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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]
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People pose on and alongside cable cars on Clay near Jones St. Watkins' stereo card bears this legend: 'Clay Street Hill R.R., San Francisco, Cal [California]. Run by A.S. Hallidie's patent Endless Steel Wire Rope and Gripping Attachment. Overcomes an Elevation of 307 feet in a length of 2800 feet. Watkins' Pacific Coast. 2369.' Also published by Taber.
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[V-138] Detail from 'View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq. #3640' by Carleton Watkins. Elevated view looking east from between Mason and Taylor. Colton (later Huntington) Mansion at left, Grace Church, Stanford Mansion in center. Construction in progress on future site of Mark Hopkins mansion. Selby Shot Tower at right, plank sidewalks, masonry laying in street (possible curb construction). [G810 V-138] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Detail from 'View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq. #3640' by Carleton Watkins. Elevated view looking east from between Mason and Taylor. Colton (later Huntington) Mansion at left, Grace Church, Stanford Mansion in center. Construction in progress on future site of Mark Hopkins mansion. Selby Shot Tower at right, plank sidewalks, masonry laying in street (possible curb construction). [G57 SV-040](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View Southeast from future site of Fairmont Hotel near Powell & California Sts., Nob Hill. Selby shot tower in distance. [F810 V-067] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View south from California between Powell and Mason. Trinity Church at Post and Powell at left, St. Mark's German Evangelical Lutheran Church and Calvary Presbyterian Church just beyond on Union Square, First Congregational at Post and Mason (1872) at right, Third Baptist Church (1869) at far left. Baldwin Hotel in the distance at center, smoke stacks of the Old Mint, Potrero Hill and Mission Bay. [San Francisco in the 1880's. View from Leland Stanford Residence]
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Cable car [East from Clay-Jones St 1875] View to Bay and Yerba Buena Island. [F810 STC-020] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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[View from the Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St. 3648] View southeast over downtown from Stanford residence on Powell between California and Pine. View south towards Union Square. Trinity Church (1867-1893) at center, corner of Post and Powell. Third Baptist Church (1869) at far left. Cropped from wnp37.02208.
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View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., S.F. California St. 3639 View northeast from approx. Taylor and Sacramento Streets. St Francis church at upper right.
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[View from Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal St., S.F. 3646]. Palace Hotel. Residence on Powell between California and Pine. View to southeast of Palace Hotel at right, Selby Shot Tower background left. Crop image in wnp37.02928
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View southeast from Charles Crocker Residence. The residence of attorney Richard Tobin, at the SE corner of California and Taylor streets (1871). The architects, S. C. Bugbee and Son, also designed the Colton, Crocker, and Stanford mansions nearby. Present site of the Huntington Hotel. [WK] Palace Hotel (1875), Temple Emanu-el, bay and ships in background. Plank sidewalks. [View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq. S.F. 3641]
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From Pine & Powell, probably Stanford Residence. Palace Hotel has been built.
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Elevated view south across California street near Powell to Stanford Mansion, S.C. Bugbee and Son, architects. [Residence of Gov. Stanford, California St. S. F. 3702.]
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[East from Powell and Cala.] Yerba Buena Island in distance. Sailing ships in bay. US Custom house.
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William C. Ralston's residence at 1222 Pine Street, between Leavenworth and Hyde, built for him in 1874. The rear towers can be seen in the Muybridge panorama of 1878. (WMK) [W. C. Ralston's Residence, SF, Cal.]
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View north to Powell Street M.E. Church, Alcatraz, Angel Island, Meiggs' Wharf, St. Francis of Assisi church at far right center. [San Francisco and Alcatraz Island. From the Cor. Mason and Sacramento Streets. Thomas Houseworth. Photographer. 12 Montgomery Street.]
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View west on California St. Old St. Mary's Church, Grace Church on the right. Sailing ships in the distance. Edouart & Cobb Photographic Art Gallery building at Kearny corner.
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Temple Emanu-El at center. Third Baptist Church (1869) center right, Palace Hotel (1875) and Grand Hotel(1869)center left. St. Mark's Church (1863) on south side of Union Square. Selby Shot Tower at far left. [Variation of Watkins' View from the Grounds of Gov. Stanford]
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[Corner of California and Powell Streets (handwritten) Watkins New Cabinet Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast 427 Montgomery Street] View northeast to Union Grammar School/San Francisco High School/Boys High School/Normal School building (with double stairway in front) on Powell south of Clay. Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill in distance. St. Francis of Assisi Church at left center distance. Steeple of First Chinese Presbyterian Church on Stockton to right of center.
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View west across Powell to First Methodist Episcopal Church aka Powell Street M.E. Church, built in 1870-1871; the architects were Wright and Sanders. The school at right, at 1119 Powell, was built in 1851 and rebuilt in 1854 as a private school. The city rented it as a public school beginning in June 1855 and purchased it in 1859. It was known as Powell St. Grammar, Powell St. Primary, and finally Le Conte Primary School. (WMK) [CHU-6] [F810 CHU-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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