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Sansome & Pine
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Sansome & Pine

Elevated view southeast. At left, John Wright & Co. Pick Manufacturers, 13-15 Fremont St., foundries; Rincon Hill and Sailors' Hospital in background.

Financial District
View of Lick House
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View of Lick House

View southwest from Cosmopolitan Hotel. Lick House at corner of Sutter & Montgomery center, Masonic Temple before addition of towers at left, Starr King Church in center distance. [179. San Francisco -From the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Looking South-West. Masonic Temple. Lick House.]

Financial District
Fire from Nob Hill
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Fire from Nob Hill

[Fire near Western Union office Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co. No 113] View east to Merchants Exchange building at left, smoke from 1906 Earthquake fire. Mills Building on right. Taken from near Pine and Powell. Goldberg Bowen Grocery.

Nob Hill
Fire from Nob Hill
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Fire from Nob Hill

[City burning beyond the Merchants Exchange. Copyright 1906 Pillsbury Picture Co. no. 129] View northeast from near Pine and Powell. From left Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building, San Francisco Savings Union (California & Spring), Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Goldberg Bowen Grocery on Pine St.

Nob Hill
View from Bay
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View from Bay

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Italian quarter burning. Copyright 1906. Pillsbury Picture Co. #149] View toward docks and Russian Hill.

Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View from Market and Spear after 1906 Earthquake, ruins in foreground.

Financial District
Mint Hill
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Mint Hill

View from Carona Heights. New U.S. Mint, Bay Bridge, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building in distance.

Corona Heights
Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

View from tower with workman toward San Francisco. Road bed under construction.

Mason & California
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Mason & California

View northwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel toward Golden Gate past Huntington Park. Grace Cathedral rectory and grounds at left. Chambord Apartments, Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Roof of Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) at bottom right. [Photo furnished through courtesy Burlington Route and Western Pacific R.R.]

Nob Hill
Corona Heights
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Corona Heights

View to downtown, Mint Hill, Bay Bridge past McKinley School, Franklin Hospital.

Corona Heights
View from Upper Market
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View from Upper Market

Telephoto view northeast from Upper Market toward Downtown. Alvarado School, Noe Valley in foreground. U.S. Mint, City Hall at center.

Upper Market
Bayshore near 3rd
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Bayshore near 3rd

[Main artery of the city from the south is Bayshore Boulevard, shown here looking north at the intersection with Third Street]

Candlestick Point
View from Potrero Hill
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View from Potrero Hill

Telephoto view east over Potrero Hill toward San Francisco Bay, Oakland and East Bay Hills. Oil tanker in the bay. St. Teresa of Avila Church at center at corner of 19th and Connecticut. View from approx. DeHaro and 19th Streets

Potrero Hill
View from Corona Heights
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View from Corona Heights

View toward Downtown from Corona Heights. [To Level Off Hill to Prevent Slide - City and WPA officials have taken steps to level the crest of Red Rock Hill (sic) to prevent tons of dirt from rolling down on houses pictured under the cliff here.]

Corona Heights
View from Fairmont
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View from Fairmont

View East down Sacramento Street (with cable car) toward the Financial District

Nob Hill