View E from Telegraph Hill
Rocky hillside and trees above factories. Piers 25 and 27 with ships moored, Yerba Buena Island. [C-1006A]
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View E from Rincon Hill
Dead end dirt street with reclaimed earthquake refugee cottages and woman in front of clothesline. Ships and piers visible in distance. [C-1017]
View from Rincon Hill
View northeast from 1st Street between Harrison and Bryant over rocky ground and broken foundations (site now under freeway approach to Bay Bridge) to a group of about 15 small cottages on the west side of Fremont St. At center, St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Church at the northeast corner of Fremont and Harrison, which replaced a larger St. Brendan's destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Beyond is Haslett Warehouse, Folger's Golden Gate Coffee warehouse, Main Street Iron Works, Harbor Hotel, and Ferry Building. [C-1019]
Rincon Hill
View N from Telegraph Hill
East side of hill view to Alcatraz. Cottages, fences, dirt path, and trees. Globe Mills warehouse below. [C-1001]
Telegraph Hill
View N from Telegraph Hill
Rail cars, including some on barge in water, factories, Sperry Flour Co .Angel Island at left. [C-1005]
Telegraph Hill
Market & Sansome
Elevated view east down Market (with 4 sets of streetcar tracks) to Yerba Buena Island in distance. Postal Telegraph Building (1908, Lewis Hobart architect) on left. Southern Pacific Building in distance right. Ferry Building, boats.
Downtown / Union Square
Fremont & Market
Elevated view east to Ferry Building, which has large sign on front reading 'Welcome Home.' About 20 streetcars on Market, banner for US Service Club strung over street, Southern Pacific Building at right. From left, Boyd Block, Hansford Building 268 Market (1908), Oceanic Building, 2 Pine Street (Originally Tillman & Bendel Building. George A. Applegarth architect, 1908, 3 stories added 1918), Sherwood (later Bourn) Building, Glenwood Building (with Marvin Shoe Company Sign) and Fife Building (1909, demolished 1966) after 1916 4-story addition, Hotel Terminal, Hotel Lincoln, John Rothschild & Co, Oliver Chilled Plow Co 9 Main St.
Financial District
View NW from Russian Hill
View northwest on Broadway between Jones and Leavenworth to Marina, Presidio, Golden Gate, Marin Headlands. [G45 SV-060] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Russian Hill
Market & 2nd
[Second Street from Market Street 1872 SS-171] Elevated view south down Second from rooftop on north side of Market. G. Abram Tailor, Clothier at center. Rincon Hill, Harrison St. Bridge in distance, Grand Hotel at right. [G810 SS-171] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
View E from Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View of burning city, looking east from Nob Hill. Sacramento St. at left. [F57 SEF-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
North Waterfront
Great White Fleet in SF Bay. Elevated viewed from Ferry Building Tower. Embarcadero and river boats in foreground [F57 SWA-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
View from Telegraph Hill
View northwest over northern waterfront, sailing vessels, Belvedere, Alcatraz and Angel Island, remnants of Meiggs' Wharf in center next to long pier sheds built on Sea Wall. (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Alcatraz Island S.F. 1890 A-2] [F810 A-002]
Telegraph Hill
Miners Exchange Bank
Elevated view northwest from Montgomery Block to Telegraph Hill and businesses on west side of Montgomery Street: Miner's Exchange Bank Building (at Montgomery and Jackson, Peter Portois, architect). Cooke's Metropolitan Exchange, Central Coal Yard. G. R. Fardon picture published by Herre & Bauer at the office of the 'SF Journal' 66 Merchant St. in 1856. Telegraph Hill in background. (Published in 1856, G.R. Fardon's San Francisco Album) Cropped version of wnp71.0005. [Bank NW Cor Montgy-Jackson][[F810 B-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Financial District
India Basin
View east. A 2017 archaeological survey done in connection with the creation of India Basin Shoreline Park suggests that this was an active ship salvage area, and that the pictured ships are the Arrow, an ark houseboat, and the Modoc. Their remains are possibly now under the Park. [Lexington carrier at Hunters Point. Modoc & Apache Riverboats at boneyard BO-30] [F810 BO-030] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
India Basin
North Beach
View northwest over original North Beach towards sand dunes of White Point at center right, with Black Point (later Fort Mason) beyond. Gold Rush brig Euphemia in center distance. [Black Point North Beach] [F810 BP-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Telegraph Hill