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Elevated view northeast from around Market and Kearny. Telegraph Hill visible at left, Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Mills Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects), French Savings Bank Building 110 Sutter (colorized). Construction of Hallidie Building (1917), California-Pacific Building, 105 Montgomery (1912) not begun. (AS)
Downtown / Union Square
[182. View from the Cosmopolitan Hotel , Looking Northwest toward Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill. St. Francis of Assisi Church on horizon, center. Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869) on top of Russian Hill, left.
Financial District
View northwest [View from the Residence of Bishop Kip, Rincon Hill, SF 706] Kip residence 338 Second St. Rear of Howard Street Methodist Church at center. Houses along Folsom St., including J. Parrott house, 620 Folsom, M. Latham house, 638 Folsom. see wnp37.00760. Cropped from larger image, see wnp71.2146.
South of Market
View north from the Residence of Bishop William Kip, 338 2nd Street. Octagon house at 329 Second Street, owned by Wales L. Palmer, at right.
South of Market
[View from the Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St. 3648] View southeast over downtown from Stanford residence on Powell between California and Pine. View south towards Union Square. Trinity Church (1867-1893) at center, corner of Post and Powell. Third Baptist Church (1869) at far left. Cropped from wnp37.02208.
Nob Hill
[View from Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal St., S.F. 3646]. Palace Hotel. Residence on Powell between California and Pine. View to southeast of Palace Hotel at right, Selby Shot Tower background left. Crop image in wnp37.02928
Nob Hill
[View from the Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St., S.F. 3647] Near California & Powell looking southeast over downtown, Temple Emanu-el, St. Mark's Church on Union Square, and St Patrick's Church. Third Baptist Church (1869) at center. Similar to wnp37.00806.
Nob Hill
View southeast from Charles Crocker Residence. The residence of attorney Richard Tobin, at the SE corner of California and Taylor streets (1871). The architects, S. C. Bugbee and Son, also designed the Colton, Crocker, and Stanford mansions nearby. Present site of the Huntington Hotel. [WK] Palace Hotel (1875), Temple Emanu-el, bay and ships in background. Plank sidewalks. [View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq. S.F. 3641]
Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view north, Kearny Street at left.[5337 San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906. From the Chronicle Building toward Chinatown and Telegraph Hill. Copyright 1906 by C. H. Graves.]. Ruins of Hall of Justice center background. St. Francis of Assisi Church left background.
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower scaffolding over wholesale district, Nob Hill Fairmont Hotel, Appraiser's Building in distance, earthquake ruins and early reconstruction.[8280-Fairmount Hotel and Nob Hill, west from Ferry Bldg. Tower over miles of ruins, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood. U-91730]
Financial District
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [No. 257. From Corbett Road, May 28, 1906. Turrill & Miller Photographers, San Francisco, Cal.] View northeast to horses, the future Mint Hill, Gray Brothers brick factory and works at left, German Hospital (later Franklin Hospital, now UCSF Davies Medical Center) beyond, under construction. Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church lower left. earthquake ruins, Nob Hill and Fairmont Hotel in distance. Taken from vicinity of Market & Grand View or Corbett & Romain, Kite Hill in foreground.
Clarendon Heights
[No. 125. San Francisco from Hill South of Entrance to Golden Gate Park. No. 3. Oct 31, 1886. X764. Turrill photo.] View of Potrero Hill, Mission District, Mission Bay. the future Mint Hill on left.
Buena Vista
Looking south from Pioneer Park to Financial District skyscrapers.
Telegraph Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view west from bay to Ferry Building, tower surrounded by scaffolding after earthquake. Call Building in distance left, Fairmont Hotel in distance right. [Ferry Bldg. San Francisco, Cal. & Bay]
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast to ruins of Temple Emanu-El, Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Call Building, Butler Building (Newman & Levinson Dry Goods sign], Whittell Building under construction behind left steeple. In foreground, five ruined archways of Germania Hall / California Hall at 620 Bush. Earthquake ruins and rubble everywhere.
Nob Hill