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View from Bayview Hill
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View from Bayview Hill

View north up Ingalls Street towards Hunters Point.

Hunters Point
S.P. near Williams
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S.P. near Williams

View north toward Williams Avenue and Southern Pacific Tunnel No. 3. Train Engine #2401. Mt St. Joseph and Catholic Orphan Asylum in the background.

Bayview
View of Downtown
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View of Downtown

Nighttime view southwest, possibly taken from Hunter-Dulin Building. Monadnock Building, Hearst Examiner Building, Chronicle Building and Annex, Call Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America sign, Phelan Building. Market St. at lower left, Kearny St. at lower right. Center, far right I. Magnin Co., building with large 'Calitalo Head Office' electric sign on roof.

Downtown / Union Square
View from Top of the Mark
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View from Top of the Mark

View north to Alcatraz and Angel Island. Park Lane Apartments, Washington-Mason Car House (cable car barn and powerhouse), Brocklebank Apartments, roof of Fairmont Hotel in foreground. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church and Washington Square at right. Russian Hill at left.

Nob Hill
Nob Hill
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Nob Hill

View southwest to Nob Hill over North Beach and Chinatown. Stanford Court Apartments (later Hotel), Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels. Brocklebank, Park Lane and Cathedral Apartments, Grace Cathedral with single bell tower. In center distance, Clay-Jones Apartments with radio tower atop, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe Church at far right center on Broadway near Mason. Lyon Van & Storage Co. with large Moving sign on roof on Stockton, near Green at lower right. At lower center, St. Francis of Assisi Church. At far left center, 450 Sutter building and Sir Francis Drake Hotel.

Telegraph Hill
Visitacion Valley
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Visitacion Valley

View northwest from Daly City to Cow Palace and McLaren Park

Outside SF
View NW from 3rd & Market
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View NW from 3rd & Market

Elevated view northwest from Hearst Building, 3rd and Market. Mutual Savings Bank Building (Bank of Italy), Nob Hill, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Fairmont Hotel

South of Market
View  from 3rd & Market
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View from 3rd & Market

Elevated view northeast from 3rd and Market (likely roof of Examiner Building) down Market St. At left, Hunter Dulin Building, Standard Oil Building, Hobart Building. In distance, Flatiron Building, Postal Telegraph Building, Fife Building with Chevrolet sign atop, Ferry Building, Bay and Yerba Buena Island. At right, Metropolis Bank Building with Bank of America sign atop. Foreground, left to right, Crocker First National (Woolworth) Bank, Crocker Building, Union Trust Wells Fargo Building, Palace Hotel. Notably absent is Shell Building, completed 1929.

South of Market
View West from Hearst Bldg
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View West from Hearst Bldg

Left to right, Call Building, Twin Peaks, Market Street, McAllister Tower, Flood Building, Phelan Building, Union Trust Building, Bankers Investment Building with Western Union sign.

South of Market
View of Downtown
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View of Downtown

Nighttime view southwest from Hunter-Dulin Building over Union Square area. Whitney Building on Geary, Empire Hotel (100 McAllister) at left. Whittell Building, Head Building in center. Clift Hotel, St. Francis Hotel, Shreve Building on right.

Downtown / Union Square
View of Downtown
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View of Downtown

Nighttime view west over Union Square area taken from Hunter-Dulin Building. Top of Christmas tree with illuminated star atop visible in Union Square. St. Francis Hotel, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Clift Hotel in distance. Shreve Building on Grant at Post at center, Head Building to its left. Wiltshire Hotel & Galen Building on right.

Downtown / Union Square
View NE from Nob Hill
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View NE from Nob Hill

View northeast from Nob Hill over Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower. Ss. Peter & Paul Church on Washington Square at far left center, St. Francis of Assisi Church in center.

Nob Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southeast to Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island at left.

Telegraph Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

Image is displayed in reverse, pending repair. View north to Piers 37 (Johnson, Grace Lines), 35 (Matson Lines), and 33. Angel Island in background. In lower center is National Paper Products building at Francisco and Montgomery Streets, still standing in 2024, though heavily redeveloped.

Telegraph Hill
Jones near California
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Jones near California

View south on Jones between California and Pine. Empire Hotel in the distance.

Nob Hill