Contains 4847 photos
The derelict riverboat 'Fort Sutter' beached at east end of Aquatic Park. Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill in the background. View from the Municipal Pier. Entrepreneur Barney Gould purchased the old riverboat and brought it to Aquatic Park in February 1953 with hopes to convert it into a showboat. It was beached at the east end of Aquatic Park near the rowing clubs. The boat was later moved to west end of beach where it burned on May 1, 1959.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
View east in Portsmouth Square toward Kearny. Two women and three children in traditional clothing sitting n the grass [A Picnic in Portsmouth Square]
Chinatown
The Belgian Market event in Union Square. View northeast toward Post and Stockton. Crowd of people, tents, and decorations around the Dewey Monument. ( photo appeared in the SF Examiner April 9, 1916, front page)
Downtown / Union Square
View from Corona Heights toward 15th Street, where small landslides of the cliff face forced evacuations from homes. View north, Roosevelt Way and McKinley Elementary School in the background.
Corona Heights
The first music stand at the west end of Conservatory Valley covered in snow [Snow Scene, San Francisco, February 1887. Golden Gate Park Music Stand]
Golden Gate Park
View east over the Carriage Concourse and seating for the second Music Stand bandshell (on the site of today's tennis courts). Taken from the Steel (pedestrian) Bridge over Middle Drive. Francis Scott Key Monument at right (later moved). [Golden Gate Park, SF - Watkins' New Series Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 427 Montgomery Street and 26 New Montgomery St.] (boudoir card)
Golden Gate Park
View South from the Arizona Garden toward Mt Sutro in the distance. Garfield Monument, Francis Scott Key Monument, Second Music Stand ( on the present site of the tennis courts). [25 Golden Gate Park from Terrace showing Garfield and Key Monuments.][Sutro Heights Gallery] (boudoir card)
Golden Gate Park
View south toward the Sutro Heights Parapet. People posed along the top. [106 Parapet Sutro Heights] (Early view; no cannons or Billington Studio)
Sutro Heights
[99 Mr. Adolph Sutro, In Front of His Residence at Sutro Heights] Adolph Sutro standing in front of his home. Residence, Observation Tower on parapet.
Sutro Heights
View east over decorative 'partierre' plantings. Conservatory in the background [107 Carpet Flower Beds, Sutro Heights]
Sutro Heights
Partierre carpet beds at Sutro Heights. A corner of the Well house (now known as the gazebo) is visible at far left. [107 Carpet Flower Beds, Sutro Heights] Flower bed at left spells out 'Welcome To All.'
Sutro Heights
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View north on Kearny near Sacramento, Hall of Justice tower on the right, Telegraph Hill in the distance. Portsmouth Square with tents and trees in the left background. People walking and riding in buggies. The street has been cleared, but the sidewalks strewn with rubble.
Chinatown
1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest from Sutter Street east of Larkin. Heller, Klein & Co. listed as Larkin between Sutter & Bush. Trinity Episcopal Church (Bush & Gough) in the background left. Lafayette Park in the background right.
Lower Nob Hill
View east from present Ina Coolbrith Park, Vallejo Street at center. St Francis of Assisi Church, Yerba Buena Island in the distance
Russian Hill
View southeast from present Ina Coolbrith Park toward Downtown. Steeples of Our Lady of Guadalupe church. Russ Building at center. Notably absent is Shell Building, completed 1929.
Russian Hill