Mission High School
View from Dolores Park. Baseball Game in progress.
Mission DoloresDemolished
Contains 7898 photos
View From Bernal Heights
View north from Bernal Heights. Harrison Street at center. Precita Park lined with trees at bottom, SF General Hospital and Potrero Hill at upper right, Bay Bridge under construction. Cogswell College at far left (built 1888, demolished 1941), Garfield Square, Poetsch & Peterson Tannery, Le Conte School (now Leonard Flynn)
Bernal Heights
Grant near O'Farrell
11-13 Dupont (west side between O'Farrell and Geary) The building was set back from the street, so that when Dupont Street was widened on the west side a few years later, the front steps met the new sidewalk, and the building did not have to be torn down or moved back on its lot. (WMK) [Hammam baths, Grant Avenue. T. E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
Market near 3rd
Decorations for Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Looking west towards Twin Peaks [TEH767 T.E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
Kearny & Commercial
Elevated view looking northwest across Kearny St. Part of Portsmouth Square at far right. At left, J.E. (Joseph E.) Knowles, photographs, pictures newspapers; 621 Kearny; Dr. Moore, physician and surgeon office. (An original stereo view in the Bancroft Library (Houseworth No. 105) shows the registration date of 1869.)[N.W. cor Commercial-Kearny St.[TEH141 Kearny And Commercial Sts. 1870 (sic) T. E. Hecht]
Chinatown
Woodward's Gardens
[TEH188 T. E. Hecht Woodward's Gardens] Etienne Buislay's hot-air balloon Sierra Nevada. Balloon Ascension with crowds watching. Camel and donkey in foreground.
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
[TEH190 T. E. Hecht Conservatory at Woodward's Gardens] Museum building at right. Before installation of Seal Pond (Sea Lions) in December, 1871.
Mission
Woodward's Gardens
[TEH609 T.E. Hecht Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco, CA] View down grand stairway toward art gallery, rotary boat ride. Copy of Taber's 'B 14 Woodward's Gardens'.
Mission
5th near Mission
The Metropolitan Temple, on east side of Fifth Street at Jessie, designed by William S. Mooser architect. The cornerstone was laid in August, 1876 and it was dedicated on August 5, 1877. It was the home of Rev. Isaac Kalloch's Baptist Church and the scene of his attempted assassination by Charles de Young in 1879. United Undertakers and F.W. Spencer & Co. Guild Pianos. A portion of the Lincoln School is visible at left. Variant of wnp27.4093. [TEH #612 Metropolitan Temple T.E. Hecht 430 35th Ave]
South of Market
4th near Stevenson
Pioneer Place, side entrance to the assembly and banquet hall of the Pioneer Building (Society of California Pioneers) with 'Eureka' over the door. Pioneer Place ran west from 4th Street opposite Stevenson. The building was completed in 1886 and destroyed in April, 1906. [TEH636 T.E. Hecht]
South of Market
Pine near Stockton
[TEH826 Pine St east of Stockton T. E. Hecht] Homes above a serious retaining wall. Erected by Austrian Consul Edmund Vischer.
Nob Hill
Market near Grant
Publishing House of A.L. Bancroft and Company, 721 Market, building destroyed by fire April 30, 1886. Decorations in honor of the Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar. Swan The Painter. [TEH790 T.E. Hecht Market St. opp Grant Ave.]
South of Market
Sutter & Taylor
[TEH1107 T.E. Hecht N. W. corner Sutter & Taylor 1876] View to northwest corner houses. Horse and wagon, cobblestones, early telegraph pole?
Lower Nob Hill
James Lick School
[James Lick School, San Francisco, Cal.] Postcard view of James Lick school at Noe and 25th. Built as Noe and Temple Primary School and later known as James Lick Grammar School. When the first story was built in 1874-1875, it was one story in height with four classrooms but was planned so two more stories could be built later. The second story, of four more classrooms, was added in 1881, and the third story was added in 1895. [WMK]
Noe Valley
PPIE
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, [30 The Zone, PPIE] View of the Joy Zone at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 'London to The South Pole' exhibit on right.
Marina