Skyline

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Fire from Nob Hill
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Fire from Nob Hill

View southeast of 1906 fire after earthquake, South of Market burning. Palace Hotel, Chronicle Building and Annex, Shreve Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Call, Whittell, City of Paris Building, Temple Emanu-El, Third Baptist Church. Taken from Stanford or Mark Hopkins mansion.

Nob Hill
Bush near Stockton
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Bush near Stockton

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast to fire south of Market Street after 1906 earthquake. Palace Hotel, Chronicle Annex, Hearst Examiner Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Call Building, Shreve Building, Goldberg Bowen sign at left.

Chinatown
View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View northeast toward Corona Heights and Downtown, Bay Bridge.

Clarendon Heights
Upper Market View
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Upper Market View

View northeast toward Downtown from Market near 25th. Alvarado School and Castro Hill to right of center.

Upper Market
Pine & Stockton
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Pine & Stockton

View southeast. Nucleus House at 3rd and Market in distance left, Rincon Hill in distance center. Part of a four part panorama. [Panorama from Pine and Stockton Sts. 974]

Nob Hill
Castro & 21st
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Castro & 21st

Elevated view northeast. Castro Street cable car, C. W. Clark's grocery on corner. New U.S. Mint, downtown in distance. See also wnp67.0243.

Eureka Valley
SF Bay
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SF Bay

SF Skyline from the bay, a parade of small ships

View from Hobart Building
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View from Hobart Building

Elevated view west up Post from the Hobart Building. Mechanics Institute at lower left. At center, Whittell Building, St. Francis Hotel (with northern addition completed in 1914), Union Square, Shreve Building, Head Building, H. Liebes & Co. At far right center, Temple Emanu-el, as rebuilt after 1906 earthquake and fire, and before its replacement in 1929 with the 450 Sutter building. In upper left corner, City Hall dome under construction. On horizon, Buena Vista Park, Mt. Sutro, St. Ignatius Church, Lone Mountain,

Financial District
Upper Market
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Upper Market

View northeast to woman posing on Market Street (Portola Drive) just south of Corbett. View of Noe Valley, Castro Hill, and Bay Bridge behind her

Upper Market
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

View southwest from Pioneer park parking lot, man looking through pay binoculars, Mt. Sutro in background right. In left and center distance, Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with one bell tower. Clay-Jones Apartments, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928.

Telegraph Hill
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

View west from Pioneer Park parking lot, Nob Hill, Russian Hill apartment towers, pay binoculars.

Telegraph Hill
View North to Russian Hill
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View North to Russian Hill

Elevated view northwest from around Kearny and Market; Stanford Mansion on Nob Hill at upper left, Russian Hill beyond. Grace Church in center distance with high bell tower. Old St. Mary's church, Old Poodle Dog Restaurant and California Hotel and Theater at far right center.

Downtown / Union Square
View from 1st & Howard
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View from 1st & Howard

[B 1803 Birdseye View of San Francisco, towards Nob Hill and Telegraph Hill] From Selby Shot tower? Peter Donahue's Union Foundry Block, Joshua Hendy Machine Works at right at Fremont and Mission. St Francis of Assisi Church and Layman's Castle on Telegraph Hill on horizon.

South of Market
Downtown Aerial
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Downtown Aerial

View northeast from above Market Street near 3rd St. Russ Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, Chronicle Building, Hobart Building, Palace Hotel, Call Building, Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Island.

Downtown / Union Square
Alcatraz Island
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Alcatraz Island

[320--San Francisco from Alcatraz Island.] Soldiers posed while loading a 15-inch caliber Rodman cannon in Battery Prime at southeast tip of island. Telegraph Hill and North Beach in distance.