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View from Fairmont Hotel

January 1, 1910

View east to Yerba Buena Island, East Bay Hills and Mt. Diablo, ferries and warships in bay behind Ferry Building. Old St. Mary's at lower center, down California Street Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907), Merchants Exchange Building, Clunie Building, Hotel Yale, Hotel Helvetia beyond. On Pine and Sansome Streets at far right, the Royal Insurance Co. Building (1909). On Sacramento St. at left, Chy Lung & Co., Haas Bros. wholesale grocers and Davis corner.

Changed from 1916 to 1910 based on directory entries for businesses. Plus, absent is Southern Pacific Building (completed 1917).