People

Contains 12978 photos

US Mint
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US Mint

[Interior of Mint. Muybridge] Room inside US Mint, man demonstrating balance scale.

South of Market
Sacramento near Montgomery
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Sacramento near Montgomery

Exterior of 640 Sacramento. Chy Lung & Co. Two people standing in doorway of decorative goods store. [Chinese Store Sacramento St. SF Muybridge[Sic]]

Chinatown
Van Ness & Filbert
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Van Ness & Filbert

Elevated view southwest to Knight's Templar parade (with columns marching in opposite directions) on Van Ness Avenue. St. Brigid's Roman Catholic church in distance. Presidio & Ferries Union St. cable car and trailer at center right.[Knights Templar Parade, San Francisco, August 20th, 1883]

Russian Hill
Chinatown
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Chinatown

[B3140 Chinese butcher and grocery shop. Chinatown, SF] Exterior of butcher shop with men posing, at 847 Dupont (now Grant).

Chinatown
Chinatown
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Chinatown

[3111 Chinese butcher and Grocery Shop. Chinatown, SF] Exterior of butcher shop with men posing at 847 Dupont (now Grant).

Chinatown
3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

View northeast on Market toward 3rd Street. Chronicle building, Lotta's Fountain, Crocker Building (1891), Nucleus Hotel (with signage for The Wasp, Painless Dentists, Beamish's Shirts), Palace Hotel. Cable car, wagons and pedestrians in street. Russell's Family Shoe Store, 700 Market Building at left with signage painted on back for The Chronicle, Wicks Real Estate. [6159 Market St. from Kearny St., SF Cal.]

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

[A 165 Market Street from Third Street, San Francisco, Looking East] Call Newspaper sign, The Peoples Benefit clothing store, Horse cars in street.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & 3rd
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Market & 3rd

Elevated view east down Market to Lotta's fountain, Masonic Temple tower, Market St cable car, Palace Hotel, Nucleus House, The People's Benefit clothing store banner on Nucleus House (Hotel). Geary Street cable car and dummy at left. Eagleson & Co. Shirts & Underwear. [A166 Market Street from Third Street, San Francisco, looking east]

South of Market
Presidio
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Presidio

[B2820 The Presidio and Drive to Fort Point, San Francisco] Man with horse and buggy, pasture land on right. Officers' residences on left. Tree planting underway.

Presidio
Chinatown
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Chinatown

[B3099 Rag Alley, Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal. 1887] Man and woman peeking out of doorway. Baskets piled up in street.

Chinatown
Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

[The Squeezer at work on Bay Bridge cable. Piggott co. Photo-1088] Workmen compressing cable. Yerba Buena Island in background.

Powell & Market
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Powell & Market

View west to operator turning Cable Car #509 with Byllesby Shield logo, in use from late 1925 to 1938, on turntable. Bank of America headquarters (later One Powell) in background. [Zan 819 Powell St. Cable Car on its turn-table at Powell and Market Sts, San Francisco]

Downtown / Union Square
Aquatic Park
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Aquatic Park

Elevated view east from Fort Mason over Aquatic Park to Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Hundreds of swimmers and sunbathers. Casino Building (future Maritime Museum), Ghirardelli Factory, Haslett Warehouse, Coit Tower in background. [Aquatic Park, San Francisco, Zan 962 Redwood Empire Assn. Photo]

Grant near California
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Grant near California

View north on Grant to Cathay House (opened September, 1939), Sing Chong, crowded California Cable Car #23, Old St. Mary's Church. [Zan 2492 California St. Cable Car Chinatown, San Francisco]

Chinatown
Civic Center Plaza
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Civic Center Plaza

View northeast across Larkin to United Service Organization (USO) Hospitality House (constructed between March and August, 1941), a clubhouse for enlisted men. Present site of Main Library. Old Main Library, Old Federal Office Building, Empire Hotel in background. [Zan 1000 San Francisco Hospitality, Redwood Empire Assn. Photo]

Civic Center