Construction

Contains 3716 photos

Urbano & Corona
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Urbano & Corona

Grading for Ingleside Terraces; Ingleside Racetrack Clubhouse in background

Ingleside Terraces
Noe & 14th
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Noe & 14th

German Hospital, Later Franklin Hospital, now Davies Medical Center. Built 1905-1908. To the right is old German Hospital of 1878, likely torn down soon after. [WMK]

Duboce Triangle
Rincon Hill Cut
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Rincon Hill Cut

[#107, SS-169, Cutting Through 2nd St in 1869.] Plate taped.

Rincon Hill
San Francisco Bay
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San Francisco Bay

[Massive tower and catwalk S.F.-Oakland Bay Bridge. Piggott #354] View of towers of Bay Bridge under construction. Hills Brother's building. Pacific Telephone Building, Call Building, Hobart Building in distance.

Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

[The Squeezer at work on Bay Bridge cable. Piggott co. Photo-1088] Workmen compressing cable. Yerba Buena Island in background.

Broadway & Sansome
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Broadway & Sansome

[San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Piggott Photo 1104] View to Bay Bridge under construction. Produce market, Embarcadero, Ferries and Ferry Building.

North Beach
San Francisco Bay
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San Francisco Bay

View west to Bay Bridge under construction, part way through installation of roadway. Ferry in water, Pacific Telephone Building, Call Building, Ferry Building. [San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Piggott Photo 1100]

View from Angel Island
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View from Angel Island

View southwest to Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands, San Francisco, Presidio and Outer Richmond. [Zan 1013 Rising 742 feet in the air the Towers of the Golden Gate Bridge near completion]

Outside SF
View from Angel Island
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View from Angel Island

View southwest to Golden Gate Bridge under construction, Marin Headlands, San Francisco, Presidio and Outer Richmond. Four ferryboats in foreground. [The World's largest Ferry Fleet plies the waters of the San Francisco Bay. Southern Pacific- Golden Gate Ferries, Ltd. Zan 1215]

Outside SF
Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

1906 Earthquake and Fire, 822 Market; New San Francisco Regal Shoes for Men & Women; Earthquake ruins around new store; City of Paris and Whittell Building in background

Downtown / Union Square
Magellan & Pacheco
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Magellan & Pacheco

[The San Francisco Commercial Club visits Forest Hill, April 18, 1913, Compliments of Newell-Murdoch Co.] View over Dewey Blvd. to Forest Hill extension development, Edgehill in background

Forest Hill
26th & Castro
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26th & Castro

View northwest across intersection with roadwork around cable car partly on turntable. Victorians in the background all extant 2020, though 4 of the 5 beyond the corner have lost their large gable pediments atop their bays. Row of rectangular bay Italianates built by Fernando Nelson 1892. [26th & Castro Streets. Accident Report 7892-14] United Railroads [U04746]

Noe Valley
Union Square
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Union Square

Elevated view north to Fairmont Hotel, towers of rebuilt Temple Emanu-El, Dewey Monument, Union Square Hotel at right. Reconstruction after earthquake. [Post St. Between Stockton and Powell 637]

Downtown / Union Square
Union Square
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Union Square

[Union Square showing St. Francis Annex and Office Bldgs. In course of construction, San Francisco, Cal.] Whittell Building, Dewey monument, Call Building, City of Paris building.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 4th
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Market & 4th

Photo postcard view east from middle of street to Call Building, Humboldt Bank Building. Phelan Building and Pacific Building at left and right. Two streetcars. [330 - Market St. near Fourth St., San Francisco, CA; Weidner Photo, S. F.]

Downtown / Union Square