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Funston & Pacheco
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Funston & Pacheco

View northeast from Golden Gate Heights showing Inner Sunset, Mt. Sutro to downtown

Golden Gate Heights
Cole Valley
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Cole Valley

View northwest to Mt. Sutro, Presidio, Golden Gate Park, Marin Headlands from Clarendon Heights. Grattan School at lower right.

Ashbury Heights
Cesar Chavez & Mission
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Cesar Chavez & Mission

Elevated view east over Mission, down Army Street (now Cesar Chavez). Street widening on north side of Army in progress. In distance, Potrero Hill (left) and Bernal Heights in background. St. Anthony of Padua Church, large gas holding tank on Army. Cogswell Polytechnic College, J.W. Allen DeSoto dealership at upper left. Building in foreground housing Oliver Paint Company and building beyond have had their upper stories removed are are in the process of demolition.

Mission
Dolores near 16th
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Dolores near 16th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Elevated view northeast of burned portion of Mission District and South of Market, with ruins of Notre Dame School and Convent. At upper left, Nob Hill, Fairmont Hotel, ruins of City Hall. In distance, Yerba Buena Island and East Bay Hills. Some rebuilding underway. [View of Ruins from Dolores and 17th St. Notre Dame Convent in Foreground]

Mission Dolores
Lands End
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Lands End

View eastward towards Golden Gate. Helmet Rock and Lands End at right

Dogpatch
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Dogpatch

View southeast from Potrero Hill, about 20th and Iowa, toward Dogpatch. Irish Hill rising in the left background. Gas tank, Canco, Irving Scott School, Spreckels Sugar refinery

Central Waterfront
27th Street from Diamond
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27th Street from Diamond

View east on 27th Street from about Diamond. Houses at center are 1907 and 1913 Castro (at center) and still stand. Hillside on the right is now the Castro-Duncan Open Space. [Looking Easterly along 27th from Diamond. DPWA6575]

Noe Valley
Financial District View
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Financial District View

View Northwest Towards Russian Hill from Pacific Telephone Building. From lower left, Palace Hotel, Crocker Building, Hunter-Dulin Building, Hobart Building, Russ Building. Telegraph Hill, Mills Building and Standard Oil Building at right. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, Old St. Mary's Cathedral and Russian Hill with large apartment building under construction at upper left. [From the Telephone Building DPW A628]

South of Market
Bayshore Highway
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Bayshore Highway

Near Tunnel Avenue. North from Visitation Valley, Bayview Park [DPW A2197]

Little Hollywood
Bayshore Boulevard
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Bayshore Boulevard

View south on Bayshore Boulevard toward Salinas Avenue. Bayview Hill in Background US101 Freeway runs through this view today. [DPW A2204]

Portola
Bernal Cut
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Bernal Cut

View Southerly on San Jose Avenue From St. Mary's Avenue. Men working in the street and along Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Arlington Street in the background right. [Bernal Cut looking Sly from St. Mary's Ave][DPW A2532]

St. Marys Park
Monterey & Yerba Buena
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Monterey & Yerba Buena

View south on Yerba Buena toward Monterey. 975 Monterey at left, Merced Heights in the distance [Intersection Monterey Blvd and Yerba Buena Blvd.][dpwA3282]

Monterey Heights
South Van Ness & Howard
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South Van Ness & Howard

Van Ness Avenue Extension, View Northerly on Van Ness from Howard Street / 13th Street. Documenting the recent completion of the South Van Ness extension from Market. Masonic Temple and City Hall in the background. [DPW A3704]

South of Market
Alemany at San Jose
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Alemany at San Jose

View southwest on newly paved Alemany Boulevard toward the intersection of San Jose Avenue. Gas station and homes at right later possibly demolished for I280 Freeway. Hillcrest, Daly City visible in the distance. [Alemany Blvd. Sec. C. at San Jose Ave. DPW A3728]

Outer Mission
Mt. Vernon near Cayuga
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Mt. Vernon near Cayuga

View southwest from Mt. Vernon Avenue between Cayuga and Rome toward future site of Geneva Terrace development. Merced Heights in the background. Future grade of Cayuga Avenue at center, Southern Pacific railroad right of way (future route of I280 freeway) is visible in front of Merced Heights. First houses visible on San Jose Avenue. [Southwest from Mt. Vernon] [DPW A5534]

Cayuga