Crocker Amazon District
[Looking south across Geneva Ave. Grocker (sic) Amazon Tract] View towards San Bruno Mountain. [B-861-B]
Unbuilt
Contains 4015 photos
View NW from Southern Hills
View northwest to Mt. Davidson and Twin Peaks across Crocker-Amazon, Outer Mission, and Sunnyside neighborhoods. Agricultural fields, House of Refuge, Ingleside Jail, Sutro Forest.
Crocker Amazon
View N from Southern Hills
View north to contemporary Diamond Heights on left and Bernal Heights on right over Crocker-Amazon and Excelsior neighborhoods, greenhouses. Two new houses in foreground on Seville Street east of Naples. Sunnyside Powerhouse on far left in distance. Munich Street across bottom of image.
Crocker Amazon
Rincon Hill
View northwest past foundations and quarried hillside of Rincon Hill to downtown. John A. Roebling'Sons Wire Rope factory (with tower for water tank, northeast corner Hawthorne and Folsom), Humboldt Bank Building, Whittell Building, Call Building in distance. Possibly near Harrison and 2nd Sts. [C-1020]
View from Rincon Hill
View northeast from 1st Street between Harrison and Bryant over rocky ground and broken foundations (site now under freeway approach to Bay Bridge) to a group of about 15 small cottages on the west side of Fremont St. At center, St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Church at the northeast corner of Fremont and Harrison, which replaced a larger St. Brendan's destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Beyond is Haslett Warehouse, Folger's Golden Gate Coffee warehouse, Main Street Iron Works, Harbor Hotel, and Ferry Building. [C-1019]
Rincon Hill
2nd near Harrison
View north to downtown past remnant of Rincon Hill, Schilling Co. Building. [C-1023]
South of Market
Yerba Buena Island
View east over Engineers Camp on Goat Island, parade ground and flag pole. [329 - Military Post at Goat Island, A-3] [F810 A-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)(1880 date is erroneous.)
Yerba Buena Island
India Basin
View east. A 2017 archaeological survey done in connection with the creation of India Basin Shoreline Park suggests that this was an active ship salvage area, and that the pictured ships are the Arrow, an ark houseboat, and the Modoc. Their remains are possibly now under the Park. [Lexington carrier at Hunters Point. Modoc & Apache Riverboats at boneyard BO-30] [F810 BO-030] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
India Basin
North Beach
View northwest over original North Beach towards sand dunes of White Point at center right, with Black Point (later Fort Mason) beyond. Gold Rush brig Euphemia in center distance. [Black Point North Beach] [F810 BP-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Telegraph Hill
View W from Telegraph Hill
[Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill 1858] View west from above Greenwich Street. Humphrey's Castle (built 1852, demolished 1949) is large white house with tower atop ridge at left. [F810 BP-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (Cropped version of wnp71.1125)
Telegraph Hill
Ocean House
Ocean House close up with horses, men, and surrey. [Ocean House, 6 1/2 miles from City Hall. BU-17] [F810 BU-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Lakeshore
Ocean Beach
View northwest on Cliff Road to 2nd Cliff House. [Cliff House Seal Rocks S.F. Cal.] Steamer offshore, horse-drawn carriages & pedestrians. [F810 CH-015] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (Superior duplicate to wnp37.02460, wnp4.0558, wnp4.0552.)
Sutro Heights
Cliff Road
View to Second Cliff House. Sailing ships in distance, horse drawn carriage, pedestrians, and woman riding a white horse. [F810 CH-016] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Sutro Heights
Powell & Greenwich
View west to Russian Hill. On Powell between Greenwich & Lombard is Roman Catholic convent school run by Sisters of Presentation. [San Francisco 1855 Third convent in Calif CHU-9] [F810 CHU-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
North Beach
Nob Hill
Elevated view northwest toward Nob Hill from above Sutter and Stockton. Rebuilt Temple Emanu-El (Now location of 450 Sutter medical building) at left, Hotel Colonial Annex and Stockton Tunnel at center. In distance, early buildings on Grace Cathedral site, Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel), 1001 California Morsehead Apartments (1915), Hopkins Institute of Art, Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) and Fairmont Hotel at center distance. The Angelus, Calvert Hotel Apartments, Yorkshire Apartments, Grant Hotel, Windemere Apartments, Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel, above tunnel entrance at far right.
Downtown / Union Square