Muybridge photographed the panorama from the Mark Hopkins Mansion at California and Mason; each one aimed at a different part of the City. The panorama is set up as Muybridge intended.
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Story behind the Crocker's famous "Spite Fence."
Crocker wanted to buy all of the block on which his mansion would stand, but one man, an undertaker named Yung, would not sell. In spite Crocker built a 40 foot wall enclosing three sides of Yung's house. When Yung died, Crocker bought the property and the wall came down. Today such a scheme would not be allowed, but Crocker had the power in San Francisco to get away with it.
