Military

Contains 459 photos

North Beach Aerial
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North Beach Aerial

View southeast, including Fort Mason, Aquatic Park site and Fontana Warehouse, Ghirardelli factory, North Beach, Russian Hill , Fishermans Wharf, Haslett Warehouse and adjacent Cannery. Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill. Nob Hill and Downtown in distance. [dpwbook30 dpw7287]

North Beach Aerial
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North Beach Aerial

View east, including Fort Mason, Aquatic Park site and Fontana Warehouse, Ghirardelli factory, North Beach, Russian Hill and reservoirs, Fishermans Wharf, Haslett Warehouse and adjacent Cannery. Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill. Downtown in distance. [dpwbook30 dpw7288]

North Beach Aerial
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North Beach Aerial

View southeast, including future Aquatic Park site and Fontana Warehouse, Ghirardelli factory, North Beach, Russian Hill, Fishermans Wharf, Haslett Warehouse and adjacent Cannery. Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill. Nob Hill and Downtown in distance. [dpwbook30 dpw7289]

SF Bay
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SF Bay

Taken from a boat off Alcatraz, view west to Ford Point, Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands. Navy destroyer in background

SF Bay
Mare Island
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Mare Island

Gun Park at Mare Island Navy Yard. Looking north towards the Iron Foundry, Building 85, and the Steam Engineering smokestack. Cannons and cannonballs stacked up, ships moored at right.

Outside SF
Market & 1st
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Market & 1st

Elevated view west to Muni 7-line #471 with wings livery; (Former Market Street Railway MSRy unit #171 renumbered #471 after the merger in order to avoid confusion with MUNI #171.) Elevated traffic control tower at left. Owl Drug Co., Allied Sales Co. Surplus, Flatiron Building, Hobart Building in background.

Financial District
View E from 19th & Iowa
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View E from 19th & Iowa

Central Waterfront Panorama. View east from 19th Street & Iowa (now I280 freeway) to fleet at anchor in Bay. Part of 3 part Central Waterfront panorama [shipyard panorama from Potrero Hill dpwbookBRIDGESII dpwA1162] 19th Street pedestrian bridge on right.

Potrero Hill
View E from 19th & Iowa
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View E from 19th & Iowa

Central Waterfront Panorama. View east from 19th Street & Iowa (now I280 freeway) to fleet at anchor in Bay. Part of 3 part Central Waterfront panorama [shipyard panorama from Potrero Hill dpwbookBRIDGESII dpwA1162] 19th Street pedestrian bridge on left

Potrero Hill
View E from 19th & Iowa
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View E from 19th & Iowa

Central Waterfront Panorama. View east from 19th Street & Iowa (now I280 freeway) Part of 3 part Central Waterfront panorama, showing Union Iron Works and fleet at anchor in Bay. [shipyard panorama from Potrero Hill dpwbookBRIDGESII dpwA1162] 19th Street pedestrian bridge on right. [shipyard panorama from Potrero Hill dpwbookBRIDGESII dpwA1162]

Potrero Hill
Grove & Larkin
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Grove & Larkin

Elevated view north to May Day Parade in Civic Center. California State (later Earl Warren) Building in background. Welcome Home Victory Monument in plaza.

Civic Center
Grove & Larkin
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Grove & Larkin

Elevated view north to arrival of Marshall Foch parade. California State Building (later Earl Warren Building) under construction in background.

Civic Center
Market & Post
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Market & Post

Elevated view northwest across Market to soldiers marching, returning from the Philippines, Spanish-American War, Crocker Building, original Hobart Building. Utility poles decorated with trees, men standing on crossbars. Chronicle Building in background. [Return Calif-Boys, Crocker Building. 1900.] [Crocker Estate Album]

Financial District
San Francisco Skyline
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San Francisco Skyline

View of Northern waterfront during wartime, looking easterly from the Golden Gate Bridge. Presidio and Crissy Field at right. Fort Mason at center, Yerba Buena Island at far left.

North Waterfront from Bay
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North Waterfront from Bay

From boat on bay looking southeast. Alcatraz Pier, Municipal Pier, and Fort Mason, Van Ness Pump Station. Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill in background.

Skyline from Fort Baker
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Skyline from Fort Baker

Looking southeast across bay from Highway 101. Point Cavallo, Horseshoe Bay, city in the background.

Outside SF