San Francisco Skyline
View of San Francisco skyline from Yerba Buena Island. Ferry boats. 450 Sutter visible.
Yerba Buena IslandVista
Contains 7784 photos
Market from Ferry Building
Elevated view west from Ferry Building tower up Market Street. From left, Pacific Telephone Building, Southern Pacific Building, Matson Building, Hotel Terminal, Standard Oil Building, Russ Building. Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels in distance right. John L. Prior Co. Sail Makers, Johnson, Joseph & G.M. Josselyn & Co., numerous billboards, including one for Bernstein's Fish Grotto. '57' sign. Shell Building (1929) not yet built. Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop.
Financial District
Matson Building
View from belvedere towards Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Island, ferry boats, Southern Pacific Building.
Financial District
Marina
View of Golden Gate from St. Francis Yacht Club. Sailboats in bay.
Marina
Market & Powell
Elevated view southeast across Market Street. Taken from Douglas Building. Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building, Pacific Building, 'The Light of the Western Stars' playing at the California Theatre. Many streetcars, crowded sidewalks. Flood Building at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Taylor & California
Elevated view east over Nob Hill to Bay, East Bay and Yerba Buena Island on clear day. Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club), Park Lane Apartments (at left, after 1929 addition of 3 stories, Eugene Fritz, Jr. architect) Brocklebank Apartments (1927, Weeks & Day architects), Fairmont Hotel, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Huntington Hotel at right (1924, Weeks & Day architects) and Ferry Building. Grace Cathedral Rectory at lower left.
Nob Hill
Montgomery & Greenwich
[Panorama of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill. Vallejo and Broadway wharves. (No. 11) 1348] View down to Embarcadero. Sailing ships and Contra Costa ferryboat. Chrysopolis side-wheel steamer.
Telegraph Hill
Alcatraz Island
Telephoto view from Pier 45. Golden Gate Ferry to Berkeley at right. Angel Island in background. [C.R. 1023 Alcatraz Island. SF Bay. U.S. Government Prison. Ferry Boat to Berkeley, California.]
Fishermans Wharf
Twin Peaks
[Looking down market street from Twin Peaks, San Francisco] View to Yerba Buena Island and the East Bay. Skyline, City Hall, Mint Hill, Pacific Telephone Building.
Clarendon Heights
Stockton & Geary
[Union Square San Francisco. S.P. 73] Saint Francis Hotel, Dewey Hotel, Chancellor Hotel, Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Buena Vista Park
View northwest from Buena Vista Park to Presidio, Golden Gate and Marin Headlands. Point Bonita Lighthouse. Star of the Sea Church, San Francisco Nursery for Homeless Children. Public Health Service Hospital at center. Panhandle, St. Ignatius Church, Haight-Ashbury in foreground. [Ocean Entrance To Golden Gate.]
Buena Vista
Alcatraz Island
Elevated view north to boat passing Alcatraz. Angel Island in distance. [Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay. Piggott Photo 42]
Ocean Beach
View south from Cliff House showing walkers and carriages on Cliff Road (now Point Lobos Avenue). [Roadway, Beach and Ocean from Cliff House. A View from the house, Lena Mar 4. 1905.] Left to right: Seal Rock House, Ocean Beach Pavilion, Olympic Saltwater pumping plant, Cyclers Rest, Golden Gate Park Sheehan's Tavern, and original Beach Chalet..(No windmills, so photo must date prior to 1903)
Sutro Heights
View E from Russian Hill
Elevated view east, photo postcard of Washington Square, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and Layman's Castle. Layman's Castle was destroyed by fire in July, 1903. Yerba Buena Island in background. Original Ss. Peter & Paul Church at Filbert and Grant, St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Stulz Bros. Grocery, Union and Columbus (then Montgomery Ave.).[Arthur Livingston, publisher, NY 106. San Francisco, Cal. From Telegraph Hill (Sic)]
Russian Hill
US101 near Cesar Chavez
View north on US101. Police motorcycle. Potrero Hill in background. [San Francisco Police Department]
Peralta Heights