View from Telegraph Hill
Piers 41, 43 and 43 1/2 and Alcatraz, Angel Island. At right 290 Lombard, Art Moderne apartment building, Architect: H.C. Baumann, built 1940.
Telegraph HillVista
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Lombard & Leavenworth
Looking east at Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, Garfield School
Russian Hill
Unknown Location
Two girls on street in Portola District?
1906 Fire from Corona Hts
1906 Earthquake and Fire. View east from top of Corona Heights to fire. 15th Street in middle of photo, the future Mint Hill in the distance on left. Site of McKinley School at Castro and 14th (with tents and refugees), and German Hospital (later Franklin, CPMC Davies) under construction at far left. Inferior version of image at wnp27.0110, in which more details are visible.
Corona Heights
Fire from Mint Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to approaching 1906 Earthquake Fire from Mint Hill. St. Ignatius, City Hall, Valencia Street Cable Car Powerhouse smokestack. Outbuildings of Protestant Orphan Asylum at Waller and Laguna in left foreground. Same image as wnp15.969.
Mint Hill
View from Twin Peaks
Telephoto View from twin Peaks, Corona Heights at at center, fog in the Bay. [...a cross between cream soup on a smoke screen, but in reality it's nothing but a typical SF fog, welcomed by the natives for its cooling effect in Summer, warmth in Winter. And now, with Bombing Raids a bare possibility, the frequent fogs seem like a good idea...]
Clarendon Heights
View from Nob Hill
View northeast to Powell Street M.E. Church, St. Francis of Assisi Church in distance. Layman's Castle (German Castle, Layman's Folly) on Telegraph Hill (built 1882, burned 1903) [308 Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill]
Nob Hill
Glen Canyon Aerial
View south above Portola Drive towards not yet open J. McAteer High School (later home to Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and Academy High School.) Glen Canyon, Miraloma Park and Glen Park. Bayview Hill, McLaren Park, La Grande Water Tank in distance.
Diamond Heights
Glen Canyon Aerial
View southeast above Portola toward McAteer High School/ Ruth Asawa School of the Arts football field in Glen Canyon. Miraloma Park and Glen Park, McLaren Park, La Grande Water Tank, Excelsior in distance.
Glen Park
Civic Center Aerial
View east above Gough, War Memorial Building and Opera House, City Hall, Central Freeway, State Office Building, USO Hospitality House (used for City offices before its demolition), Fox Plaza.
Civic Center
Civic Center Aerial
View northeast above Gough, War Memorial Building and Opera House, City Hall, State Office Building, Federal Office Building (later named Phillip Burton Federal Building), 100 McAllister (former Empire Hotel), Old Main Library (later Asian Art Museum), USO Hospitality House (used as San Francisco city offices before its demolition).
Civic Center
View from Telegraph Hill
View East toward Yerba Buena Island and Bay Bridge under construction [docks - ... and new suspension bridge]
Telegraph Hill
27th near Sanchez
View East on 27th Street toward Sanchez from 444 27th Street. Bernal Heights in distance
Noe Valley
View from Lincoln Park
View toward Golden Gate Bridge under construction. Mile Rocks light at left, Lands End at right
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
View N from Russ Building
[Part of San Francisco - Alcatraz Island in background] View northerly toward North Beach from Russ Building rooftop, Coit Tower, Alcatraz, Portsmouth Square
Financial District