Ferry Building
View west from ferry toward the Ferry Building with 'Port of San Francisco' sign. S-P sign on Southern Pacific Building (installed 1954).
Skyline
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Embarcadero near Clay
View west at Embarcadero Center towers construction. Left to right: Bank of America Building, Behtlehem Steel Building, 650 California (Hartford Insurance Building, Embarcadero Center towers, Transamerica Pyramid, Alcoa Building.
Financial District
Powell & Sacramento
[Powell and Clay Streets in 1870 -- Girls High School on right and Telegraph Hill.] View northeast to North Beach and Telegraph Hill. St Francis of Assisi Church at center. Same image as wnp71.2486, different cropping. [F810 V-122] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
View SW from Coit Tower
View southwest to Nob Hill over North Beach and Chinatown. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with single bell tower. In right distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect 1928). At far left, 450 Sutter Building, Sir Francis Drake Hotel. At bottom center, St. Francis of Assisi Church.
Telegraph Hill
Skyline from Fort Baker
Taken from Battery Spencer in Fort Baker, Marin Headlands. Classic view of SF through the cables of Golden Gate Bridge.
SF from Marin
View of Golden Gate Bridge and SF from Marin Headlands
Outside SF
SF from Marin
View of Golden Gate Bridge and SF from Fort Barry in Marin Headlands
View from Coit Tower
View southwest to Nob Hill over Chinatown and North Beach. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels, Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with completed bell tower. In center distance Clay-Jones Apartments, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large Moving sign on roof on Stockton, near Green at lower right. At lower left, St. Francis of Assisi Church. At center, far right, Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church, Broadway near Mason. (Ansco Color transparency)
Telegraph Hill
View from Russian Hill
View southeast from roof of 1101 Green at Leavenworth (built 1930). Mark Hopkins Hotel, Brockelbank and Park Lane Apartments, Huntington Hotel at left, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect), Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) at Cathedral Apartments at center (Ansco Color transparency)
Russian Hill
San Francisco Bay
View from ferryboat of passengers on upper deck looking back towards city skyline. Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower at left center.
SF Bay
San Francisco Bay
View from ferryboat of passengers on upper deck looking back towards city skyline. Left to right: Alcatraz, Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights
SF Bay
California near Grant
View east on California at Sabin Place to approaching cable car with signage on front and on top for Pope & Talbot Co. 1949 centennial, before much of California Street was rebuilt. 720 California St. (then Hartford Insurance building) at left, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Hotel Yolanda with Hotel Lafayette sign on west wall, Russ Building, House of Lee, Yamato Sukiyaki in Sing Fat Building. Clunie Building in distance left, with Bank of America ad on west side. In distance, Bay Bridge, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop.
Chinatown
View from Huntington Hotel
View northwest from Huntington Hotel at California and Taylor toward Russian Hill and the Golden Gate. Unfinished Grace Cathedral at center, Huntington Park at right. 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) opened 1928. On northeast corner of Sacramento and Taylor at far right, 11-story building at 1190 Sacramento St. completed in 1958, under construction here.
Nob Hill
View from Huntington Hotel
View northwest from Huntington Hotel at California and Taylor toward Russian Hill, Angel Island, Alcatraz and North Beach. Grace Cathedral at left, Huntington Park at center. Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance left. On northeast corner of Sacramento and Taylor at center, 11-story building 1190 Sacramento St. completed in 1958, under construction. At lower right, Sproule Mansion (1907-1967, northeast corner of Sacramento and Sproule Lane), built for George Whittell and sold in 1917 to William Sproule (1858-1935), president of Wells Fargo Express and the Southern Pacific Railroad). It was then extensively remodeled by Bliss & Saville architects. It was demolished in November, 1967 after an unsuccessful fight for its preservation
Nob Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
View southwest from Telegraph Hill over North Beach and Chinatown toward Nob Hill. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels, Brocklebank and Park Lane Apartments. Grace Cathedral with completed bell tower, Cathedral Apartments behind. In distance right, Clay-Jones Apartments (1930), 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). At lower right Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large 'Moving' sign on roof on Stockton, near Green. St. Francis of Assisi Church at bottom left. (Ansco Color transparency)
Telegraph Hill