Open SF History Photos

City Hall
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City Hall

City Hall under construction, viewed from Civic Auditorium [dpwbook12 dpw2427]

Civic Center
11th & Market
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11th & Market

Accident at 11th and Market Streets. [dpwbook12 dpw2430]

South of Market
11th & Market
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11th & Market

Automobile accident at intersection of 11th St. and Market St. [dpwbook12 dpw2431]

South of Market
Oakwood near 19th
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Oakwood near 19th

View south on Oakwood toward 19th Street. The street sunk significantly during the 1906 earthquake and had to be repaved. This images shows half the street repaved. [Damaged by Quake] [dpwbook12 dpw2432]

Mission Dolores
8th Street near Market
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8th Street near Market

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View on 8th St near Market to ruins of old City Hall. Marshall Square and Pioneer (James Lick) Monument in center. Vendors stalls near Monument.

South of Market
Oakwood near 19th
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Oakwood near 19th

View south on Oakwood toward 19th Street. The street sunk significantly during the 1906 earthquake and had to be repaved. This images shows half the street repaved.[dpwbook12 dpw2433]

Mission Dolores
Market near Douglass
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Market near Douglass

View west to Twin Peaks Tunnel Pouring Concrete, 160 Ord, background center [dpwbook12 dpw2443]

Eureka Valley
Twin Peaks Tunnel
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Twin Peaks Tunnel

Construction. View southwest from Market near Douglass across large excavation. Rear of Mrs. D. W. Frische Grocery, 4548 18th St at Ord, at background left [Twin Peaks Tunnel to Hattie] [dpwbook12 dpw2445]

Eureka Valley
Twin Peaks Tunnel
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Twin Peaks Tunnel

Construction. Interior flash showing men excavating [dpwbook12 dpw2446]

Laguna Honda Station
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Laguna Honda Station

Excavating Laguna Honda Station [dpwbook12 dpw2447] Forest Hill Station

Forest Hill
Storrie & 18th
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Storrie & 18th

Twin Peaks Tunnel Construction, along present-day Storrie Street, at 18th and Hattie Streets. 4600 18th Street at right. Temporary bridge carrying 18th Street over the construction visible on the top left. [dpwbook12 dpw2454]

Eureka Valley
Storrie near Market
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Storrie near Market

Twin Peaks Tunnel Construction, view northeast along Storrie and Market Streets towards the section of the tunnel now known as the Eureka Curve. [dpwbook12 dpw2455]

Eureka Valley
Market & Embarcadero
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Market & Embarcadero

Streetcars and automobiles (taxis?) lined up at Ferry Loop in front of Ferry Building, looking north on Embarcadero. [dpwbook12 dpw2457]

Financial District
15th near Beaver
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15th near Beaver

176 1/2 Beaver (on the back of the lot and fronting on 15th street) being moved (to parts unknown) for the widening of 15th Street and grading of the intersection of 15th and Beaver. [dpwbook12 dpw2477]

Corona Heights
18th & Hattie
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18th & Hattie

View of Twin Peaks Tunnel Construction southwest from 18th Street and Hattie towards Clover. North end of bored section of tunnel. Apartments at 4601 18th Street at right, 35 Clover at left. Temporary roadway and 33-line streetcar tracks on wooden planks in foreground. [dpwbook12 dpw2482]

Eureka Valley
Mason & Post
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Mason & Post

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View southeast across intersection. First Congregational Church ruins and those of Native Sons Hall to the right. St. Francis Hotel and Hotel Alexander in background left.

Downtown
Beaver at 15th
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Beaver at 15th

View south from 15th Street at the (impassable) intersection with Beaver Street. [dpwbook12 dpw2483]

Corona Heights
Beaver & 15th
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Beaver & 15th

View west on 15th Street toward Beaver (fence on top of the rock face is Beaver Street.) [dpwbook12 dpw2484]

Corona Heights
11th & Bryant
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11th & Bryant

Asphalt Plant at 11th St and Bryant St. [dpwbook12 dpw2485]

South of Market
Bayshore near Cortland
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Bayshore near Cortland

Elevated view northerly toward the intersection of Cortland and San Bruno Road (later Bayshore Boulevard). The slope of Bernal Heights at left, Potrero Hill in the distance. US101 Freeway passes through the left side of this view today. [dpwbook12 dpw2487]

Bernal Heights