Embarcadero from Pier 32
View south on Embarcadero near Brannan showing railroad tracks and freight cars.[Embarcadero south from Pier 32] [dpwbook31 dpw8059]
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Townsend & Stanford
View southwest across Townsend to street work crew. On south side of Townsend, Southern Pacific Warehouse, Haslett Warehouse Co. Townsend St. Warehouse, Harron, Rickard & McCone machinery manufacturers, 139-149 Townsend. In distance, copra storage tank on Pacific Oil & Lead Works coconut oil plant, 155 Townsend, now demolished. [Regrading Townsend St. 2nd to 3rd Sts.] [dpwbook31 dpw7722]
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Townsend near 3rd
View southeast across Townsend [Pouring Concrete Townsend St. 2nd to 3rd Sts.] [dpwbook31 dpw7723] In background, Pacific Oil & Lead Works coconut oil plant with copra and oil storage tanks, 155 Townsend, now demolished, Harron Rickard & McCone Bldg, 139 Townsend, still stands 2021.
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Emily F. Whitney, Sailing Ship
[Emily F. Whitney, China Basin] A three-masted full-rigged ship tied up at the pier at China Basin. (Now the site of the Giants Ballpark.)
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China Basin
[Danish Motorship at China Basin] SS Kristianiafjord at the dock, View from Lefty O'Doul bridge
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2nd & Townsend
[Waiting to serve you. Alta Studios, Inc. General Photographers] Traincars on tracks. Call building, Hunter-Dulin building, and Pacific Telephone building in distance.
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2nd & Brannan
View across intersection to southeast corner, Haslett Warehouse, Spud Cigarettes banner.
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3rd Street Bridge
Open for barge being towed. Today's Lefty O'Doul Bridge
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Embarcadero
View of crowd waving from end pier on the waterfront. Painted sign reads 'Pier 30 Matson Navigation Co. to Hawaiian Islands' [Catenary Productions of San Francisco Set PCS-1 No. 18]
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Gen Douglas MacArthur
Major General Douglas MacArthur arriving at Pier 44 in San Francisco on the Dollar liner S.S. President Jackson to take command of the Ninth Corps Area, Presidio of San Francisco. Later that year he assumed command of all US armies.
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SS President Hoover
Passenger liner SS President Hoover (Dollar Line) tied up at Pier 42, between King and Berry Streets. The ship was mistakenly bombed by Chinese aircraft while moored in the Yangtze Rive during the Batle of Shanghai in August 1937.
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SS President Hoover
Passenger liner SS President Hoover (Dollar Line) tied up at Pier 42, between King and Berry Streets. The ship was mistakenly bombed by Chinese aircraft while moored in the Yangtze Rive during the Batle of Shanghai in August 1937.
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SS President Hoover
Passenger liner SS President Hoover (Dollar Line) approaching Pier 42, between King and Berry Streets. The ship was mistakenly bombed by Chinese aircraft while moored in the Yangtze Rive during the Batle of Shanghai in August 1937.
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SS President Hoover
Passenger liner SS President Hoover (Dollar Line) approaching Pier 42, between King and Berry Streets. The ship was mistakenly bombed by Chinese aircraft while moored in the Yangtze Rive during the Batle of Shanghai in August 1937.
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3rd & Channel
View southwest from the top of the warehouse toward the 3rd Street Bridge (now Lefty O'Doul Bridge) and China Basin. This view can be approximated in 2021 from the Giants Ballpark. Potrero Hill in the distance. [3rd & Channel Sts. bridge looking south] [dpwbookSPECIMP16 dpwA3730]
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Aerial South of Market
On and off ramps nearly completed of Bay Bridge [California Toll Bridge Authority]
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Bay Bridge
Bridge support under construction, looking north from Bryant and Embarcadero. Hills Bros Coffee building in background
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Bay Bridge
Approach to Bay Bridge under construction, looking from Embarcadero. Belt Line freight cars.
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Third & King
[Zan 1064 Southern Pacific Depot. Third & Townsend Sts. San Francisco, Calif.] Train station with taxi cabs and autos in front. View northwest across Third.
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3rd & King
View north from center of 3rd to Southern Pacific passenger depot on left, Old Corner Lunch on right. [3rd Street North of King Street DPW A5530]
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