Postcard

Contains 641 photos

Laguna Honda Hospital
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Laguna Honda Hospital

View of hospital from main entrance at Laguna Honda and Dewey on postcard. [Entrance Laguna Honda Home]

Laguna Honda
View from Nob Hill
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View from Nob Hill

View south from California between Powell and Mason. Trinity Church at Post and Powell at left, St. Mark's German Evangelical Lutheran Church and Calvary Presbyterian Church just beyond on Union Square, First Congregational at Post and Mason (1872) at right, Third Baptist Church (1869) at far left. Baldwin Hotel in the distance at center, smoke stacks of the Old Mint, Potrero Hill and Mission Bay. [San Francisco in the 1880's. View from Leland Stanford Residence]

Nob Hill
View NW from Telegraph Hill
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View NW from Telegraph Hill

View northwest toward North Beach, Russian Hill, White Point and Black Point, and the Golden Gate in the distance.Taken above Kearny and Greenwich. [San Francisco in the 1880's. View from Telegraph Hill]

Telegraph Hill
View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View north from Twin Peaks, Market Street at center, new US Mint (construction began August, 1935, opened 1937) and Bay Bridge under construction. Castro Theatre at bottom. [San Francisco and Bay Bridge from Twin Peaks Piggott Photo #1153, Reverse: 'Dear folks, arrived here this noon. Have a swell cabin in Daly City, a suburb. Cabins seem cleaner and more private than hotels. Had car cleaned and greased and oil changed and when he opened the hood to grease it a little mouse jumped out.]

Clarendon Heights
St. Joseph's Hospital
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St. Joseph's Hospital

Buena Vista East and Park Hill across from Buena Vista Park. Corona Heights in background left. [St. Joseph's Hospital, S.F.] (now condominiums)

Buena Vista
Market & Fulton
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Market & Fulton

[Diamond Jubilee 1850 1920] Parade heading west on Fulton towards Civic Center and City Hall. Viewing stands on the north side of Fulton.

South of Market
Market near 4th
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Market near 4th

[We are marching up Market St ... in a parade for the 'Liberty Boys.'] Elevated view south across Market St. to sailors in marching band in formation. Probably the Draft Day Parade of September 21, 1917 honoring 1,571 military draftees departing for WWI. Bohemian Cafe, Portola Theatre playing Elsie Ferguson in 'Barbary Sheep'.

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Powell
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Market & Powell

[Market St. Looking Toward Ferry Building From Emporium] Elevated view looking east. Call Building, Humboldt Building

Downtown / Union Square
Aerial over Embarcadero
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Aerial over Embarcadero

Aerial view west over the Embarcadero, South of Market, and downtown San Francisco, Pacific Ocean in far distance. Ferry Building at lower right. [Looking Across San Francisco from Bay to Ocean S.P.2 Piggott Photo]

Bay Bridge
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Bay Bridge

[San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Piggott Photo 1100] View west from Bay of suspension span section under construction.

Ocean Beach
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Ocean Beach

[Ocean Beach and Cliff House, Sutro Heights and Parapet Artopho. Co. 97] View north of crowds on beach towards 3rd Cliff House.

Richmond Outer
Sutro Baths
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Sutro Baths

Interior view of large tank, slides, swimmers. Diving tank in left background. Volleyball court enclosed by chickenwire at right.. Cropped postcard version of WNP37.01117

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
International Settlement
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International Settlement

Pacific & Montgomery, View West across intersection to Pacific Street from Montgomery. Pago Pago, The House of Zombie, Hop Lee Laundry, Fat Boy George's Comic Fotos, La Conga, The Hurricane, McKale's. Associated, DeSoto Plymouth dealer. [International Settlement, Old Barbary Coast][Zan 2472]

North Beach
Lone Mountain College
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Lone Mountain College

View north from near Turk Street and Temescal Terrace. [San Francisco College for Women, Lone Mountain. Zan 17606] (postcard shows retouching by photographer)

Lone Mountain
View From SF Bay
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View From SF Bay

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east From near Black Point toward Meiggs' Wharf and Yerba Buena Island beyond. [The Great Fire, S.F.; Oil Tanks Burning, North Beach]

SF Bay