Golden Gate & Van Ness
1906 Earthquake and Fire, Ruins of the Mercantile Library, architect Albert Pissis.
Civic CenterOriginal Print
Contains 7862 photos
City Hall Ruins
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View from Marshall Square, Hyde and Market St.
Civic Center
Mission High School
View from Dolores Park. Baseball Game in progress.
Mission Dolores
Clipper near Noe
View south from roof of James Lick School over playground to Clipper St between Noe and Castro. 4 of 5 houses on Clipper still stand 2021, 337 Clipper at right.
Noe Valley
Clipper near Noe
View Southwest from James Lick School playground to Clipper St between Noe and Castro
Noe Valley
26th & Castro
View northwest across intersection with roadwork around cable car partly on turntable. Victorians in the background all extant 2020, though 4 of the 5 beyond the corner have lost their large gable pediments atop their bays. Row of rectangular bay Italianates built by Fernando Nelson 1892. [26th & Castro Streets. Accident Report 7892-14] United Railroads [U04746]
Noe Valley
View From Bernal Heights
View north from Bernal Heights. Harrison Street at center. Precita Park lined with trees at bottom, SF General Hospital and Potrero Hill at upper right, Bay Bridge under construction. Cogswell College at far left (built 1888, demolished 1941), Garfield Square, Poetsch & Peterson Tannery, Le Conte School (now Leonard Flynn)
Bernal Heights
Ocean Beach
Family posed on the beach near North end of Ocean beach. Sutro Heights and Seal Rock House in background.
Sutro Heights
View From Kite Hill
View Northwest from Kite Hill. Mount Olympus and 'Triumph of Light' statue at center. Corbett Avenue and Merritt Street run across the center, 18th Street at the bottom. The intersection of Merritt and Danvers at lower left. Fence advertisement for Joe Poheim the Tailor, 1110-12 Market Street. Many houses in this view srtill stand in 2021. The extension of Market Street runs through this view today. [Mrs. C. H. Stanley]
Eureka Valley
Kezar Stadium
[Eucharistic Congress - 50,000 Catholics gathered in Kezar Stadium today to take part in the annual Eucharistic Congress of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. A procession of hundreds of Priests and Nuns will precede the rites...]
Golden Gate Park
Old Mint
5th Street and Mission [TEH136 - Corner stone laid May 26, 1870]
South of Market
View from Rincon Hill
View southeast from about Main and Bryant, across Mission Bay. Gas Works and Long Bridge from Rincon Point [TEH245 Gas Works T.E. Hecht]
Rincon Hill
Grant near O'Farrell
11-13 Dupont (west side between O'Farrell and Geary) The building was set back from the street, so that when Dupont Street was widened on the west side a few years later, the front steps met the new sidewalk, and the building did not have to be torn down or moved back on its lot. (WMK) [Hammam baths, Grant Avenue. T. E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
View from 2nd & Townsend
View North from Steamboat Point (about 2nd and King today). Small boats, shacks (one with 'Shipsmith' sign), men lounging on porch. St. Mary's Hospital at background left, Sailors Home (U.S. Marine Hospital) at background center, Yerba Buena Island at background right. [TEH237 View from Steamboat Point 1870- T.E. Hecht]
South Beach
Market near 3rd
Decorations for Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Looking west towards Twin Peaks [TEH767 T.E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square