California & Mason
[523. The City-From corner California and Mason Street, looking Southeast.] Temple Emanu El at left
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Pine near Powell
View southeast across Union Square to Mission Bay. Temple Emanu-El and Thomas Starr King's First Unitarian Church
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Mason St. Grammar School
Located at Corner of Washington and Mason, built in 1866. Later called Washington Grammar School, and eventually became the site of the Chinese Recreation Center. [340. Mason Street Grammar School, San Francisco.]
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Powell near California
[356. From California and Powell Streets.] View east over garden. Old St. Mary's Church. Sailing ships along Embarcadero. Driveway of David Porter Mansion (later site of the Fairmont Hotel) in foreground.
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View NW from Nob Hill
[140. Fort Point, from Clay St. Hill, Helios] View northwest from Clay near Hyde Street. Two boys and man with keg on shoulder. St. Brigid Church (1864) in middle distance left at Broadway and Van Ness, early houses, Marin Headlands, Golden Gate. Larkin St. Presbyterian Church (Larkin & Pacific, completed 1864) at center right.
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Russian Hill from Nob Hill
View northwest to Russian Hill and Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869). Alcatraz seen faintly at upper right. Same original image as wnp71.2485, different cropping. [358. Russian Hill, from cor. Mason and Sacramento]
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Powell & Sacramento
[Looking NE from California {sic} - Powell St, 1868] From future site of Fairmont Hotel. Yerba Buena Island in distance. [F810 V-061] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Russian Hill from Nob Hill
View northwest to Russian Hill and Jobson's Observatory (1861-1869). Alcatraz seen faintly at upper right. Same image as wnp37.01588, different cropping. [F810 V-121] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)[Russian Hill 186?] (Cropped version of WNP37.01588)
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View N from Nob Hill
View north to Russian Hill from Nob Hill near Jones & Washington. House at middle right with rising fence is 1032 Broadway, built in 1853 for Joseph H. Atkinson, extant 2020. Belvedere, Tiburon and Angel Island in background. [F810 V-120] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Washington near Jones
View north to Russian Hill from Nob Hill near Jones & Washington. House at middle right with rising fence is 1032 Broadway, built in 1853 for Joseph H. Atkinson, extant 2020. Belvedere, Tiburon and Angel Island in background. [238. Russian Hill]
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View South from Nob Hill
[637--San Francisco California, from Russian Hill] [American Scenery]. Trinity Church, Powell & Post, at left, Mechanics Pavilion in Union Square, Calvary Presbyterian Church at Powell & Geary, St. Ignatius College and Church on Market Street with Lincoln School behind. Mission Bay in background.
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Powell near California
View northeast from Nob Hill to Telegraph Hill from near Powell and California. Gardens, homes. Building at left beyond fence, on Powell near Clay, housed Boys High School (later Lowell High School) from 1864-1875. Later it housed San Francisco Normal School, which eventually became San Francisco State University. Steeple of First Presbyterian Chinese Church on Stockton to right of center. Published on Kilburn Bros. stereoview card with title '2709. San Francisco'. Also published by John P. Soule, copyright 1870, as '1319. Telegraph Hill, from Clay St. Hill, San Francisco'. Same source as wnp71.2111.
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View from Nob Hill
View northeast from Nob Hill northeast to Powell Street M.E. Church, African Methodist Church, St. Francis of Assisi Church in distance, Telegraph Hill. Duplicate image of stereoview wnp24.222a. [639 Telegraph Hill]
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Crocker Mansion
Charles Crocker Mansion from California Street near Taylor. Site of future Grace Cathedral.
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[View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq. S. F., California. 3643.] View south
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Stockton & California
House is older than the street because of the wall. Veranda faces east. Similar to wnp37.00799. [2225. Residence, S.W. cor. Stockton & Cal. Sts.]
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View from Nob Hill
[View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq, SF 3638] Looking northeast. Taylor St. at right.
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Pine near Stockton
[TEH826 Pine St east of Stockton T. E. Hecht] Homes above a serious retaining wall. Erected by Austrian Consul Edmund Vischer.
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View from Nob Hill
Northeast from Powell near California, a series of important public schools occupied building with double stairway (originally Dr. Boring's Church) at lower left on Powell near Clay. In 1856 to 1858 it was Union Grammar School, 1858-1860 San Francisco High School. Remodeled in 1860, it became Boys High School (later Lowell High School) and Girls High School was established at Stockton & Bush. In 1875, Boys High School moved to Sutter near Gough. The building housed Normal Schools (teachers colleges) which later became CSU San Francisco and CSU San Jose. Central Market at lower left. Globe Hotel (NE corner, Dupont / Grant and Jackson), Continental Hotel (525 Pacific), Zeile Roman Turkish & Russian Steam Baths, 524 Pacific. Steeple of First Presbyterian Chinese Church, right of center.
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View E from Nob Hill
View roughly above Powell near California (current location of Fairmont Hotel). Old St. Mary's, US Custom House in distance left. Yerba Buena Island
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