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
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
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
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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