Waterfront

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Divisadero near Vallejo
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Divisadero near Vallejo

View north to Bay. Commercial slide. White stone house at Divisadero corner is Musto-Morrisey House at 2700 Vallejo - Built in 1915 Baroque style for Marble Importer Musto. Architect Henry C. Smith.

Pacific Heights
View from SF Bay
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View from SF Bay

View west to Ferry Building, city skyline. One Maritime Plaza (then called the Alcoa Building, part of the Golden Gateway project) under construction at center. From left, Matson Lines building, Southern Pacific Building (later One Market), Bethlehem Steel Building (later 100 California), Hartford Building (later 650 California, completed 1964) . Embarcadero Freeway (since demolished) visible along waterfront.

SF Bay
SF Bay
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SF Bay

[5727 Golden Gate and Black Point] View west from today's Fisherman's Wharf to Selby Smelting Works, Fort Mason (Black Point) Fort Point, Point Bonita and Golden Gate in distance.

Fishermans Wharf
View from Telegraph Hill
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View from Telegraph Hill

View northwest from Telegraph Hill over seawall construction, sheds and infill. [Sea Wall and Meigg's (Meiggs') Wharf. Bay and Alcatraz Island looking NW from Telegraph Hill] Embarcadero.

Telegraph Hill
Union Iron Works
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Union Iron Works

View north over Union Iron Works and shipyard from Irish Hill

Central Waterfront
Embarcadero at Union
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Embarcadero at Union

Italian felucca fishing boats along pier at old Fisherman's Wharf.

Northern Waterfront
Embarcadero at Union
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Embarcadero at Union

Italian felucca fishing boats along pier at old Fisherman's Wharf.

Northern Waterfront
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Elevated view east to crowd in front of original Ferry Building. Horsecars and cablecars. Sutter Street Railway #63. Market St. Railway electric streetcar at right. Southern Pacific ferries. [36683]

Financial District
Produce District
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Produce District

Elevated view northeast from about California & Montgomery over reconstruction after 1906 earthquake. Appraiser's Building (Sansome and Washington), Shannon-Conmy Printing, California Fruit Canners Association, Brown & Power Stationer 418 Sansome. Sacramento & Sansome intersection at lower right.

Financial District
San Francisco Bay
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San Francisco Bay

View west from Bay to Ferry Building from a ferryboat. Southern Pacific Building, Heinz 57 sign.

View from Fairmont Hotel
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View from Fairmont Hotel

View east to Yerba Buena Island, East Bay Hills and Mt. Diablo, ferries and warships in bay behind Ferry Building. Old St. Mary's at lower center, down California Street Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907), Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Yale, Hotel Helvetia beyond. On Pine and Sansome Streets at far right, the Royal Insurance Co. Building (1909). On Sacramento St. at left, Chy Lung & Co., Haas Bros. wholesale grocers and Davis corner.

Nob Hill
Vallejo Street Wharf
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Vallejo Street Wharf

[292 Vallejo Street Wharf and Shipping]Elevated view east over wharf and sailing ships, wagons unloading goods. Yerba Buena Island.

Northern Waterfront
View East from Nob Hill
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View East from Nob Hill

[85. Down California St. from Nob Hill] From left: Hall of Justice, Montgomery Block, Appraiser's Building, Bank of Italy Building, Yerba Buena Island, Ferry Building, Southern Pacific Building (1917), Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building, Merchant's Exchange Building. Old St. Mary's Church at right center, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Building expansion under construction at far right.

Nob Hill
View East from Nob Hill
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View East from Nob Hill

View east over city to Yerba Buena (Goat) Island. Montgomery Block, Post Office and Custom House, the first Merchants' Exchange Building at center, Portsmouth Square at left. Cropped from larger image at wnp37.01589. [1762. View From California and Powell Streets, SF]

Nob Hill
View from Steamboat Point
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View from Steamboat Point

View northeast along waterfront to U.S. Marine Hospital at Main & Harrison. Same as wnp71.0718 with tighter cropping. [388. United States Marine Hospital, Rincon Point]

South Beach