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Contains 161 photos

North Beach
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North Beach

[NB-11 East from Russian Hill 1867 St. Francis Church] View east over North Beach to southern slope of Telegraph Hill from Russian Hill. Green Street at center, Yerba Buena Island in distance. St. Francis of Assisi Church at right with X drawn on roof. Original image is Watkins stereoview 'Panorama from Russian Hill, San Francisco [California] (No. 8).[F810 NB-011] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Russian Hill
View NW from Telegraph Hill
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View NW from Telegraph Hill

View northwest from Telegraph Hill to North Beach, sea wall, warehouses, Meiggs Wharf and Alcatraz. Much infill south of sea wall. [F810 NB-018] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [North Beach S.F. Cal 1879 NB-18]

Telegraph Hill
Montgomery near California
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Montgomery near California

Elevated view looking northeast to bay. Warehouses, Brown & Power Co., Appraiser's Building, U.S. Custom House at top center. Fisher Packing Co.509-17 Commercial at right center. Brown & Power printers, Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden printers, 508 Clay at Sansome, Niantic Block (Niantic Building) at center. O. Milani & Brothers, chocolate & cocoa, 704 Sansome, at upper left. In center distance, Tillmann & Bendel Coffee and Spice Mill 694-6 Battery at Pacific. Panorama 1890 [Sic] part 3 [F810 PAN-004c] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
View from Nob Hill
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View from Nob Hill

California & Mason, Panorama 1902 part 4. View northeast to Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Island. Shaari Zedek synagogue at northeast corner California and Stockton. Grace Church, Old St. Mary's Church, Kohl Building, Savings Deposit Building, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York in distance right. Portsmouth Square, Hall of Justice, Montgomery Block and Appraisers Building at left. Kohl Building, Montgomery and California at right in distance. Merchants Exchange Building (1904) not yet built. At lower left, Stanford Stables. [F810 PAN-006d] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Nob Hill
View from Nob Hill
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View from Nob Hill

California & Mason, Panorama 1905, part 3. Not part of panorama in wnp71.1543 and wnp71.1544. Similar shot to 1902 view in wnp71.1542. View northeast to Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Island in distance. At left, Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square, Montgomery Block, Appraisers Building. At right, Shaari Zedek synagogue at northeast corner California and Stockton. Grace Church, Old St. Mary's Church. In distance right, Kohl Building, Safe Deposit Building, Merchants Exchange (possibly under construction). [F810 PAN-007c] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [#3]

Nob Hill
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

View northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street., various conveyances in front. [B 95 Oakland Ferry, Foot of Market Street, S.F., Cal - Taber]

Financial District
California near Stockton
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California near Stockton

Looking east from Nob Hill to Bay. Cable car in distance. Service began on this line in April, 1878. Old St. Mary's Cathedral at center. Plank sidewalks, cobblestones. Same image as wnp24.382a.[SS-19] [F810 SS-019] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Nob Hill
Mission Bay Aerial
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Mission Bay Aerial

China Basin, Mission Rock, Union Iron Works, Shipyard. At upper right, expansion of Pier 50 (Mission Rock Terminal); construction began in 1947, and was completed in 1950. Area at lower right later developed as Crane Cove Park. At lower left, Southern Pacific Railroad roundhouse and turntable. (Section 018 of 190 - 1948 Aerial Survey of San Francisco) (A larger version of this image has been provided to and can be seen at the David Rumsey Map Collection)

Mission Bay
View E from Telegraph Hill
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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 Hill
Bush & Sansome
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Bush & Sansome

Elevated view east to Market Street, waterfront, Yerba Buena Island. [View from Cosmopolitan Hotel 1866. Bush St. East {of} Sansome.] [F810 V-029] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

[Panorama from Telegraph Hill SF 1867] Elevated view southeast to U.S. Marine Hospital (Spear and Harrison), Selby Shot Tower (First and Howard) and Rincon Hill in distance. Telegraph Hill houses in foreground. [F810 V-091] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

North Beach
Essex near Folsom
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Essex near Folsom

[Year 1866. General View of the city from Rincon Hill - North] View northeast to Selby Shot Tower, Telegraph Hill. Houses on north side of 500 block of Folsom. [F810 V-107] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Rincon Hill
View SE from Rincon Hill
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View SE from Rincon Hill

[683 - SF from Rincon Hill 1870] Looking towards Mission Bay from Harrison near 2nd. [F810 V-111] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) Handwritten: "3rd St.", "Bryant St.". Caption on Lone Mountain College Collection print " Hunters Point, Potrero and Mission Bay from Harrison St."

Rincon Hill
Embarcadero
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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
Embarcadero near Howard
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Embarcadero near Howard

[Dredger No. 3 picking up Coal where the Howard St. Coal Bunkers fell] Men on pier watch dredging operations after Pier 8 (formerly Howard St. Pier No. 2) collapsed on April 21, 1902, taking with it a 28 foot high coal bunker (owned by J.D. Spreckels Co.) loaded with 1600 tons of coal from the W.G. Stafford Co. The collapse was blamed on infestation by teredos, a wormlike marine mollusk. (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)