California near Powell
View east to cable car approaching after crossing Stockton St. Ferry Building, Old St. Mary's Church, Sing Fat Co., Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building, bay, Yerba Buena Island in background [34]
Nob HillSkyline
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View from Nob Hill
View from Hopkins Art Institute at corner of California & Mason, looking southeast toward downtown and Mission Bay, Temple Emanu-El at center, western edge of Union Square at right, Chronicle Building (with clock tower) at far left, Examiner Building, Call Building.
Nob Hill
View from Mint Hill
View northeast from Hermann and Buchanan, Protestant Orphan Asylum and its schoolhouse at left, St. Ignatius Church and College at right, Nob Hill with prominent mansions in the distance. Same image, different cropping wnp13.264. [panorama from cemetery]
Mint Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest to Nob Hill over North Beach and Chinatown from Pioneer Park parking lot. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with single bell tower. In center distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928.
Telegraph Hill
Market near 2nd
Elevated view east, probably from the Hobart Building. Southeast corner of Standard Oil Building at far left, Flatiron Building, Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect), Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop, Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, PG&E Building completed 1925, Cunard Line sign on Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market (renamed Cunard Building in 1917), Stevenson Building at southeast corner. Underwood Building 525 Market at lower right. Sansome Street at lower left. At center left, at 130 Bush Street, is a rare view of the 20 foot wide Heineman Building, before the construction of its much larger neighbors the Adam Grant and Shell Buildings, with a painted sign for H.M. Heineman Sons, manufacturers of neckwear.
Financial District
View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest to St Francis church at center. Stanford, Hopkins & Crocker Mansions silhouetted on Nob Hill. [No.117 San Francisco from Telegraph Hill] Enno Nesemann publisher.
Telegraph Hill
Ferry Building
Blurry view wesst from water to Ferry Building with 'Port of San Francisco' sign and downtown skyline. Notably missing is the Southern Pacific's S-P sign, installed in March 1954. Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building.
SF Bay
Palace of Fine Arts
View east from Doyle Drive to Marina District. Palace of Fine Arts is San Francisco Designated Landmark 88
Presidio
Fisherman's Wharf
View from Bay Cruise boat at Pier 43 1/2 towards Russian Hill. Blurry.
Fishermans Wharf
Market near 1st
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. [Feb -12 -83, Q - 1- 102]
Downtown / Union Square
Dolores Park
View northeast over park toward Civic Center and downtown.
Mission Dolores
Montgomery & Market
Elevated view north from Palace Hotel toward Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Company Building, Hobart Building, Flatiron Building, Shell Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
View E from Nob Hill
View roughly above Powell near California (current location of Fairmont Hotel). Old St. Mary's, US Custom House in distance left. Yerba Buena Island
Nob Hill
Pacific Telephone Building
Elevated view northeast from near Howard and Third St. to building under construction. Hobart Building, Standard Oil Building at far left.
South of Market
View SW from Telegraph Hill
[Mar.-2 27. Location Rush.] View southwest from Telegraph Hill towards North Beach and Chinatown. St. Francis of Assisi Church to right of center. In distance, Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. Cathedral Apartments under construction.
Telegraph Hill