Open SF History Photos

View of Downtown
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View of Downtown

[Overlooking San Francisco / Sir Francis Drake] Looking south - Packard Sign; Whittell Bldg at left; Humboldt Bank Building, Phelan Building and City of Paris at center.

Downtown / Union Square
GGIE
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GGIE

Golden Gate International Exposition, Mother and daughter in front of fountain in Court of Flowers

Treasure Island
Market near Powell
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Market near Powell

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake ruins, Two soldiers walking past Flood Building. View east on Market. Call Building; Mutual Savings Bank

Downtown / Union Square
Firth Wheel
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Firth Wheel

[The Old Firth Wheel at the Cliff House. Taken in 1908 - S.F.] Located on Merrie Way above Sutro Baths.

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Sutro Heights
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Sutro Heights

[No. 78, Sutro Heights ... 1886, Old Grove.] View looking southeast. Statue of stag. Folding chair. Woman on horseback at left.

Sutro
Ferryboat Berkeley
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Ferryboat Berkeley

On SF bay. Mt Tamalpais at left, Angel Island in background.

SF Bay
Market & 6th
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Market & 6th

Elevated view east on Market; Weinstock, Lubin & Co. at left, Gutzkow Building in background; 13th Missouri Parade turning off Market onto Golden Gate.

Tenderloin
Downtown Aerial
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Downtown Aerial

Bay Bridge under construction, towers only; north waterfront; Golden Gate Bridge under construction in upper right

Aerial South of Market
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Aerial South of Market

On and off ramps nearly completed of Bay Bridge [California Toll Bridge Authority]

South Beach
San Francisco Bay Aerial
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San Francisco Bay Aerial

Bay Bridge; Treasure Island; Oakland Mole; Alcatraz

SF Bay
Market near Church
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Market near Church

Flooded street view south across Market toward Church Street, cars driving through flooded intersection. [SF 600384....New York Bureau; Flash Flood hits San Francisco -- Automobiles plowed through hub-deep water from curb to curb here when a 'flash flood' -- caused by .55-of-an-inch of rain in thirty minutes -- drenched the city and left the highest seasonal rainfall total in fifty-years.] Market Street Restaurant, 2097 Market.

Mission Dolores
Parker near Anza
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Parker near Anza

Parker between Turk & Anza.[Landslide Perils Women's College - Sudden landslide on Lone Mountain at San Francisco, started within sixty feet of the San Francisco College of Women, imperiling the structure and a dormitory in which 25 nuns were sleeping. PHOTO SHOWS - the college building just behind the edge of the slide.]

Lone Mountain
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

Embarcadero with vehicles, Mail Streetcar; horse car

Financial District
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Child sitting on wall [2 1/2 years]

Columbus & Broadway
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Columbus & Broadway

[Traffic Conditions] Looking south down Columbus; E-Line Streetcar at left; pedestrian safety island. Montgomery Block at end of Columbus

North Beach
Columbus & Stockton
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Columbus & Stockton

View north across Columbus toward Green and Stockton at right. 532 Columbus (with original dome) at center. Building at right demolished The spires of Ss. Peter & Paul Church in the background. E-line streetcar at left. Birdcage traffic signals.

North Beach
Great White Fleet
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Great White Fleet

In SF Bay. Passing southern SF waterfront from Yerba Buena Island

SF Bay
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Unknown Location

Unknown group of women at ruins of possible fire

Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

View northwest across roadway to entrance of Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, which was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Original sphinxes and Dore vase surrounded by Cupid statuary later placed in front of the Spreckels bandshell. Sweeny Observatory in background. The observatory was a gift to the park from Thomas U. Sweeney (Sweeney's name was misspelled on the observatory.)

Golden Gate Park
Presidio
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Presidio

Troops posing with children and tents. Likely 1898 volunteer troop camp

Presidio