Central near Fell
View south on Central towards fire at the corner of Fell, Golden Gate Park Panhandle in background. People gathered watching firefighters.
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Golden Gate Park
View southerly from in front of the Japanese Tea Garden. Spreckels Temple of Music bandshell under construction. Workers posed with construction equipment. [Del Lewis is the small boy in dress sitting in part of sandstone pillar. Warren E. Lewis is beside Del.]
Golden Gate Park
Unknown Location
Camping scene of family at 'Kamp Idle Hours,' with flags, umbrella and paper lanterns strung between tents. 46 star flag (adopted in July 1908) supports the idea that this photo was either a staged refugee camp or actually shows a family camping.
Baker Beach
View south toward Sea Cliff from Baker Beach (also Bakers Beach). Two women and two children at the beach. [News photo, Sea-Cliff Dwellers, Many San Franciscans have the Golden Gate for their back yard or a sandy beach instead of a lawn. California News Photo]
Seacliff
Market near Mason
View east towards St. Ann's Building, Baldwin Hotel, Chronicle Building, The Matinee Millinery, Jno. Steinbach Jeweler 1016 Market, (Ernest) Essman Dry Goods, 1022 Market. Painted pole for C. Curtin dry goods at right, 911-915 Market. Two story building erected on lot at far left by July, 1895. Same image as wnp37.00194 with slightly different cropping.
South of Market
Presidio Main Post
SF Junior Traffic Patrol Picnic hosted by the 30th Infantry and Quartermaster Corp School for Bakers and Cooks '3000 came - ate Army chow - and cheered!' (SCA-41-1694)(Signal Corps, US Army public relations photo)
Presidio
Post & Market
Elevated view northwest to Crocker (First National) Bank Building, built 1908 - Willis Polk architect, NW corner of Post and Montgomery. (the upper 11 floors were removed in 1982 and Crocker Galleria shopping center built to its immediate left on the former alley, Lick Place.) Buildings to the right (Union Trust) and left (Crocker) in this view have also been demolished.
Financial District
Aquatic Park
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
Fulton & 5th Ave
View east on Fulton from 5th Avenue. Geary cable car being pulled onto 5th Avenue from Fulton by horse. This was standard procedure at the time, the horse was used to pull the car around the corner until it could grip the cable 5th Avenue. This is the last Geary Street cable car before electrification. St. Ignatius Church, at Fulton and Parker, under construction in the background. (the print has two India ink drawings on top of the car)
Golden Gate Park
Waverly & Clay
View north on Waverly Place from Clay Street. Clay Street paved with cobblestones. [5114]
Chinatown
Portsmouth Square
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
Union Square
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
James Rolph
James Rolph ( possibly as California Governor) sitting on rostrum at San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio. Numerous floral offerings. Banner reads 'Manila Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars.'
Presidio
USS Oklahoma Battleship
Heavily retouched news photo of battleship USS Oklahoma entering SF Bay along with the US Navy Fleet. View north across the Golden Gate, Fort Point in the foreground.
Presidio
View from Corona Heights
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