View NW from Telegraph Hill
View northwest to Meiggs' Wharf, Alcatraz in right background.
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Contains 291 photos
Nob Hill
Elevated view north, up Taylor Street. Second Congregational Church, later known as Plymouth Church, at center. Nob Hill in background. Cropped version of Lawrence & Houseworth No. 146 'San Francisco from cor. Market and Sixth Sts., Looking North to corner California and Taylor streets.'
Tenderloin
Starr King grave
Thomas Starr King grave, on grounds of First Unitarian Church, Geary near Union Square. [SC31]
Downtown / Union Square
1st & Harrison
View north from 1st and Harrison showing Selby Shot Tower (1st & Howard) at center. Jobson's Observatory on Russian Hill (1861-1869) is faintly visible in the distance left. Watkins title 'First Street, from Rincon Hill.' [SC36 ]
Rincon Hill
Union near Jones
View from Russian Hill looking east on Union Street toward Telegraph Hill [Layman's Castle, German castle at top left]
Russian Hill
Forest Hill
View northwest to Pacheco Stairway
Forest Hill
Visitacion Valley
View north from Daly City from Rio Verde at Martin to McLaren Park and Bayview Hill
Outside SF
Midtown Terrace
View north from Twin Peaks Boulevard across Midtown Terrace toward Mount Sutro, Sutro Mansion ('Sutro Castle') and firs Sutro Radio TV transmission tower. Aquavista Way in foreground.
Midtown Terrace
Second & Harrison
[682-San Francisco from Rincon Hill] View west. Caption on Lone Mountain College Collection print is: 'The Mission Hills From Harrison St.' Twin peaks and nearby hills faintly in the background.
South of Market
South Van Ness near 17th
View southeast to east side of Howard (S. Van Ness) at earthquake damaged houses (Drunken Houses), Wagons in the street.
Mission
Polk & Broadway
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). Duplicate of wnp26.538.
Polk Gulch
Polk & Sutter
Elevated view northeast to Pacific Commercial Company wood and coal yard, successor to D. A. & J. McKinley, 1212 Polk Street in 1875. Two matching flat-front Italianate Victorian homes. Wooden plank sidewalks.
Lower Nob Hill
View from Pacific Heights
View northeast from about Lyon & Broadway. Harbor View, future site of Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). House in foreground left, near Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect.
Pacific Heights
Lombard near Broderick
Elevated view west on Lombard toward Baker. Presidio Gate in distance. [Lombard W. of Baker 3pm] [DPW A3665]
Cow Hollow
Franklin near California
Left to right, Charles S. Howard, president of Howard Automobile Company in a circa 1910 Buick 60 Special, known as the "Buick Bug", and his sons Charles S. Howard Jr. and Lindsay C. (Lynn) Howard in Howard Specials.
Pacific Heights