For this volume, author Katherine Powell Cohen has gathered photographs from the archives of Grace Cathedral; the Fairmont, Mark Hopkins, Stanford Court, and Huntington Hotels; the Masonic Temple; the Bancroft Library; the Nob Hill Association; and private sources to create an unprecedented collection of historical images of Nob Hill. Dr. Powell Cohen has lived in San Francisco for more than 23 years and is also the author of Images of America: San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, published in 2008.