Bay Bridge
View from ferry looking west to city skyline and Bay Bridge nearing completion.
Skyline
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Bay Bridge
View towards city skyline from a ferry boat towards Bay Bridge under construction. Towers complete and cables in place, vehicle deck being constructed between anchorage and San Francisco.
Bay Bridge
View from ferry on bay passing beneath Bay Bridge under construction. Towers complete and cables in place, vehicle deck being constructed between anchorage and San Francisco.
Bay Bridge
View from ferry boat on bay towards Bay Bridge under construction. Towers complete and cables in place, vehicle deck being constructed between anchorage and San Francisco. Yerba Buena Island at left.
Fire from SF Bay
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view from boat on bay of downtown on fire. [copyrighted 1906 by C.P. Magagnos, Alameda, Cal.] Columns of smoke. Ferry Building tower at left center.
Fire from SF Bay
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view from boat on bay of downtown on fire. [copyrighted 1906 by C.P. Magagnos, Alameda, Cal.] Columns of smoke. Ferry Building tower at left center. Handwriting at bottom 'The burning of San Francisco on the morning of April 18/ 06'
Downtown Aerial
Aerial view southwest over downtown. Ferry Building at bottom, Civic Center at upper left, Financial District high-rises at center, cemeteries, Panhandle and Golden Gate Park at top, Nob Hill hotels and apartment buildings at upper right. Heinz 57 Sign, Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building, pedestrian overpass and vehicle underpass in front of Ferry Building.
Financial District
Transbay Terminal Approach
View north on the Essex street off-ramp from the Bay Bridge near Folsom. Southern Pacific Interurban Electric Railway (IER), left, and Key System Train, right, passing each other near the Transbay (East Bay) Terminal. Telephone Company building at left, Financial District skyscrapers Hobart, Shell and Standard Oil Buildings in the distance
Rincon Hill
Bay Bridge
View from ferryboat looking west towards suspension span section of Bay Bridge nearing completion. SF city skyline.
View from Coit Tower
View south toward downtown from Coit Tower, U.S Appraisers Building at left of center.
Telegraph Hill
View 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 Apartments, Grace Cathedral with single bell tower, Cathedral Apartments behind. In center distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect 1928). At bottom left, St. Francis of Assisi Church. At bottom right, Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large Lyon sign on roof, on Stockton near Green. Far right center, Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church on Broadway near Mason.
Telegraph Hill
Bay Bridge
Bay Bridge and city skyline from ferryboat on San Francisco Bay. Ferry Building at center.
Ferry Building
Ferry Building viewed from a ferry slip located at foot of Mission St. View to northwest. Coit Tower at right center. Heinz 57 sign at left.
View from Russian Hill
View southeast from Russian Hill from future site of Ina Coolbrith Park. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Church, Broadway near Mason, lower right. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building in distance left. Hall of Justice and jail annex on Portsmouth Square at center.
Russian Hill
SF Bay
View of offshore ends of Piers 9 and 11 on the Embarcadero, taken from a boat on SF Bay. Stanford Court Apartments and Fairmont Hotel in distance. Swift's Premium Ham & Bacon, Norton, Lilly & Company, Isthmanian Steamship Lines.