Contains 4015 photos
View west across Presidio Avenue (then Central) toward Laurel Hill (Lone Mountain) Cemetery. (location is disputed) Five workers pose in front of Sutter Street Railway Company Cable Car #19 and others. Water tower with outside stairway in distance.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
View northwest from the hill now known as Mint Hill at approximately Duboce and Webster. The image shows the result of a of a deluge/flood of water that passed overnight on March 14-15, 1862 through present day Lower Haight after a series of rainstorms. Buena Vista Hill at left, Lone Mountain in the distance at center. (JP) Watkins mammoth plate #289. (Identical to WNP71.2094 but without Behrman labeling.)
Duboce Triangle
the Alms House, Newly Planted trees,
Laguna Honda
View East on Oakdale from about Quint. 'Haley & O'Neill Homestead block 292' Hunters Point in background. Southern Pacific Railroad tunnel under Oakdale possibly not yet built.
Silver Terrace
View West on Oakdale toward Phelps. 'Haley & O'Neill Homestead', South San Francisco M.E. Church on left
Bayview
3 Soldiers resting, Officer's House.
Yerba Buena Island
Engineer camp on Goat Island (today's Yerba Buena Island). View over parade ground towards East Bay.
Yerba Buena Island
View west on Union St. to Steiner St. terminal for cable section of the Presidio & Ferries line. Henry Bartels Saloon, Belle View Exchange 2232 Union at right. 4 story water tower and windmill in distance on Union west of Pierce. Sign for Damiana Bitters, U.S. Brewery beer.
Union Street
View east towards Mission Bay from the future Mint Hill. Ships in bay in distance. Watkins Stereoview 3654 'Rincon Hill Slope, from the Orphan Asylum, San Francisco' contains the left half of this image. Watkins 3655 'Long Bridge, from the Orphan Asylum, San Francisco' contains most of the right half.
Mission Dolores
Child posing on Fort Point pier, View West to fort and Golden Gate.
View east from today's Mint Hill. Old Hall of Records (constructed 1877) at center left, Mechanics Pavilion at 8th and Market (1874-1881), Market Street at center, Yerba Buena Island in distance. Nob Hill, towers of First Congregational Church and Temple Emanu-el at left. Same image as wnp37.02634. Portions of image used in Watkins' Stereograph 3653 'Market St., view east from the Orphan Asylum' and 3652 'California Street Hill, from the Orphan Asylum'.
Mint Hill
View from foot of present Van Ness Ave. Black Point boardwalk, looking North to Alcatraz Island. [4107 Alcatraz Island, from Black Point]
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Elevated view southeast over Odd Fellows Cemetery to Lone Mountain with cross atop. Photograph taken from the cemetery's office or main water tower and dates to between 1879 and 1891. [B 1861 Lone Mountain.] (ANSR)
Lone Mountain
View north along future Calhoun Terrace toward Union Street.
Telegraph Hill
Looking North. Present-day Quarters #2 at left.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason