View E from Telegraph Hill
View from Filbert Steps just west of Montgomery. Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island, Embarcadero, East Bay. Malloch Building (1360 Montgomery, built 1937) featured in film 'Dark Passage' at right.
Telegraph HillPiers
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View from Telegraph Hill
View southeast to San Francisco Waterfront and beyond from Telegraph Hill. [SF Bay - Oakland & Alameda moles in distance. WA-36] [F810 WA-036] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Telegraph Hill
Embarcadero
Elevated view south along waterfront, probably from Ferry Building. Western Fuel Company, Beaver Hill Coal Company, New Wellington Coal. Numerous navy ships at anchor in bay. [F810 WA-038] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Rincon Hill
Bay Bridge Construction, View east from Rincon Hill about 1st between Harrison and Bryant. Tar paper shacks in the foreground (one reads 'Social Club'), Yerba Buena Island in the background. Hills Brothers Coffee Plant (1922-24, George Kelham architect), Joseph Magnin Warehouse, One Harrison (1918, George Applegarth architect);
Rincon Hill
View SE from Mark Hopkins
View southeast from Mark Hopkins to Financial District and Bay Bridge. Wells Fargo (44 Montgomery), Hunter-Dulin, Metropolis Bank Building with Bank of America sign atop, Sheraton Palace Hotel, Mechanics Institute Building, Chronicle Building with modern exterior (later removed), Pacific Telephone Buildings. Union 76 Clock Tower in distance (2:52 p.m). The White House department store lower right. Part of Panorama
Nob Hill
Downtown Aerial
View southeasterly from small airplane over Nob Hill toward Downtown, Financial District, South of Market, Bay Bridge, Rincon Hill, waterfront, Mission Bay
Nob Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
View north toward Mt. Tamalpais, Sausalito, Alcatraz from Coit Tower, Balclutha docked at Pier 43. At right, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph Hill
View from Coit Tower
View north toward SF Bay, Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf from Coit Tower while under construction, showing scaffolding.
Telegraph Hill
View SE from Telegraph Hill
Embarcadero, Ferry Building, and ferry boats in bay.
Telegraph Hill
Bay Bridge
[San Francisco Bay Bridge. Piggott Photo 1112] View northeast from near Bryant and Beale with Bay Bridge under construction, suspending roadbed. Joseph Magnin Warehouse, One Harrison (1918, George Applegarth architect).
Rincon Hill
Telegraph Hill Aerial
Aerial view, looking southeast over Embarcadero, Telegraph Hill, Financial District, Bay Bridge. Embarcadero Freeway under construction
Fishermans Wharf
View N from Telegraph Hill
Parking lot at Pioneer Park. Taken from steps to Coit Tower. Embarcadero piers, SF Bay, Alcatraz, Angel Island, and Marin County in background. At left, gas holding tank (gasometer) at foot of Powell St. At far right, 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph Hill
Fisherman's Wharf Aerial
View to southeast. Fisherman's Wharf, The Embarcadero, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower, Longshoreman's Hall, city view from Fisherman's Wharf
View SE from Telegraph Hill
View southeast over cargo ships tied up along Embarcadero towards Yerba Buena Island and Bay Bridge.
Telegraph Hill
Downtown Aerial
Aerial view east toward downtown from above Polk Gulch, Bay Bridge in the background. Indicating date are: United States Appraisers Building (completed 1944) at upper left. Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop (before it was painted red) in front of Ferry Building in left distance. Clunie Building at upper left, with Lincoln National Life ad on west side. Notably absent is the PG&E Building Annex (1947).
Lower Nob Hill