Skyline

Contains 951 photos

Nob Hill
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Nob Hill

Elevated view north, up Taylor Street. Second Congregational Church, later known as Plymouth Church, at center. Nob Hill in background. Cropped version of Lawrence & Houseworth No. 146 'San Francisco from cor. Market and Sixth Sts., Looking North to corner California and Taylor streets.'

Tenderloin
View of Nob Hill
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View of Nob Hill

Elevated view north showing (left to right on horizon), First Congregational Church, Flood, Hopkins, Stanford Mansions, Calvary Church, Trinity Church, Temple Emanu-el. Mason street at left, Powell at right.

Downtown / Union Square
View from Portola
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View from Portola

View northeast from Portola Drive across Noe Valley. Houses in the foreground would be on today's Clipper Terrace. Alvarado School, St. Philip The Apostle Church at center far right. U.S. Mint and downtown at left, Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, East Bay beyond. [Portola Drive - 24th to 26th Sts. - Observation Point] [DPW A5228]

Noe Valley
Clipper near Grand View
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Clipper near Grand View

View northeast to bay over Noe Valley, St. Philip The Apostle Church, Castro Hill at left. S.F. General Hospital and Potrero Hill in distance right.

Upper Market
Destroyer USS MANLEY
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Destroyer USS MANLEY

USS MANLEY (DD 74) in San Francisco Bay. Ferry Building and skyline behind.

Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Aerial view west to Ferry Building, ferry boats, pile driver construction on ferry slip, produce district, Nob Hill and skyline of San Francisco. At left, Southern Pacific Building (completed 1917), Standard Oil Building (completed 1922), Balfour Bldg. (later J. Harold Dollar Bldg., completed 1920). Heinz 57 sign, Pacific Hotel at lower left.

Noe Valley View
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Noe Valley View

View from undeveloped hill at the present site of Cesar Chavez west of Noe. 1908 Panorama looking northwest to Lower Slopes of Twin Peaks. Houses in foreground are on 26th Street, with 26th and Castro (cable car terminus) at left. [SC29 ]

Noe Valley
1st & Harrison
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1st & Harrison

View north from 1st and Harrison showing Selby Shot Tower (1st & Howard) at center. Jobson's Observatory on Russian Hill (1861-1869) is faintly visible in the distance left. Watkins title 'First Street, from Rincon Hill.' [SC36 ]

Rincon Hill
Financial District Fire
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Financial District Fire

Elevated view east from Cosmo (Lewis) Pl. near Trader Vic (Agate) Alley. Central background, left to right, Whittell Building under construction, St. Francis Hotel annex under construction, top of Call Building over St. Francis Hotel, spire of First Congregational Church, top of Temple Sherith Israel (Taylor and Post) , Genthe Photos [SC60]

Lower Nob Hill
View from Buena Vista Park
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View from Buena Vista Park

Buena Vista Panorama looking to South of Market, Mission Bay, Potrero Hill [SC64] [San Francisco From Hill South of Entrance to Golden Gate Park No. 2]

Buena Vista
Corbett & Mars
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Corbett & Mars

View east over Eureka Valley from Corbett, Clayton St Family Collection (F. Stuermer Grocer, 2 Falcon Avenue at Danvers)

Eureka Valley
Mission District Ruins
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Mission District Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Ruins of Mission District with man walking up Hermann Street, Fairmont Hotel Collection [F4293]

Mint Hill
Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks

View northeast from Twin Peaks Boulevard to Russian Hill and bay. Franklin Hospital (Once German Hospital, later CPMC Davies) at lower right.[Vistas of Charm and Beauty unfold before you from Twin Peaks, San Francisco Zan 183 overprinted]

Midtown Terrace
View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View south towards Mount Davidson, Stanford Heights Reservoir, Miraloma Park. Glen Canyon at center left.

Upper Market
View of Noe Valley
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View of Noe Valley

View northeast from Upper Market street toward Castro Hill at center to downtown and Yerba Buena Island. Alvarado School to left of center. St. Philip the Apostle Church (Elizabeth and Diamond Sts.) below and to the right of center. Clipper St. at lower right.

Upper Market