Bay Bridge construction
[3-23-34 Pier 5 2-675] View east from the Bay toward Yerba Buena Island at beginning of construction.
SF BayVista
Contains 7784 photos
Waterfront view
Aerial looking east to the waterfront. Howard Street at right center. Ferries in the bay. Yerba Buena Island and Oakland in the background. Folger Coffee plant with large sign atop. [A portion of Waterfront, San Francisco]
South of Market
Alcatraz
[Alcatraz Island, SF Bay. Mt Tamalpais and Muir Woods RY California. 55] View west from bay to Alcatraz. Ferryboat 'Sausalito' passing island.
SF Bay
California near Stockton
Elevated view east to Grant pagoda buildings, Old St. Mary's cathedral, Old Federal Reserve Bank, Murphy Building, Financial Center Building (opened 1927, later Omni Hotel), Alaska Commercial Building, Yerba Buena Island, Bay, Southern Pacific Building, Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Lafayette.[looking down on California st.]
Chinatown
View from Ferry Building
Elevated view west up Market street over cable car turntable with United Railroads cable car #253 on turntable to approximately 13 other cable cars. United Railroads California Street #38 horsecar at left. Sacramento Street cable car at center right. Magnolia Cafe, Pacific Ticket Office, Aug. Wessell and Co., Smiths' Cash Store Building, [551]
Financial District
View from Telegraph Hill
View northwest from Layman's Castle northwest toward Selby Smelting Plant, California Wire Works factory (to left of center, with large ship being built to its north), remains of Meiggs' Wharf, future site of Fisherman's Wharf. Lumber yards, grain sheds built on Sea Wall, Alcatraz Island and Marin Headlands.
Telegraph Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
View northwest from Telegraph Hill. Meiggs' Wharf, Marin Headlands, Mt. Tamalpais, Fort Alcatraz.
Telegraph Hill
View S from Nob Hill
[View of San Francisco, from California Street Hill, Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] Baldwin Hotel, Trinity Episcopal Church, Old US Mint, First Congregational Church, 3rd Baptist Church at left.
Nob Hill
Mason & Market
Elevated view north on Mason from Market. Hotel Inverness, Tivoli Opera House, Gen. Arthur Cigar ad, Nob Hill mansions, Fairmont Hotel, St. Francis Hotel in distance. The date range for this photo is the production of Florodora, which played for the first time in SF at the Tivoli, from April 9, 1905 through May 7, 1905, and did not have a follow up run before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Metropole lodging house is on the left of the photo. The Hotel Inverness was completed in early 1904. Pacific Shirt Co., Drs. Kergan & Kergan Electric Sanitarium, J.J. Gildea Outfitters, Cohn Bros. Jewelers, The Diamond House, 1034 Market. [No. 15 Mason St. North from Market St 1906]
South of Market
California near Taylor
[No 165 San Francisco rising from Ruins April 18 1907] View southeast to ruins of Alban Towne Mansion and Portals of the Past portico, later moved to Golden Gate Park. California St cable car tracks in street. Chronicle Annex, Shreve Building, Mutual Savings Bank, Temple Emanu-el with shorter reconstructed towers, Call Building, Whittell building, Humboldt Savings Bank Building, Butler Building. Flood Building, St. Francis Hotel annex under construction.
Nob Hill
View up California
Elevated view west from Merchant's Exchange. Grace Church, Stanford and Mark Hopkins Mansions, Fairmont Hotel under construction. San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett architect) and German Savings & Loan Society at lower right. Powell cable car in distance, Kearny electric car, California cable car. [No. 133 California street from Montgomery St. 1906]
Financial District
View from Telegraph Hill
[Zan 5] View southeast to Bay Bridge, Embarcadero, Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Island, Waterfront piers, old houses on Telegraph Hill.
Telegraph Hill
Market & 5th
Elevated view northeast to St. Ann's Bldg at northwest cor. Powell & Eddy (with Louvre Restaurant sign on back), Flood Building, Old Phelan Building Mutual Savings bank, Market St Cable cars. Towers of Temple Emanu-El, Grace Church at left. Duplicate of wnp26.384. [No 5. Market St. east from Fifth st]
South of Market
Fort Point
[Fort Point] View northwest to Fort Point and the Marin Headlands.
Presidio
Midwinter Fair
View east from Strawberry Hill. Stow Lake, Stow Lake Drive, Lone Mountain, Masonic Cemetery, Oddfellows Cemetery, Electric Tower, Fairgrounds.
Golden Gate Park