Contains 2374 photos
'View uphill from Laguna Honda and Clarendon. [news copy: The wreckage above is all that remains of a five-room house which slide down a hill after three days of rain washed away the supporting soil from the underpinning. Walter H. Adams, British Consul, owner, had left the house earlier]
Forest Hill
View north on Kearny across Market. Soldiers marching in formation west on Market. Large crowd assembled for Spanish American War Parade, possibly for return of California volunteers. People in windows and on rooftops. Chronicle Building at right, 700 Market building (later replaced by Flannery Building) at left.
Downtown / Union Square
Last day of school, students celebrating and running out doorway into courtyard. [San Francisco-Schools-Last day of term]
Civic Center
Group of women at the California School of Fine Arts (now SF Art Institute) wearing fantasy costumes, including Virginia Patini and Louise Roesbery.
Russian Hill
Khrushchev departing a limousine and waving to crowd at SP Bayshore Yards. Mayor George Christopher at left.
Outside SF
Khrushchev departing a limousine and waving to crowd at SP Bayshore Yards. Mayor George Christopher at left.
Outside SF
Traffic and crowd waiting for Khrushchev's motorcade on Bayshore near Geneva. View north.
Outside SF
Traffic and crowd waiting for Khrushchev's motorcade on Bayshore near Geneva. View north.
Outside SF
Elevated view east to motorcade with police escort inside of Southern Pacific's Bayshore Yard.
Outside SF
Kezar Stadium, Mayor George Christopher presiding over May Day festivities with Polytechnic High School Gym in background.
Golden Gate Park
Civic Auditorium, Mayor Rossi speaking for First National Red Cross Convention. Many radio microphones set up for national broadcast.
Civic Center
Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson ( Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player)
Downtown / Union Square
Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson ( Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player and civil rights activist)
Downtown / Union Square
Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson (Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player)
Downtown / Union Square
Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Jackie Robinson and Reverend Hamilton Boswell at center.
Downtown / Union Square