Skyline

Contains 951 photos

Clipper Street
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Clipper Street

View east over Noe Valley and Mission District to Potrero Hill. St. Philip The Apostle Church, Castro Hill at center left. Horse in foreground. S.F. General Hospital, gas storage tanks on Pennsylvania St. and Cesar Chavez & Evans Sts. (since removed) in distance right.

Upper Market
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View west toward Russian Hill. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church at center.

Telegraph Hill
Skyline from Yerba Buena
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Skyline from Yerba Buena

View of San Francisco from island with ferry boats in bay. Pacific Telephone Building, Twin Peaks, Sutro Forest on hills.

Yerba Buena Island
Fire from Nob Hill
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Fire from Nob Hill

[Fire near Western Union office Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co. No 113] View east to Merchants Exchange building at left, smoke from 1906 Earthquake fire. Mills Building on right. Taken from near Pine and Powell. Goldberg Bowen Grocery.

Nob Hill
Mason & California
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Mason & California

View northwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel toward Golden Gate past Huntington Park. Grace Cathedral rectory and grounds at left. Chambord Apartments, Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Roof of Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) at bottom right. [Photo furnished through courtesy Burlington Route and Western Pacific R.R.]

Nob Hill
View from Upper Market
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View from Upper Market

Telephoto view northeast from Upper Market toward Downtown. Alvarado School, Noe Valley in foreground. U.S. Mint, City Hall at center.

Upper Market
Lower Market
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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
Downtown SF
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Downtown SF

View northwest from Rincon Hill; Pacific Telephone Building at right; City Hall at left; Lone Mountain in distance

Rincon Hill
Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island; skyline; Bay Bridge; ferryboat 'Berkeley'

Skyline of San Francisco
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Skyline of San Francisco

View from the Bay looking southwest, probably taken from Treasure Island

SF Bay
View of San Francisco
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View of San Francisco

Looking through supports of Golden Gate Bridge towards SF skyline

Outside SF
View from Coolbrith Park
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View from Coolbrith Park

Looking southeast towards Financial District and Bay Bridge. Spire of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church on Broadway near Mason at far right. Old Hall of Justice and County Jail on Portsmouth Square at center.

Russian Hill
View of San Francisco
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View of San Francisco

Looking from Yerba Buena Island; back of photo reads, 'The City of San Francisco from Goat Island in San Francisco Bay. 1928'; silhouette of officer in right foreground.

Yerba Buena Island
View from Call Building
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View from Call Building

View northwest toward Nob Hill and Russian Hill. Fairmont Hotel, Alcatraz, Angel Island, and Bay. Part of Panorama with wnp27.5656. L to R: Addison Head Building (1908), Shreve Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Foxcraft Building (bottom). In distance left on Nob Hill, Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (aka California Art Institute (former site of Mark Hopkins Mansion and later site of Mark Hopkins Hotel), Fairmont Hotel. Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel) not yet built. Old St. Mary's Cathedral in distance right.

South of Market
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest over North Beach and Chinatown towards Nob Hill. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank Apartments, Grace Cathedral with bell tower under construction. St. Francis of Assisi Church (at center). [scrapbook page with wnp27.5713-wnp27.5719]

Telegraph Hill