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View east on unpaved States Street near Gray Brothers Brick Factory and quarry (site of tennis courts in 2020) on unpaved States Street. Some of the houses at right still stand. 155 States is first house at right. [dpwbook3 dpw496]
Corona Heights
View south on De Haro near 15th. Potrero Hill in background. The 204 foot Incinerator, built 1897, at left was demolished in 1933. pile driver, sewer work, [dpwbook2 dpw710] DUPLICATE of wnp36.00040
Showplace Square
View southeast to Beale Bridge Viaduct at Harrison under construction [dpwbook4 dpw570] Smokestack and water tank of Hobbs, Wall & Co. Box Factory at right. 219-21, 223 Harrison on Rincon Hill at left.
Rincon Hill
PPIE Proposed Site. View west to Fair site from Larkin St. [dpwbook4 dpw596] Cow Hollow; looking west from Larkin near Chestnut on Russian Hill. San Francisco Gas Works. Ferry Bros. Hay & Grain, 2955 Van Ness near Francisco at center. Houses on bottom right on Culebra Terrace still stand 2022. John Sievers & Co. greenhouses at lower left. Presidio, Marin Headlands, Golden Gate in distance.
Russian Hill
View northwest to businesses on north side of Otis St.: E.B. & A.L. Stone Company (cement, rock, gravel, sand), Michel & Pfeffer Iron Works 42 Otis, A.F. Woodside & Sons Horseshoers 46 Otis, Balkan Trunk and Suit Case Co. 70 Otis, Pacific Telephone building. [dpwbook4 dpw654]
South of Market
View south on Beale to almost-completed Beale Bridge viaduct at Harrison. Hobbs, Wall & Co. Box Factory, Beale & Bryant, background. [dpwbook4 dpw1261]
Rincon Hill
Elevated view south from Hotel Whitcomb (which at that time served as City Hall), showing extensive residential and industrial development in this area south of Market. Mission Street at bottom and 8th St. at left. Buildings on Minna St., behind undeveloped land along Mission, still stand in 2021. Bottom left, the Argo Hotel 1203 Mission, Barr Bros. Barrel House 136 8th St. at Minna St. corner. Potrero Hill in background. [View South from City Hall dpwbook5 dpw1473]
South of Market
View northeast to Clarendon Heights Tank. Mt. Olympus (with Triumph of Light statue), Buena Vista Park, Corona Heights with Gray Bros. brick factory. [Gen View Clarendon Heights Tank (Tank Hill) Buena Vista Park, Corona Heights dpwbook6 dpw1589]
Clarendon Heights
Islais Creek Incinerator operational and spewing ash [dpwbook9 dpw1986]
Produce Market
Elevated View southwest at the intersection of Sansome and Chestnut below Telegraph Hill Panorama with 2099. Merchants Ice and Cold Storage Co., Saloon, North Point Dock Warehouse, Albers Bros. Milling Co, boxcar on railroad siding. [dpwbook10 dpw2098]
Telegraph Hill
Sansome below Telegraph Hill [dpwbook10 dpw2099] Panorama with dpw2098. Albers Bros. Milling Co. Western Pacific Railway freight office.
Northern Waterfront
Elevated view northwest toward Potrero Hill, bay from Bernal Heights. Islais Creek incinerator in background left. [Islais Creek E from Hill] [dpwbook11 dpw2272] looking north to Potrero Hill
Bernal Heights
View north from top of Ferry Building along the waterfront. [dpwbook11 dpw2277] Embarcadero piers. Three Sacramento riverboats are tied up closest to the camera between today's piers 1 and 3. Alcatraz in distance.
Financial District
Lombard between Mason & Powell. North Beach Playground, elevated view north from slide to swings, pool and bathing pavilion. Bauer-Schweitzer Hop and Malt factory complex, large gas storage tank at foot of Powell St. in background right. [dpwbook13 dpw2551]
North Beach
View west on Francisco between Stockton and Powell. In distance, Bauer-Schweitzer Hop and Malt factory, designated San Francisco Landmark #129 and converted to housing in the early 2000's. [dpwbook13 dpw2692]
North Beach