
Telegraph Hill
Elevated view west to Filbert Steps on Telegraph Hill. Wooden stairs, houses, shack
Telegraph HillContains 4015 photos
Elevated view west to Filbert Steps on Telegraph Hill. Wooden stairs, houses, shack
Telegraph HillLooking 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
ChinatownView 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 HeightsView southeast from Black Point (today's Fort Mason) to Pioneer Woolen Mills on site of present Aquatic Park.
Aquatic Park / Ft. MasonView 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 HeightsView 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 HillR. K. Rogers' Residence. Man standing by horse and carriage, garden, hills in distance
Duboce TriangleView Northwest from about 2nd and Cabrillo. Camp Merritt was an army encampment on site of former Bay District Race Course for soldiers on their way to the Philippines. Star of the Sea Church, French Hospital, Presidio slopes and distant profile of Marin Headlands and Mt. Tamalpais [General view Bay District Camp No. 1]
Richmond InnerSea Cliff neighborhood. View towards Golden Gate Bridge and Presidio.
SeacliffView south from Twin Peaks toward Mt. Davidson, Stanford Heights Reservoir and Miraloma Park.
Upper MarketView west across Van Ness and up Oak Street to California Volunteers Memorial by Douglas Tilden at Van Ness and Market Streets, later moved to Market and Dolores Streets in 1925. Note advertisements in the background for Ghirardelli's and the Alcazar Theater, on lot where Masonic Temple would later be built. At right, rear of St. Cecile Hotel on Fell St.
Civic CenterPioneer Monument by F.H. Happersberger located at Marshall Square near Hyde and Grove Streets. The French cannon in the foreground was a Spanish-American war prize and is now at the Presidio of San Francisco.
Civic CenterMarket street view of Palace Hotel after 1906 earthquake
South of MarketView of Corona Heights from Twin Peaks 1920-11-20
Clarendon HeightsView of [Twin Peaks of San Francisco Zan 1704]
Noe Valley