Waterfront

Contains 769 photos

Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Old Ferry Building. Elevated view southeast across Embarcadero to Original Ferry Building, with busy scene of wagons, numerous horse cars, two cable cars, ships in bay in background. Published in the San Francisco Chronicle April 17, 1960. [F810 FB-008] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Ferry Building 1886 FB-8] (Different cropping of wnp100.20063)

Financial District
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

[Foot Market St. 1887 FB-9] Elevated view across Embarcadero to original Ferry Building, banner says 'At Auction 18 Choice Residence Lots', Castro Street cable car. [F810 FB-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Financial District
Fisherman's Wharf
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Fisherman's Wharf

View west toward fishing boats, Jefferson Street along left side. Rosario's restaurant, aquarium, fuel tanks with winged Chevron logo on side, Castagnola's. Cannery building in center background.

Francisco St. Reservoir
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Francisco St. Reservoir

View northeast from Larkin toward Bay Street, Fisherman's Wharf, Meiggs' Wharf in background [858-D]

Russian Hill
View NW from Pacific Heights
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View NW from Pacific Heights

View northwest to early Cow Hollow homes; Presidio beach and tidal slough. Harbor View at center. Fort Point and Marin Headlands. Large corner mansion with tower gardens front and back is at southwest corner of Union and Pierce was built circa 1884 by wealthy attorney and landowner David Bixler. Four story windmill and water tank on Union west of Pierce. House at center with Mansard roof was home of Louis Schultz at 2426 Filbert. Probably taken from near Broadway and Fillmore. Version with different cropping and much more detail at wnp37.03736. [Harbor View & Golden Gate 1878 HO-7] [F810 HV-007] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Pacific Heights
View NW from Telegraph Hill
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View NW from Telegraph Hill

View northwest over North Beach and Meiggs' Wharf to bay and Mount Tamalpais. [F810 MW-002] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [1867 North Beach Meigg Wharf MW-2]

Telegraph Hill
Meiggs' Wharf
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Meiggs' Wharf

People lounging on the end of Meiggs' Wharf. Steam locomotive and dump cars constructing seawall in left background. Watkins #3719 'The Sea Wall from Meiggs Wharf'. [F810 MW-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Meiggs Wharf 1882 MW-3]

Fishermans Wharf
Meiggs' Wharf
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Meiggs' Wharf

Men sitting on pilings at north end of Meiggs' Wharf. View west to Marin Headlands. Sailing ships at anchor. [F810 MW-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[From warf (sic) Water Front S.F. 1883 MW-4]

Fishermans Wharf
View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

View towards Telegraph Hill from approximately Hyde between Lombard and Greenwich. Washington Square, center right, with major landscaping completed April, 1869. Toland Medical College and Home for the Inebriate in distance left. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex on Powell St. at center. North Beach, looking East from Russian Hill. Sailing ships at anchor, Yerba Buena Island in distance. Toland Medical College and Home for the Inebriate in distance center. The octagonal house at far left, one of five in the city, was built in 1859 for Arden Ellis, a laborer, at the NW corner of Lombard and Leavenworth.Yerba Buena Island in distance. Same image as wnp26.656 with significantly different cropping. [NB-12] [F810 NB-012] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Russian Hill
Hyde near Lombard
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Hyde near Lombard

North Beach, looking East from Russian Hill. Sailing ships at anchor, Yerba Buena Island in distance. Toland Medical College and Home for the Inebriate in distance center. The octagonal house at the left, one of five in the city, was built in 1859 for Arden Ellis, a laborer, at the NW corner of Lombard and Leavenworth. Same image as wnp24.428a, different cropping. Also published as stereoview card with title '1316. North Beach and Goat Island San Francisco' by John P. Soule. [NB-13] [F810 NB-013] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

View NW from Telegraph Hill
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View NW from Telegraph Hill

View northwest from Telegraph Hill. Meiggs' Wharf at left, wooden houses, sailing ships at anchor, and Alcatraz Island in background. [F810 NB-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [NB-17 North Beach 1865]

Telegraph Hill
Alcatraz from North Point
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Alcatraz from North Point

View north past large building with "Boat Building by Martin Vice" on side to Alcatraz Island in the distance, boatyard in foreground. Alcatraz & Angel Islands. Watkins no. 286, alternate version of wnp 37.00754. 'Alcatraz from North Point' [North Point corner Montgomery Ave. & Chestnut St. 1864 (sic) NP-1]'F810 NP-001] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Northern Waterfront
Hunters Point
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Hunters Point

[Hunters Point SF 1871 OF-34] Illustration of ocean-going paddlewheel steamship (probably Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s 'SS China') in dry dock. [F810 OF-034] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Hunters Point
Sacramento & Mason
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Sacramento & Mason

Panorama [1858 part 6], [Looking N from Sacramento & Taylor (Sic) 1860] towards Meiggs' Wharf and Alcatraz.[Mason St.][F810 PAN-001f] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

Nob Hill
Montgomery near California
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Montgomery near California

Elevated view looking northeast to bay. Warehouses, Brown & Power Co., Appraiser's Building, U.S. Custom House at top center. Fisher Packing Co.509-17 Commercial at right center. Brown & Power printers, Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden printers, 508 Clay at Sansome, Niantic Block (Niantic Building) at center. O. Milani & Brothers, chocolate & cocoa, 704 Sansome, at upper left. In center distance, Tillmann & Bendel Coffee and Spice Mill 694-6 Battery at Pacific. Panorama 1890 [Sic] part 3 [F810 PAN-004c] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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