Bayshore near 3rd
[Main artery of the city from the south is Bayshore Boulevard, shown here looking north at the intersection with Third Street]
Candlestick PointUnbuilt
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Lombard & Polk
View north down Polk to Fontana Warehouse; D. Ghirardelli Mustard works; Russian Hill homes; Alcatraz in distance
Russian Hill
Larkin & Turk
Elevated view northwest to line of Haynes automobiles extending two blocks on Turk St.; California Hall in background; At right, Hotel Belmont 730 Eddy; St. Mark's Lutheran Church on hill. Adams School, 750 Eddy Street (built 1910), later part of City College of San Francisco, peak-roofed building at right.
Civic Center
Van Ness & Bay
Driver signaling for a left turn. Fort Mason in background.
Marina
Van Ness & McAllister
Hotel Van Ness; streetcar; St. Mary's in background
Civic Center
California Street
Ferries & Cliff House steam train with four passenger cars, somewhere in Richmond District dunes. Man and two boys (Levin family?) crouching in sand below tracks. Hard to locate because right-of-way was nearly identical for about thirty blocks. (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
View from Lone Mountain
View north across Point Lobos Road (Geary St.) near intersection of Cook Street. Poles in the distance are for electric streetcar on Sacramento Street. Edge of Laurel Hill Cemetery. Children's Hospital (The Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses, opened on California Street in 1887) at upper left.
Lone Mountain
Public Health Service Hospital
Presidio, view northeast above Lobos Creek toward original Marine Hospital (later the Public Health Services Hospital), opened 1875. [Muybridge, Photo. Bradley & Rulofson, Publishers] Men harvesting crops, complex of wooden buildings in background. Construction work in progress.
Presidio
30th Ave & El Camino Del Mar.
Sea Cliff neighborhood. Two 1928 Hudson autos driven by models. Intersection of 30th Avenue and El Camino Del Mar at upper left. Photo taken from El Camino Del Mar median.
Seacliff
View from Lone Mountain
View southwest over Richmond toward Strawberry Hill and Sweeny Observatory in Golden Gate Park. Right side of a panorama (see wnp4.1486). de Young Museum, Chutes Theatre and park, Drake's (Prayer Book) Cross, Beertown bars on Fulton.
Lone Mountain
View from Lone Mountain
View southwest to Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park over Richmond District. Left side of a panorama (see wnp4.1485). Bandshell of Spreckels Temple of Music, de Young Museum, Sweeny Observatory, Beertown bars on Fulton.
Lone Mountain
Lone Mountain
[dpw A5064 1-9-37. Parker Ave. Slide - Excavation. Top of Hill - Near College - By Eaton & Smith] Machinery grading land beside road. St. Ignatius Church behind.
Lone Mountain
Fillmore near Marina Blvd
Woman in automobile. Fort Mason, power plant with belching smokestack, SF Gas & Light Co. gas company office building and circular gasometer in background.
Marina
View from Pacific Heights
View northeast from about Lyon & Broadway. Harbor View, future site of Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). House in foreground left, near Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect.
Pacific Heights
Baker near Greenwich
View south on Baker toward Pacific Heights. 2898 Broadway (Bliss & Faville, architects built 1899) is on horizon at northeast corner of Broadway and Baker, still stands 2023. Upper left is rear of Grant Primary School, which was on Pacific Street. Northbound Steam Dummy pulls car in distance.
Cow Hollow