Open SF History Photos

Mission Dolores
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Mission Dolores

View southwest to Mission and El Camino Real bell in median. Children playing at site of demolished church north of Mission. PP7238

Mission Dolores
Mission Dolores
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Mission Dolores

View west across Dolores St. to old Mission and cemetery entrance. Tall ladder extends up towards bells

Mission Dolores
Stockton, CA
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Stockton, CA

Parade crossing intersection of E. Main and Hunter St. Native Sons of the Golden West

Outside SF
Catholic (?) Event
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Catholic (?) Event

Crowd watching ceremony with Catholic clergy and altar boys on stage.Soldiers at attention in front of altar. Field mass?

PPIE
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PPIE

View northeast to Panama-Pacific International Exposition, from Pacific Heights over Cow Hollow and Marina; Tower of Jewels under construction. House in foreground at Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2990 Vallejo (extant 2020,built 1914, Walter Bliss Residence, Architects Bliss & Faville) To its right, 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect. [Worlds Fair Buildings P.P. No. 1430]

Pacific Heights
PPIE  from Broadway & Lyon
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PPIE from Broadway & Lyon

View north from Pacific Heights; Tower of Jewels under construction. House in foreground at Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2990 Vallejo (extant 2020,built 1914, Walter Bliss Residence, Architects Bliss & Faville) To its right, 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect.

Pacific Heights
PPIE from Pacific Heights
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PPIE from Pacific Heights

Elevated view northeast to Panama-Pacific International Exposition from Broadway near Lyon; construction completed. House in left foreground at Lyon & Vallejo Sts. is 2990 Vallejo (extant 2020,built 1914, Walter Bliss Residence, Architects Bliss & Faville). To its right, 2980 Vallejo, Edgar Mathews Residence, extant 2020, built 1908 Edgar Mathews, Architect. [Worlds Fair Buildings P.P. No. 7859]

Pacific Heights
PPIE
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PPIE

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, From Russian Hill, Early construction

Russian Hill
City Hall Ruins
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City Hall Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Old City Hall and Hall of Records after earthquake and fire. Ruins of St. Boniface Church in distance right. [City Hall]

Civic Center
Playland at the Beach
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Playland at the Beach

"This is IT" cafe. Early view of Whitney's food concessions, home of the iconic chocolate-dipped It's It ice cream cookie sandwich

Richmond
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Earthquake refugee children posing in Camp 5, near Children's Playground

Golden Gate Park
City Hall Ruins
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City Hall Ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View looking north from near 8th & Market

Civic Center
Old City Hall in ruins
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Old City Hall in ruins

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view northeast from Larkin and City Hall Avenue

Civic Center
Lotta's Fountain
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Lotta's Fountain

View west to men and newsboys standing at Lotta's Fountain, Kearny, Grant and Market. El Camino Real Bell, Flannery Building, M.A. Gunst & Co., San Francisco Hotel Bureau, Southern Pacific Land Co., poster for Chas. M. Belshaw for Governor [Lottas Fountain P.P. 7677]

Downtown / Union Square
Sutter & Grant
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Sutter & Grant

Northeast corner, Davis - Schonwasser Co

Downtown / Union Square
View NE from Lands End
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View NE from Lands End

Fort Point at right, Angel Island at center, Marin Headlands at left

Lands End
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Lands End

Four Women wading in surf at Mile Rocks Beach

Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Landing the Gjoa
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Landing the Gjoa

Crowds watch as Roald Amundsen's Sloop Gjoa is pulled ashore near the end of Fulton Street. Roald Amundsen's Gjoa was the first ship through the northwest passage in 1906. Donated to San Francisco, she was displayed at the west end of Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972, when she was returned to Norway.

Golden Gate Park
Mason & Pine
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Mason & Pine

View north from center of intersection, gate to Hopkins Institute of Art, later replaced by Mark Hopkins Hotel, on right. At upper left, Morsehead Apartments, 1001 California, on the southwest corner of California and Mason. Built 1915, Architect Houghton Sawyer.

Nob Hill
Japanese Tea Garden
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Japanese Tea Garden

Golden Gate Park, Girl Posing with drum bridge in background

Golden Gate Park