Skyscraper

Contains 205 photos

Montgomery & Market
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Montgomery & Market

View looking up from street level at Wells Fargo Building (now 44 Montgomery) and Hobart Building.

Financial District
Powell & California
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Powell & California

View east on California towards Bay Bridge. Taken from a cable car headed north on Powell. International Building at left.

Nob Hill
101 Freeway near Vermont
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101 Freeway near Vermont

View north from a car traveling on US101 just north of Vermont Street exit. San Francisco skyline in the background.

Potrero Hill
3rd & Mission
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3rd & Mission

View north on 3rd Street from Mission, Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank in the background. [16879. Majestic sky-scrapers, the pride of San Francisco just before the Earthquake]

South of Market
Downtown Aerial
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Downtown Aerial

Aerial view northwest over South of Market, downtown, Russian Hill, and Marina District. Embarcadero Freeway at lower right. [15054-7]

Rincon Hill
South of Market View
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South of Market View

Elevated view west from the Crossley Building at Mission and New Montgomery, Palace Hotel at right, Call Building, and Humboldt Bank in the distance.

Financial District
Bay Bridge Construction
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Bay Bridge Construction

Elevated view looking east, probably from the Shell Building showing Yerba Buena Island and Bay Bridge construction. Ferry Building, Southern Pacific, Matson and PG&E Buildings at center. Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building.

Financial District
View Towards Market
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View Towards Market

Elevated view south toward 3rd and Market Streets, past 'Newspaper Corner,' taken from a rooftop near Geary and Kearny. From left: Chronicle Building, Examiner Building, and Call (Spreckels) Building. Monaco Photography Studio signage on side of Flannery Building. [The Chronicle, Examiner Call Buildings W.C. Billington Photo]

Downtown / Union Square
California near Kearny
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California near Kearny

View southeast from the sidewalk on California Street between Kearny and Grant, cable car, Hotel Yolanda (with Hotel Lafayette sign on west side), Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Morgan Printing Co., Hotel Los Angeles. In background left, Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, J. Harold Dollar (Balfour) Building, Bay Bridge. At right, Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery completed 1930, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Bodie's. [11056]

Chinatown
View SE from Nob Hill
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View SE from Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view of downtown San Francisco on fire showing the Call Building, Spring Valley Water Co. Building, Butler Building Whittell Building under construction at center. Temple Emanu-el in foreground.

Downtown / Union Square