19th Ave & Quintara
View from 19th Avenue to northeast corner with Quintara Street. Sunset Terrace entry post at corner. The backs of houses along 18th Avenue are visible in the background. [DPW A5076]
ParksideSign
Contains 1295 photos
19th Ave & Ulloa
View northeast across 19th Avenue to undeveloped corner at Ulloa Street. Billboard reading 'Vote No Proposition 20 / The Taxpayers Defense League.' (Ironically, the Proposition, in the March, 1937 election, banned billboards on the Bay Bridge approaches.) Hawk Hill, Golden Gate Heights in background. [A5078 2-26-37 19th Ave. Cor. Ulloa St.]
Parkside
Market near Mason
Elevated view down Market Street East from Hewes Building, Admission Day Native Sons Monument, Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Davies Theatre, Bank of America Headquarters (One Powell), Flood Building, Humboldt Bank Building with Bank of America signage, Kress, Hale Bros. with KPO radio towers on roof, 4 streetcar tracks. [DPW A2622]
Downtown
View up Market
Elevated view west down Market Street from the Ferry Building tower. [DPW A5949], Pacific Telephone Building , Southern Pacific Building on left, Fisk Building with Mobilgas sign atop Fife Bulding, Shell Building, Standard Oil Building, Mills Tower, Russ Building, 57 Sign on right.
Downtown
3rd from Market
Elevated view south on 3rd Street from Market Street. Ad on Examiner Building for Bay Bridge souvenir edition. Call Building on right with Owl Drug Co. in corner retail space. United Cigar Store, Hotel King with Hotel Doric sign on side, Kane's Log Cabin Dairy Lunch Cafeteria, Aronson Building in center distance, Market St. Railway Co. (MSRy) 6 and 15-Line streetcars. [DPW A4957]
Downtown
3rd Street at Cargo
View north on 3rd Street from Cargo (then Arthur). Market Street Railway (MSRy) 16-line Kearny Streetcar and Islais Creek Bridge. Firehouse 25 is just visible at right. Potrero Hill in the distance at left.[DPW A6488]
Hunters Point
Sutro Baths
Promenade level ticket booth. Unique photo of converted kiosk from 1894 Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park.
Sutro
Kearny near Geary
View south on Kearny to electrical decorations for Portola Festival October 19-23, 1909. Korn Hats, 15 Kearny in Johann Schmidt Building on right, Flannery Building beyond.
Downtown / Union Square
Park Presidio Bypass
Completed WPA construction of Park Presidio Bypass, Golden Gate Park. Notice the lack of any dividers that separate oncoming traffic today.
Golden Gate Park
McLaren Park
CWA construction of Brazil Avenue on 'cut' at top of hill, McLaren Park
McLaren Park
Market & Larkin
View northwest to Larkin and Hayes intersection with Market. Mechanics Pavilion in background. Union Beer Depot. Market St. Cable Railway Co. #32 Haight Street open cable car.
Civic Center
Grant & Clay
View north across Clay St. to group of men reading announcements pasted on wall. [5413 - Chinese & Chinese Bulletin Board, Chinatown SF, issued by Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Co.]
Chinatown
Near Pier 24
View from Embarcadero of SF Bay Bridge under construction
Waterfront
Powell & Market
Baldwin Hotel Fire. The November 23, 1898 fire illustrated the inadequacy of the emergency water system. As water was pumped to the fire, all taps south of Market Street ran dry.
Downtown
Pixley & Fillmore
Pixley St. 25' from property line looking SW - United Railroads [U04593]
Marina