Open SF History Photos

Memorial Museum
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Memorial Museum

Golden Gate Park. Egyptian-influenced museum building on Music Concourse. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Building at left was originally the Royal Bavarian Pavilion at the 1894 Fair. It was converted into an annex to the Memorial Museum. Sundial (by M. Earl Cummings) installed October 1907, unmounted cannon on lawn, Dore Vase, replacement sphinx.

Golden Gate Park
22nd & Church
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22nd & Church

Construction of J Church right-of-way. Looking north 10 AM - United Railroads [U05326]

Dolores Heights
Church & 20th
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Church & 20th

Construction of J Church right-of-way. Looking southeast 10:35 AM - United Railroads [U05383]

Mission Dolores
Church & 20th
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Church & 20th

Construction of J Church right-of-way. Looking southeast - United Railroads [U05282]

Mission Dolores
5th Ave near Parnassus
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5th Ave near Parnassus

View southeast along 5th Avenue near Parnassus Avenue. Apartment house at 1398 5th Avenue, built 1912, is at left. A.R. 3500 - United Railroads

Sunset Inner
Church & 20th
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Church & 20th

Construction of J Church right-of-way. Looking southeast 10:25 AM - United Railroads [U05271]

Mission Dolores
Market near Drumm
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Market near Drumm

Ferry Building, buggies, horses. During streetcar strike? Alameda Cafe Building at right [M-378]

Financial District
Fillmore & Waller
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Fillmore & Waller

Pedestirans, Campaign signs on building. [100ft from Property Line on Fillmore St. Looking southwest Accident Report 6347] - United Railroads [U03336]

Lower Haight
View from Hobart Building
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View from Hobart Building

North toward North Beach and Telegraph Hill, Hall of Justice at center.

Telegraph Hill
Ocean Beach
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Ocean Beach

Horse drawn carriage crossing sand dunes. Passengers with umbrellas.

Ocean Beach
Cars Parked on Fulton
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Cars Parked on Fulton

Side of the old main library (now Asian Art Museum)

Civic Center
3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

Looking west, Mutual Savings Bank

South of Market
Market near New Montgomery
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Market near New Montgomery

View west on Marekt near New Montgomery from the south sidewalk in front of the Palace Hotel. Mutual Savings Bank and Chronicle Building at center.

Downtown / Union Square
3rd & Market
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3rd & Market

View northeast across Market to Chronicle Building with large clock above entry, old 660 Market Building with large billboards on roof and large Brown Bros. & Co. vertical sign (Realty Building, built 1907), Crocker Building, Union Trust Wells Fargo Building, Hobart Building. Handwritten news of the days roller running up the side of the Chronicle building, along with live baseball scoreboard on far left (installed July, 1913). In distance, far right, Fife Building, Ferry Building.

Downtown / Union Square
Church & 18th
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Church & 18th

Construction of J Church right-of-way through Dolores Park. Looking south 10:48 A.M. Contra Costa Construction Co. - United Railroads [U05394]

Mission Dolores
Church & 22nd
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Church & 22nd

Construction of J Church right-of-way. Looking north 9:58 AM - United Railroads [U05344]

Noe Valley
22nd & South Van Ness
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22nd & South Van Ness

Workers fixing streetcar pole on southeast corner. This pole still stands as of 2017. Buildings on north side of 22nd Street still stand.

Mission
Cole & Carl
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Cole & Carl

Peters Bros Groceries at 901 Cole [Looking southwest 25 ft. from property line A.R.3145] - United Railroads [U03578]

Cole Valley
Duncan & Guerrero
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Duncan & Guerrero

View west on Duncan toward Guerrero. Edward Douglas Grocery at right. Saloon for rent on the northwest corner (both buildings still stand in modified form in 2020) Twin Peaks visible in the background [Duncan Street 50 Feet East of Guerrero Street Looking Northwest] - United Railroads [U06949]

Bernal Heights
31st Ave & Lincoln
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31st Ave & Lincoln

Looking northeast toward Golden Gate Park from 31st Avenue at Lincoln Way. Street furniture bench for Parkway Terrace, developed by Fernando Nelson, is at center. United Railroads [U06189]

Sunset Outer