Skyline

Contains 951 photos

View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View northeast down Market Street. City Hall, Yerba Buena Island, Bay. Photo by Ferd J. Zettler

Clarendon Heights
Sansome at Halleck
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Sansome at Halleck

View north to Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill from Crown-Zellerbach Building. In foreground, rear of Tadich Grill at Clay and Leidesdorff Streets, Montgomery Block to left.

Financial District
City Skyline from bay
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City Skyline from bay

View northwest. Ferry Building & Telegraph Hill at right center; battleship at anchor, sailboats. Alcatraz at extreme right.

View from Nob Hill
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View from Nob Hill

Looking southeast from near Bush & Mason. Left to right: Temple Emanu-El, Chronicle Building, Examiner Building, Call Building

Downtown / Union Square
View from Nob Hill
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View from Nob Hill

View southwest towards City Hall and St. Ignatius steeples from around Pine and Taylor. Charles G. Hooker residence, 917 Bush, at center. Hotel Pleasanton, northwest corner Sutter & Jones is tall building at right.

Lower Nob Hill
California near Powell
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California near Powell

Looking East to Grace Church and financial district. Shaari Zedek synagogue in distance left.

Nob Hill
Cole Valley
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Cole Valley

View north (Cole St. at center) from vacant lots on Belgrave Street over Cole Valley and Haight Ashbury. St Mary's Hospital, St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco College for Women (later Lone Mountain College and part of University of San Francisco), Golden Gate Park Panhandle, Calvary Cemetery (in distance, right). Grattan School (far left center), Golden Gate Park, Temple Emanu-El, Presidio at left.

Ashbury Heights
California near Powell
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California near Powell

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east toward Ferry Building from center of California St. Earthquake ruins, sightseers and ruins of Grace Church and Old St. Mary's cathedral. At left, Montgomery Block, Appraisers Building, in background center Kohl Building, Merchant's Exchange.

Nob Hill
View From Twin Peaks
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View From Twin Peaks

View east from Twin Peaks down Market. Castro Theatre bottom left, Bank of Italy with large sign (changed to Bank of America in 1930) at Castro and Market. New U.S. Mint not yet under construction. Corona Heights and Franklin Hospital (later UCSF Davies Medical Center) at lower left. [Overlooking SF and East Bay Cities from Twin Peaks 45]

Clarendon Heights
Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

View northwest from tower of illuminated bridge under construction and city beyond. Pacific Telephone Building. Ferry Building. [Night View from Bay Bridge Tower showing San Francisco. Piggott Photo 1064]

SF Bay
California & Stockton
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California & Stockton

View southeast to Sing Fat Building, Merchant's Exchange, American National Bank Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Lafayette, Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Alexander Building, Hunter Dulin Building. At right, expansion of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building in progress. [When East Meets West on the edge of Chinatown]

Chinatown
California near Grant
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California near Grant

View east down California towards Sing Chong Building, Old St. Mary's Church, Financial Center Building (1927) at center, later Omni Hotel. Hotel Lafayette, Stained glass street light globes at lower right in front of Sing Fat Building. Southern Pacific Building in far distance on Market St.

Chinatown
View NW from Buena Vista Park
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View NW from Buena Vista Park

View northwest from Buena Vista Park to Presidio, Golden Gate and Marin Headlands. Point Bonita Lighthouse. Star of the Sea Church, San Francisco Nursery for Homeless Children. Public Health Service Hospital at center. Panhandle, St. Ignatius Church, Haight-Ashbury in foreground. [Ocean Entrance To Golden Gate.] (Superior copy of wnp27.2820)

Lone Mountain
View from Russ Building
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View from Russ Building

Elevated 'Bird's Eye View' northwest from the Russ Building across California Street with Old St. Mary's Church, Chinatown, Guadalupe Church, Russian Hill and Marin County, Mt. Tamalpais in the background. Hotel Yolanda, SW corner, Kearny and California, at bottom. [67. Birds Eye View Nob Hill SF]

Financial District
View from Buena Vista Park
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View from Buena Vista Park

Elevated view southeast showing Mission District and Potrero Hill. Mission High School and Dolores Park at right center. [South East from Buena Vista Park P.P. No. 1453]

Buena Vista