Contains 951 photos
View west with Ferry Building and ferry slips in foreground. Southern Pacific, Standard Oil, St. Francis and Fairmont Hotel buildings. The Mark Hopkins Hotel is under construction. Russ Building (1927), Shell Building (1929) not there yet. Matson Building (1923), Pacific Telephone Building (1925) just built. Twin Peaks, Mt. Sutro, Golden Gate Park in distance. Heinz 57 sign, Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop. Mission St. at left.
Elevated view northwest from Kearny & Market. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank Apartments, Stanford Court Apartments (later hotel). Russian Hill in distance right. Original Federal Reserve Bank at center. Blurry.
Nob Hill
View south to Hunter Dulin Building, Palace Hotel, de Young Building, Central Tower, Mutual Savings, Humboldt Building, Phelan Building, Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights and hills beyond. Taken from roof of Russ Building, 235 Montgomery.
Financial District
View south to Hunter Dulin Building, Palace Hotel, de Young Building, Central Tower (formerly Call Building), Mutual Savings Bank Building, Humboldt Building, Phelan Building. Taken from roof of Russ Building, 235 Montgomery.
Financial District
View west over Retail District, Shreve Building, St Francis Hotel, Sir Francis Drake, and 450 Sutter. Taken from roof of Russ Building, 235 Montgomery. People sitting at tables. Twin Peaks, Mt. Sutro, City Hall dome at background left.
Financial District
View east from roof of Masonic Auditorium.Left to right, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Russ Building, Shell Building, Standard Oil Building, Equitable Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, 450 Sutter.
Nob Hill
View southeast from roof of Masonic Auditorium. Equitable Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, 450 Sutter, Central Tower (former Call Building) Sir Francis Drake Hotel.
Nob Hill
Elevated view to First Unitarian Church (Starr King's Church) background center which stood from 1864-1887 on Geary near Stockton. See wnp71.0528. [163. San Francisco, from cor. Market and 8th Streets., Looking North-East--Starr King's Church]
South of Market
[378. General View of the City, from corner Second and Folsom] View northwest to steeple of Advent Protestant Episcopal Church, Temple Emanu El, Nob Hill and Russian Hill in distance.
Rincon Hill
View southeast across Union Square to Mission Bay. Temple Emanu-El and Thomas Starr King's First Unitarian Church
Nob Hill
[View from Rincon Hill, San Francisco. 521.] Looking northeast across 2nd street. Telegraph Hill in distance, St. Francis of Assisi church on horizon, center.
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view north from the slope of Rincon Hill. St. Patrick's Church, Aronson Building, Call Building at center, Chronicle Annex, Palace Hotel and Rialto Building at right. [Ruins from Folsom near 3rd. Pillsbury Pictures 234]
South of Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Panoramic view east from the roof of the Merchants Exchange (431 California, between Montgomery and Sansome). Fire burning April 18th, 1906 [ View from the Merchants Exchange Pillsbury Pictures 100]
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southeast from about Grant and Pine, Chronicle Annex,Examiner, Goldberg Bowen grocers 230 Sutter, Mutual Savings Bank, Call Building, Shreve Building. [The Examiner on Fire] ( caption is not quite correct, the Examiner is to the left of the Call Building in this view)(partially colorized)
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast toward Market from about Pine and Stockton, Palace Hotel, Chronicle Annex, Mutual Savings Bank, and Call Building at center.
Chinatown