View from Telegraph Hill
People picnicking in Pioneer Park. Nob Hill in background. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels
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Market near Bush
View west across Market to Donahue Mechanics Monument plaza with high-back stone bench, Muni N-Line #75?, buildings on Battery Street (later removed for Crown Zellerbach Building). In background, Standard Oil Building, Mills Building and Mills Tower, Heineman Building. California flags and German Nazi flag strung over Market Street. (German flag hung as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebration and was controversial at the time.) Streetlamp pole decorated with Welcome sign. Selig Bros. Tailors, International Business Machines (IBM), M. Wallenstein & Co.
Financial District
Post near Gough
View east on Post toward Gough. Two of the houses on the left, 1406-1408 Post and 1402-1404 Post, still stand in 2021. Hobart Building visible in the distance.
Cathedral Hill
View from the Bay
Bay Bridge and four ferryboats. Southern Pacific ferry "Santa Clara" at center.
Cliff Line Steam Engine
Narrow gauge locomotive #8 of Ferries & Cliff House Railroad, alongside roundhouse on California St between Locust and Laurel. [1905 CH-25 Behrman] (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
Presidio Heights
Bay Bridge
View from Yerba Buena Island cantilever section. [M720]
Yerba Buena Island
View from Telegraph Hill
View northwest from Telegraph Hill over seawall construction, sheds and infill. [Sea Wall and Meigg's (Meiggs') Wharf. Bay and Alcatraz Island looking NW from Telegraph Hill] Embarcadero.
Telegraph Hill
Sansome & Pine
The storefront of Neustadter Brothers, men's furnishings, at 133-135 Sansome Street. It was in Fair's Building, built in 1881-1882. (WMK)
Financial District
Cliff House
Tour Coach in front of Old Garages at Point Lobos Ave.
Sutro Heights
Cliff House
Tour Coach in front of Old Garages at Point Lobos Ave.
Sutro Heights
3rd Cliff House
View northwest to south facade of third Cliff House. Dirty drapes, forlorn looking, just prior to remodeling by Whitneys. Observatory visible at far left. Cliff House Coffee Shop on lower level. (Also SFPL photo AAC-0184) (Print is dated 1937-01-02 but likely taken in 1936 prior to purchase and renovations but Whitney Bros.)
Sutro Heights
Ocean Beach
View north to Cliff House and Sutro Heights. Crowds of people on the beach.
Sutro Heights
Great Highway
View south to Ocean Beach, Olympic Pier, Chutes at the Beach. Autos and crowds of people.
Sutro Heights
Lands End
Crowds watching Great White Fleet entering San Francisco Bay. View east towards the Golden Gate. Helmet Rock at center, Lands End promontory at right.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Ocean Beach
View north to the Second Cliff House. Children wading in the water.
Richmond Outer