Contains 555 photos
Sailing ship MINDORO was set fire off Yerba Buena Island (then Goat Island) as part of 17th commemoration of 1906 fire. Fireboats Dennis T. Sullivan and David Scannell demonstrated their fire fighting abilities. [Fireboats in action][dpwbook32 dpw8645]
SF Bay
Sailing ship MINDORO was set fire off Yerba Buena Island (then Goat Island) as part of 17th commemoration of 1906 fire. Fireboats Dennis T. Sullivan and David Scannell demonstrated their fire fighting abilities. [Fireboats in action] [dpwbook32 dpw8645]
SF Bay
1923 DPW copy of Gelatin silver copy photograph by T.E. Hecht from the original by William Shew in 1853. [1851 Panorama dpwbook34 dpw9041] View east from approx. present Spear & Folsom Streets. Yerba Buena Island.
Rincon Hill
1923 DPW copy of Gelatin silver copy photograph by T.E. Hecht from the original by William Shew in 1853. [1851 Panorama dpwbook34 dpw9042] Taken from approx. present Spear & Folsom Streets.
Rincon Hill
1923 DPW copy of Gelatin silver copy photograph by T.E. Hecht from the original by William Shew in 1853. [1851 Panorama dpwbook34 dpw9043 ] Taken from approx. present Spear & Folsom Streets.
Rincon Hill
1923 DPW copy of Gelatin silver copy photograph by T.E. Hecht from the original by William Shew in 1853. [1851 Panorama dpwbook34 dpw9044] Taken from approx. present Spear & Folsom Streets.
Rincon Hill
Golden Gate Bridge opening. Three battleships steaming under bridge
Telephoto view east from Russian Hill to Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill. Garfield School at center. Ss. Peter & Paul Church and Washington Square at lower left. Treasure Island in background.
Russian Hill
Aerial view looking north to Bay over Wharf and Hyde Street Pier with ferry slips. San Francisco Art Institute tower is prominent in foreground. Haslett Warehouse and former Del Monte Cannery (now The Cannery). Columbus Avenue at lower right. End of Municipal Pier at far left.
Russian Hill
[Islais Creek from 3rd Street looking west to Twin Peaks, dpwbook47 dpw2716] View west from 3rd Street Bridge. Southern Pacific Railroad trestle in distance. Rosenberg Bros. & Co. Rice Mill No. 1 (opened 1918) on Rankin St. at left. Bernal Heights, Twin Peaks in distance.
Central Waterfront
Elevated view east toward assembled crowd for the celebration and ceremony by the SF Chamber of Commerce to start the Islais Creek Reclamation Project. Rosenberg Bros. & Co. Rice Mill No. 1 (opened 1918) on Rankin St. at far right. Bascule bridge at 3rd Street in distance left. [Islais reclamation district Celebration dpwbook47 dpwA2745]
Central Waterfront
View southeast on Islais Creek to 3rd St. bascule drawbridge in background. Reclaimed filled land at left. [Islais Creek Reclamation. District Finished Wall west of Angle Point dpwbook47 dpw2861]
Central Waterfront
View north across boat basin to Five Brothers fishing boat; Fishermen's Grotto, Consolidated Fisheries, Inc.
View northwest across boat basin to Consolidated Fisheries, Inc. Fishermen's Grotto
Fishermans Wharf
Looking west. Ferry making smoke as it approaches Hyde St. Pier
Fishermans Wharf