Central Freeway
Construction looking north from Hamm's Building (15th & Bryant)
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Central Freeway
Construction looking north from Hamm's Building (15th & Bryant)
Mission
Oakland
view across Lake Merritt from the tower of Oakland City Hall
Outside SF
View from Buena Vista Park
View northeast to Haight St., Coliseum Rink, Crocker Grammar School, Alamo Square PP1377 [East From Buena Vista Park No. 1377]
Buena Vista
PPIE
View northeast to Panama-Pacific International Exposition, from Pacific Heights over Cow Hollow and Marina; Tower of Jewels under construction. House in foreground at Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2990 Vallejo (extant 2020,built 1914, Walter Bliss Residence, Architects Bliss & Faville) To its right, 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect. [Worlds Fair Buildings P.P. No. 1430]
Pacific Heights
PPIE from Broadway & Lyon
View north from Pacific Heights; Tower of Jewels under construction. House in foreground at Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2990 Vallejo (extant 2020,built 1914, Walter Bliss Residence, Architects Bliss & Faville) To its right, 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect.
Pacific Heights
PPIE from Pacific Heights
Elevated view northeast to Panama-Pacific International Exposition from Broadway near Lyon; construction completed. House in left foreground at Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2990 Vallejo (extant 2020,built 1914, Walter Bliss Residence, Architects Bliss & Faville). To its right, 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect. [Worlds Fair Buildings P.P. No. 7859]
Pacific Heights
View NE from Lands End
Fort Point at right, Angel Island at center, Marin Headlands at left
View from Telegraph Hill
View northeast toward Embarcadero piers and sailing ships.
Telegraph Hill
View from Telegraph Hill
View east down Greenwich, toward Golden Gate and Black Point. The edge of German Castle (Layman's Castle, burned July 25, 1903) appears at right.
Telegraph Hill
View of Downtown
View northwest from St. Francis Hotel. On Nob Hill from left, Huntington Hotel in center distance (1924, Weeks & Day architects), Morsehead Apartments, 1001 California (1915, Houghton Sawyer architect), Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (aka California Art Institute (former site of Mark Hopkins Mansion and later site of Mark Hopkins Hotel) has For Sale sign, Fairmont Hotel at top right, At far right Stanford Court Apartments (1912, later Stanford Court Hotel). Grant Hotel and Hotel Herbert also in view.
Downtown / Union Square
View North over Portola
View north from near Cambridge and Shelley Drive. Bernal Heights and Potrero Hill in the background. Greenhouses from some of the many flower nurseries that occupied this area in the foreground. The large building at center, on University across from the reservoir, was built in 1875 as University Mound College, a Presbyterian boys' boarding school. In 1879, the building was sold to the Lick Old Ladies Home, funded by one of the charitable bequests in James Lick's will. In 1896, their name was changed to University Mound Old Ladies' Home. The building was demolished in 1931 and replaced with a larger modern structure, extant in 2018. Most of the land seen in this view was later developed for single family homes.
University Mound
View east from Nob Hill
Downtown skyscrapers, Standard Oil Building under construction
Nob Hill
O'Farrell near Jones
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to downtown earthquake ruins and workers clearing debris. In distance from left, Whittell and Butler Buildings under construction, Call Building, Flood Building. The two story brick and stone facade with double archways at left is the remains of the Eureka Benevolent Society building (1900) at 436 O'Farrell. The Society was established in 1850 by August Helbing to assist immigrant Jews in San Francisco. It was rebuilt to a similar design in 1910 and that building still stands, with a fortune telling business occupying the first floor in 2019. [Looking Down O'Farrell St. from Jones]
Tenderloin
California near Taylor
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast. Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion at left. Chronicle, Shreve, Mutual Savings Bank, Temple Emanu-El and Call Buildings at right. [Burned District from Jackson [sic] Street- Corner of Fairmont Shows- Chimney in front marks the former home of the Hop[kins]Art Ins[titute]
Nob Hill