Steamship in Golden Gate
[Entering the Golden Gate San Francisco Cal.] View north from Cliff House of twin funneled steamship. Point Bonita and Marin Headlands in bacground.
Sutro HeightsShip
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Ocean Beach
[General View of the Beach, Seal Rocks, Cliff House and Sutro Heights... Copyrighted by W.C. Billington, Sutro Heights] Steamer and three-masted sailing ship near Seal Rocks. 2nd Cliff House at center. Sutro Heights and Ocean Beach Pavilion at right.
Golden Gate Park
South of Market
200 block of Beale Street Pacific Rubber Paint Co. - White Lead Works. Elevated view looking east from Minna Street.
South of Market
Great White Fleet
Our Navy, May 5th 1908. Photo montage of parts of the Great White Fleet. Not all the ships shown were part of the tour. In the center is Admiral Robley D. 'Fightng Bob' Evans, commander of the fleet. (Evans was relieved of command due to ill health when the fleet reached San Francisco.) [Georgia, Rhode Island, Maine, Indiana, Illinois, California, Kansas, Washington, Texas, Alabama, Connecticut, Olympia, Culgoa, Iowa, Hartford, Kentucky, Missouri ]
SF Bay
Great White Fleet
In SF Bay. Passing southern SF waterfront from Yerba Buena Island
SF Bay
USS San Diego, Cruiser
USS San Diego anchored off the Marina for Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). The cruiser was laid down at Union Iron Works in San Francisco on May 7, 1901, launched April 28, 1904, and commissioned August 1, 1907 as USS California. She was renamed USS San Diego in 1914, and sunk by a German submarine on 19 July 1918. [6461] Angel Island in background.
SF Bay
El Capitan Ferryboat
View east to Ferryboat 'El Capitan' approaching Ferry Building. Yerba Buena Island at extreme right. Owned and operated by Central Pacific Railroad (1868-1885), Southern Pacific Railroad (1885-1925).[BO-45]
SF Bay
SS Ohioan Shipwreck
Men viewing the freighter S.S. Ohioan stranded off Point Lobos, which wrecked on October 8, 1936. North Seal Rocks at upper left.
Lands End
Telegraph Hill Blvd
View north to tree planting on Telegraph Hill Boulevard, Kearny and Lombard Streets. San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz and Angel Islands in the background. On left, apartment building and house at 300 and 306 Lombard (built 1925 and 1926) still stand in 2024.
Telegraph Hill
Union & Taylor
Looking north to San Francisco Bay from around Union and Taylor streets. Probably the earliest photo of Alcatraz Island, mid 1852. Angel Island in background. Phoenix Bakery.
Russian Hill
Golden Gate
California Camera Club title Towing the Targets. Negative By: H.S. Hoyt
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Hay scow on waterfront
Scow schooner "Mabel and Edith" and steamship docked in SF - California Built in the 1870s, the Mabel and Edith had a long career on the bay hauling freight. Sunk twice, she was involved in collisions and rescues through 1912. Camera Club, SF.
Financial District
The Alameda
Steamship Alameda in Dry Dock at Hunters Point. She was built in 1883 for the Oceanic Steamship Company and made regular trips to Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand. Sold in 1910 to the Alaska Steamship Company.
Hunters Point
Sailing Ship Star of Bengal
'Star of Bengal', part of the Alaska Packers fleet, tied up at a pier. She was built in Belfast, Ireland, in 1874. She wrecked in the Gulf of Alaska in September 1908, loaded for a return trip to San Francisco. At least 111 people died in the shipwreck.
Mission Bay
SF Bay
Sailing ship in bay. Mt. Tamalpais in left distance. (Probably taken from Meiggs Wharf)
SF Bay