Russian Hill

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View from Russian Hill
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View from Russian Hill

View west to Cow Hollow, Presidio, Washerwoman's Lagoon, sand dunes. Image cropped from wnp26.733. [The Presidio from Russian Hill, S.F. 3728]

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View from Russian Hill
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View from Russian Hill

View West from Russian Hill around Lombard and Larkin. Cow Hollow, Golden Gate and Presidio. Intersection of Lombard and Larkin at right.

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View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

[NB-19 Telegraph Hill 1878] View east over North Beach from Russian Hill to Telegraph Hill. Lombard St at left center, Yerba Buena Island in distance,Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex at Powell, center. Same image as wnp37.00789-R, Watkins stereoview 3725, with tighter cropping. [F810 NB-019] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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Looking northwest. Homes on Green Street at Jones, bottom of picture. The horse and wagon are at Union and Leavenworth. The flat structure top center is the Spring Valley Reservoir between Lombard and Greenwich and Hyde. To avoid confusion, the existing Octagon House is half a block west near Leavenworth. The octagon house showing at the bottom of the picture was replaced by another structure that survived 1906 and was torn down in 1950 to be replaced by a concrete apartment house.

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View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

View east over North Beach. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex in middle distance at Powell St. Tightly cropped from Watkins image at wnp26.725. [Telegraph Hill and Goat Island from Russian Hill, S.F. 3725]

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View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

[Telegraph Hill and Goat Island from Russian Hill.] View east from Hyde between Greenwich and Lombard. Toland Medical Collegem Home for the Inebriate and Yerba Buena Island in distance left. Washington Square, St. Francis of Assisi Church at far right. Presentation Convent Roman Catholic school complex on Powell St. at center. Watkins stereoview 3725 is tightly cropped version of this image. See wnp37.00789-R.jpg.

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Western Addition
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Western Addition

[1323. Lone Mountain Cemetery, from Russian Hill, San Francisco] View west past houses, cottages and dunes to Lone Mountain.

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View W from Russian Hill
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View W from Russian Hill

View from approx. Larkin and Greenwich St. Sand dunes on future Marina District, Harbor View Resort, Presidio Main Post, Fort Point, Golden Gate. [Harbor View 1876, HV-2] (G810 HV-002) (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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View W from Russian Hill
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View W from Russian Hill

Lower slopes of Russian Hill near Larkin and Lombard showing Cow Hollow, East Beach at Crissy Field with tidal slough, the Main Post at the Presidio, gun emplacements, Fort Point; Marin Headlands in distance.

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Polk & Filbert
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Polk & Filbert

View southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Catholic Church up on hill side at Broadway and Van Ness. Corner estate with gardens in foreground belonged to E. Willard Burr, house at right to his son C.C. Burr. Burr's property was fenced along Laguna Survey lines, which were roughly diagonal to the main street grid. Rails on roadway for Sutter Street Railroad horsecar line to Harbor View, abandoned in 1873 in favor of a more direct route. Van Ness Avenue was extended through the property in 1894. Lafayette Park in background right. Same image as wnp4.1431. [Looking SW from Greenwich & Polk Sts.(Sic)] [TEH#453] [F810 V-039] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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View NE from Russian Hill
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View NE from Russian Hill

View northeast from Russian Hill, probably today's Ina Coolbrith Park. Vallejo Street at right (with St. Francis of Assisi Church), Washington Square with mature landscaping at left. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Same image as wnp37.00293. [F810 V-125] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [B 207 Telegraph Hill and Goat Island]

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View N from Russian Hill
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View N from Russian Hill

[232a San Francisco, Cal.] View north from approximately Jones St. and Green St. towards bay. Alcatraz dimly visible at right.

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View N from Russian Hill
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View N from Russian Hill

[232a San Francisco, Cal.] View from approximately Jones St. and Green St. north towards bay, Alcatraz Island and Angel Island.

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View of North Beach
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View of North Beach

View northeast from near Vallejo & Taylor Streets. Washington Square with mature trees, St. Francis of Assisi Church at right. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Same original image as wnp71.2152. [B 207. Telegraph Hill and Goat Island, San Francisco]

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View NW from Russian Hill
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View NW from Russian Hill

Taken from approx. Francisco near Polk. Fort Mason in distance. Men standing around in land available for sale. Roughly standing where Polk Street is today.

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View W from Russian Hill
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View W from Russian Hill

View west toward the Golden Gate with development along shoreline of future Marina District. The Fillmore Wharf, partially obstructed by buildings in the Black Point Packing House complex on the shoreline at the foot of Webster Street. The Scott Street wharf, more distinctly represented in this image, was a private wharf built to serve the Pacific Distilling and Refining works at Pierce and Chestnut Streets. The distillery is dimly visible at the left hand margin of this image. (RB) [G57 SV-053](GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)

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View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

Taken from approximately Green & Leavenworth, Telegraph Hill and Yerba Buena Island, East Bay Hills in background. Octagon House.

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View W from Russian Hill
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View W from Russian Hill

Golden Gate and Fort Point in background, Reservoir site in foreground, Allyne Mansion and Octagon House

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View E from Russian Hill
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View E from Russian Hill

[City Front from Russian Hill.] View southeast from Hyde between Greenwich and Lombard. Washington Square, St. Francis Church, Nob Hill. Watkins stereoview 3726 is cropped from this image.

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View N from Russian Hill
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View N from Russian Hill

View North from near Leavenworth and Chestnut. Alcatraz, western end of sea wall not quite done. 'Ark' houseboat. Chestnut or Lombard Street in foreground.

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