Vista

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Downtown Aerial

Aerial view east toward downtown from above Polk Gulch, Bay Bridge in the background. Indicating date are: United States Appraisers Building (completed 1944) at upper left. Fife Building with Mobilgas sign atop (before it was painted red) in front of Ferry Building in left distance. Clunie Building at center left, with Lincoln National Life ad on west side. Notably absent is the PG&E Building Annex (1947). Nob Hill hotels and Grace Cathedral at lower left. (Cropped version of wnp27.7581)

1946 Nob Hill

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View from Twin Peaks

View north from Christmas Tree Point, Market Street at center.

1939 Clarendon Heights

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Coit Tower

View northeast from Russian Hill toward Coit Tower across North Beach. Safeway store at Taylor and Pacific (Building has since been demolished) in bottom center.

1955 Nob Hill

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View from Bay Bridge

View northeast from Bay Bridge Tower while under construction. South of Market and Embarcadero at lower left. Russian Hill at center, Coit Tower at right.

1936 Rincon Hill

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Union Square

Elevated view looking northwest from Stockton and Geary Streets over Union Square garage construction. St. Francis Hotel at left.

1941 Downtown / Union Square

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Bay Bridge

Night view of Bay Bridge and SF skyline from Yerba Buena Island. (Dramatic double exposure)

1957 Yerba Buena Island

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Corona Heights

View from Twin Peaks, Corona Heights at center. News photo demonstrating the fog on San Francisco Bay.

1941 Clarendon Heights

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Ocean Beach

View north on Ocean Beach at about Balboa St. Kelly's Cove, Seal Rocks, and 3rd Cliff House in background.

1935 Richmond Outer

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Golden Gate Aerial

View south of Golden Gate straits from Conzelman Road in Marin Headlands above Kirby Cove. (Battery Kirby scratched out on negative.) Two US Navy battleships leaving the bay. Richmond District, Lincoln Park and Lands End in the background.

1930

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View from Yerba Buena Island

View southwest from Yerba Buena Island toward the Ferry Building and downtown SF. Two ferryboats and three U.S. Navy 'four piper' destroyers in the bay.

1930 Yerba Buena Island

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Russian Hill

View south across the backyard of 855 Chestnut between Leavenworth and Jones.

1930 Russian Hill

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India Basin

Elevated view southeast toward ship graveyard from the top of the PG&E Power Plant, now India Basin Shoreline Park. Hunters Point worker's housing in the background. Buildings on the hillside to the right were demolished shortly after Word War II, but the foundations have remained into the 21st Century. Hunters Point Boulevard to right.

1943 India Basin

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Lombard near Stockton

View west from sidewalk on Lombard toward Stockton Street. Russian Hill in the background.

1961 North Beach

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Presidio

View east from Lincoln Blvd toward Crissy Field. Military vehicles and barracks, Coast Guard rescue station and pier. Runway, Palace of Fine Arts and city skyline in distance. (Barracks and runway were removed during the 1998-2000 renovations of Crissy Field.)

1963 Presidio

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Fort Baker

View east over Fort Baker from Vista Point at north end of Golden Gate Bridge. Angel Island in the background.

1963 Outside SF