Elevated view east past 'skyscrapers' of Financial District to Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island and East Bay Hills on a clear day. Major buildings, from left, Financial Center Building at Montgomery and California, Pacific National Bank Building, Commercial Union Assurance Bldg.(315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Mills Building and Mills Tower, Alexander Building, Standard Oil Building, Shell Building, [Treasure Island (1939 World Fair) Financial District- San Francisco Bay Bridge. Piggott Photo 509?]
Downtown / Union Square
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Larkin near Chestnut
[J-21 Fort Mason and San Francisco Bay] View northwest from Russian Hill over Fort Mason to Marin Headlands, sailing ships, Fontana Warehouse. Belvedere Island in right background.
Russian Hill
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Russian Hill
[Russian Hill and Mt. Tamalpais in the background. San Francisco, Cal. Piggott Photo] Telephoto view past Russian Hill to Marin County. Guadalupe Church, apartment towers.
Chinatown
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View from Telegraph Hill
[San Francisco Bay from Telegraph Hill 26] Looking to Marin County across SF Bay from Pioneer Park parking lot.
Telegraph Hill
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View from Twin Peaks
[San Francisco East from Twin Peaks, R33-PV] View down Market, Bay Bridge in background.
Clarendon Heights
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View from Twin Peaks
View northwest from Christmas Tree Point, Corona Heights at left, Market Street at center. [San Francisco From Twin Peaks. PP (Pillsbury Pictures) Co No. 983]
Clarendon Heights
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O'Farrell & Van Ness
1906 Earthquake and Fire, [View down O'Farrell from Van Ness] Right side of panorama. Whittell Building, Call Building, earthquake ruins.
Tenderloin
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Union Square
Postcard view of woman next to framed photograph showing elevated view southeast over Union Square Park with Dewey Monument, from Powell and Post Streets.
Downtown / Union Square
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View from Buena Vista Park
View northwest past Panhandle, the Golden Gate, Marin Headlands and beyond [Through Golden Gate from Buena Vista Park P. P. No. 1451] St. Mary's Hospital; St. Ignatius Church; Masonic Cemetery; Lone Mountain; Lowell High School
Buena Vista
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California near Stockton
View southeast across California to Sing Chong Importing Co., Old St. Mary's cathedral, approaching California St. Cable Car; Southern Pacific Building in distance center, Balfour (later J. Harold Dollar) Building (built 1920), Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Lafayette, Helvetia Hotel, Sing Fat Co. with stained glass globe streetlamp in front, Lenox Apartments. [Edge of China Town No. 1925]
Chinatown
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Telegraph Hill
[Memorial Tower San Francisco Ss. Peter & Paul Church Washington Square Yerba Buena Island] View NE from approx Leavenworth and Green Streets. Coit Tower; Garfield School
Russian Hill
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Bay Bridge construction
View east from Rincon Hill; Hills Brothers Coffee Plant (1922-24, George Kelham architect), Joseph Magnin Warehouse (1918, George Applegarth architect); Bay Bridge under construction.
Rincon Hill
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View from Rincon Hill
[View from the Residence of Bishop Kip, Rincon Hill, S. F. 706] 338 2nd Street. View northwest to rear of Howard Street Methodist Church at center. Houses along Folsom St., including J. Parrott house, 620 Folsom, M. Latham house, 638 Folsom. Rear of Starr King's First Unitarian Church and Union Square in middle distance next to left spire of Howard Street Church. Duplicate of wnp37.00734. Cropped from larger image, see wnp71.2146.
South of Market
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View S from Nob Hill
[Panorama from California and Powell Streets, San Francisco 1756] View south to First Congregational Church at Post and Mason, dedicated May, 1872.
Nob Hill
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Russian Hill
Looking northwest. Homes on Green Street at Jones, bottom of picture. The horse and wagon are at Union and Leavenworth. The flat structure top center is the Spring Valley Reservoir between Lombard and Greenwich and Hyde. To avoid confusion, the existing Octagon House is half a block west near Leavenworth. The octagon house showing at the bottom of the picture was replaced by another structure that survived 1906 and was torn down in 1950 to be replaced by a concrete apartment house.
