Open SF History Photos

SF General Hospital
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SF General Hospital

View southwest from about 22nd and Vermont. SF General Hospital Building 100 under construction. Building still stands in 2021. [dpwbook19 dpw4248]

Potrero Hill
Missouri & 20th
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Missouri & 20th

Daniel Webster School under construction [dpwbook19 dpw4249]

Potrero Hill
Irving near 47th Ave
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Irving near 47th Ave

Irving Street near 47th Avenue (sewer construction), view north. Murphy Windmill at left in background. [dpwbook19 dpw4250] North side of Irving between 46th and 47th Ave

Sunset Outer
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Casino Valley, Constructing Middle Drive West in Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park
Irving near 46th Ave
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Irving near 46th Ave

Irving Street near 46th Avenue, view west (sewer construction). 4525-4527 Irving Street, built 1907, is the hip-roofed structure at left. [dpwbook19 dpw4251] West between 46th and 47th Ave

Sunset Outer
Irving near 47th Ave
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Irving near 47th Ave

Irving Street near 47th Avenue, view north (sewer construction). One of the two small houses shown are probably today's 4538 Irving Street, built 1900 or prior. [dpwbook19 dpw4252] North side of Irving near 47th Ave.

Sunset Outer
Market near Van Ness
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Market near Van Ness

View west from center of Market to Twin Peaks. Market W from Van Ness plowing double tracks. Cochran Coffee, 1576 Market, Wrigleys, National Ice Cream billboard. Wilson Bros. 1626-36 Market. Hotel Civic Center building on left. [dpwbook19 dpw4254]

Civic Center
Market near Pearl
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Market near Pearl

View southwest uphill on Market between McCoppin and Pearl Street. Street construction of some kind. Concrete breaker double tracks [dpwbook19 dpw4255]

Mint Hill
Market near Church
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Market near Church

View east on Market from 14th Street, just east of Church. Buildings on the left side demolished or moved (now part of Safeway Parking lot) first three buildings at right still stand in modified forms. (2020)Unexcavated part of Mint Hill in the distance at left. some sort of street construction going on with concrete broken up along Market. [dpwbook19 dpw4256]

Mission Dolores
Market & Ord
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Market & Ord

View southwest of construction of fill above Twin Peaks Tunnel. Concrete wall on left is at Ord Street, unfilled area to its right shows roughly the original height of Ord at the present-day Market Street before the tunnel was construction. Rear of Mrs. D. W. Frische Grocery, 4548 18th St & Ord at left. Market and Storrie Streets are now above this view, and the Twin Peaks Tunnel is below. [dpwbook19 dpw4257]

Eureka Valley
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

West Portal sewer [dpwbook19 dpw4258]

3rd near Jamestown
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3rd near Jamestown

View north on 3rd Street (then Railroad Ave) near Jamestown. Street widening at grading with workers and steamshovel. Streetcar in the background, Hunters Point Ridge in the distance. [dpwbook19 dpw4259]

Bayview
Stanley near Junipero Serra
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Stanley near Junipero Serra

Stanley sewer from Junipero Serra [dpwbook19 dpw4260]

Merced Heights
Eddy near Van Ness
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Eddy near Van Ness

Adams School, 750 Eddy Street (built 1910), later part of City College of San Francisco. [dpwbook19 dpw4279]

Tenderloin
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

[7/3/26 Casino Valley Road P12] Surveying Middle Drive West in Golden Gate Park, 1926.

Golden Gate Park
1067 Post
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1067 Post

Post between Polk and Larkin. San Francisco Fire Department Engine #3, now demolished or heavily remodeled [dpwbook19 dpw4280]

Tenderloin
Howard near 3rd
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Howard near 3rd

SF Fire Department station, Engine #4, 676 Howard St. [dpwbook19 dpw4281]

South of Market
Pacific near Osgood Place
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Pacific near Osgood Place

Engine Company No. 1 - Built 1908, 451 Pacific. In use as firehouse until 1958, later converted to offices, still standing in 2025. [dpwbook19 dpw4282]

North Beach
Broadway near Osgood Pl.
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Broadway near Osgood Pl.

View north across Broadway to Washington Irving School, later John Yehall Chin Elementary School, extant 2020. [dpwbook19 dpw4283]

North Beach
Stockton near Greenwich
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Stockton near Greenwich

San Francisco Fire Department Engine House (Stockton St) [dpwbook19 dpw4284]

North Beach