Contains 623 photos
View southwest from Mt. Vernon Avenue between Cayuga and Rome toward future site of Geneva Terrace development. Merced Heights in the background. Future grade of Cayuga Avenue at center, Southern Pacific railroad right of way (future route of I280 freeway) is visible in front of Merced Heights. First houses visible on San Jose Avenue. [Southwest from Mt. Vernon] [DPW A5534]
Cayuga
View east from Fort Mason. State Belt railroad trestle across lagoon. Haslett Warehouse at center. Rowing Club piers at lower right. [6651 8-23-20 Aquatic Park looking East] [dpwbook27 dpw6651]
SF Bay
Elevated view north from eastern slope of Telegraph Hill, over Embarcadero to Alcatraz/Angel Island, Mt. Tamalpais background left. Trucks at loading dock in foreground, boxcars at railway siding at right. Balclutha at left. Warehouse building with loading dock is 150 Francisco, redone as Wharf Plaza subsidized housing in the 1980's.
Telegraph Hill
Elevated view west across Montgomery to Globe Mills (built 1904, damaged and rebuilt 1906) - A1 Flour, George W. Pennington and Sons, National Paper Products Co. factory and Zellerbach Paper. Co. warehouse (1917). Portion of Globe Mills complex and National Paper Products building still stand. Telegraph Hill in background left.
Telegraph Hill
Aquatic Park Casino (Maritime Museum). Steam locomotive J.W. Bowker from Virginia & Truckee Railroad displayed in front of Museum. (The first piece in a proposed railroad museum.) Haslett Warehouse in distance.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View from undeveloped hill at the present site of Cesar Chavez west of Noe. Panorama looking east toward Potrero Hill. Bernal Heights in distance right. SF & San Jose (Southern Pacific) Trestle at Dolores and 27th at center right.
Noe Valley
View from undeveloped hill at the present site of Cesar Chavez west of Noe. Panorama, looking southeast to Bernal Heights with Boulevard constructed around hilltop. Houses at lower right are on 27th Street below Noe. SF & San Jose (Southern Pacific) Trestle at Dolores and 27th at center left.
Noe Valley
View northeast on the SF & San Jose Railroad Trestle (Southern Pacific Old Main Line) across the intersection of 27th Street and Dolores. No traces of the bridge remain, it was removed in the 1940s and the railroad right-of-way was developed shortly thereafter. Photographer Mr. Manning on trestle tracks.
Noe Valley
View northwest toward SF & San Jose (Southern Pacific Old Main Line) bridge crossing the intersection of 27th and Dolores. No traces of the bridge remain, it was removed in the 1940s and the railroad right-of-way was developed shortly thereafter.
Noe Valley
View north toward Visitacion Valley and McLaren Park. Automobile traffic on the highway, industrial builings, Southern Pacific railroad at right.
Visitacion Valley
1906 Earthquake and Fire laying temporary railroad tracks to the bay, probably South of Market. Ships moored in distance.
View of south end of Southern Pacific's Bayshore yards near Brisbane with train Southern Pacific Street Engine #4368.
Outside SF
View westerly near the crossing of Southern Pacific and Ocean Shore railroad's tracks.
Oceanview
Looking southwest toward Daly City from a spot near present-day Alemany Boulevard close to Crystal Street. Southern Pacific and Ocean Shore Railroad tracks both pass across background. A cow standing in the field. Many of the houses still exist on slope south of Interstate Highway 280.
Outer Mission
Looking west along the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks near the crossing of Ocean Shore Railroad's single track visible at right.
Oceanview