Open SF History Photos

Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Tennis Courts looking NE, people playing tennis

Golden Gate Park
Mile Rocks Lighthouse
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Mile Rocks Lighthouse

View north to Mile Rocks Lighthouse from Lands End beach. Freighter entering Golden Gate. Marin Headlands and Point Bonita in distance.

San Francisco Bay
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San Francisco Bay

A small steamer and a warship anchored offshore of the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). View looking northwest to Marin Headlands, Fort Baker and Belvedere Island.

SF Bay
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SF Bay

Ferry leaving Sausalito. Smoking stack, Angel Island in background, Belvedere Island at left, fishing boat Hattie in foreground

Outside SF
Van Ness Avenue Parade
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Van Ness Avenue Parade

Knights Templar Parade, Van Ness near Sutter, looking northeast. Reviewing stand at left, grandstand full of people across the street. Voorhies Building (1312 Van Ness) at center, seven story Marie Antoinette Hotel (1414 Van Ness) beyond.

Cathedral Hill
Playland at the Beach
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Playland at the Beach

Leonard Mendoza in front of the Skeeball parlor. The man on the bike is Leonard Mendoza from Australia, Geo. Whitney's brother-in-law

Sutro Heights
Eddy Near Mason
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Eddy Near Mason

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east down Eddy to ruins of Poodle Dog Restaurant, Flood Building, Emporium

Tenderloin
Kirkham near 12th Ave
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Kirkham near 12th Ave

Looking east to Mt. Sutro, girl with stuffed rabbit in backyard.

Sunset Inner
Near Powell & Market Sts.
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Near Powell & Market Sts.

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View east to earthquake and fire ruins of Flood Bldg.,hundreds of sightseers, Mutual Savings Bank Building, Emporium, Call Bldg. [Powell and Market St. #69, Pillsbury Picture Co. No.260]

Downtown / Union Square
California & Kearny
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California & Kearny

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Post earthquake. Looking East from center of California to ruins of San Francisco Savings Union (1894, William Curlett architect), German Savings and Loan Society, Parrott Building, or Parrott Block (1852, Architect Stephen Williams), Kohl Building. On right, Safe Deposit Building before demolition of upper stories, Merchant's Exchange, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Building in distance. Workers shoveling debris, people walking. [California St. Looking East #60 PP277]

Financial District
Refugees in Graveyard
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Refugees in Graveyard

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Mother w/two children camping in unidentified cemetery PP285

Refugee Camp
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Refugee Camp

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Cook Camp] Men assembled at cooking station PP287

Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks

View southwest from Mt. Olympus looking at Twin Peaks, Corbett, Diamond Heights PP1449

Buena Vista
Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks

From Buena Vista Park, looking southwest PP1452

Buena Vista
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

[Museum GG Park] Memorial Museum from Music Concourse looking north. 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. PP1564

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Polo Fields. President Taft at groundbreaking for PPIE. [President Taft at the Ground Breaking, P.P.I.E. P.P. Co. No. 1565]

Golden Gate Park
Playland at the Beach
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Playland at the Beach

[Famous Playland on the Beach ... M-405] Not quite famous enough to get the title right, visible here are the Dodger bumper cars building, the Big Dipper, the Ridee-O and Tilt-A-Whirl in the foreground.

Richmond
Panhandle
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Panhandle

William McKinley Monument [Wm. McKinley Monument G.G. Park S.F. Cal. 940]

Panhandle
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Main Drive (JFK Drive) looking west from Stanyan PP947

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Drake Monument (Prayerbook Cross) PP948

Golden Gate Park