View northeast from Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Downtown View: Louis Lurie's Pacific National Bank Building (18 story building at 333 Montgomery, near California, completed 1930, demolished 1969), Commercial Union Assurance Bldg. (315 Montgomery), Russ Building, Mills Building with Mills Tower (1931), Shell Building, Yerba Buena Island. Two Pacific Telephone Buildings at right (on Bush, near Kearny). At far left, Hall of Justice and County Jail on Portsmouth Square, corner of Metropolitan Life Insurance Building.
Nob Hill
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View from Nob Hill
View looking northwest from Fairmont Hotel towards Russian Hill, Marin Headlands, and Mt. Tamalpais.
Nob Hill
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View SE from Telegraph Hill
View southeast towards Ferry Building, Bay Bridge under construction (single tower). In foreground, older historic houses (which mostly still stand in 2025) on Telegraph Hill along Montgomery Street around Union and Alta Streets. Beyond, Albers Bros. Milling Co., Planter's Peanut factory, Wellman Coffee building with large electric sign atop, Ferry Station Post Office. In background, many ships in bay, Southern Pacific Building (later One Market), Fife Building, Matson Building.
Telegraph Hill
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Presidio
View west from Russian Hill. Letterman Hospital complex at center, Montgomery Street barracks at upper center, Fort Winfield Scott barracks at top.
Russian Hill
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View from Strawberry Hill
View southeast from the top of the Sweeny Observatory. Inner Sunset, Mount Sutro. Pump house, Sweeny Observatory pool and waterfall in the foreground. Olympic Club grounds, Reynolds house on Lincoln Way and 14th Ave. Streetcar poles on 9th Ave but not Lincoln Way, so sometime between 1894 and 1898. [MB Coll]
Golden Gate Park
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Lands End
Mile Rocks Beach from near Lands End station. Tent
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
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PPIE
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Viewed from Russian Hill
Marina
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Larkin near McAllister
Elevated view south across plaza to Civic Auditorium (later Bill Graham Civic Auditorium), City Hall at extreme right, Masonic Temple on Van Ness in background right. Empty lot at bottom is future site of (Earl Warren) State Office Building
Civic Center
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Russian Hill
View from Fisherman's Wharf, at dusk
Russian Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill
View west towards Russian Hill and Golden Gate Bridge. (looking for Army Bombers)
Telegraph Hill
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SF Bay
View of army bombers over SF Bay
Clarendon Heights
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111 Sutter Street
View north to many U.S. Army Air Force bombers over SF, from Hunter Dulin Building, Sutter & Montgomery Sts. 450 Sutter, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building.
Downtown / Union Square
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Army Flying Fortresses
View east from Twin Peaks toward Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, and Bayview Hill. A convoy of 116 Air Force bombers including 114 B-17 Flying Fortresses passed through the Bay Area, the largest assembly of planes on the West Coast to that date.
Twin Peaks
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Army Flying Fortresses
View North from Twin Peaks. Golden Gate Bridge and SF Bay in the distance, Tank Hill in foreground. A convoy of 116 Air Force bombers including 114 B-17 Flying Fortresses passed through the Bay Area, the largest assembly of planes on the West Coast to that date.
Clarendon Heights
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Army Flying Fortresses
View east From Twin Peaks looking east toward Corona Heights and downtown. A convoy of 116 Military bombers including 114 B-17 Flying Fortresses passed through the Bay Area, the largest assembly of planes on the West Coast to that date.
