Ferry Building
Elevated view northeast to first Ferry Building looking northeast. Cable cars and horse cars, barge, horse drawn wagons. Station D Post Office (opened October, 1884). [FB-6 MB Coll, "Foot Market St. 1884]
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Embarcadero at Folsom
Looking north from Pier 10 (formerly called Howard St. Wharf No. 3, at Folsom)towards Ferry Building, viaduct carrying coal across Embarcadero. Hawaiian Line. See detail at wnp4.1367.
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Embarcadero
Looking north from Pier 10 towards Ferry Building, viaduct carrying coal across Embarcadero. Crop of wnp4.1330.
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Lower Market
Elevated view east from Crocker Building, corner Montomery & Post, during reconstruction. Steel structure for Fife Building in front of Ferry Building, Drumm & Market. Rooftops, Alexander-Yost Hardware, Direct Line Telephone Co., Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Island. Painters hanging from painting platforms on west side of Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market, Stevenson Building at southeast corner. Signs for E.D. Co., Eugene Dietzgen Co. Drawing Materials, H.S. Crocker Co., Waterman & Levy, American Import Co. Few if any of these building (excepting Ferry Building) stand in 2022.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Telegraph Hill
North towards Alcatraz from base of Coit Tower, overlooking tourists and cars in parking area. [scrapbook page with wnp27.5713-wnp27.5719]
Telegraph Hill
View from Coit Tower
View north toward piers, Angel Island in background. At left, side of 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph Hill
View from Coit Tower
View north toward Pier 41, Balclutha, white Ocean Liner, SS Lurline, Alcatraz. Gasometer (gas storage tank) at foot of Powell St.
Telegraph Hill
Lyon near Broadway
View northeast to bay, where Great White Fleet is entering. Spectators watching. Houses on either side of Baker at Broadway. At right is 2898 Broadway (Bliss & Faville, architects, built 1899). It still stands in 2023.
Pacific Heights
Ferry Building
[B 95. Oakland Ferry, Foot of Market Street, S.F., Cal.] View northeast across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building. 'Oakland Ferry' signage on south side, horse cars]
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California near Powell
View east down California to Cable Car ascending hill; Sing Chong Co. & Sing Fat Co., Old St. Mary's Church, Kohl, Merchants Exchange and Ferry Buildings in background
Nob Hill
Greenwich & Kearny
View west from Telegraph Hill to Golden Gate. White Point and Black Point, Marin Headlands. Entry arch and tollbooth for Bay Shore & Fort Point Road is on White Point, center, where sandy portion begins at water. See wnp37.00603-R.jpg.
Telegraph Hill
Bay Bridge construction
View east from Rincon Hill; Hills Brothers Coffee Plant (1922-24, George Kelham architect), Joseph Magnin Warehouse, One Harrison (1918, George Applegarth architect);; Bay Bridge under construction. Yerba Buena Island in background. Bridge on Harrison over Beale.
Rincon Hill
Essex near Folsom
[North from Rincon Hill TEH69] View northeast past Selby Shot Tower. Telegraph Hill and Angel Island in distance. Houses on north side of 500 Block of Folsom. Same image as wnp71.0512 with different cropping.
Rincon Hill
Downtown aerial
Elevated view east to Fairmont Hotel and Pacific Union Club (former Flood Mansion) in foreground; at lower left, Park Lane Apartments (after 1929 addition of 3 stories, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect), behind it Brocklebank Apartments (1927, Weeks & Day architects), Mark Hopkins Hotel at right. Skyscrapers along Montgomery Street including Hunter Duling Building, Alexander Building, Russ Building, California Commercial Union Building (315 California). Recently completed Shell Building (1929, George Kelham architect), Pacific National Bank Building just beyond Brocklebank (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, completed 1930, demolished 1969), and Standard Oil Building. PG&E and Matson Buildings at far left. U.S. Navy battleships and aircraft carriers anchored in Bay.(AS)
Nob Hill
Embarcadero near Clay
Elevated view south across Embarcadero near Clay, streetcars, Ferry building. Ferry Station Post Office (1901-1915) at right. United Railroads [U00545] (from print with Mentz imprint)
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