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View SE from Russian Hill
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View SE from Russian Hill

[Panorama from Russian Hill, San Francisco (No. 9.) 770. Watkins' Pacific Coast] Looking southeast from approximately Vallejo near Taylor. Vallejo St. at left, Metropolitan Hotel Stable and Temple Sherith Israel (Later congregation Shaari Zedek, 1854 on Stockton between Broadway and Vallejo) Post Office and Custom House, center.

Russian Hill
View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

View east over North Beach to southern slope of Telegraph Hill from Russian Hill. Green Street at center, Yerba Buena Island in distance. St. Francis of Assisi Church at right. Original image is Watkins stereoview 'Panorama from Russian Hill, San Francisco [California] (No. 8)

Russian Hill
California & Battery
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California & Battery

View west on California to busy street scene. Grace Church, Fairmont Hotel in distance. Kohl Building, Brown & Power stationers, Bank of California, Friedlander's Building in center distance. [16882. California St. looking West toward Nob Hill, just before the Earthquake, San Francisco]. Fairmont, Grace Church, Kohl Building, Bank of California, Brown & Power stationers.

Financial District
Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

St. Ann's Building at left and Baldwin Hotel at right in elevated view up Powell, north to Nob Hill. Horsecar tracks were installed in 1879 and replaced by cable car tracks in 1888. Trinity Episcopal Church and Stanford Mansion in distance. [10_ Powell Street from Market, San Francisco.]

South of Market
View North on Grant
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View North on Grant

Elevated view north on Grant Ave. from Market and O'Farrell Streets. Savings Union Bank in left foreground. Zobel's Millinery Store on left, Head Building beyond. I. Magnin & Co. Department Store on right. [14442 Grant Avenue looking north from Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.]

South of Market
View NE from Kite Hill
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View NE from Kite Hill

Panorama view with Corona Heights at left Eureka Valley in foreground [San Francisco, Ca. Panorama with City Hall in distance

Lombard & Hyde
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Lombard & Hyde

View east on Lombard Street from Hyde before grading of either street. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex in center distance at Powell, Yerba Buena Island beyond. Toland Medical School and Home for the Inebriate in distance left. Taken on or after April, 1869 when landscaping of Washington Square was completed. The octagonal house at the left, one of five in the city, was built in 1859 for Arden Ellis, a laborer, at the NW corner of Lombard and Leavenworth.(WMK) Same original image as wnp24.0071a, with significantly more image on left and less on right. [1318 Telegraph Hill and Goat Island from Russian Hill, San Francisco]

Russian Hill
California near Stockton
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California near Stockton

[4432. San Francisco, looking down hill, Ca.] Looking east from Nob Hill to Bay.. Cable car in distance. Service began on this line in April, 1878. Old St. Mary's Cathedral at center. Plank sidewalks, cobblestones.

Nob Hill
View South from Nob Hill
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View South from Nob Hill

[637--San Francisco California, from Russian Hill] [American Scenery]. Trinity Church, Powell & Post, at left, Mechanics Pavilion in Union Square, Calvary Presbyterian Church at Powell & Geary, St. Ignatius College and Church on Market Street with Lincoln School behind. Mission Bay in background.

Nob Hill
California near Powell
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California near Powell

[723 Looking down California St., From Nob Hill--Ferry Building and Bay in distance, San Francisco, U. S. A.] Two cable cars at center crossing Stockton Street. Shaari Zedek synagogue, Old St. Mary's Cathedral, Kohl Building.

Nob Hill
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Horse and buggy crossing Post; view up the hill. Two sets of cable car tracks and cable car distance. California near Van Ness?

View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View southwest to St Francis church at center. Stanford, Hopkins & Crocker Mansions silhouetted on Nob Hill. [No.117 San Francisco from Telegraph Hill] Enno Nesemann publisher.

Telegraph Hill
View Lafayette Park
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View Lafayette Park

View East from Holladay Heights (Lafayette Square). Roughly from Clay and Octavia. "Holladay Heights" was the 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay. [San Francisco and Environs from Holliday (Sic) Heights 2472]

Pacific Heights
View from Fairmont
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View from Fairmont

View southwest to Mark Hopkins Hotel, Mt. Sutro, Twin Peaks and Mt. Davidson in background right. Maurice Hotel, Clift Hotel. To right of Mark Hopkins tower, Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (completed 1964) under construction.

Nob Hill
View from Fairmont
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View from Fairmont

Looking east to Ferry Building and Bay Bridge. Matson building, International Building, Russ Building, and Equitable Building.

Nob Hill