Kearny & Filbert
View south at unpaved block and open hillside. [Kearny St from Telegraph Hill 1890 SS-53] [G810 SS-053] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Contains 877 photos
Telegraph Hill Observatory
[TH-10 Castle on Telegraph Hill Park 1890] View of Layman's castle. [G810 TH-010] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Kearny & Filbert
View south at unpaved block and open hillside. Superior duplicate of wnp71.0368. [G57 SSS-017] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View from Telegraph Hill
View northwest over northern waterfront, sailing vessels, Belvedere, Alcatraz and Angel Island, remnants of Meiggs' Wharf in center next to long pier sheds built on Sea Wall. (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346) [Alcatraz Island S.F. 1890 A-2] [F810 A-002]
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Telegraph Hill
Layman's Castle on Telegraph Hill, also called the German Castle and Layman's Folly. Photos shows the building after it was enlarged in 1883. The tallest spire was a smokestack for a power plant in the basement that powered a short-lived funicular rail line running up the hill on Greenwich St. [Pioneer Park Observatory, Telegraph Hill. Showing Time Ball. x-22]
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Telegraph Hill
[Telegraph Hill S.F. TH-6] View north from Alta Street of three boys and a girl standing on hillside. Cottages with laundry drying and Layman's Castle on top behind. Behind them on Filbert Steps is 228 Filbert, carpenter gothic Philip Brown House, built 1869, extant 2019. [stereo] [F810 TH-006] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View from Telegraph Hill
View north to North Beach, Meiggs' Wharf, Alcatraz, Angel Island, Joshua Hendy Machine Works at right. [Bird's-Eye Views of San Francisco--No. 10. North Point and Sea Wall from Telegraph Hill. New Series Plate 105, With S.F. News Letter Aug 1 1891, The Joshua Hendy Machine Works Britton & Rey Arto. (Artotype)]
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View from Telegraph Hill
[B 861 San Francisco Bay] Looking southeast over Embarcadero, piers, ships at anchor.
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View from Telegraph Hill
View southeast to San Francisco Waterfront and beyond from Telegraph Hill. [SF Bay - Oakland & Alameda moles in distance. WA-36] [F810 WA-036] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View of North Beach
View west towards Russian Hill from Telegraph Hill. Chestnut, Lombard, Greenwich Sts. Things are getting filled in.
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View from Russian Hill
View east from Russian Hill, Chestnut near Leavenworth to Telegraph Hill with Layman's Castle atop. Toland Medical College (two story building with cupola) and Home for the Inebriate in distance down Chestnut at Stockton.
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View from Telegraph Hill
[334 Alcatraz Island] View northwest from Telegraph Hill toward Alcatraz, Northern waterfront with grain sheds in foreground.
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Telegraph Hill
crowds assembled to witness fleet leaving for Philippines; German Castle (Layman's Castle), taken from top floor 292 Union Street east of Montgomery
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Telegraph Hill
Crowd on Telegraph Hill outside Layman's Castle (German Castle, Layman's Folly) - Waiting for troop ships to arrive from Philippines
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Army Transport Sherman
U.S. Army troop transport 'Sherman' returning from Philippines, surrounded by small boats. Viewed from Telegraph Hill
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E Side of Telegraph Hill
Crowds at Layman's Castle (German Castle, Layman's Folly) watching the army transport Sherman returning from the Philippines. Bay and Angel Island in distance.
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Sansome near Vallejo
View north on Sansome toward Vallejo. Grey Brothers Quarry and Rock Crusher on east side of Telegraph Hill. Houses on the cliff on the 200 block of Green near Montgomery.
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View from Telegraph Hill
Looking west on Greenwich Street towards Black Point and Golden Gate. Telegraph Hill Observatory (Layman's Folly, 1882-1903) at right [0604. Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill
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View NE from Russian Hill
Telegraph Hill seen from Russian Hill. German Castle atop Telegraph Hill.
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View from Telegraph Hill
View west to Golden Gate, Black Point (Fort Mason), Marin Headlands.
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