Northeast Waterfront 19th Century

Unfinished History

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Vallejo Street wharf seen from Telegraph Hill, 1864.

Photo: Kevin Mullen collection

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

Photo: Kevin Mullen collection

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Vallejo Street Wharf, 1860s.

Photo: Lawrence and Houseworth

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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

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

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

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1877 view before construction on new seawall.

Image: Bancroft Library

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

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp13.114

San Francisco Wool Exchange 1868. NW corner Sansome St Broadway. Props. D. McLennon, Whelan, Grisar BU-25 Sack and bales piled up on sidewalk, laden horse-drawn wagon F810 BU-025 GGNRA-Behrman GOGA 35346 wnp71.1203.jpg

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

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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 (then Fisherman's Wharf) toward Telegraph Hill in background. Men mending fishing nets, boys posing wnp15.1663.jpg

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

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Pier 11 along the Embarcadero, 1926.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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

Photo: SFMemory.org

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Embarcadero at Pier 19, Feb. 13, 1940.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

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