Marina District
View of Marina District and Palace of Fine Arts from bay. [Collection taken together from wnp27.5747-wnp27.5767]
Skyline
Contains 951 photos
Marina District
View of Marina District and Palace of Fine Arts from bay. [Collection taken together from wnp27.5747-wnp27.5767]
View from Twin Peaks
View east from Christmas Tree Point over downtown. Corona Heights, U.S. Mint, Bank of America Building (555 California), Transamerica Tower, Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island.
Clarendon Heights
View from Buena Vista Park
Elevated view east to bay. The future Mint Hill at far right. Protestant Orphan Asylum in right distance.[#315 View from Buena Vista Heights Aug 1886. Waller St in Center Haight St Car at Pierce] Cable car is at Haight and Steiner at left.
Buena Vista
Downtown View
Elevted view north towards Bay from the Pacific Telephone Building (New Montgomery near Mission) to Russian Hill, Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe church, Old St. Mary's Church, Ss. Peter & Paul Church and St. Francis of Assisi Church. Hunter-Dulin Building, Hobart Building, Russ Building, Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery). [Sky Line San Francisco. Piggott Photo 576]
South of Market
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]
Bay Bridge
[Zan 1394 November 12th, 1936 the first traffic traveled the great steel highway between San Francisco and Oakland] San Francisco skyline from Yerba Buena Island
Montgomery & Pine
[Zan 1409 Looking West from top of the Russ Building, San Francisco] Elevated view northwest toward Golden Gate. Nob Hill, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Old St. Mary's, Chinatown, Russian Hill Apartment towers, and Golden Gate Bridge in background.
Financial District
California near Powell
View east towards Ferry Building; Sing Chong Co., St. Mary's Church Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building; giant ad for Portola festival on Yerba Buena Island at background left.
Nob Hill
2nd & Harrison
Elevated view north to Market Street and original Hobart Building; Telegraph Hill on right with Layman's Castle (German Castle) atop; Felix Adler Free Kindergarten, southeast corner, 2nd and Folsom; Rock face of 2nd Street cut in right foreground [X402]
Rincon Hill
San Francisco Skyline
View of San Francisco skyline from Yerba Buena Island. Ferry boats. 450 Sutter visible.
Yerba Buena Island
Market from Ferry Building
Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower up Market Street. From left, Pacific Telephone Building, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, Hotel Terminal, Standard Oil Building, Russ Building. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels in distance right. John L. Prior Co. Sail Makers, Johnson, Joseph & G.M. Josselyn & Co., numerous billboards, including one for Bernstein's Fish Grotto. '57' sign. Shell Building (1929) not yet built. Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop.
Financial District
View E from Russian Hill
Elevated view east, photo postcard of Washington Square, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and Layman's Castle. Layman's Castle was destroyed by fire in July, 1903. Yerba Buena Island in background. Original Ss. Peter & Paul Church at Filbert and Grant, St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Stulz Bros. Grocery, Union and Columbus (then Montgomery Ave.).[Arthur Livingston, publisher, NY 106. San Francisco, Cal. From Telegraph Hill (Sic)]
Russian Hill
San Francisco Bay
View from San Francisco Bay looking south at skyline, from Telegraph Hill to Fisherman's Wharf.
View from the Fairmont
View east to Ferry Building, Bethlehem Steel HQ (100 California), Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), International Building, Shell Building, Russ Building, Alexander Building, Standard Oil Building, Equitable Building. Old St Mary's Church and Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (later Ritz-Carlton) at bottom, Bay Bridge.
Nob Hill