Landmark

Contains 2516 photos

de Young Museum
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de Young Museum

Golden Gate Park. Employees of the Bank of Italy on front steps of main entrance to museum. Michael deYoung in front with dark suit. (same day as wnp70.10103)

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Music Concourse. Taken from roof of North American Hall of Academy of Sciences, looking northeast over Francis Scott Key Monument in its second location. Automobiles in Golden Gate Park. (duplicate wnp37.03334)

Golden Gate Park
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

Layman's Castle on Telegraph Hill, also called the German Castle and Layman's Folly. Photos shows the building in its first configuration when completed in 1882. The following year it was enlarged.

Telegraph Hill
Oak near Divisadero
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Oak near Divisadero

1153 Oak Street, Sarah Mish House (City Landmark number 62, National Register 79999534) before restoration.

Buena Vista
Oak near Divisadero
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Oak near Divisadero

1153 Oak Street, Sarah Mish House (City Landmark number 62, National Register 79999534) after restoration.

Buena Vista
California near Powell
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California near Powell

Elevated view west on California between Powell and Mason. California Street Cable Cars (dummy and trailer), Flood Mansion at center, David Porter Mansion (later site of the Fairmont Hotel) at right. Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions at left. (Cropped version of wnp37.00389)

Nob Hill
Market near Montgomery
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Market near Montgomery

Elevated view southwest from center of Market toward Montgomery and New Montgomery. Grand Hotel (with Hall's Safe & Lock Works 609-611 Market and Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Freight and Ticket Office 613 Market) and Palace Hotel at left, Crocker Building at right, Call Building and Chronicle Building in the distance. Castro Street cable car #102 at center. [No. 680 Market St. from Montgomery St. west]

Financial District
California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

View west on California from across Sansome. Left side Fireman's Fund, Insurance Exchange Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building. On right, Bank of California, two California Street cable cars #23 at center. Dash signs read 'Exposition via Hyde and Union'

Financial District
California near Kearny
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California near Kearny

Elevated view west toward Nob Hill from a building on California St. between Kearny and Montgomery. California Street at center, Old Saint Mary's Church, Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brockelbank Apartments in background. Pine Street wing of Metropolitan Life Insurance Building under construction. [California Street Hill Piggott Photo]

Financial District
Market & Geary
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Market & Geary

Elevated view southeast on Market from the intersection of Kearny and Geary. Lotta's Fountain in foreground. Chronicle Building with clock above entrance, Palace Hotel (with Schwabacher Co. in corner retail space), Metropolis Bank Building with United Bank sign atop, Santa Fe building/West Coast Life Insurance, Balboa Building, Underwood Building, PG&E, Matson Lines and Ferry Buildings in distance. [South side of Market showing Palace Hotel 68]

Downtown / Union Square
First Cliff House
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First Cliff House

VIew north from Ocean Beach toward Seal Rocks and 1st Cliff House. Cliff Road (today's Point Lobos Ave) at right.

Sutro Heights
Market & Jones
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Market & Jones

Elevated view looking northeast from 7th St & Market. Jones Street Shuttle cable car, (Jones Street Dinky), Prager's Department Store (Murphy Building) at center. [Market and Jones Streets, March 6, 1905]

South of Market
Nob Hill ruins
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Nob Hill ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast from Jones between Clay and Washington. Ruins of Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion at right. Ferry Building in distance at left.

Nob Hill
St. Mary's Square
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St. Mary's Square

View north in St. Mary's Square toward Old St. Mary's Church. Ceremony for Sun Yat Sen's birthday. [In a ceremony at the foot of the statue of Sun Yat Sen members of San Francisco's Chinese colony bow in honor of his birthday. Among those attending the ceremony was Tse Kiong Sun, grandson of Sun Yat Sen.]

Chinatown
Embarcadero Aerial
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Embarcadero Aerial

Aerial view west over the Embarcadero, south of the Ferry Building toward south of Market, Downtown and extending to the Pacific Ocean. Geary street at center. Embarcadero Freeway and piers south of the Ferry Building in the foreground.