Open SF History Photos

Kearny & Market
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Kearny & Market

Elevated view northeast to Chronicle Building with clock tower, Lotta's Fountain, Crocker Building. [014032 Chronicle Building San Francisco Copyright 1901 Detroit Photographic Co]

Downtown / Union Square
Market at Embarcadero
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Market at Embarcadero

View from the Ferry Building. Showing site of Embarcadero Center; Hotel Terminal.

Financial District
Financial District
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Financial District

Rooftop view northwest from foot of Market Street., maybe Market and Pine, the top of the PG&E.Building

Financial District
Lombard & Hyde
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Lombard & Hyde

View from Lombard and Hyde showing Coit Tower, North Beach, Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island; woman with binoculars

Russian Hill
Washington Square
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Washington Square

Ss. Peter & Paul Church; [Washington Square, the pool of the drinking fountain in the foreground and the church of the Ss. Peter & St. Paul Church which are situated in the geographical center of San Francisco's Little Italy which is made up mostly of those hardy fisherman who go out to sea each morning for their catch in order that the elite of the city by the Golden Gate may enjoy many varieties of

North Beach
Hall of Justice
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Hall of Justice

Kearny & Washington, view from Portsmouth Square; Chambers of Judge Louis H. Ward upper windows]

Chinatown
Fisherman's Wharf
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Fisherman's Wharf

View southwest over inner basin with fishing boats and man standing in boat. Apartment towers on Russian Hill, D. (Dominic) Labruzzi Boat Builder (2905 Jones Street, last listed in 1937 directory) at right, fuel storage tanks with Zerolene sign on side. Same image as wnp37.01747.

Market & 7th
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Market & 7th

View northeast from center of Market to marchers in May Day parade; Rialto Billiards, Museum of Live Human Freaks; The Grapevine; John's Steak Shop, Hotel Shaw, Paramount Theatre, Warfield Theatre.

Civic Center
Mission High School
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Mission High School

View of completed open courtyard near Church Street.

Mission
Castro & Market
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Castro & Market

Looking west at Twin Peaks Tunnel; Bank of America

Castro
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Men dressed up; Manitou Tribe 128, I.O.R.M.(Improved Order of Red Men)

1st & Harrison
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1st & Harrison

View north from Rincon Hill; Telegraph Hill and St. Francis of Assisi Church (dedicated March, 1860)in background. Selby Shot Tower (1864-5) not yet constructed. Same image as wnp37.00653-R with different cropping.

Rincon Hill
Lafayette Square
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Lafayette Square

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northwest to tents in earthquake refugee camp, toward Washington Street mansions. Irwin Mansion at left.

Pacific Heights
View from Filbert & Scott
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View from Filbert & Scott

1906 Earthquake and Fire, view east to Cow Hollow toward Russian Hill. Lombard Street cuts through north of the summit. The home with the Mansard roof on the left, 2426 (later 2466) Filbert, belonged to Louis Schultz, demolished 1948. Street Kitchens are visible in the distance down Filbert.

Cow Hollow
Washington & Battery
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Washington & Battery

[TEH490 Old Post Office Washington & Battery 1903 T. E. Hecht] View northwest across intersection to Post Office and Custom House. Appraisers Building in background. Cobblestone streets.Same image as wnp37.02104.

North Beach
Filbert & Buchanan
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Filbert & Buchanan

Northwest corner. P. Arata & Son

Union Street
Noriega & 20th Ave
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Noriega & 20th Ave

View north on 20th Avenue. Partially collapsed telephone pole being repaired.

Sunset Outer
Noriega & 20th Ave
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Noriega & 20th Ave

View west from Noriega Street just east of 20th Avenue. Truck parked on vacant lot next to leaning telephone pole. Ladder is bracing pole to keep it from falling. Sand dunes in background.

Sunset Outer
Pacheco & Magellan
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Pacheco & Magellan

Light snowfall coating lawn, roofs and bushes

Forest Hill
Sutro Heights
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Sutro Heights

]No. 49, Sutro Heights ... 1886, Homer. (Antique.)] Bust on pedestal. Taken near Palm Drive.

Sutro