Contains 1245 photos
Huge crowd on Ocean Beach as Gjoa arrives. Roald Amundsen's Gjoa was the first ship through the northwest passage in 1906. Donated to San Francisco, she was displayed at the west end of Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972, when she was returned to Norway. [Manning Collection ] [SC30 ]
Golden Gate Park
Panorama from Sutro Heights looking south to Ocean Beach. Amundsen's ship, Gjoa, can be seen being hauled ashore., pt.1 [Clayton St Family Collection]
Sutro Heights
Panorama from Sutro Heights looking south to Ocean Beach. Amundsen's ship, Gjoa, can be seen being hauled ashore., pt.2 [Clayton St Family Collection]
Sutro Heights
Newspaper clipping from accident on Elizabeth Street, Noe Valley Archives
Noe Valley
Elevated view west to USF Parade for basketball team. Flood Building, Phelan Building, Bankers Investment Building, Eagleson's, Jarman, Lundstrom Hats, Prices.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west to USF Parade for basketball team; Bill Russell in car. Flood Building, Phelan Building, Bankers Investment Building, Eagleson's, Jarman, Lundstrom Hats, Prices, Bank of America.
Downtown / Union Square
USF Parade for basketball team; looking west; from Hearst Building
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view west to USF Parade for basketball team. Flood Building, Phelan Building, Bankers Investment Building, Eagleson's, Jarman, Lundstrom Hats, Prices.
South of Market
Civic Auditorium. [Spirit of the South Seas--Or Something! San Francisco--Revelers revel at the Parilia, Annual Ball of the San Francisco Art Association, with the theme being 'Pacifica Fantasia.' Some 800 participants wore costumes of the South Seas---or little or nothing in the spirit of the affair.] Dancers.
Civic Center
[Wall Street of West: Noontime on Montgomery Street, heart of the financial district in San Francisco...] Russ Building, Chevrolet dealer, Banco Printing.
North Beach
View from Carona Heights. New U.S. Mint, Bay Bridge, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building in distance.
Corona Heights
View from tower with workman toward San Francisco. Road bed under construction.
View northwest from Mark Hopkins Hotel toward Golden Gate past Huntington Park. Grace Cathedral rectory and grounds at left. Chambord Apartments, Clay-Jones Apartments (1930, architect Albert Larsen) with radio tower on roof in distance. Crest Royal Apartments 1310 Jones built 1955, 10-story 1360 Jones apartments (William Schirmer architect, 1928). Roof of Pacific Union Club (Flood Mansion) at bottom right. [Photo furnished through courtesy Burlington Route and Western Pacific R.R.]
Nob Hill
View to downtown, Mint Hill, Bay Bridge past McKinley School, Franklin Hospital.
Corona Heights
Old Hall of Justice at Washington and Kearny. [Where Mooney Will Face Court. Pictured here is the San Francisco Hall of Justice where Tom Mooney, Famous Prisoner, will go to trial April 26 on an unused murder indictment...]
Chinatown