People

Contains 12978 photos

Post near Mason
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Post near Mason

View West on Post toward Mason. People parading down street with sashes and circular badges on hats and coats. The event was the International Sunday School Association (ISSA) Convention in San Francisco where the men walked from downtown to the Coliseum at Baker & Oak.(current location of the DMV) on June 23, 1911. Passing Old First Congregational church. streetcar approaching. [I.S.S.A. parade]

Downtown / Union Square
Ocean near Miramar
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Ocean near Miramar

North side of Ocean just west of Miramar. Mercantile Trust Bank Building 1516 Ocean Avenue. Building still stands in modified form. (2021) [9 Mercantile Trust Bank Building, Westwood]

Westwood Park
Dolores near 14th
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Dolores near 14th

Crowds of carriages and automobiles, possibly waiting for a parade. Church on corner of Dolores and 15th. Earthquake shacks at left.

Mission Dolores
Mission & 3rd
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Mission & 3rd

View north on 3rd to crowded street scene, Call Building and Mutual Savings Bank Building in distance on Market. Aronson Building (1903) at left. Winchester Hotel,

South of Market
California & Spring
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California & Spring

View east down Califorina to multiple California Street cable cars. On left, San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett architect), German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Kohl Building, London & San Francisco Insurance Building. On right, Safe Deposit Building with tower, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building beyond. Fog or smog in the background. Cropped version of wnp71.1888.

Financial District
Unknown location
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Unknown location

Possible Mission district; man and woman in early automobile

2nd Ave & Cabrillo (?)
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2nd Ave & Cabrillo (?)

Couple in early automobile; family of children on steps of Fernando Nelson homes in background; possibly 680-684 2nd Avenue.

Richmond Inner
Fourth & Market
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Fourth & Market

View east on Market near 4th Street. Call (Spreckels) Building at center. People wagons, streetcars. Chronicle Building, Ferry Building, Palace Hotel, Hearst Examiner Building in the distance. Bancroft History Building, Sanborn Vail, Dixon's Hatters, Midway Theatre on right.[No. 96, Market St. and Call Bldg., San Francisco, Calif.]

South of Market
Bay District Racetrack
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Bay District Racetrack

Photo of a newspaper image and clipping of last day at Bay District Track; view of jockeys, race promoters, and grandstand. One-mile race track between First Avenue (Arguello), Fulton Street, Fifth Avenue and Point Lobos Road (Geary). Grandstands near Balboa & 4th Ave.

Richmond Inner
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Crowd entering pedestrian underpass tunnel beneath Main Drive; Chutes Theatre and water tower in distance

Golden Gate Park
Bay District Racetrack
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Bay District Racetrack

Last day at Bay District Track; view of jockeys, race promoters, crowd, and grandstand. Grandstand located near today's Balboa & 4th Ave.

Richmond Inner
Twin Peaks Tunnel
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Twin Peaks Tunnel

Pedestrian Day for Twin Peaks Tunnel opening; view from Castro Street

Corona Heights
Baker & Fell
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Baker & Fell

View east across Baker at the corner of Fell. Police officer standing on board sidewalk (at the current DMV site); wall of ads behind him, Prager's Department Store; Fischer's Theater advertising 'Kismet', Scotch Plaid Tailors.

Panhandle
Post & Boswell
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Post & Boswell

South side of Post at Boswell Street ( Between Fillmore and Steiner) Eddie Hanlon's Saloon, Men on stagecoach pulled by four horses posing in front; sign on side of stagecoach, 'Eddie Hanlon's 1949 Post Street'. Star Nickelodeon next door; [PF-134]

Lower Pacific Heights
Fifth & Market
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Fifth & Market

View east to Douglas Building, Flood building, Emporium, Humboldt Bank Building, and Call Building in distance; The Wonder Millinery at 930 Market on left. Lincoln Building at right.

Downtown / Union Square