Max Pollak did this triptych birdseye overview of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill in 1930, before either the Oakland/San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridges or Coit Tower were built in the mid 1930s.
The left panel, "The Harbor" is of the San Francisco Bay harbor. Looking past the rooftops of the shacks built on the side of Telegraph Hill the viewer can see the Ferry Building and the piers and wharves along the waterfront as ships arrive through the Golden Gate from the Pacific. To the left of the Ferry Building is a sign advertising the Wellman grocery and coffee company, established in San Francisco in 1849 during the Gold Rush.
The central panel titled "Business Center" looks to the east to downtown San Francisco. The new "skyscrapers" of the financial center are visible in the distance, viewed between 2 Eucalyptus trees on Telegraph Hill.
The right panel is titled "Nob Hill" and is a foggy view of the neighborhood with the Mark Hopkins Hotel visible at the top of the hill. The pre-bridge East Bay is indicated by the hills rising over the bay.
As the Depression wears on and San Francisco builds in order to help with jobs the landscape changes dramatically with the addition of the two bridges and Coit Tower, all which became immediate San Francisco landmarks.