Construction

Contains 3716 photos

Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

View of suspension span section of bridge while under construction, looking toward Twin Peaks. Coastal passenger steamer passing beneath bridge.

Golden Gate Bridge
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Golden Gate Bridge

View northwest from Battery Baldwin (foreground) in the Presidio, Crissy Field hangars; Bridge under construction; Coast Guard Rescue Station at right, Marin Headlands in distance. [Golden Gate Bridge 1935 Piggott Photo]

Presidio
Bancroft Building
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Bancroft Building

View south across Market to 723 Market Street, A. L. Bancroft & Company between 3rd & 4th Streets. Street work underway. Johnson & Best cabinet makers at left. Building destroyed by fire, 1886.[360--Bancroft's Block, Market street. Helios]

South of Market
Islais Creek
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Islais Creek

View Northwest from Islais Creek Bridge, 3rd Street. Duncanson-Harrelson Co. cranes, F. E. Booth Company (sardine cannery), Cargill warehouses. Potrero Hill with public housing in distance.

Central Waterfront
Grant & Market
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Grant & Market

View east on Market past Union Trust Co. bank to Call Building with Hearst Building under construction. Taken just before wnp37.03834? Streetcar pattern seems just earlier.

Downtown / Union Square
Ocean & Sunset
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Ocean & Sunset

[DPWA3505 9-21-32 Sunset Blvd. N. From Lake Merced] Creation of Sunset Boulevard. DPW photograph. Love & Haun truck. Overpass at Sloat Blvd.

Lakeshore
Lake Merced & Sunset
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Lake Merced & Sunset

[DPWA3508 9-21-32 Sunset Blvd. Lake Merced Fill - N. Side] Sand dumped on shore of lake.

Lakeshore
Lake Merced
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Lake Merced

[DPWA3509 9-21-32 Sunset Blvd. Lake Merced Fill S. Side] Sand dumped on shore. Golf clubhouse for Harding Park behind.

Lakeshore
Lake Merced
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Lake Merced

[DPWA3510 9-21-32 Sunset Blvd. Lake Merced Fill] Sand possibly creating berm separating East Lake and North Lake?

Lakeshore
Sunset near Sloat
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Sunset near Sloat

[DPWA3507 9-21-32 Sunset Blvd. at Sloat Blvd.] Street and median work south of Sloat overpass.

Lakeshore
Bay Bridge Construction
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Bay Bridge Construction

View from observation deck inside Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill towards rising towers of Bay Bridge, Ferry Building.

Telegraph Hill
Bay Bridge Construction
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Bay Bridge Construction

View from bay toward western tower of Bay Bridge under construction. Clock tower building on left, Hills Brothers building, Pacific Telephone building.

Kearny & Geary
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Kearny & Geary

[Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.] Market, Geary and Kearny Streets. View southeast across Market St. to Palace Hotel. Lotta's Fountain (dedicated September, 1875) in foreground, portion of Grand Hotel at far left, Nucleus Block building at right, in early stages of construction. People on street corner and around fountain. Duplicate of wnp37.02342. Variant of wnp24.261a. Same original image as wnp24.261a with slightly different cropping.

Downtown / Union Square
GG Bridge construction
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GG Bridge construction

Golden Gate Bridge. Woman posing with 1935 Pontiac coupe; Ft. Point; Marin Headlands

Presidio
Eastwood & Wildwood
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Eastwood & Wildwood

View northerly up Eastwood from Wildwood. (West side of the 100 block of Eastwood is visible) Westwood Park Children posing in front of bungalows.

Westwood Park