Contains 7784 photos
View southeast from about Post and Laguna. (now the Hotel Kabuki) Western Addition redevelopment in progress, St. Mary's Cathedral under construction at center. Japantown construction (Japanese Cultural and Trade Center, 1400 Geary, The Sequoias Tower) under construction at left. Cathedral Hill Tower (1600 Gough, built 1966.) in distance left. St. Marks Church at center, Carillon Tower Apartments.
Japantown
View northeast (probably from the Fairmont Hotel Towerl) toward North Beach, Telegraph Hill, and Coit Tower
Nob Hill
View northwest from Pioneer Park toward North Beach, Fort Mason, and Golden Gate Bridge
Telegraph Hill
View from Ferry, northeast toward Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower. Piers, Customs and Immigration Building, Wellman Coffee
View west from ferry toward the Ferry Building with 'Port of San Francisco' sign. S-P sign on Southern Pacific Building (installed 1954).
View southerly from Marin Headlands toward SF skyline
Elevated view east From Rincon Hill to Pacific Mail dock with sidewheel steamer boats (Steamer Colorado at center, built 1865, scrapped 1879, Steamer Senator at right (1865-1882)), sailing ships and Yerba Buena Island in background. Oriental Warehouse (built 1867, still stands 2021 at 650 Delancey St.) at left. Three part wooden structure at center is Occidental Warehouse, used for grain storage, with blacksmith and boiler shops to the left. Ad for C.C. Hastings & Co. Clothing at Lick House, 'Use IXL Bitters' on fence. May be part of panorama with Carlton Watkins wnp71.2170. 'Senator' handwritten on photo far right center. From Watkins Mammoth Plate CEW 611 [Steamer 'Colorado' at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Docks SF 1872 No. 2] [F810 SH-072] Inferior quality version of wnp37.002
South Beach
U.S. Coast Survey steam powered schooner. Single funnel and 3 auxiliary sail masts anchored in Bay. Telegraph Hill in background [Hassler 462] [F810 SH-160]
Wreck of 3 masted sailing ship Viscata, ashore on Baker Beach (aka Baker's Beach) in the Presidio, March 1868. See also wnp37.02729. Watkins #951, 'The Wreck of the Viscata, San Francisco' [Wreck in Golden Gate Cal 1867 {sic}] [F810 SH-448]
Presidio
[Janette off Mare Island Cal 19.E] Arctic exploration vessel. Steam powered ship with 3 auxiliary sail masts at anchor. [F810 SH-495[]]
Outside SF
Elevated view southwest on Market toward south side, from the original Phelan Building toward the future site of The Emporium (built 1895). Utility poles on south side have 8 crossbars. [Market St. between 4th & 5th Dec 1882] Elevated view taken during heavy snowfall of December 31, 1882. [F810 SS-063]
South of Market
[Market St., east from 2nd St 1876] Decorations hanging over street. Horsecars, horse drawn wagons. Cunningham Block, Grand Hotel on right at 2nd Street corner. [F810 SS-098]
Financial District
Elevated view looking northeast across Market. Baldwin Hotel at left, original Phelan Building in distance. Horsecars and cable cars on street. [F810 SS-100]
South of Market
Elevated view northeast to Market Street and Jones Street from Odd Fellows Hall showing Nob Hill on the left, the Murphy-Grant Building (home of the San Francisco Business College and Prager's Dry Goods), the Hibernia Bank, Dr. Jordan & Co's Museum of Anatomy. [A view of Market Street, showing Nob Hill on the left from Odd Fellows' Hall] [F810 SS-102]
South of Market
View north of houses, white picket fence, woman on porch, tank house. [F810 SS-225] with windmill.
Castro