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View from Mark Hopkins
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View from Mark Hopkins

View towards North Beach and Telegraph Hill

Nob Hill
View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View to downtown from Twin Peaks

Midtown Terrace
City view
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City view

Flags at half mast for President Roosevelt's death: view from Mark Hopkins southwest to Twin Peaks

Nob Hill
City view
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City view

Flags at half mast for President Roosevelt's death: View northeast from Russ Building(?) to Embarcadero, Treasure Island. Merchants Exchange Building, Assessor's Building, Old Federal Reserve Bank, J. Harold Dollar Building (351 California). Merchants Exchange Building bottom left.

Financial District
City view
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City view

Flags at half mast for President Roosevelt's death: view south to Telephone Building

Financial District
City view
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City view

Flags at half mast for President Roosevelt's death: view north to Telegraph Hill from Russ Building (?). Top of Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, demolished 1969) at lower left. Assessor's Building, Old Federal Reserve Bank at right. Merchants Exchange Building center bottom.

Financial District
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southeasterly from Union Street, Telegraph Hill, Piers 19, 17, and 15. Piers 17 and 15 were conjoined in 1956. Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island in background.

Telegraph Hill
Marina
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Marina

View northeast from the Presidio; Alcatraz, Angel Island, Fort Mason in background.

Cow Hollow
View from Montgomery near Bush
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View from Montgomery near Bush

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view southwest to approaching fire from South of Market. From left, Crocker Building, Mondadnock Building, Chronicle Building and Annex, Mutual Savings Bank Building. At lower left Masonic Temple with partially collapsed north wall. At lower center, Mechanics Institute, 31 Post built 1866, showing earthquake damage to east wall. [No. 28. Fire. Third and Mission]

Downtown / Union Square
Mason near Market
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Mason near Market

Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Fairmont Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market.[No. 15. Mason St. north from Market]

Tenderloin
1906 Downtown Damage
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1906 Downtown Damage

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [No. 91.] View down California from Fairmont Hotel. Ferry Building at left, Grace Church at center. Kohl, Merchants Exchange and Mills Buildings along Montgomery St.

Nob Hill
Fort Point
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Fort Point

View north over Fort Point and lighthouse keepers' residences on hill, with Golden Gate and Marin Headlands beyond. [B 189. Birds Eye View of Fort Winfield Scott, Golden Gate. S. F. Watkins' New Boudoir Series Yo Semite and Pacific Coast, 427 Montgomery Street]

Presidio
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

View west from water toward Ferry Building, Fairmont Hotel, piers, sea gulls, and wake of a ferry. [Worden. S.F.]

Fort Point
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Fort Point

[2531 Across the Golden Gate, San Francisco, looking over the Fort.] Schooner in Gate, Marin Headlands.

Presidio
Embarcadero
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Embarcadero

[3525 San Francisco Bay--Goat Island and Contra Costa Mountains--from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, Cal.] Sailing ships docked at piers, warehouses, Yerba Buena Island.

Telegraph Hill