Skyline

Contains 951 photos

California near Taylor
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California near Taylor

[No 165 San Francisco rising from Ruins April 18 1907] View southeast to ruins of Alban Towne Mansion and Portals of the Past portico, later moved to Golden Gate Park. California St cable car tracks in street. Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Temple Emanu-el with shorter reconstructed towers, Call Building, Whittell building, Humboldt Savings Bank Building, Butler Building. Flood Building, St. Francis Hotel annex under construction.

Nob Hill
View up California
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View up California

Elevated view west from Merchant's Exchange. Grace Church, Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions, Fairmont Hotel under construction. San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett architect) and German Savings & Loan Society at lower right. Powell cable car in distance, Kearny electric car, California cable car. [No. 133 California street from Montgomery St. 1906]

Financial District
Mason near Pine
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Mason near Pine

View south on Mason to Pine intersection, Mission Bay and southern hills. Mark Hopkins Estate at left. Trinity Church, chimneys of U.S. Mint, First Congregational Church, road construction underway. [San Francisco, Cal. from California and Mason Streets]

Nob Hill
View W from Mark Hopkins
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View W from Mark Hopkins

View from Top of the Mark toward Grace Cathedral, Golden Gate Bridge. Chambord Apartments, Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen), Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955; 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928).

Nob Hill
San Francisco Bay
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San Francisco Bay

View SE from boat on bay off Alcatraz Island. San Francisco city skyline.

California & Sansome
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California & Sansome

Rooftop view north to top of 343 Sansome Street (Crown Zellerbach Building,1930, Hyman & Appleton)Telegraph Hill on right, Russian hill on left, Ss. Peter & Paul Church in center. Marin Headlands and Mt. Tamalpais in background

Financial District
View NW from Nob Hill
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View NW from Nob Hill

View northwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel to Grace Cathedral, Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts, apartment towers. 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).

Nob Hill
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

View west to Ferry Building (with 'Welcome to San Francisco' sign there until late 1951)) from Bay. Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, Shell Building, Russ Building in background.

SF Bay
SF skyline
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SF skyline

View south from Sausalito across the bay.

Outside SF
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest to St Francis church at center. Stanford, Hopkins & Crocker Mansions silhouetted on Nob Hill. [No. 117 Nob Hill from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, Cal.]

Telegraph Hill
View from Old City Hall
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View from Old City Hall

[2787 Birdseye view of San Francisco toward Nob Hill, from roof of new City Hall] Dome of Hall of Records, F.V. King signs, Turkish Drug Store, Nob Hill mansions, First Congregational Church, Temple Emanu-El, Trinity Episcopal Church in distance. Cable car on McAllister St. lower left.

Civic Center
Downtown Reconstruction
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Downtown Reconstruction

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southwest, possibly from Merchant's Exchange. French Savings Bank Building (110 Sutter) Chronicle Annex, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Humboldt Bank Building under construction, City Hall in background. San Francisco Stock and Exchange building in lower foreground (Bush near Montgomery), Pacific Telephone Building (445 Bush) at right, with St. Francis Hotel behind. [DEM]

Financial District
View S from Telegraph Hill
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View S from Telegraph Hill

City Skyline, Montgomery Block, Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Whittell Building. At Center, Hall of Justice and county jail under construction, Sentinel Building (Columbus Tower) at right.

Telegraph Hill
View S from Nob Hill
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View S from Nob Hill

Elevated view south down Taylor to First Congregational Church, Baldwin Hotel, Sherith Israel Synagogue. [39849]

Lower Nob Hill
Market & Kearny
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Market & Kearny

View from the Call Building over Mutual Savings building north along Kearny Street. Rebuilding after 1906 earthquake. Fairmont Hotel, Old St. Mary's Church, Sherman Clay building, Telegraph Hill. Duplicate of wnp15.809

South of Market