Vista

Contains 7784 photos

View NE from Pacific Heights
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View NE from Pacific Heights

[61 Black Point & Alcatraz 1880] View northeast over Cow Hollow towards modern Fort Mason and Alcatraz. Fontana Warehouse at right. Pacific Stone Company (long building, center) [F810 BP-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Pacific Heights
View W from Telegraph Hill
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View W from Telegraph Hill

[Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill 1858] View west from above Greenwich Street. Humphrey's Castle (built 1852, demolished 1949) is large white house with tower atop ridge at left. [F810 BP-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (Cropped version of wnp71.1125)

Telegraph Hill
Market near 8th
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Market near 8th

Elevated view northeast to parade of volunteers from Philippines and Spanish-American War. Hall of Records at left, Nob Hill Mansions on horizon left. Hibernia Bank and Murphy Building (Prager's Department Store) in middle distance. M. Jacobs Dry Goods sign. Large sign for 'Battle of Manila Bay' painted panorama on view across the street adjacent to Central Park at right. [Return of the California Volunteers, September 21st (sic) 1899] Likely parade on 25 August 1899. [F810 CB-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

South of Market
First Cliff House
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First Cliff House

View west to Seal Rocks from future Sutro Heights. Flagpole with flag. Stereoview image. [F810 CH-010] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (Superior duplicate to wnp24.199a, wnp4.0460.)

Sutro Heights
Temple Emanu-El
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Temple Emanu-El

[Jewish Synagogue, Sutter St 1866 CHU-16] Elevated view north to Temple Emanu-El. Superior duplicate (more detail) of stereoview wnp37.00606. [F810 CHU-016] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Burning city after 1906 earthquake. View east, Sacramento Street on left. Prominent buildings from left are; Assessors Building, Montgomery Block, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building engulfed in smoke at Sacramento and Montgomery, Kohl Building, Merchants Exchange, and Mills Building. Same image as wnp27.2573.jpg, wnp71.1010, with different cropping. [EF-8] [F810 EF-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Nob Hill
Jefferson Square
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Jefferson Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southwest over earthquake refugee camp with tents to Sacred Heart Church in distance. Turk Street crosses at center, turreted house at Laguna and Golden Gate. Stereoview by H. C. White Co. 8731? [EF-11] [F810 EF-011] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) (original stereoview misidentifies location as Lafayette Square)

Cathedral Hill
Nob Hill
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Nob Hill

Elevated view northwest toward Nob Hill from above Sutter and Stockton. Rebuilt Temple Emanu-El (Now location of 450 Sutter medical building) at left, Hotel Colonial Annex and Stockton Tunnel at center. In distance, early buildings on Grace Cathedral site, Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel), 1001 California Morsehead Apartments (1915), Hopkins Institute of Art, Flood Mansion (Pacific Union Club) and Fairmont Hotel at center distance. The Angelus, Calvert Hotel Apartments, Yorkshire Apartments, Grant Hotel, Windemere Apartments, Rockingham Hotel Apartments. Hotel Victoria, Built 1907, later Worldmark by Wyndham Hotel, above tunnel entrance at far right.

Downtown / Union Square
View from Sunset Heights
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View from Sunset Heights

View north from Sunset Heights, Forest Hill on Mendosa Avenue. Inner Sunset and Golden Gate Park in the background

Forest Hill
View from Russian Hill
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View from Russian Hill

View west from about Chestnut and Larkin, houses on Culebra Terrace in foreground (houses still stand). Expansive vista of cleared land and construction of Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) with Golden Gate beyond.

Russian Hill
View from Lone Mountain
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View from Lone Mountain

View north from Lone Mountain, Geary street, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Temple Emanu-El Golden Gate Bridge [Anza St. widening, Parker to Masonic Avenues.][DPW A6794]

Lone Mountain
View from Lone Mountain
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View from Lone Mountain

View northwest from Lone Mountain, Geary street, Laurel Hill Cemetery [Anza St. widening][DPW A6794]

Lone Mountain
View from Lone Mountain
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View from Lone Mountain

View northwest from Lone Mountain [Anza St. widening][DPW A6794]

Lone Mountain
View E from Nob Hill
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View E from Nob Hill

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Superior duplicate of wnp37.00499. View of ruins from Fairmont Hotel after earthquake and fire down California Street past Grace Church, St. Mary's Church, Merchants Exchange and Kohl Building to Ferry Building in distance. Mills Building on right. [Calif St 1906 EF-63] [F810 EF-063] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Nob Hill
Sacramento & Montgomery
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Sacramento & Montgomery

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view east from parapet of building over earthquake ruins toward Telegraph Hill looking up Montgomery Street. [EF-33 SF April 1906] [F810 EF-033] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District