View from Telegraph Hill
View north to Meiggs' Wharf, North Beach, houses, ships at anchor, Alcatraz Island.
Telegraph HillStereoview
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Portsmouth Square
Elevated view northwest over plaza to horse drawn carriages, cable car terminus with cable car on platform, trees
Chinatown
Geary & Kearny
Market, Geary and Kearny Streets. View southeast across Market St. to Palace Hotel. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated September, 1875) in foreground, portion of Grand Hotel at far left, Nucleus Block building at right, in early stages of construction. Men standing on sidewalk near street lamp. Horse drawn carts. Variant of wnp24.261a.
Downtown / Union Square
California near Dupont
Looking east. St. Mary's Church at Grant (Dupont) corner, Edouart and Cobb Photographic Art Gallery building at Kearny corner, First Congregational Church (until 1872, then Academy of Sciences) at right, ships docked, little boy in foreground, horse drawn cart
Chinatown
View from Telegraph Hill
View west to houses, Black Point (Fort Mason), Tonquin Point. Entry arch and tollbooth for Bay Shore & Fort Point Road is on White Point, center right, where sandy portion begins at water.
Telegraph Hill
View S from Cliff House
View south to people, Sutro Heights rocks. Seal Rock House & Ocean Pavilion [2038 Seal Rock House]
Sutro Heights
Old Civic Center
Elevated view west from Murphy Building (Jones and Market) to McAllister St., Hall of Records, City Hall before erection of dome and rotunda, City Hall Avenue. Corner of Mechanics Pavilion at far upper left. Turkish Drug at far right. Detail from stereoview card with caption "343 New City Hall, San Francisco"
Tenderloin
View NW from Pacific Heights
View northwest from Pacific Heights, about Broadway and Fillmore, toward the Golden Gate. Pierce Street runs across the view. At left Casebolt Mansion at 2727 Pierce between Vallejo & Green still stands (SF Landmark 51). Green Street not yet cut through, intersection at far right is Pierce & Union. Corner mansion with gardens front and back was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Four story windmill and water tank across Union. Chapel at left was built in 1887 with funds provided by Stephen S. Smith, deacon of Plymouth Congregational Church, publisher of the Pacific. In 1895, became the Pierce Street Congregational Church. Presidio, Fort Point, shoreline with tidal slough, sailing vessel, Marin Headlands in distance [Golden Gate, The Bay of San Francisco]
Pacific Heights
Pioneer Woolen Mills
View southeast from Black Point (today's Fort Mason) to Pioneer Woolen Mills on site of present Aquatic Park.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View from Telegraph Hill
Elevated view southeast to U.S. Marine Hospital (Spear and Harrison), Selby Shot Tower (First and Howard) and Rincon Hill in distance. Telegraph Hill houses foreground [Panorama from Telegraph Hill (No. 13), Marine Hospital, Shot Tower, 1350, California (handwritten in pencil), Watkins' Pacific Coast, 22 & 26 Montgomery, opposite Lick House entrance, San Francisco.]
Telegraph Hill
Woodward's Gardens
View south over Woodward's Gardens to Bernal Heights and beyond in distance. Various garden buildings. [599. Moonlight Effects from Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco.]
Mission
View from Lafayette Park
View northeast from near Lafayette Park. Four story building at left is the Parisian Hotel c.1871 (became Abbotsford House 1876, Broadway between Larkin & Polk). To right, Spring Valley Grammar School (S.C. Bugbee & Son Architect 1865-1866), Larkin St. Presbyterian Church (at Pacific, 1864). On Russian Hill, large house with dark roof is Rudolph Lawler house, SW corner Green & Leavenworth built 1861. In front of it is J. Shade Duncan house c.1857, to its right with Mansard roof and cupola (NW corner Vallejo & Leavenworth), Jabez Clay house. At lower left with Mansard roof, W.C. Talbot house (S.C. Bugbee & Son 1872 NE Corner Jackson & Franklin). [San Francisco and Environs from Holliday (Sic) Heights 2170] Similar to wnp37.00819. ("Holladay Heights" 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay).[WK]
Pacific Heights
Hunters Point
Sidewheel steamer Montana in dry dock, possibly being repaired. Men standing on top of vessel. Same image, different cropping as wnp37.01357.
Hunters Point
View S from Nob Hill
View South from Sacramento & Taylor. Houses, horse drawn cart, Mission Bay, Pt San Quentin, Hunters Pt. in distance ["California, No. 51, Panoramic View of San Francisco - No. 9, Taken from the corner of Sacramento and Taylor Sts., published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York"]
Nob Hill
Howard & New Montgomery
Howard Street across from New Montgomery, Church of the Advent (Episcopal)(Muybridge 441)[Helios]
South of Market