Vista

Contains 7784 photos

View from Russ Building
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View from Russ Building

Elevated 'Bird's Eye View' northwest from the Russ Building across California Street with Old St. Mary's Church, Chinatown, Guadalupe Church, Russian Hill and Marin County, Mt. Tamalpais in the background. Hotel Yolanda, SW corner, Kearny and California, at bottom. [67. Birds Eye View Nob Hill SF]

Financial District
San Francisco Aerial
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San Francisco Aerial

View northwest to Golden Gate showing entire skyline, Marin Headlands. [Air View of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Piggott Photo S.P.1.]

SF Bay
View from Buena Vista Park
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View from Buena Vista Park

Elevated view southeast showing Mission District and Potrero Hill. Mission High School and Dolores Park at right center. [South East from Buena Vista Park P.P. No. 1453]

Buena Vista
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

View northwest to Russian Hill/Fort Mason. Pioneer Park elaborate wall. skyscraper apartments at 1945 Green under construction [The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill ZS104]

Telegraph Hill
View From Twin Peaks
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View From Twin Peaks

View east from above Clayton and Market to Corona Heights (at left), Civic Center and Downtown (center distance) and Market Street (at right) . Kite Hill in the lower right foreground. [San Francisco Cal. from 'Twin Peaks'. 209]

Clarendon Heights
View S from Lafayette Park
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View S from Lafayette Park

View to Buena Vista/San Miguel Hills

Pacific Heights
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Vegetable gardens and shadow of drill

Mason & Market
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Mason & Market

Admission Day Monument in its original location, looking north to Nob Hill, empty blocks north of Market show the 1906 burn area. The Monument was moved to Golden Gate Park in 1948, and returned to Market at Post and Montgomery Streets in 1977.

Tenderloin
View from Nob Hill
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View from Nob Hill

View northeast towards Telegraph Hill. Taken from near Clay and Taylor. New construction of North Beach. Washington & Mason Cable Car smokestack at right.

Nob Hill
3rd & Le Conte
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3rd & Le Conte

Photo taken from inside a car heading North on 3rd street near Bayshore, St. Paul of the Shipwreck and Bayview Academy on right. Mt St. Joseph and Orphanage on hill in left background.

Bayview
Cesar Chavez near Kansas
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Cesar Chavez near Kansas

View East on Cesar Chavez (then Army Street) near Kansas Street. Two streetcars passing U.S. Plywood. Potrero Hill in background left. PG&E Gas Tank in the background right.

Produce Market
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View looking East over Embarcadero towards Yerba Buena Island.

Telegraph Hill
San Francisco Skyline
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San Francisco Skyline

View from Bay. Ferryboats, Ferry Building

Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

Looking southwest from Yerba Buena Island

Yerba Buena Island
Montgomery & Union
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Montgomery & Union

View southeast from Pioneer Park to Montgomery & Union intersection before major regrading and paving project. On south side of Union Street, from left to right, Cooney Rental Units, Gothic Revival cottages with bargeboard trim built 1857 at 287-289 Union; Cooney House built 1853 at 291 Union; Joseph Pane House built 1860's at 293 Union, Colonial Revival cottage. George Smith House, originally 3 dwellings now apartments, built 1861 at 1254-1262 Montgomery, all extand (with modifications) in 2021.

Telegraph Hill