Ship

Contains 1039 photos

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Buchanan & Vallejo

View North toward SF Bay, SF Gas works and gasometer at center.

1950 Pacific Heights

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San Francisco View

litho copy, ships in Yerba Buena Cove

1850

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SF Bay

View east toward the Golden Gate. WWII-era destroyers in formation entering Golden Gate for an unknown event. Golden Gate Bridge & Presidio in background

1957 SF Bay

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Skyline from the Bay

View west to ship tied up to pier at left, Pacific Telephone Bulding looms w/ flag staff, 450 Sutter, Hobart Building, Shell Building, Standard Oil Building.

1930 Rincon Hill

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General Frisbie Steamer

Steamer General Frisbie off Mare Island. The General Frisbie, built in 1900, was a passenger ship used as a ferry between Vallejo and San Francisco. She was the fastest ship on the route at the time she was built and carried passengers until her retirement in 1920.

1914 Outside SF

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SF Bay

Passenger steamer on San Francisco Bay

1914

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Great Highway

View east across Great Highway toward the Gjoa. Roald Amundsen's Gjoa was the first ship through the northwest passage in 1906. Donated to San Francisco, she was displayed at the west end of Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972, when she was returned to Norway.

1953 Golden Gate Park

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View from Telegraph Hill

View east over waterfront and Embarcadero. Battleship tied up at Pier 29.

1943 Telegraph Hill

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View from Russian Hill

View east to blimp flying over Bay Bridge, financial district on right. Taken from near Taylor and Vallejo Streets. St. Francis of Assisi church at far left. United States Appraisers Building at 630 Sansome Street at center, to the righ, large SP sign atop Southern Pacific Building installed March, 1954. Mobilgas sign atop Fife Building.

1955 Russian Hill