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Skyline from Bay

View northwest, Telegraph Hill with Layman's Castle,at center

1900

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View from Nob Hill

Post 1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast from Crocker Mansion grounds on California Street between Taylor and Jones Streets. Reconstruction in progress. Buildings around Union Square at left, including Whittell Building, Butler Building, St. Francis Hotel with annex construction in progress, Flood Building. Ruins of A. N. Towne mansion on California Street at far left center. The building's portico was moved to Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park in 1909 and became known as Portals of the Past.

1908 Nob Hill

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Taylor near Clay

View southeast toward Fairmont Hotel and as-yet-unrestored Flood Mansion / Pacific Union Club, still surrounded by ruins of 1906 fire and earthquake

1908 Nob Hill

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Montgomery near California

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast toward Sansome Street, Brown & Powers 418 Sansome, Appraisers Building, and Cowell Building

1906 Financial District

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Jones and Pleasant

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Ruins, view northeast to Telegraph Hill.

1906 Nob Hill

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Ferry Building from Bay

View west to skyline from ferry. Ferry Building tower surrounded by scaffolding. Call Building at left, Fairmont Hotel at right. Little reconstruction.

1906

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3rd & 23rd

View north on 3rd Street near 23rd Street. 3rd St Car house to the left. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 30-Line streetcar #707. 22-Line car in background.

1931 Central Waterfront

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South San Francisco

View north to Muni 40-line #1245 Interurban streetcar with wings livery. Street crossing near Orange Ave.

1948 Outside SF

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Clay near Grant

View east on Clay toward Kearny. Cable car track. Portsmouth Square at left. Bank of Italy Building at Montgomery St. corner. Ferry Building in distance.

1922 Chinatown

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California near Grant

View northeast cross California St to Cable Car #15 going uphill between Grant and Stockton. 720 California, then Hartford Insurance Building, on left, Cathay House restaurant, Old Saint Mary's cathedral and rectory, Financial Center Building, Southern Pacific Building in distance.

1948 Chinatown

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View from Mint Hill

View northeast from Hermann and Buchanan, Protestant Orphan Asylum and its schoolhouse at left, St. Ignatius Church and College at right, Nob Hill with prominent mansions in the distance. Same image, different cropping wnp13.264. [panorama from cemetery]

1902 Mint Hill