View from SF Bay
View west from ferry on the bay toward piers south of the Ferry Building; [What we see on a clear day nearing S. F. on the ferry]
Vista
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Powell near Jefferson
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view southeast from Powell. Telegraph Hill in background. Ruins of streetcar left on road [Kearny - Mission car #1133 burned on Powell St. Friday, Apr. 20, 1906 at 4:00 pm] [Lorin Silleman]
Fishermans Wharf
Jones near Pine
View south on Jones between California and Pine. Jones Street cable car approaching curve onto Pine Street.The Colonial, five-story building on southeast corner.
Nob Hill
Mt. Olympus
Triumph of Light Statue on the summit of Mt. Olympus. Plaque reads "Erected by Adolph Sutro 1887" (Dedicated on Thanksgiving Day). View west across undeveloped Cole Valley. Golden Gate Park and Strawberry Hill in right background.
Buena Vista
View from Ocean Beach
View north on Ocean Beach near Kelly's Cove toward Seal Rocks, first Cliff House, and Sutro Heights. Marin Headlands and Mt. Tamalpais in background.
Richmond Outer
Civic Center
Elevated view north on Polk toward McAllister. Shriners parade down Polk Street in front of City Hall. Crowds of people and temporary grandstands on both sides of street.
Civic Center
250 Douglass
Alfred E. Clarke mansion SFLandmark, No. 80 at the southwest corner of Douglass and Caselli aka Nobby's Folly. View north from uphill workmen posing on house. Corona Heights in the background.
Eureka Valley
California near Stockton
View east on California between Powell and Stockton. California St. cable car (dummy and trailer). Old St. Mary's Church and Shaari Zedek Synagogue (With two towers) at left. SF Bay in the distance.
Nob Hill
Van Ness near O'Farrell
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north across southwest slope of Nob Hill to Fairmont Hotel. [Van Ness Avenue with still-standing Fairmont Hotel in distance, No. 45 in a series by W.J. Street]
Tenderloin
View from Nob Hill
View south from California between Powell and Mason. Trinity Church at Post and Powell at left, St. Mark's German Evangelical Lutheran Church and Calvary Presbyterian Church just beyond on Union Square, First Congregational at Post and Mason (1872) at right, Third Baptist Church (1869) at far left. Baldwin Hotel in the distance at center, smoke stacks of the Old Mint, Potrero Hill and Mission Bay. [San Francisco in the 1880's. View from Leland Stanford Residence]
Nob Hill
View NW from Telegraph Hill
View northwest toward North Beach, Russian Hill, White Point and Black Point, and the Golden Gate in the distance.Taken above Kearny and Greenwich. [San Francisco in the 1880's. View from Telegraph Hill]
Telegraph Hill
Market & Powell
Elevated view east on Market toward Powell. Flood Building at left, Metropolis Bank Building, Call / Spreckels Building, Humboldt Bank, Pacific Building, Emporium with construction underway at right. Street cars running on Market St. and many pedestrians.
Downtown / Union Square
View from Twin Peaks
View north from Twin Peaks, Market Street at center, new US Mint (construction began August, 1935, opened 1937) and Bay Bridge under construction. Castro Theatre at bottom. [San Francisco and Bay Bridge from Twin Peaks Piggott Photo #1153, Reverse: 'Dear folks, arrived here this noon. Have a swell cabin in Daly City, a suburb. Cabins seem cleaner and more private than hotels. Had car cleaned and greased and oil changed and when he opened the hood to grease it a little mouse jumped out.]
Clarendon Heights
View S from Coit Tower
View from Coit tower south to downtown, through window
Telegraph Hill
View E from Twin Peaks
View east from Twin Peaks with Market Street at Center. Mint and Bay Bridge both under construction
Clarendon Heights