View from Twin Peaks
View of the City from Twin Peaks [DPW A2611]
DowntownContains 4536 photos
View of the City from Twin Peaks [DPW A2611]
Downtown
Pioneer Park on Telegraph Hill, Parking Lot. Looking north towards Bay, Alcatraz and Angel Island. [DPW A125]
Telegraph Hill
Elevated view north from top of the Hewes Building to Nob Hill. Taylor St. at left. Mark Hopkins Hotel opened December, 1926. [DPW A627]
South of Market
Elevated view east from Market and California. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building, Lincoln Hotel (115 Market), Lincoln Tailoring Co., C.C. Morse & Co. seeds. Horses drinking from trough at lower left. [7114 6-23-21] [DPW 7114]
Downtown
Elevated view west down Market Street from the Ferry Building tower. [DPW A5949], Pacific Telephone Building , Southern Pacific Building on left, Fisk Building with Mobilgas sign atop Fife Bulding, Shell Building, Standard Oil Building, Mills Tower, Russ Building, 57 Sign on right.
Downtown
looking east from 6th and Market, Mechanics Bank Building, Russ Building, Flood Building, Hunter Dulin Building, Hobart Building, Call Building, Yerba Buena Island, Pacific Telephone Building, Native Sons (Admission Day) Monument [DPW A625]
Downtown
Elevated view northeast toward Market and Taylor World War I Welcome Home Parade, people on rooftops and leaning from windows, including some on parapet of Eastern Outfitting Building. Mechanics Savings Bank and Flood Building on north side of Market in background. Huge "Welcome Home" arch over Market in distance. - [Return of 363 & 347 Regiments][DPW 5952]
Downtown
Elevated view northeast toward Market and Taylor World War I Welcome Home Parade, people on rooftops and leaning from windows, including many on parapet of Eastern Outfitting Building. Mechanics Savings Bank and Flood Building on north side of Market in background. Huge "Welcome Home" arch over Market in distance. - [Return of 363 & 347 Regiments] [DPW 5950]
Downtown
Elevated view south on 3rd Street from Market Street. Ad on Examiner Building for Bay Bridge souvenir edition. Call Building on right with Owl Drug Co. in corner retail space. United Cigar Store, Hotel King with Hotel Doric sign on side, Kane's Log Cabin Dairy Lunch Cafeteria, Aronson Building in center distance, Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) 6 and 15-Line streetcars. [DPW A4957]
Downtown
Taken from the top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, looking East to bay, Yerba Buena Island, Old Federal Reserve Bank, Ferry Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Commercial Union Assurance Bldg.(315 Montgomery) Russ Building under construction, Old Standard Oil Building. [DPW A122]
Downtown
Hyde Street, looking north from Chestnut to Bay. Alcatraz and Angel Island in distance [DPW A3861]
Russian Hill
Inauguration ceremony for Angelo Rossi in Board of Supervisors chamber at City Hall. [Rossi Inaugurated Mayor] [DPW A2832]
Downtown
Van Ness Avenue. Team of 32 Horses passing City Hall construction. [DPW 1181]
Downtown
View southeast across Galvez toward Coleman Street, proposed route of Hunters Point Boulevard. [DPW A7262]
Hunters Point
View north on 3rd Street from Cargo (then Arthur). Market Street Railway (MSRy) 16-line Kearny Streetcar and Islais Creek Bridge. Firehouse 25 is just visible at right. Potrero Hill in the distance at left.[DPW A6488]
Hunters Point