Northeast Waterfront 19th Century

Unfinished History

Vallejo Street wharf seen from Telegraph Hill, 1864.

Photo: Kevin Mullen collection

Vallejo Street wharf and Green Street dock, with Telegraph Hill rising behind it, 1864.

Photo: Kevin Mullen collection

Vallejo Street Wharf, 1860s.

Photo: Lawrence and Houseworth

East side of Telegraph Hill, c. 1860. View west across wharf to American Russian Commercial Company (Sitka Ice) building, Cobblestone Depot. ARCC imported ice from Alaska to California. 140 feet east of Battery St, North side of Broadway.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.3782

Clark's Point view towards Chestnut and Montgomery, 1865.

Photo: Online Archive of California, Roy D. Graves collection, I0012487A

1877 view before construction on new seawall.

Image: Bancroft Library

View west of Telegraph Hill from apx. Vallejo Wharf, c. 1875.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp13.114

San Francisco Wool Exchange, 1868, on the northwest corner of Sansome and Broadway.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnop71.1203; GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346; F810 BU-025

Friedlander Warehouse, 1869, on southwest corner of Sansome and Chestnut, Telegraph Hill rising up behind.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.3812

1910 view west from Union Street Wharf toward Telegraph Hill. At the time this was Fisherman's Wharf, as the men mending fishing nets attests to.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp15.1663

Pier 11 along the Embarcadero, 1926.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Front Street at Union Street, c. 1925. The warehouses still stand in 2024.

Photo: SFMemory.org

Embarcadero at Pier 19, Feb. 13, 1940.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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