Open SF History Photos

Sutro Heights
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Sutro Heights

Sutro Heights. Main gate from Palm Drive. View looking north. Caretaker building at left. Note wooden turnstiles.

Sutro
Montgomery & Union
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Montgomery & Union

View north on Montgomery from Union showing completed retaining wall on the split street.[dpwbook46 dpw3168 Montgomery St. wall North of Green]

Telegraph Hill
Excelsior District Aerial
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Excelsior District Aerial

Aerial view of Excelsior District. Mt Davidson at top with Sunnyside just below. Parts of Sutro Forest yet to be cut down. On left, Westwood Park with Balboa Park below. Mission Terrace across middle. The Excelsior in lower half, with Russia Avenue running through center. At bottom left, farms that are the future site of the Crocker Amazon Playground.

Miraloma Park
Roosevelt near Park Hill
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Roosevelt near Park Hill

View northeast from Roosevelt Way. Park Hill Avenue curves to left in distance. Houses line the street, vacant lot in center at Park Hill. Brick pavement in center of street. [DPW A1441]

Buena Vista
Roosevelt & Levant
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Roosevelt & Levant

View west on newly completed Roosevelt Way at Levant. [DPW A1442]

Buena Vista
24th & Hoffman
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24th & Hoffman

View east on 24th Street at Hoffman. United Railroads Ferries and 24th line (later 11-line) streetcar #1303 Henry Welbrock's bar at left, 4396 24th Street. [DPW 3510]

Upper Market
California near 32nd Ave
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California near 32nd Ave

North side of California between Lincoln Park and 32nd Avenue, gated entrance to recenty acquired site for new location for Miss Burke's School.(Katherine Delmar Burke School) [DPW A3240]

Seacliff
24th & Hoffman
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24th & Hoffman

View West on 24th Street toward Hoffman, Twin Peaks in the background. Market Street Railway (MSRy) 11-Line streetcar #284 with zip stripe livery. 24th & Hoffman grocery on corner.

Upper Market
Monterey near Baden
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Monterey near Baden

View northwest across Monterey to westbound Market Street Railway (MSRy) 10-Line Monterey streetcar #808.

Sunnyside
Monterey & Edna
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Monterey & Edna

View East, 10-Line Monterey #914

Sunnyside
29th near Church
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29th near Church

29th St between Church & Dolores. View West, 9-Line 29th and Noe. Streetcar #987 beneath Southern Pacific Old Main Line bridge. The bridge, berm, and tracks were removed in the 1940s and the right-of-way was developed shortly thereafter. Spires of St. Paul's Church in background.

Noe Valley
Sutro Heights
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Sutro Heights

View looking northwest on perimeter road. Left to right: Second Cliff House tower, Parapet, Observation Tower, and Sutro's Residence. (Taken after completion of 2nd Cliff House in early 1896 and prior to installation of cannon on parapet later the same year.)

Sutro
14th & Mission
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14th & Mission

Woodward's Gardens, Looking Northwest

Mission
16th & Florida
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16th & Florida

Three buildings in compound of San Francisco SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), main building, kennels, and ambulance garage, with 5 horse-drawn wagons and drivers lined up in front.

Mission
School Street, Daly City
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School Street, Daly City

United Railroad's special sightseeing streetcar, the 'San Francisco' in its original 1904 livery. Cars lined up for the Jimmy Britt - Battling Nelson fight.

Outside SF
Green near Jones
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Green near Jones

1039 -1041 Green, people posing on steps and sidewalk

Russian Hill
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

View northeast from first band shell to Conservatory of Flowers. Bench seating set up in front and on distant pathways. (Taken before second bandshell was erected in 1888 on present site of tennis courts.)

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

[120 Music Stand] Second Music Stand, Bandshell with crowd watching concert. Present tennis courts area. Same image as wnp70.0251, with caption in image area.

Golden Gate Park
Stow Lake
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Stow Lake

Golden Gate Park. Strawberry Hill, Huntington Falls, Sweeny Observatory, a gift to the park from Thomas U. Sweeney (Sweeney's name was misspelled on the observatory.)

Golden Gate Park
Lombard near Lyon
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Lombard near Lyon

Lombard Street Gate, Presidio, Spanish American War soldiers marching. Tent encampment in background.

Cow Hollow