Excavation

Contains 71 photos

Top of Mt. Olympus
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Top of Mt. Olympus

Triumph of Light statue, surveyor, steam shovel, with man in car parked in front.

Buena Vista
Red Rock Hill Quarry
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Red Rock Hill Quarry

Diamond Heights Before Development, View northeast toward Downtown. Filling Diamond Heights quarry with dirt removed from other parts of the development

Diamond Heights
Rhode Island near 16th
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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
Rhode Island near 16th
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Rhode Island near 16th

view south to Rhode Island nr 16th pile driver, Fischbeck Soap Co 17th & Rhode Island background left [dpwbook2 dpw759]

Potrero Hill
Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

View south on Beale across Harrison to Hobbs, Wall & Co. Box Factory at Beale & Bryant. Early stage of Beale St. Cut construction. At left, Chas. Hayes Liquors, 227 Harrison at Beale.[Folsom] [dpwbook2 dpw354]

Rincon Hill
Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

Beale looking south across Harrison to Hobbs, Wall & Co. Box Factory, Beale& Bryant. Beale looking S from Harrison [Folsom] [dpwbook2 dpw358] Early stage of Beale St. Cut. Al left, Chas. Hayes Liquors, 227 Harrison at Beale.

Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

View north on Beale to site of Beale St. Bridge, Harrison St. viaduct (W.P. Fuller Co., Beale and Mission, in distance)[Beale & Brannan] [dpwbook3 dpw480]

Rincon Hill
Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

View southeast to Beale Bridge Viaduct at Harrison under construction [dpwbook4 dpw570] Smokestack and water tank of Hobbs, Wall & Co. Box Factory at right. 219-21, 223 Harrison on Rincon Hill at left.

Rincon Hill
Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

View northwest to Beale Bridge, Harrison St. viaduct construction, using locomotive on temporary tracks and steam shovel. Downtown in distance. [dpwbook4 dpw604]

Rincon Hill
Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

View northwest to men raising girder with large crane onto Beale St. bridge (Harrison St. viaduct) construction, steam shovel and train on temporary tracks. [dpwbook4 dpw626]

Rincon Hill
25th & Utah
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25th & Utah

View north to houses along north side of 25th St. from within site of Starr King School [now site of Bryant Elementary School] foundations being built [dpwbook5 dpw1404]

Potrero Hill
Market near Douglass
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Market near Douglass

View west to Twin Peaks Tunnel Pouring Concrete, 160 Ord, background center [dpwbook12 dpw2443]

Eureka Valley
Twin Peaks Tunnel
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Twin Peaks Tunnel

Twin Peaks Tunnel construction. View west to Tank Hill (background left) Clayton St. Reservoir Tank (background center), DUPE of wnp36.00815

Castro
Liberty near Church
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Liberty near Church

View southeast across Liberty St to crowd watching steam shovel excavating J-Church streetcar line right-of-way at Liberty between Church and Dolores Streets. 241 and 247 Liberty at left, both extant 2018. [dpwbook15 dpw3012]

Dolores Heights
Harrison & 3rd
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Harrison & 3rd

View east on Harrison from 3rd showing ungraded street leading up Rincon Hill. [dpwbook15 dpw3026]

South of Market