Contains 515 photos
[TEH69 View from Rincon Hill 1867. V-109] View northeast to Telegraph Hill and waterfront. Selby Shot Tower at center. Houses on north side of Folsom, between 1st and Essex. Duplicate from stereo card at WNP37.00646-R [G810 V-109] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Rincon Hill
View west to water hoses trained on smoke from burning barge. C.E. Grosjean Rice Milling Company, 1875 Marin St. (at Evans), in the background [Barge - Islais Creek] (folder: Fire, Small Craft)
Central Waterfront
View northeast along waterfront toward the Marine Hospital (later Sailor's Home)at Main & Harrison on Rincon Point. Same as wnp37.02914-R, different cropping. [TEH243. U.S. Marine Hospital 1867] [G57 SHOS-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South Beach
View northeast from near 2nd and Townsend towards Rincon Point and Yerba Buena Island. Shipyard with schooners under construction in foreground. Probably taken at same time as wnp27.6096. Society of California Pioneers holds image with title 'U.S. Marine Hospital and Goat Island, From Steamboat Point, San Francisco.' #271 [G57 SWA-008](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[TEH235 Goat Island & US Marine Hospital from Steam Boat Point 1865]
South Beach
Pacific Rolling Mills, looking northeast from 25th Street and Illinois. The tall building in the center of the photo was located on the north side of 23rd Street between the present-day former PG&E Station A structure and the Potrero Power Plant, and was demolished in the 1990s. Lots of smoke from the chimneys. Warm Water Cove at center, note the small boat.
Central Waterfront
View north to downtown past remnant of Rincon Hill, Schilling Co. Building. [C-1023]
South of Market
View north past houses on Telegraph Hill. F. Iacopi & Co. hay and grain; Sterling Laundry wagon; Bemis Bros. Bag Co. warehouse. [C-1009]
North Beach
View northwest over northern waterfront, sailing vessels, Belvedere, Alcatraz and Angel Island, remnants of Meiggs' Wharf in center next to long pier sheds built on Sea Wall. (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Alcatraz Island S.F. 1890 A-2] [F810 A-002]
Telegraph Hill
View east. A 2017 archaeological survey done in connection with the creation of India Basin Shoreline Park suggests that this was an active ship salvage area, and that the pictured ships are the Arrow, an ark houseboat, and the Modoc. Their remains are possibly now under the Park. [Lexington carrier at Hunters Point. Modoc & Apache Riverboats at boneyard BO-30] [F810 BO-030] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
India Basin
[61 Black Point & Alcatraz 1880] View northeast over Cow Hollow towards modern Fort Mason and Alcatraz. Fontana Warehouse at right. Pacific Stone Company (long building, center) [F810 BP-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Pacific Heights
View north past large building with "Boat Building by Martin Vice" on side to Alcatraz Island in the distance, boatyard in foreground. Alcatraz & Angel Islands. Watkins no. 286, alternate version of wnp 37.00754. 'Alcatraz from North Point' [North Point corner Montgomery Ave. & Chestnut St. 1864 (sic) NP-1]'F810 NP-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Northern Waterfront
A view east toward the ungraded intersection of Kearny and Francisco on the north slope of Telegraph Hill, Samuel Spears Saloon listed in the 1867 city directory, identified in handwriting. Eureka Warehouse. Title on Watkins stereoview No. 319 "View from North Point (East), San Francisco" [Eureka Dock, North Point 1864][ NP-4][F810 NP-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Telegraph Hill
[8th & Harrison 1865, Gordon's Sugar House, Pacific Refinery OF-23 Very Rare TEH355] View northeast across Harrison near 8th. The San Francisco & Pacific Sugar Company Refinery, (northwest corner of 8th and Harrison). D. Hewes Steam Paddy Works. Line of men posing, three with surveying equipment. Train cars filled with sand on right, drawn by small locomotive. Empty cars on left being filled from dunes by steam shovel. [F810 OF-023] Duplicate of WNP37.02114 & WNP26.519 (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
Panorama view from summit of Rincon Hill south of Harrison between 1st and 2nd Streets, part 6. Sailing ships at dock in distance. St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Church at left on the northeast corner of Harrison & Fremont. Sailor's Home (former U.S. Marine Hospital) at right. [F810 PAN-008f] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Rincon Hill
View northeasst to fishing boats moored in boat basin. Freighter 'Philippine Bear' tied up at Pier 45 in background. The ship had been built as a U.S. Navy freighter, USS Townsend, 19 1944, but was decommissioned and sold to Pacific Far East Lines in September, 1947 and renamed SS Philippine Bear.
Fishermans Wharf