Church & Duboce
View west on Duboce past Muni metro construction, people waiting on benches, Buena Vista park in distance
Duboce TriangleEquipment
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Bay Bridge Approach
Construction view east toward 4th and Stillman.
South of Market
Bay Bridge Approach
Construction view east, man installing rebar on roadway, Bay Bridge in background.
South of Market
Haight & Central
View northeast across Haight to construction of new building. Buena Vista Apartments building at 1298 Haight Street, background right.[1669]
Haight Ashbury
Church & 20th
Construction of J Church right-of-way. Looking north 10:30 AM. Mission High School, Dolores Park, City Hall dome in background. - United Railroads [U05272]
Dolores Heights
Civic Center
[City Hall from Crystal Palace] Elevated view west over Pantages (later Orpheum) Theatre under construction with dozens of bystanders watching the excavation. Pioneer (James Lick) Monument , Civic Auditorium, Main Library.
South of Market
Van Ness Avenue Extension
Elevated view south to construction crew extending South Van Ness from Mission to Howard Street [DPW A3132]
South of Market
Fell near Divisadero
View northeast across Fell to building fire with firefighter on ladder at 3rd story window and another watching from the street. This building still stands in 2023. Fell Boulevard Fruit & Vegetable Market, Piggly Wiggly. Queen Anne drug store building in distance at Divisadero corner built 1888-1889 as Theodore Green Apothecary, Samuel Newsom architect. It is San Francisco Landmark #182. [Fire- Fell & Divisadero 48030]
Panhandle
Lawton near 8th Ave
View east to Mt. Sutro from 8th Avenue and Lawton. Clear-cutting trees and terracing for development of Forest Knolls.
Sunset Inner
Twin Peaks Boulevard
Men, steam shovel, and horses grade roadway. [Twin Peaks road construction][dpw2554]
Clarendon Heights
Bay Shore Blvd.
View northwest towards Alemany Blvd., Bernal Heights. Doidge-Koren Paint Co. 2095 San Bruno, at far left center. [A1486 10-16-28 Bay Shore Blvd. Sec. A]
Portola
Montgomery & Pine
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake Ruins, View southeast to men standing around steam donkey and tent. Sign on boiler says 'Safes recovered, opened and hauled away. Orders taken here.' Mills Building in background.
Financial District
Battery & Sacramento
1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northwest to Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building in distance left; Neller & Schermer Co. Wine Merchants 409 Sansome in center. Montgomery Block center right, Brown & Power stationers 418 Sansome.
Financial District
2nd & Townsend
Excavation and shoring of adjoining property for pumping station, 2nd & Townsend.
South Beach
Rhode Island near 16th
View south on Rhode Island to sewer drop, pile driver, Fischbeck Soap Co 17th & Rhode Island background left, Potrero Hill [dpwbook2 dpw713]
Showplace Square