View W from Telegraph Hill
View towards Golden Gate from Coit Tower. North Beach in foreground. Aquatic Park and Fort Mason at Center. [North Beach & GG Bridge from Coit Tower, circa 1945]
Telegraph HillVista
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Douglass Playground
Elevated view north from upper Douglass Playground showing tree planting and the lower playground.
Diamond Heights
Pine Lake Park
View west over Pine Lake mostly drained (Mud Lake).
Parkside
Pine Lake Park
View east over Pine Lake mostly drained (Mud Lake).
Parkside
39th near Vicente
View northeast from high sand dune on the line of 39th Avenue between Vicente and Wawona. Sunset Boulevard at right crossing Ulloa Street.
Parkside
41st near Ulloa
View north from rolling, undeveloped sand dunes just south of Ulloa. Trolley poles show Taraval Street. Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, and Richmond District in the distance. Dune grass planted in line for soil stabilization.
Sunset Outer
St. Mary's Playground
View south from Crescent Avenue toward St. Mary's Playground and undeveloped Mission Terrace and Excelsior neighborhoods.
St. Marys Park
Mission Terrace
View northerly from undeveloped hillside in the vicinity of the current intersection of Ney Street and Trumbull Street toward Alemany Boulevard. St. Mary's Park, Holly Park, and Bernal Heights in the background. General grating of the site underway.
Bernal Heights
Mission Terrace
View north from across the current intersection of Maynard and Gladstone, across undeveloped Mission Terrace toward Alemany Boulevard and St. Mary's Park. College Avenue at center.
St. Marys Park
Fisherman's Wharf Aerial
Aerial view of Fisherman's Wharf looking west towards Aquatic Park, Fort Mason and Marina District. Pier 41 at bottom. Sailing ship 'Balclutha' tied up at Pier 43. Note imprints of circular gas storage tank (gasometer) at intersection of Powell and Jefferson. Rail yard at Stockton and Beach. MUNI bus yard at lower left.
Fishermans Wharf
View from Golden Gateway
Elevated view north from Golden Gateway high-rise toward Telegraph Hill, Angel Island in background. Intersection of Front and Pacific in foreground, Columbo Arch in the future Sydney Walton Square. Buildings on the right facing Broadway were demolished for the Embarcadero Square development. Embarcadero Freeway Broadway ramps, National Ice and Cold Storage Co
Northern Waterfront
Lone Mountain
View from Buena Vista Park toward Lone Mountain College for Women and Marin Headlands and Mt. Tamalpais in the background. Lowell High School in foreground.
Buena Vista
Franklin near Bush
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east from Franklin, people sitting on the sidewalk and cooking in street kitchens.Ruins of Marie Antoinette Apartments on Van Ness and Austin at right. Fairmont Hotel and Nob Hill in the background left.
Cathedral Hill
View from Nob Hill
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view south from Nob Hill showing wall of smoke south of Market, City Hall and Hall of Records in background right. Nob Hill buildings still intact before the fire reached them. The view is from the roof of the Tobin mansion at the southeast corner of California and Taylor (1871), now the site of the Huntington Hotel. Immediately left of Tobin's dormer is the five-story Hotel Bella Vista, built in 1883-1884 for Teresa Fair. To its left, at the southwest corner of Bush and Taylor, is a seven-story brick apartment building completed in late 1905. To its left, at the southeast corner of Pine and Taylor (across the street from the Bella Vista) is a five-story wood-framed apartment building built in 1903. (WMK)
Nob Hill
12th near Market
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from possibly 12th Street from near Market and Mission toward Nob Hill, City Hall ruins and Church of the Advent ruins on 11th Street.
South of Market