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View southwest over Chinatown and North Beach to Nob Hill, Mt. Sutro in background. 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. (Ansco Color transparency)
Telegraph Hill
Interior view of the Top of the Mark cocktail lounge in the Mark Hopkins Hotel with patrons looking out at view. View northwest toward Golden Gate Bridge. Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) at center, Grace Cathedral at lower left. (Ansco Color transparency)
Nob Hill
View northeast from Mills Building. Royal Globe Insurance Building, San Francisco Landmark #160 at far left (1907, Architect Howell & Stokes). Newhall Building with arched windows at left (1910, expanded 1915, Lewis Hobart architect) Exposition Building (demolished) center. Yerba Buena Island and Ferry Building in background.
Financial District
Elevated view southeast from the Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) toward Nob Hill summit. Huntington Park, Pacific-Union Club (Flood Mansion), Fairmont Hotel at center. Brocklebank Apartments, Park Lane Apartments (after 1929 addition of 3 stories, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect), William Sproule Mansion (1907-1967) northeast corner Sproule Lane and Sacramento St. on left. Mark Hopkins Hotel, Shell Building under construction in the distance. Russ Building, 450 Sutter at right. Hunter-Dulin Building (1927) in distance center. to right of center, Morsehead Apartments, 1001 California, on the southwest corner of California and Mason, Hotel Huntington. Grace Cathedral grounds and rectory at lower right. [12848]
Nob Hill
Downtown and SF Bay. Ferry Building and ferryboats in Bay. Probably taken from Mark Hopkins Hotel. Shell Building in center background, completed 1929, still under construction.
Nob Hill
View through Yerba Buena tunnel looking east to cantilever section of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.[East end of Bay Bridge Tunnel (World's Largest) Yerba Buena Island. Piggott 1195 Copyright 1936]
Yerba Buena Island
Elevated View south from Broadway toward Pacific between Kearny and Montgomery, Hall of Justice and adjacent jail at center, International Building (601 California), Hartford Building (650 California) Old St. Mary's Church, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building in background. (blurry, panorama part 2 of 4)
North Beach
Elevated View southwest from Broadway toward Pacific between Kearny and Montgomery, Hall of Justice and adjacent jail at left, Columbus Tower (Sentinel Building), at right. International Building (601 California), Hartford Building (650 California), Old St. Mary's Church in background. (blurry, panorama part 3 of 4)
North Beach
Lots of boats on the bay with San Francisco shrouded in the marine haze. Taken from a boat on the bay.
[San Francisco Skyscrapers] Downtown skyline looking south from Telegraph Hill. Old Hall of Justice at far right.
North Beach
View southwest from near the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza parking lot towards downtown SF.
Presidio
View southeast to westbound California Street Cable Ca #1 with passengers boarding and young man on bicycle holding on. Merchants Exchange, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery),Russ Building in background. Old St. Mary's Park at right behind cable car. Helvetia Hotel, Hotel Yolanda with Hotel Lafayette painted sign, Clunie Building in distance left, with Lincoln National Life ad on west side. Banners for GGIE strung over street.
Chinatown
View east on California to, from left, Sabin Pl. and 720 California St. building before 2 story addition, Old St. Mary's church, Financial Center Building, Southern Pacific Building, Bay Bridge, Merchants Exchange, Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Shell Building, Russ Building. California Street Cable Railroad Cable Car, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at right.
Chinatown
View southeast from Russian Hill toward Financial District. Intersection of Jones and Broadway in right foreground. Russ Building at center; Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (Later Bank of America,315 Montgomery with tower); Shell Building, Standard Oil Building; Hunter-Dulin Building, Pacific Telephone Building; Old St. Mary's Cathedral; Many residential rooftops. [PS 144] [From Nob Hill San Francisco]
Russian Hill
Aerial view over Transbay Terminal looking northwest to Financial District and Nob Hill.
South of Market