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Clement & 21st Ave
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Clement & 21st Ave

View southeast over Paton's dairy (variously called Old Park Farm and Richmond Dairy) to Affiliated Colleges (today's UCSF) in distance. Mt. Sutro on left and Strawberry Hill on right. Sand dunes, cows, windmill.

Richmond Outer
California & Kearny
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California & Kearny

Elevated view west over California Street Cable car at original terminus, California House, Old St Mary's. Opposite Old St. Mary's is First Congregational Church, with Grace Church beyond at Stockton. In building at lower left, E. Hartog Law & Collection office, H. Kenitzer Architect, L.R. Ellert & Co, Druggists. At right Alexander Carpenter Shop, W.W. Blake Painter, Florists, T.N. Dunphy & Co. Bill Posters. [342 California St. Cable Road from Kearny north]

Financial District
Corbett Road/Twin Peaks
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Corbett Road/Twin Peaks

View East across Mission District, to Potrero Hill

Upper Market
View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

View towards Telegraph Hill from above Hyde between Lombard and Greenwich. Washington Square, center right, with major landscaping completed April, 1869. Toland Medical College and Home for the Inebriate in distance left. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex at center on Powell. Same image as wnp71.1478, with significantly different cropping.

Russian Hill
Presidio
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Presidio

View northwest to Golden Gate, Main Post, newly planted trees. At bottom right, salute battery, used for firing salutes.

Presidio
Presidio
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Presidio

View east along undeveloped shoreline towards Black Point and Russian Hill. This is the future site of Crissy Field. Fort Point Life Saving Station (built 1889) at right.

Presidio
View NW from Mint Hill
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View NW from Mint Hill

View northwest from the hill now known as Mint Hill at approximately Duboce and Webster. The image shows the result of a of a deluge/flood of water that passed overnight on March 14-15, 1862 through present day Lower Haight after a series of rainstorms. Buena Vista Hill at left, Lone Mountain in the distance at center. (JP) Watkins mammoth plate #289. (Identical to WNP71.2094 but without Behrman labeling.)

Duboce Triangle
Laguna Honda hospital
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Laguna Honda hospital

the Alms House, Newly Planted trees,

Laguna Honda
Presidio
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Presidio

Artillery drill at foot of Old Parade Ground, View Northwest to Golden Gate. Present Lincoln Blvd & Halleck St.

Presidio
Oakdale near Quint
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Oakdale near Quint

View East on Oakdale from about Quint. 'Haley & O'Neill Homestead block 292' Hunters Point in background. Southern Pacific Railroad tunnel under Oakdale possibly not yet built.

Silver Terrace
Yerba Buena Island
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Yerba Buena Island

Engineer camp on Goat Island (today's Yerba Buena Island). View over parade ground towards East Bay.

Yerba Buena Island
Dolores & Market
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Dolores & Market

View east towards Mission Bay from the future Mint Hill. Ships in bay in distance. Watkins Stereoview 3654 'Rincon Hill Slope, from the Orphan Asylum, San Francisco' contains the left half of this image. Watkins 3655 'Long Bridge, from the Orphan Asylum, San Francisco' contains most of the right half.

Mission Dolores
Fort Point
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Fort Point

Child posing on Fort Point pier, View West to fort and Golden Gate.

View from Mint Hill
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View from Mint Hill

View east from today's Mint Hill. Old Hall of Records (constructed 1877) at center left, Mechanics Pavilion at 8th and Market (1874-1881), Market Street at center, Yerba Buena Island in distance. Nob Hill, towers of First Congregational Church and Temple Emanu-el at left. Same image as wnp37.02634. Portions of image used in Watkins' Stereograph 3653 'Market St., view east from the Orphan Asylum' and 3652 'California Street Hill, from the Orphan Asylum'.

Mint Hill
Fort Mason
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Fort Mason

View from foot of present Van Ness Ave. Black Point boardwalk, looking North to Alcatraz Island. [4107 Alcatraz Island, from Black Point]

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason