Open SF History Photos

Lands End
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Lands End

[Helmet Rock dpwbook3 dpw511] View northeast to Lands End promontory. Angel Island in background

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
8th & Tehama
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8th & Tehama

View north to Howard St. intersection, Frank S. Ostrowski & Son, 214-216 8th St., Sewer work[8th & Howard dpwbook3 dpw514]

South of Market
Clayton & Carmel
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Clayton & Carmel

Ashbury High Pressure Tank under construction, photo likely taken from the firehouse across the street. [dpwbook3 dpw517]

Eureka Valley
Fort Mason
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Fort Mason

Construction view of SF Fire Department Auxiliary Pump Station #2, at foot of Van Ness Avenue. dpwbook3 dpw525 (View west on McDowell. Army searchlight shelter in background.)

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Fort Mason
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Fort Mason

Construction view of SF Fire Department Auxiliary Pump Station #2, at foot of Van Ness Avenue [dpwbook3 dpw526]

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
Columbus near Green
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Columbus near Green

Columbus bet. Green & Union [dpwbook3 dpw529] View southeast

North Beach
Sand Dunes
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Sand Dunes

"992" Unidentified location, possibly Sunset District dunes.

Sunset Outer
Columbus near Union
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Columbus near Union

[Columbus bet. Green & Union dpwbook3 dpw530] Northwest on Columbus showing trench and exposed pipe. Washington Square at right.

North Beach
Columbus & Stockton
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Columbus & Stockton

View southwest on Columbus across Stockton Street. Men working and with sewer pipes exposed in the trench. [dpwbook3 dpw532]

North Beach
Geary & Jones
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Geary & Jones

Geary & Jones cable cars [dpwbook3 dpw535] Cable cars on Geary Street. Jones Street at rigjt

Tenderloin
Geary & Van Ness
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Geary & Van Ness

View west from center of Geary at Van Ness [dpwbook3 dpw537] Signs for Joe the Price Cutter

Cathedral Hill
5th & Market
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5th & Market

View southeast across Market to [Lincoln building 5th & Market dpwbook3 dpw539]

Downtown / Union Square
5th near Market
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5th near Market

View north on 5th toward Market, Douglas Building at center with San Francisco Business College, Lincoln Building on right. [Market from 5th dpwbook3 dpw540]

South of Market
Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Elevated view northeast toward Flood Building. Hotel Turpin, Douglas Building at left. Top of Humboldt Bank Building with 1915 sign, Emporium, Lincoln Building with Hinz & Landt Milliners at right. Construction site at southwest corner 5th and Market at bottom right is for Hale Bros. Department Store Building (Completed November 1, 1912, Reid & Reid architects). [Powell & Market 8x10 dpwbook3 dpw542]

South of Market
Clayton & Carmel
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Clayton & Carmel

Ashbury Heights water tank constuction for the high pressure water system [dpwbook3 dpw543]

Ashbury Heights
2nd & Townsend
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2nd & Townsend

Northwest corner of 2nd Street and Townsend, the building still stands as the headquarters of SF Fire Department. [Pumping station 1, 2nd & Townsend dpwbook3 dpw515]

South Beach
Geary & Arguello
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Geary & Arguello

View northwest across the intersection of Geary and Arguello to the Larkins Building (former Geary Park & Ocean Railroad Co. Geary St. Car barn), still stands in 2022. [dpwbook3 dpw546]

Lone Mountain
Sand Dunes
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Sand Dunes

Unidentified location, possibly Sunset District dunes.

Sunset Outer
Rhode Island Near 15th
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Rhode Island Near 15th

View south on De Haro near 15th. Potrero Hill in background. The 204 foot Incinerator, built 1897, at left was demolished in 1933. pile driver, sewer work, [dpwbook2 dpw710] DUPLICATE of wnp36.00040

Showplace Square
Mission Viaduct
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Mission Viaduct

Construction. Pile Driver, view South from near Ocean Shore Railway track (visible in the background)[dpwbook3 dpw441]

Mission Terrace