Contains 19 photos
Large Standard Oil high rise (later Chevron Tower) construction at 575 Market opposite Sutter Street. Elevated view (probably from 44 Montgomery) looking down to Market Street, Bay Bridge in background. Balboa Building at lower right, 555 Market (1964 Standard Oil Building) at left.
Financial District
View Northwest Towards Russian Hill from Pacific Telephone Building. From lower left, Palace Hotel, Crocker Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, Hobart Building, Russ Building. Telegraph Hill, Mills Building and Standard Oil Building at right. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Old St. Mary's Cathedral and Russian Hill with large apartment building under construction at upper left. [From the Telephone Building DPW A628]
South of Market
View west from Ferry Building. Streetcars, Hotel Terminal, Southern Pacific Building, pedestrian bridge at right. [5928]
Financial District
Top of the Mark Panorama 1, View east to Russ Building, Standard Oil Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, and Financial District. Southern Pacific Building, Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop, Matson & PG&E Buildings in distance left. Bay Bridge beyond.
Nob Hill
View north from South of Market toward 575 Market (Chevron Tower/ Standard Oil Building) under construction. Financial District skyscrapers, Hunter-Dulin, Balboa, Hobart, Wells Fargo (44 Montgomery), Bank of America (555 California), Russ Building, Old Standard Oil Building, 555 Market (Standard Oil/Chevron Tower), Transamerica Pyramid, Crown-Zellerbach Building all visible.
South of Market
Elevated view west from Embarcadero to Hyatt Regency hotel under construction. Mutual Benefit Life Building (One California, built 1969) in background.
Financial District
Elevated view west from Ferry Building to Hyatt Regency hotel (John Portman, architect) under construction at Embarcadero and Market. Mutual Benefit Life Building (One California, built 1969) at left.
Financial District
Aerial view west to Ferry Building, ferry boats, pile driver construction on ferry slip, produce district, Nob Hill and skyline of San Francisco. At left, Southern Pacific Building (completed 1917), Standard Oil Building (completed 1922), Balfour Bldg. (later J. Harold Dollar Bldg., completed 1920). Heinz 57 sign, Pacific Hotel at lower left.
View east to approaching California Street Cable Railroad Co. car. In distance, Financial Center Building (later Omni Hotel), Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, now demolished), Commercial Union Assurance Building (315 Montgomery), Shell Building, Russ Building. Author Thomas Mann opera house lecture poster at left. At left, 720 California St. building. At right, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building. Clunie Building with Lincoln National Life ad on west side, Sing Fat Co. In distance, Southern Pacific Building, Bay Bridge tower. Yolanda Hotel with Hotel Lafayette sign on west side, Helvetia Hotel. [California St. Cable Car Chinatown and Financial District San Francisco. Piggott 38 504]
Chinatown
View south from Pioneer Park to skyline. Shell Building, Standard Oil Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Pacific Telephone Building, Hobart Building, Russ Building, Chronicle Building and Annex, Call Building. [San Francisco as seen from Telegraph Hill Zan 103]
Telegraph Hill
View of Nob Hill from Sir Francis Drake Tower. Mark Hopkins hotel at center, Fairmont Tower, Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill at right
Downtown / Union Square
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [No 48. Southeast from Bush & Powell Sts EF-78] From left, ruins of Temple Emanu-El, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Call Building, Whittell Building, Spring Valley Water Co. Building, Butler Building, Union Square and Dewey Monument. MJB Coffee 'Why' ad on wall] [F810 EF-078] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
View north toward Downtown from near Carolina and 20th.
Potrero 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 southwest toward Financial District. Sailboat in foreground.