Ocean House
Ocean House, near north end of Lake Merced in the area of Middlefield and Eucalyptus (burned in 1882). Site of Lowell High School. (Watkins stereoview No. 1707).
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View SE from Nob Hill
From Pine & Powell, probably Stanford Residence. Palace Hotel has been built.
Nob Hill
Market near Kearny
Elevated view southeast across Market to Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel and Nucleus Block building at right, under construction, 3 of its eventual 5 stories completed. Lotta's Fountain at lower left. Horsecar tracks. Poster for Yerba Buena Bitters on fence at right. [Palace Hotel, from Market Street, view East. 3547]
Downtown / Union Square
Unknown Location
Victorian duplex flats with people posing on stairs, brick-fronted building next door. Cable car tracks in the street.
Mechanics Fair
Exhibit. Advertising the Globe Business College.
Sansome & Market
Elevated view north on Sansome. Telegraph Hill in the distance. Cosmopolitan Hotel on the left at Bush St. Corner. Horsecars in distance. Fechheimer, Goodkind & Co. clothiers, 16 & 18 Sansome. Poster for Hallet, Davis & Co. pianos on building on Sutter St. corner at left. [Sansome St, from Market, S.F. 3670]
Financial District
View from Lafayette Park
View northeast from near Lafayette Park. Four story building at left is the Parisian Hotel c.1871 (became Abbotsford House 1876, Broadway between Larkin & Polk). To right, Spring Valley Grammar School (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect 1865-1866), Larkin St. Presbyterian Church (at Pacific, 1864). Russian Hill, large house with dark roof is Rudolph Lawler house, SW corner Green & Leavenworth built 1861. In front of it is J. Shade Duncan house c.1857, to its right with Mansard roof and cupola (NW corner Vallejo & Leavenworth), Jabez Clay house. At lower left with Mansard roof, W.C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin). [San Francisco and Environs from Holliday (Sic) Heights 2470] Similar to wnp37.00819. ("Holladay Heights" 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay).[W
Pacific Heights
First Cliff House
First Cliff House, with additions
Sutro Heights
Bank of California
View northwest across California and Sansome intersection to Bank of California, home of William Chapman Ralston's bank, and buildings on west side of Sansome. Same image as Watkins stereoview 1782.[1782. Bank of California, S.F.]
Financial District
Stockton & California
Horsecar in distance. First Presbyterian Chinese Church past interection with Clay St. in left distance. [Stockton St from California (view north) 2226]
Nob Hill
Portrait of a Chinese Lady
[Chinese Lady. 2458] Seated woman wearing traditional Chinese clothing.
View SE from Nob Hill
[View from California and Powell Streets, S.F.] Possibly from Stanford Residence
Nob Hill
Post & Taylor
NE corner Post and Taylor, Temple Sherith Israel synagogue, built in 1870, Helmering & Plege. Later site of Bohemian Club. Behind the Temple on the right is St. John's Presbyterian Church, built circa 1866. In 1870, the congregation bought the building from St. James' Episcopal Church. Plank sidewalks.
Lower Nob Hill
Taylor & Geary
View north from Geary. On right, at Post and Taylor, Temple Sherith Israel synagogue, built in 1870. In distance center, the residence of attorney Richard Tobin, at the southeast corner of California and Taylor streets (1871). The architects, S. C. Bugbee and Son, also designed the Colton, Crocker, and Stanford mansions nearby. Present site of the Huntington Hotel. Plank sidewalks. Watkins No. 2449.
Tenderloin
Mission Dolores
[1704. Mission Church, Mission Dolores.] View southwest across Dolores St. to Mission Doloers with two-story parish house addition, cemetery, Mansion House at right. Woman poses in street. Cropped from Watkins stereoview image with less image left and right.
Mission Dolores