Pine near Powell
View southeast across Union Square to Mission Bay. Temple Emanu-El and Thomas Starr King's First Unitarian Church
Nob HillPublic Square
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Washington Square
View southwest over North Beach. Union Street at left, Washington Square and flagpole at center. Major grading and landscaping of Washington Square was completed in April, 1869. Omnibus Railroad horsecar at northwest corner of Square on Powell St. Same image as wnp71.1480. [Panorama from Telegraph Hill (no. 19) 1356. Washington Square.]
Telegraph Hill
View from Russian Hill.
View northeast over Washington Square (before major landscaping) to Telegraph Hill. [Panorama from Russian Hill, San Francisco. (No. 7.) 768]
Russian Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest from Telegraph Hill across Washington Square (with grading and landscaping completed April, 1869) towards Russian Hill. Filbert St at lower right. Same image as wnp24.184a. [984. Russian Hill]
Telegraph Hill
Green & Taylor
View from near Green and Taylor Streets, northeast to Washington Square (with mature trees) and Telegraph Hill. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Original Ss. Peter & Paul church at Filbert and Grant. Duplicate of wnp24.186a.
Russian Hill
Union Square
["Nob Hill" from Phelan Building, San Francisco] Elevated view northwest across Union Square. Homes, Trinity Episcopal Church, National Guard Armory, Nob Hill mansions, and Temple Emanu-El. Building at lower left, Howard Block, built in 1873, then home of the Concordia Club at 102 O'Farrell.
Downtown / Union Square
Portsmouth Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View west to scene at refugee camp w/deputies wearing badges. Earthquake ruins in background. Police Camp [19]
Chinatown
Washington Square
View west to Russian Hill up Union Street. Grading and landscaping of Square was completed in April, 1869.
North Beach
Portsmouth Square
Elevated view northwest towards Portsmouth Square. Clay street cable car at terminus ramp. Coaches and cabs lined up for hire. Exempt Fire Co. firehouse with tower on far side of plaza at left.
Chinatown
Portsmouth Square
View northeast to children posing. [Helios]
Chinatown
St. Mary's Square
View east in park to little boy in overalls, adults seated on bench. Tall buildings in background are Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery).
Chinatown
Portsmouth Square
Baby on grass in Portsmouth Square. View southeast to Clay and Kearny Streets in background, McDonough Brothers Bail Bonds.
Chinatown
Polk & Filbert
View southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Catholic Church up on hill side at Broadway and Van Ness. Corner estate with gardens in foreground belonged to E. Willard Burr, house at right to his son C.C. Burr. Burr's property was fenced along Laguna Survey lines, which were roughly diagonal to the main street grid. Rails on roadway for Sutter Street Railroad horsecar line to Harbor View, abandoned in 1873 in favor of a more direct route. Van Ness Avenue was extended through the property in 1894. Lafayette Park in background right. Same image as wnp71.2098.
Russian Hill
Union Square
Elevated view northwest over Union Square from Stockton and Geary.
Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
Elevated view south across plaza to Dewey Monument; I Magnin's (opened in this building in 1948); Werner Bldg.; Dohrmann's.
Downtown / Union Square