Skyline From Yerba Buena
View southwest toward Ferry Building and Telegraph Hill.
Yerba Buena IslandSkyline
Contains 951 photos
Downtown view
Elevated view east past 'skyscrapers' of Financial District to Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island and East Bay Hills on a clear day. Major buildings, from left, Financial Center Building at Montgomery and California, Pacific National Bank Building, Commercial Union Assurance Bldg.(315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Mills Building and Mills Tower, Alexander Building, Standard Oil Building, Shell Building, [Treasure Island (1939 World Fair) Financial District- San Francisco Bay Bridge. Piggott Photo 509?]
Downtown / Union Square
View of Telegraph Hill
[Telegraph Hill, San Francisco] Elevated view north on Montgomery from near Sacramento. North Beach, Gasworks, Alcatraz and Angel Island in distance left . Foreground, Portsmouth Square, Hall of Justice and County Jail, Montgomery Block. Possibly taken from the Russ Building.
Chinatown
Union Square
Postcard view of woman next to framed photograph showing elevated view southeast over Union Square Park with Dewey Monument, from Powell and Post Streets.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Rincon Hill
[View from the Residence of Bishop Kip, Rincon Hill, S. F. 706] 338 2nd Street. View northwest to rear of Howard Street Methodist Church at center. Houses along Folsom St., including J. Parrott house, 620 Folsom, M. Latham house, 638 Folsom. Rear of Starr King's First Unitarian Church and Union Square in middle distance next to left spire of Howard Street Church. Duplicate of wnp37.00734. Cropped from larger image, see wnp71.2146.
South of Market
Market near Taylor
Elevated view north across Market to track of Market St Railroad. Spire of Second Congregational Church, later known as Plymouth Church, at left. Tenderloin, at the time known as St. Ann's Valley. Nob Hill in the background with no mansions. Inscription says 1865, but is more likely 1866 because of railroad ties. Lawrence and Houseworth No. 147, 'San Francisco, from cor. Market and Sixth Sts., Looking North to Powell and California streets.' is same image with different cropping. [TEH82? T.E. Hecht, Market St. Bet. Taylor & Mason Sts 1865 SS-76]
Market & Mason
[TEH83 T.E. Hecht 430 35th Ave, Market & Mason Sts. 1865 SS-77] View north across Market to track of Market St. Railroad. Tenderloin, at the time known as St. Ann's Valley. Nob Hill in the background with no mansions. Inscription says 1865, but is more likely 1866 because of railroad ties piled at right, and finished state of Temple Emanu-el. Lawrence and Houseworth No. 148, 'San Francisco, from cor. Market and Sixth Sts., Looking North to corner Stockton and California streets.' is same image with different cropping.
Market near Powell
Elevated view north across Market, St. Ignatius Church (1862, on the right), Temple Emanu-El (1864, center distance). Between Powell and Stockton. Tin, Copper & Sheet Iron Manufacturer, Lawton & Co. Carriage Factory. Starr King's Unitarian Church in distance far right. [TEH86 T.E. Hecht 430 35th Ave., Market St. in 1865 bet. Powell & Stockton Sts. SS-93]. Inscription says 1865, but it's 1866.
2nd near Folsom
View north from Rincon Hill to Nob Hill, Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill in distance. St. Francis of Assisi Church on horizon right. Masonic Temple before addition of tower. Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869) on Russian Hill. Horsecar tracks on Folsom.
Rincon Hill
Market & Powell
Elevated view north on Powell to Nob Hill.Temple Emanu-El on right. Wine & liquor store, Tin, Copper & Sheet Iron Manufacturer lower right. Same image as Houseworth stereoview 504 Powell Street from the Lincoln Schoolhouse'. [TEH856 T. E. Hecht SS-156, Powell St. in 1865 & Market]
Downtown / Union Square
View of Nob Hill
[TEH497 View from Mill's [Sic] Bldg. T. E. Hecht] Elevated view west from Mills Building, Bush & Sansome, of blocks between California and Sutter. Temple Emanu-El. California Theatre and Hotel (1889). Mark Hopkins, Stanford Mansions, Grace Church, Old St. Mary's Cathedral.
Financial District
Bush & Battery
Elevated view west down Sutter from Shell Building; Standard Oil and Russ buildings. Adam Grant Building roof at bottom right. In distance, St. Francis and Sir Francis Drake Hotels, 450 Sutter, Fairmont Hotel, Brocklebank Apartments.
Financial District
Downtown aerial
Elevated view east to Fairmont Hotel and Pacific Union Club (former Flood Mansion) in foreground; at lower left, Park Lane Apartments (after 1929 addition of 3 stories, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect), behind it Brocklebank Apartments (1927, Weeks & Day architects), Mark Hopkins Hotel at right. Skyscrapers along Montgomery Street including Hunter Duling Building, Alexander Building, Russ Building, California Commercial Union Building (315 California). Recently completed Shell Building (1929, George Kelham architect), Pacific National Bank Building just beyond Brocklebank (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, completed 1930, demolished 1969), and Standard Oil Building. PG&E and Matson Buildings at far left. U.S. Navy battleships and aircraft carriers anchored in Bay.(AS)
Nob Hill
View S from Nob Hill
[View of San Francisco, from California Street Hill, Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] Baldwin Hotel, Trinity Episcopal Church, Old US Mint, First Congregational Church, 3rd Baptist Church at left.
Nob Hill
Mason & Market
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Nob Hill mansions, Fairmont Hotel, St. Francis Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market. [No. 15 Mason St. North from Market St 1906]
South of Market