Contains 1129 photos
Elevated view southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Church (1864-1897) at Van Ness and Broadway. Lafayette Park at background left. Large house with Mansard roof and rear tower left of Center is William C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect, built 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin, demolished 1931).
Polk Gulch
View northwest toward Cow Hollow. Intersection of Pierce and Broadway at bottom. House at 2502 Broadway still standing. Henry Casebolt House (SF Landmark, built 1865) behind white fence past Vallejo St. on Pierce. Small church beyond Casebolt House 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. Large mansion at southwest corner of Pierce and Union was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Four story windmill and water tank across Union. Bay and Presidio tidal slough in distance.
Pacific Heights
View north from Fulton between 1st and 4th Ave. Fulton Street Cable car in foreground. First Star of the Sea Church (1888–1918) in left background beyond grandstand.
Richmond Inner
View up Powell St. from corner of Union Square to Nob Hill from nw corner of Union Square. Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford residences in distance. Trinity Church at right. Very similar image to wnp37.00985.
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast to Lone Mountain, Bay District Race Track, Golden Gate Park. Star of the Sea Church (built 1888) on right.
Richmond Inner
Mission Dolores and original one-story Spanish adobe wing.
Mission Dolores
View West on Oakdale toward Phelps. 'Haley & O'Neill Homestead', South San Francisco M.E. Church on left
Bayview
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Ric's Scrapbook] St. Dominic's Church ruins at Bush and Steiner. Taken after April 18, 1906 earthquake and before May 14, 1906, when south tower was pulled down. [SC8]
Lower Pacific Heights
View northwest across Van Ness to Saint Ignatius Church and College. Present site of Davies Symphony Hall.[SC44 ] [St. Ignatius 128] Wooden sidewalks.
Civic Center
Elevated view northwest across Dolores St. to group of women dressed in white carrying a floral bell past Mission Dolores for Portola Festival, Ord Street Collection [SC64]
Mission Dolores
Mission Dolores and Gothic Revival church dedicated February, 1884, with school children and teacher posing for camera. Ord Street Collection [SC64]
Mission Dolores
Student body on the steps of St. Paulus Lutheran Church (destroyed by fire 1995), with bus parked in front. The school purchased the bus in August 1929 (for $2,218). The thinking was it would help increase enrollment if children could be picked up and taken to school. (It worked: enrollment went from less than 30 to 58 for the fall session of 1929). (JH)
Cathedral Hill
Looking north. Old St. Mary's on right.
Chinatown
View west across Dolores St. to funeral procession stopped in front of Mission Dolores. Gothic Revival church at right, damaged in earthquake and fire, is being demolished. [Edgar A Cohen 2579]
Mission Dolores
Chinese woman and child. Old St. Mary's Church in background
Chinatown