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Elevated view northwest from South of Market toward 525 Market (Tishman Building, later First Market Tower) under construction at right. In background, Aetna (later McKesson) Building, St. Francis Hotel tower, Hobart building, Wells Fargo Building (44 Montgomery), Standard Oil Building (555 Market, later Chevron Tower). Intersection of 1st and Mission (Foster's Cafeteria) at lower left.
South of Market
Elevated view south toward 3rd and Market past Newspaper Corner. Chronicle Building, Examiner Building, and Call (Spreckels) Building. Monaco Photography Studio signage on side of Flannery Building. [The Chronicle, Examiner Call Buildings W.C. Billington Photo]
Downtown / Union Square
View southeast. [No. 192 Golden Gate Park -- San Francisco -- Looking South from Strawberry Hill. Turrill Photo] Inner Sunset. Mount Sutro on left, Golden Gate Heights on right. Cornelius Reynolds home with fence at today's Lincoln Way and 14th Ave with Park & Ocean rails in front.
Golden Gate Park
1906 Earthquake and Fire. Refugee camp in foreground. Intersection of Market and Laguna Streets at center. Ruins of City Hall in distance. (3-story apartment house at left center still standing in 2022.)
Mint Hill
View west to toppled monuments, probably following 1906 earthquake. At left, monument to Arthur Bunster (1830-1891) and Alinda Bunster (1830-1896). Grave removed to Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma in 1932. In background at center right, grave of William C. Woodman, 1822-1905, grave moved to San Francisco Columbarium.
Lone Mountain
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast to Earthquake ruins of Nob Hill from Geary near Mason, Fairmont Hotel in background. Same image as wnp27.1382., slightly different cropping.
Lower Nob Hill
View northeast over Cow Hollow, from Pacific Heights, to Fort Mason, San Francisco Gas Works, Alcatraz and Angel Island. House in left foreground is 2980 Vallejo near lyon, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect. Same image as wnp33.00669. [Site of the 1915 Worlds Fair at the Marina, 1912, Looking N from Pierce St. Hill]
Pacific Heights
View over Park Merced from Merced Heights, towards Lake Merced & Fort Funston. Fog bank
Merced Heights
View northeast from Mt. Davidson showing Twin Peaks, Corbett toll road, future site of Miraloma Park and Midtown Terrace. South of Market and Yerba Buena (Goat) Island in the distance at right. [View of Twin Peaks from Mt. Davidson, Looking NE about 1898]
Miraloma Park
View south from the roof of Hahnemann Hospital (California and Commonwealth) toward Camp Merritt and the 51st Iowa Volunteer encampment. Lone Mountain and Odd Fellows Cemetery in the background, Parker Avenue at left.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
Elevated view west from Montgomery. Old St. Mary's Church at center, with First Congregational Church opposite on California. California House. Cable cars terminate at Kearny. Edouart's Gallery at right. [B 517 California Street from Sansome Street (Sic)]
Financial District
Elevated view south to Seal Rock House, Ocean Beach Pavilion, Lurline or Olympic Pump Station and pier, Cycler's Rest (former Humboldt County Building at 1894 Midwinter Fair), Sheehan's Tavern, Golden Gate Park. Carville in the distance, crowd on the beach. [95 Cliff Road and Bathing Beach, from the Cliff House.]
Sutro Heights
Looking northwest toward Golden Gate Bridge and Palace of Fine Arts (at left). Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect) opened 1928. 11-story building at 1190 Sacramento St. at lower right completed in 1958.
Nob Hill
View east toward the Bay Bridge. Ferry Building and Embarcadero Freeway, International Building, 425 Montgomery, Russ Building, Standard Oil Building, Equitable Insurance Building. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at bottom.
Nob Hill
Elevated telephoto view east to Jewish Home for the Aged (later San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living), McLaren Park with LaGrande Tank (water tower) in distance.
Mission Terrace