaced by the current overpass. The warehouses on both sides of the opposite end of the bridge were demolished in 2017.
Potrero Hill
Fort Point
Fort Point viewed from hill south of fort. Construction materials, water flume, lighthouse keeper's house. Steamer heading out Golden Gate. Marin Headlands in distance. [982. Fort Point and Golden Gate, San Francisco, Cal.]
Presidio
Oakland Mole
View of Oakland Mole ferry slip taken from a departing ferryboat. [Oakland Ferry Landing]
Outside SF
Washington & Laurel
View north from Presidio Heights toward the Presidio and Tennessee Hollow. Main Post at left, Marin Headlands in the distance. Large duplex home at Washington and Laurel, (built 1896 for Mercantile Bank President John D. McKee, demolished 1957) in the foreground.
Presidio Heights
Southern Embarcadero
Elevated view north from Pier 46 towards Pier 44 near Berry Street. Ferry Building , U.S. Marine Hospital, Sherman Clay Warehouse in the distance at left. First two piers (Piers 44 and 42) no longer exist, now this is South Beach Harbor. Yerba Buena Island at right.
South Beach
View from Buena Vista Park
View northeast from Buena Vista Park. City Hall under construction.
Buena Vista
Lyman Stewart, Shipwreck
Shipwreck of tanker SS Lyman Stewart at Lands End, viewed looking north from streetcar right-of-way. Mile Rocks lighthouse and Marin Headlands in distance. Wrecked October 7, 1922. (Note graffiti painted on hull for Ku Klux Klan)
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Hunters Point
Distant view of dry-docks and powerhouse at Hunters Point. This entire area became part of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, and all buildings in this view except for the powerhouse were demolished afterwards.
Hunters Point
View W from Telegraph Hill
View towards Golden Gate from Coit Tower. North Beach in foreground. Aquatic Park and Fort Mason at Center. [North Beach & GG Bridge from Coit Tower, circa 1945]
Telegraph Hill
Ferry Slips
View from Ferry Building slips of bay, ferry boats, and San Francisco Bay Bridge
Ferry Slips
View from Ferry Building slips of bay, ferry boats, and San Francisco Bay Bridge
Russian Displaced Persons
Pier 7, USS General Haan Arrives with Russian Displaced Persons, over 1100 displaced persons were brought to SF from Shanghai by way of the Philippines. Col. Pavel A. Savich and Mrs. Sophie Zabeaken with dog, Sandy (8 yrs). On board ship, with Alcatraz in distance.
Northern Waterfront
View from Golden Gateway
Elevated view north from Golden Gateway high-rise toward Telegraph Hill, Angel Island in background. Intersection of Front and Pacific in foreground, Columbo Arch in the future Sydney Walton Square. Buildings on the right facing Broadway were demolished for the Embarcadero Square development. Embarcadero Freeway Broadway ramps, National Ice and Cold Storage Co
Northern Waterfront
Bay Bridge
Blurry view east toward Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island. Ferry boat and US Navy aircraft carrier USS Sartoga at center. (Saratoga featured a broad vertical stripe down her 'island' to avoid confusion with her twin ship, USS Lexington, which had a horizontal stripe.)