View NE from Twin Peaks
View Northeast toward downtown. Buena Vista Park and Corona Heights at left. People looking at the view
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View NE from Twin Peaks
View Northeast toward downtown. Buena Vista Park and Corona Heights at left. People looking at the view
Clarendon Heights
View E from Telegraph Hill
[Looking east from Telegraph Hill 1870] Probably taken from Chestnut near Grant. Ships at anchor and tied up at end of dock, wooden houses, warehouses along shore. [F810 TH-005] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Telegraph Hill
Mission District
[Mission District 1888] Elevated view northwest from Bernal Heights over the Mission District. St. Luke's Hospital at left, in present location at Valencia and Cesar Chavez (then Army). Bancroft Library to right of hospital. Intersection of Mission and Cesar Chavez (then Army St.) with a bridge over Precita Creek) at right. Houses on Powers Avenue (lower left) still stand. [F810 V-052] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Bernal Heights
View N from Nob Hill
View north to Russian Hill from Nob Hill near Jones & Washington. House at middle right with rising fence is 1032 Broadway, built in 1853 for Joseph H. Atkinson, extant 2020. Belvedere, Tiburon and Angel Island in background. [F810 V-120] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
Russian Hill from Nob Hill
View northwest to Russian Hill and Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869). Alcatraz seen faintly at upper right. Same image as wnp37.01588, different cropping. [F810 V-121] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[Russian Hill 186?] (Cropped version of WNP37.01588)
Nob Hill
Powell & Sacramento
[Powell and Clay Streets in 1870 -- Girls High School on right and Telegraph Hill.] View northeast to North Beach and Telegraph Hill. St Francis of Assisi Church at center. Same image as wnp71.2486, different cropping. [F810 V-122] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Nob Hill
Lone Mountain
View of Lone Mountain. Small cross in foreground, large cross at top of hill. [F810 V-149] Wider cropping of wnp37.00670 (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Lone Mountain
View from Lafayette Park
[From Holliday (Sic) Hights (Sic) 1877 Looking NW] Should be Holladay Heights, present Lafayette Square. Wooden fences, some brick houses, hills. [F810 V-150] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) Same as Watkins Stereograph 2460. "Holladay Heights" was the 1866 mansion of Samuel W. Holladay.
Pacific Heights
5th near Market
[Year 1866 View from Lincoln School looking South] Elevated view southeast. Howard Street Methodist Church, Advent Protestant Episcopal Church, Union Hall, houses on south side of Stevenson St., Rincon Hill background right. Cropped from image wnp71.0491. [F810 V-153] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
South of Market
8th & Market
[View from City Hall looking South down 8th St 1896] 'Central Park' baseball field in foreground, game underway. Signs 'James Phelan for Mayor' and 'Chas. S. Laumeister for Mayor' [F810 V-155] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Civic Center
View from Nob Hill
View east toward SF Bay. Yerba Buena Island, Ferry Building, Southern Pacific, Matson Building under construction, Standard Oil Building, Bank of America, Metropolitan Life Insurance. Federal Reserve Bank (George Kelham architect, completed 1924) under construction at left. (positive film)
Nob Hill
View from Russian Hill
View North from about Chestnut and Larkin above the Francisco Street Reservoir toward Aquatic Park, Alcatraz, Angel Island, Ghirardelli Factory. Mt. Tamalpais in left distance.
Russian Hill
El Camino del Mar near Lake
View northeast toward the Golden Gate. View across empty lot where 740 El Camino del Mar will be built.
Seacliff
Ocean Ave & I280
View northerly from Ocean Avenue at the Southern Pacific right-of-way just west of Balboa Park. Municipal Railway (Muni) K-Ingleside streetcar #1014 inbound at right. Ingleside Police Station at Balboa Park at center. Undeveloped San Miguel Hills (future Diamond Heights) in the background. the SP route would become BART's route, Interstate 280 will be built in the area the area just to the left.
Cayuga