Civic Center Plaza
Elevated view east from City Hall over crowd assembled for Civil Rights March. Stage and speakers at bottom.
Civic CenterNews
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Civic Center Plaza
Elevated view east from City Hall over crowd assembled for Civil Rights March. Stage, gospel choir and speakers at bottom.
Civic Center
Civic Center Plaza
Elevated view east from City Hall over crowd assembled for Civil Rights March. Stage and speakers at bottom left.
Civic Center
City Hall
Coffins lying in state in rotunda, flowers on steps
Civic Center
Illinois & 20th
Elevated view east on 20th from Illinois, crowds of workers milling about. Bethlehem Steel administrative building at left. [BE18 Bethlehem Steel Strike]
Dogpatch
2nd near Harrison
View south on Harrison from the Rincon Hill Bridge [9382 Volunteers on Second Street, San Francisco, going to join the Fourth Expedition for Manila.]
South of Market
Mission near New Montgomery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake damage, view west from center of street toward north side of Mission between New Montgomery and Annie. P.N. Kuss Paints and Oils, 640 Mission.
South of Market
Market near Battery
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across Market to Earthquake and Fire, fire burning, Byron Jackson Machine Works 411 Market in the Lachman Block on the southwest corner of Market and Fremont. Excelsior Glove Company 415 Market St. (After the Lachman building burned, the ruins became a favorite of photographers because of Samuel Lachman's stone face in the rubble - see wnp14.0445. Face is visible in rubble on street in front of building.) Photographer is standing on the Mechanic's Monument
Financial District
Divisadero & Oak
Streetcar Strike, View east across Divisadero to United Railroads streetcar #1398 with no passengers, L.H. Kohn Hardware & Paints 350 Divisadero, Park Side Market, crowds and mounted police. Building on southeast corner still stands 2021.
Lower Haight
SS Ohioan Shipwreck
Elevated view west to wreck of freighter SS Ohioan at Point Lobos, crowd standing on top of dead sperm whale on beach at lower right. The whale washed ashore on February 11, 1938 and was towed to a tallow plant on Islais Creek on February 16th. The Ohioan was shipwrecked in 1937, and by this time had broken apart due to wave action.
Lands End
Lombard & Broderick
Southwest corner of Lombard and Broderick. Building was moved one block east to 2525 Lombard. [Moving Apartment House, SF 1946]
Cow Hollow
Market & 3rd
President Harding Funeral looking east from Market & Third Sts.
Downtown / Union Square
Cabrillo & 10th Ave
Line waiting for Denhard's Market, 701 10th Avenue, to open. March 1, 1943 was the beginning of World War II's 'Ration Book Two,' which added more restricted items and a new set of stamps to match the purchase. Golden Gate Park in background
Richmond Inner
Market near Church
Flooded street view south across Market toward Church Street, cars driving through flooded intersection. [SF 600384....New York Bureau; Flash Flood hits San Francisco -- Automobiles plowed through hub-deep water from curb to curb here when a 'flash flood' -- caused by .55-of-an-inch of rain in thirty minutes -- drenched the city and left the highest seasonal rainfall total in fifty-years.] Market Street Restaurant, 2097 Market.
Mission Dolores
Parker near Anza
Parker between Turk & Anza.[Landslide Perils Women's College - Sudden landslide on Lone Mountain at San Francisco, started within sixty feet of the San Francisco College of Women, imperiling the structure and a dormitory in which 25 nuns were sleeping. PHOTO SHOWS - the college building just behind the edge of the slide.]
Lone Mountain