Showing posts with label Nob Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nob Hill. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SKYLINE C. 1905

DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO c. 1905, looking from Nob Hill southeastward. The Call Building dominates the skyline. The wide boulevard behind it, extending to the Bay is Third Street where at its end you now can find AT & T park, the home of the Giants.


Saturday, February 15, 2014

EARLY ALCATRAZ

What might be the earliest photograph extant of a reasonably pristine Alcatraz,
taken in 1853 from Nob Hill.