View NE from Point Lobos
View looking east showing Helmet Rock, Lands End promontory, Golden Gate and Angel Island in the distance
Lincoln Park / Ft. MileyUnbuilt
Contains 4015 photos
California & Montgomery
Elevated view west up California Street from balcony of Express Building. Old St. Mary's Church at right. In the left foreground is Stevenson's Building, of 1859, named after A. J. Stevenson, of Mexican War fame (with Kennedy & Bell Carpets at street level). The next tall building to the west is the Mechanics Institute library of 1863. Painted signage is visible in this photo. The library stayed here only until 1866, when they built a new building on Post Street (their current site).[WK] (one half of a stereo view) Opposite Old St. Mary's is First Congregational Church, with Grace Church beyond at Stockton. Same image as wnp37.00593-L., but darker and with slightly different cropping. [1865 Calif St. West from Montgy SS-17] [F810 SS-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Geary & Taylor
[Geary Street, from Taylor, view East, S. F.] On the near right corner of Geary and Mason is the only known view of one of the earliest buildings to be constructed in this area. It was built as a Presbyterian Church in 1854 and went through a number of uses as a church, Sunday School, and a non-sectarian school (the Urban Academy on the likely date of this photograph)(PF), 8th Ward Market at 443 Geary. Palace Hotel in distance, spires at left are on Calvary Presybterian church. Plank sidewalks. Watkins Stereoview 2450.[SS-32 Geary St from Taylor 1880 View East SF] [F810 SS-032] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Tenderloin
Market near Van Ness
View east on Market Street between Van Ness and Polk Earthquake damage in street would indicate 1868. Conklin Bros. Circus Ad [Market St. east of near Van Ness Ave] [F810 SS-110] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
McAllister & Leavenworth
Elevated view east on McAllister toward Leavenworth from the Hall of Records. Murphy Building (Prager's Department Store) at center. Cable Car crossing McAllister from Leavenworth to City Hall Avenue. (Notably missing is the Hibernia Bank building, an empty lot here.) The two houses in the middle of McAllister between Jones and Leavenworth are, from east to west, The Waldeck lodging house at number 26, and former county tax collector and Eighth Ward supervisor Charles R. Story, who lived there since 1865. Across Leavenworth Street is the New Record lodging house, built in 1872 by owner James Cosgrove. (PF) The People's Theatre Family Resort, Yosemite House, Sterling Furniture Co. [McAllister St. SF 1890 City Hall Ave C. SS-115] [F810 SS-115] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
Bush & Montgomery
View across intersection to Platt's Hall at northeast corner Montgomery and Bush Streets, opened 1860. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, J.C. Meussdorfer Hats. Later site of Mills Building. At far right on Bush Street, Mercantile Library, Brooklyn Hotel. [Platts Hall, NE corner of Bush & Montgomery, Site Mills Building 1880? [TEH396] [F810 SS-121] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Montgomery & Pine
Elevated view southwest across intersection to SW corner of Montgomery and Pine Streets. Russ Estate (now the site of the Russ Building), American Hotel. [Russ Estate 1860 SW corner Pine & Montgomery 1860 SS-137] [F810 SS-137] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
Hyde near Bay
View north on Hyde Street on what was known as Tonquin Point or White Point, note the tracks and cable slot. Rubble-loaded wagons will drop their loads of earthquake debris at the big North Beach dump north of North Point between Taylor and Leavenworth. Wagons turned right on Beach and passed in front of the purifying house of the Equitable Gaslight Co. plant. Equitable gas holders are completely deflated and not visible in this view. [Line of horse-drawn wagons with earthquake rubble, Sailing ships, Powerhouse with smokestack, Alcatraz Island] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Fishermans Wharf
View N from Hunters Point
View from rocky hilltop on Hunters Point ridge towards India Basin, Potrero Point, Yerba Buena Island and southern long bridge along present-day 3rd Street.(GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Bayview
SF General Hospital
23rd near Vermont. Elevated view north to northeast wing of San Francisco General Hospital. In 2018, Bayshore Freeway 101 runs past on right. Potrero Hill beyond.
Potrero Hill
Bay & Van Ness
View north to Angel Island in distance. Municipal Railway F-line streetcar #38, Fontana Warehouse.
Marina
Unknown Location
Tilled field and gulley with eucalyptus trees and telephone wires. Near Laguna Honda perhaps?
San Bruno near Alemany
View north to Market Street Railway streetcar #1241, likely on fan trip, approaching Alemany Boulevard. Billboard for Stanford Hotel, fence sign for Kunst Bros. Paints on edge of Bernal Heights.
Bernal Heights
View N from Twin Peaks
Tank Hill, Carmel Street firehouse, Mount Olympus, St. Ignatius Church and Lone Mountain in distance.
Clarendon Heights
6th & Bryant
View west to northwest corner and Twin Peaks in distance. Richfield and McKale's Union 76 gas service stations. Construction Device Company warehouse and Municipal Railway bus yard on site of future Hall of Justice.
South of Market