Contains 7784 photos
View southeast from ship in bay of Fort Mason 'Port of Embarkation' piers. Apartment houses on Russian Hill at left. (Ends of the piers are painted in dramatic red, white and blue paint scheme applied during Korean War to welcome home military personnel.)
SF Bay
Vista view north from Buena Vista Park, Lone Mountain, Lowell High School, Panhandle
Western Addition
Vista view northeasterly from Buena Vista Park
Western Addition
Distance view of Panama Pacific International Exposition from Inspiration Point in the Presidio. Tennessee Hollow in foreground.
Presidio
View northeast from Twin Peaks down Market St. to downtown, Yerba Buena Island. Corona Heights at left. German Hospital (later Franklin, CPMC Davies) just beyond. City Hall dome on horizon, center. Notably absent is Castro Theatre (1922).
Clarendon Heights
View east from Nob Hill above Powell Street between Sacramento and Clay to Ferry Building over Chinatown. Earthquake and fire ruins exist, but much reconstruction has occurred. In left center distance, Appraisers Building, Montgomery Block, U.S. Customs House under construction. Bank of Italy Building at Montgomery and Clay. Donaldina Cameron House at Sacramento and Joice street at right. At far right, Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907, Meyers and Ward, Architects). Posters on fence on Powell for the last week of David Warfield's engagement at the Alcazar Theatre and the Emporium's grand reopening on Market Street. Warfield's run concluded on October 10th and the Emporium, then California's largest store, reopened on October 1, 1908. (AS)
Nob Hill
Elevated iew northerly across Miguel Street between Beacon and Bemis toward downtown. 49A still stands in 2021.
Fairmount
View west across Church Street on Duboce Municipal Railway (Muni) 22-Line trolley bus #753 crossing the intersection. Buena Vista Park in the background.
Duboce Triangle
View northwest on Market from Sanchez. Automobile traffic and Municipal Railway (Muni) PCC streetcar #1126 passing Beck's Motel. Corona Heights in the background right.
Castro
Ocean Beach Pavilion, Seal Rock House, two windmills
Sutro Heights
View Northwest from Lone Mountain toward Presidio
Lone Mountain
Looking north from Twin Peaks reservoir, toward Golden Gate Park, Cole Valley. Grattan School at center. St Ignatius Church in center distance.
Western Addition
Elevated view northeast from California and Stockton Streets to Telegraph Hill at left. Shaari Zedek synagogue at NE corner California and Stockton at right. Hall of Justice on Portsmouth Square in background right. St. Francis of Assisi Church background left.
North Beach
View northwest (Ashbury St. on right) over Cole Valley, toward Golden Gate Park, Panhandle, St. Mary's Hospital, St. Ignatius Church, Lone Mountain and Presidio. Golden Gate and Marin Headlands in distance.
Buena Vista
View North from the North Peak of Twin Peaks, toward what would become Christmas Tree Point and parking. Dodge car on the peak, sign reads 'Car No. 12, First car shipped to California Dec 1914, now over 750,000' St. Ignatius Church, Buena Vista Park, Angel Island in the distance.
Twin Peaks