Lafayette Park
[View from Davidson's Observatory, Clay St. Showing Gough & Clay Sts.] View east from summit of park.
Pacific HeightsContains 1430 photos
[View from Davidson's Observatory, Clay St. Showing Gough & Clay Sts.] View east from summit of park.
Pacific Heights
[View from Davidson's Observatory, Clay St. Showing corner of Sacramento & Gough Sts. A 354] View southeast to cable car passing intersection. The three story Stick-Eastlake at far right is 2015 Sacramento Street, built in 1891. It still stands, minus the fancy cresting at the top. [WK] Dome of Hall of Records in distance center-right.
Pacific Heights
Structures scattered amidst a landscape of rolling hills of sand and scrub. Nevada? [No. 1]
[43rd Ave and Pt. Lobos Ave. Ft Miley in Back. MB Coll. SF 1903 OF-92] Dick's Saloon & Restaurant, with people posing in front. Present 43rd Ave & Geary Street
Sutro Heights
Interdune lake known as Kelly's Pond, north of today's Geary Boulevard. Former 139 Parker Avenue house behind. [Research by Andrew Mihailovsky] Popular hunting spot, filled in the 1890's? Rowboat with six men.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Ferries & Cliff House steam train with four passenger cars, somewhere in Richmond District dunes. Man and two boys (Levin family?) crouching in sand below tracks. Hard to locate because right-of-way was nearly identical for about thirty blocks. (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
View north across Point Lobos Road (Geary St.) near intersection of Cook Street. Poles in the distance are for electric streetcar on Sacramento Street. Edge of Laurel Hill Cemetery. Children's Hospital (The Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses, opened on California Street in 1887) at upper left.
Lone Mountain
View North on 15th Avenue north of Lake, People posing on stairs of a house at 9-15th Avenue. Marine Hospital in background
Lake Street
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Harrison & Smith's Camp street kitchen after 1906 earthquake. Woman posing with frying pan, dog, and two boys. 227, 229, & 231 Third Avenue in background. Sign for Hansen & Co. Employment Office behind.
Richmond Inner
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Woman holding frying pan posing with street kitchen shed after 1906 earthquake.
Richmond Inner
View southeasterly over golf course and Richmond District to St. Ignatius Church and Buena Vista Park.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
View southeasterly over golf course and Richmond District to St. Ignatius Church and Buena Vista Park. Kong Chow funerary structure from City Cemetery partly visible at center.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Presidio, view northeast above Lobos Creek toward original Marine Hospital (later the Public Health Services Hospital), opened 1875. [Muybridge, Photo. Bradley & Rulofson, Publishers] Men harvesting crops, complex of wooden buildings in background. Construction work in progress.
Presidio
[dpw A6022 5-4-39 Park Presidio Blvd North from Balboa St.] New median and paving. View north to Presidio.
Richmond Inner
Administration building of Odd Fellows Cemetery on north side of Geary about across from Palm Avenue. [#131]
Lone Mountain