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Market near 1st

Elevated view east from Crocker Building, corner Montomery & Post, during reconstruction. Steel structure for Fife Building in front of Ferry Building, Drumm & Market. Rooftops, Alexander-Yost Hardware, Direct Line Telephone Co., Ferry Building, Yerba Buena Island. Painters hanging from painting platforms on west side of Hooker & Lent Building at southwest corner of 1st and Market, Stevenson Building at southeast corner. Signs for E.D. Co., Eugene Dietzgen Co. Drawing Materials, H.S. Crocker Co., Waterman & Levy, American Import Co. Few if any of these building (excepting Ferry Building) stand in 2022. [Feb -12 -83, Q - 1- 102]

1908 Downtown / Union Square

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Presidio

'Sham battle,' with visitors in foreground awaiting gunnery practice. View west over main post to Golden Gate. Three-story old Post Hospital at right center.

1876 Presidio

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View south from Nob Hill

View southeast from roughly California near Mason. St. Ignatius College and Lincoln School in middle distance.

1880 Nob Hill

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View NE from Nob Hill

View northeast from near Wetmore & Clay. German Castle (Layman's Castle) on top of Telegraph Hill. Powell Street M.E. Church at left, St. Francis of Assisi Church at center. [1040 E.4 From Sacramento & Mason St. Hill., 1886]

1886 Nob Hill

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View E from Russian Hill

Taken from approximately Green & Leavenworth, Telegraph Hill and Yerba Buena Island, East Bay Hills in background. Octagon House.

1880 Russian Hill

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View SW from Telegraph Hill

View southwest from Layman's Castle atop Telegraph Hill toward Washington Square. Guadalupe Church (with two large steeples, completed March, 1880) at center left, Broadway near Mason. Smokestack in distance at upper right is Presidio & Ferries Railroad Union Street cable car house and power house, near Leavenworth St. Twin Peaks, Mt. Sutro and surrounding hills on horizon at upper left. [x19, 2, From Telegraph Hill Observatory, looking Southwest.]

1880 Telegraph Hill

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View W from Telegraph Hill

View from Layman's Castle (Observatory) atop Telegraph Hill. [From Telegraph Hill Observatory, looking West. Black Point in distance. Schoene]

1885 Telegraph Hill

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View SW from Telegraph Hill

Mark Hopkins residence and Charles Crocker residence on Nob Hill. [x18, From Telegraph Hill Observatory, looking Southwest. Nob Hill in the distance.]

1885 Telegraph Hill

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Oakland Mole

View from Yerba Buena Island of Oakland Mole extending into Bay.

1930 Yerba Buena Island

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View from Nob Hill

Post-earthquake ruins, view toward Bay. Powell near Clay.

1908 Nob Hill

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Presidio Of San Francisco

View northeast over Main Post to Angel Island and Alcatraz. Montgomery Street barracks at left.

1900 Presidio

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View NE from Nob Hill

View northeast from Sacramento Street between Mason and Taylor from Nob Hill, over present North Beach and Chinatown neighborhoods. At center, St. Francis of Assisi Church on Vallejo St. (replaced in 1869 by the current larger church), telegraph station on Telegraph Hill. Part of a panorama.

1853 Nob Hill

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View East from Nob Hill

View from Sacramento Street between Mason and Taylor. Ships in harbor of Yerba Buena Cove. Yerba Buena Island in distance left. Part of a panorama.

1853 Nob Hill

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View North from Nob Hill

View north from Sacramento Street between Mason and Taylor to Russian Hill at left. Alcatraz and Angel Island in distance. Part of a panorama.

1853 Nob Hill

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View NE from Nob Hill

View northeast from Sacramento Street between Mason and Taylor. Ships in harbor, Vallejo & Broadway St. wharfs. Telegraph Hill at left. Part of a panorama.

1853 Nob Hill