Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Selected historical image/Archive

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400px General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–1890) with his daughters and granddaughter

image credit: Unknown

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The Louis Agassiz statue, Stanford University, after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906

image credit: Trialsanderrors

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Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon (San Francisco)
1915 painting by Edwin Deakin, from the collection of the Crocker Art Museum

image credit: Crocker Art Museum

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San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fire

image credit: Library of Congress

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Promotional poster for Mantra-Rock Dance 1967 musical event

image credit: Harvey W. Cohen

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San Francisco in 1851

image credit: Library of Congress

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San Francisco Harbor, 1851

image credit: Library of Congress

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Mission District on fire, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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Edward Teller at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

image credit: United States Department of Energy

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

image credit: Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park

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600px Northern Valley Yukut Indians hunting on bay of San Francisco, California, Louis Choris c. 1822

image credit: (MOAC) Museums & Online Archive of California

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Seal Rock, California, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872

image credit: Christie's

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400px Karl Malden and Michael Douglas from the television program The Streets of San Francisco

image credit: We hope

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700px Mt. Diablo, San Joaquin Valley, John Ross Key, 1873. Chromolithograph of Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, viewed from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.

image credit: Boston Public Library

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600px Farallon Island, Albert Bierstadt, 1887

image credit: Carnegie Museum of Art

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Strawberry Creek, Berkeley by Edwin Deakin (1892).

image credit: Amadscientist

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Shibuya Family, Mountain View, April 1942, prior to the World War II internment of Japanese Americans

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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350px "First women to attain rate of Electric Welder, 3rd class, were Alyce R. Sawyers (on the left) and Josephine L. Hollingworth, in 1942. US Navy Yard, Mare Island., CA."

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px Lake Merritt, Oakland (ca. 1890-1905)

image credit: Library of Congress

20

Fleischhacker Pool & Bath House, San Francisco, 1979 (since demolished)

image credit: Library of Congress

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600px Cosmonaut Gherman Titov at the Marina Safeway, San Francisco (1962)

image credit: Eric Fischer

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M. Stanley Livingston (L) and Ernest O. Lawrence in front of 27-inch cyclotron at the old Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

image credit: Department of Energy

600px "Hayward, California. The Negi family, operators of a forty-acre intensively cultivated, leased truck farm, completes arrangements with a Chinese business man who is taking over this farm and equipment at the time of the family's voluntary evacuation to Colorado prior to Civilian Exclusion Orders." May 1942

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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Jack LaLanne (1961), creator of the nation's first fitness club in Oakland in 1936

image credit: Cliff Riddle, Hollywood

25

The Lark, magazine published by Gelett Burgess, 1895.

image credit: Night Ranger

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600px Peralta Home, San Leandro (1960)

image credit: Jack E. Boucher/Historic American Buildings Survey

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Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing Haida Indian blanket design (1939)

image credit: Library of Congress

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600px Vault with gold bars, Department of the Treasury. Bureau of the Mint. U.S. Mint, San Francisco, California (ca 1935)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px Merchant and Body Guard, Old Chinatown, San Francisco, Arnold Genthe (ca. 1896-1906)

image credit: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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John Cipollina at the Keystone Berkeley (1976)

image credit: David Gans

31

Poster from Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium featuring Jefferson Airplane

image credit: We hope

32

North Beach, San Francisco, North East corner of Broadway and Columbus (1973). Carol Doda's Condor Club, Big Al's, Roaring 20s and Hungry I strip clubs.

image credit: Michael Holley

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600px Mural, Coit Tower (Public Works of Art Project, 1933)

image credit: Another Believer

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600px Coit Tower (Public Works of Art Project, 1933)

image credit: Another Believer

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San Francisco Oracle cover, 1967

image credit: Estate of Allen Cohen and Regent Press

36

Photographer Ansel Adams (ca. 1950)

image credit: J. Malcolm Greany/Yosemite Field School

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350px Menu, Coppa’s Restaurant, San Francisco (ca. 1930s)

image credit: California Historical Society

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600px Cliff House and Seal Rocks (1902)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

39

V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, by Frank Lloyd Wright (1948) (1981 photograph)

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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Victims of the 1918 flu pandemic, Oakland

image credit: Oakland Public Library

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600px Cruiser USS San Francisco between 1890 and 1901

image credit: Library of Congress

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350px "Marine Corps tanks-ready for the front lines-are swung aboard a barge at the Naval Supply Center by crane, for transhipment to our forces in the Pacific Far Eastern Command. Oakland, California, 1950. Acme."

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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Spencer Dryden, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner at the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival (June 1967)

image credit: Bryan Costales

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Postcard, Topsy's Roost Restaurant (date unknown)

image credit: Jooojay

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600px "The City of San Francisco", color lithograph by Currier & Ives (1878)

image credit: Library of Congress

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600px "Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Oakland. Reinforcement bars lie at the base of the Cypress viaduct of Interstate 880 near 14th Street"

image credit: United States Geological Survey

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350px Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Collapsed section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

image credit: United States Geological Survey

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600px Damage from 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Emeryville, California

image credit: sanbeiji / Joe Lewis

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650px Damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The top deck (Cypress Street Viaduct) of the Nimitz Freeway collapsed down onto the lower deck.

image credit: sanbeiji / Joe Lewis

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600px "Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Structures damaged in the Marina District of San Francisco. The first story of this three-story building was damaged because of liquefaction; the second story collapsed. What is seen is the third story."

image credit: United States Geological Survey

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600px "On the wharves, San Francisco, 1900."

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre, as it existed prior to its burning in 1898, architect: J. A. Remer, SF. illustration: Wood engraving by T. J. Pettit & Co, San Francisco (unknown date, but prior to 1898)

image credit: T. J. Pettit and Company

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Promotional postcard for duckhunting in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1915. caption reads: "Hundreds of thousands of wild duck haunt the marshy shoreline of some parts of San Francisco Bay, affording the finest sport during the season."

image credit: Publicity Commissioners of Alameda County

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600px "No. 246A Battery Davis Fort Funston, Calif., Placing Concrete Under step - ring at Gun Block No. 1. The barrels for the guns had been manufactured for mounting on the 35,000 ton battlecruiser U.S.S. Saratoga whose construction was stopped by the Treaty of Washington." (1938 image)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px "San Francisco, California. Many children of Japanese ancestry attended Raphael Weill public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets, prior to evacuation. This scene shows first- graders during flag pledge ceremony. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. Provision will be effected for the continuance of education." (Dorothea Lange, 20 April 1942)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px "Camp Merritt, California. Transport Indiana receiving troops and freight at Pacific Mail Docks on eve of departure. Crowd bidding farewell. June 27, 1898." (San Francisco)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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"San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: The building with the large arch is the entrance to the Olympic Club on Post Street near Mason."

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

58

600px A photochrome postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company showing Sutro Baths, San Francisco. (1900)

image credit: Unknown

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650px "Pavilion from Gestie", views in Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco (1860?-1880?).

image credit: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views

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650px "Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Railroad House, Clay St." (San Francisco) C. E. Watkins: Pacific Coast series (1868)

image credit: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views

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350px Advertising from an 1889 directory, showing an advertisement for J. Gundlach & Co. wine, Sonoma County

image credit: J. Gundlach & Co.

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600px Mystery Airship, The San Francisco Call, 23 November 1896.

image credit: unknown

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600px "California volunteers saying good-bye, on the wharf at San Francisco, before embarking." From Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, 1898

image credit: J.A. Cahill

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Officers of the Chinese Six Companies, Chinatown (date not known)

image credit: Roy D. Graves

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350px "Dupon Gai" or Dupont Street, now Grant Ave in Chinatown (ca. 1910)

image credit: Bancroft Library

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The Street of Gamblers (Ross Alley) (Chinatown) Arnold Genthe (1898)

image credit: Arnold Genthe

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500px The visit of President William McKinley to the original Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1901

image credit: unknown

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Workers on the San Francisco waterfront, 1901

image credit: unknown

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600px Grant Avenue at Market Street (and O'Farrell, which is the one that turns left in the foreground), San Francisco. The building on the right is now Wells Fargo. The temple on the left is now an Emporio Armani store. (1915)

image credit: Library of Congress

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600px 1882 political cartoon, San Francisco

image credit: Keller

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Mission and First Streets, San Francisco (1970)

image credit: Drew Jacksich

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Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR. (1972)

image credit: Drew Jacksich

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Broadway, San Francisco, with the Condor Club featuring Carol Doda (1973)

image credit: Michael Holley

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600px The Bay City Reds juggling troupe at the Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, 1975. Performers are, from left: Dan Mankin, Billy Kessler, Diana ??? Don Forrest, Merle Goldstone.

image credit: BillyKwiki

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Winterland Ballroom, The Last Waltz, The Band with Bob Dylan and other guests performing "I Shall Be Released" (1976)

image credit: David Gans

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600px Alvord Lake Bridge, Golden Gate Park, the first reinforced concrete bridge in the United States. (1984)

image credit: Historic American Engineering Record

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600px 2008 fire on Angel Island

image credit: Danleo

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600px Golden Gate Bridge, view of Marin Headlands from South Tower, 1984

image credit: Library of Congress

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350px 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition postcard

image credit: Library of Congress

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350px "Chinese tea shop in San Francisco." From Die Gartenlaube (Germany, 1884)

image credit: Ernst Keil's Nachfolger

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600px Chinese sidewalk fortune teller, San Francisco (1892)

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600px "San Francisco Yeomanettes attached to the Naval Reserve, Twelfth District. San Francisco Bulletin." (June 1918)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px "Great Depression: unemployed, destitute man leaning against vacant store", San Francisco (1935)

image credit: Dorothea Lange

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600px "Mission of Dolores of San Francisco, A.D. 1830" (published 1866)

image credit: The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco

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600px Illustration of various buildings in San Francisco, from Die Gartenlaube (Germany, 1874)

image credit: Die Gartenlaube

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Fort Point, view from south-west with Golden Gate Bridge under construction (1934)

image credit: Historic American Engineering Record

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600px Pan American Clipper (Boeing 314A NC18602) at Treasure Island in 1939. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is in the background.

image credit: Bill Larkins

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2013 World Baseball Classic, pre-game ceremony at the Championship Game at AT&T Park, San Francisco

image credit: LiAnna Davis

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600px James Clair Flood Mansion, 1000 California Street, San Francisco (National Register of Historic Places, 1940)

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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600px "San Francisco's cable cars climbing the Powell Street hill" (ca. 1945)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px Bay Area Rapid Transit planning document. Looking northeast toward Cortland and what would now be called 30th Street BART, between Mission and Coleridge, from the 1948 Transportation Plan for San Francisco

image credit: Eric Fischer

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600px San Francisco International Airport terminal dedication, August 27, 1954

image credit: Bill Larkins

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350px Jules Irving as Lucky in "Waiting for Godot," 1957 - San Francisco Actor's Workshop

image credit: KFFOWLER

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600px Finocchio's Club, 1958, San Francisco

image credit: A Gender Variance Who's Who

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600px Powell Street, San Francisco, showing Lefty's (1959).jpg

image credit: Roger Wollstadt

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600px Whittier Mansion, 2090 Jackson Street, San Francisco (1960)

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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600px Cable car in front of Safeway, Chestnut and Taylor Streets, San Francisco (1963)

image credit: Eric Fischer

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Candlestick Park, 1965. Hall of famer Willie McCovey making the play at first base in a Sunday day game vs the Mets

image credit: Dave Glass

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"Funeral Notice for Hippie", distributed by the Haight-Ashbury Switchboard, 1967

image credit: unknown

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600px San Francisco Municipal Railway car, 1967

image credit: Drew Jacksich

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700px Poster for Ratha Yatra parade, San Francisco, 1969

image credit: Gaura

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600px Carolans (sic), 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, June 1972, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco

image credit: Larry Rogers

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600px Whale sculpture outside the California Academy of Sciences, 1970 (removed in 2000s during remodeling)

image credit: Gordon F. Smith

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Mick Taylor, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco (1972)

image credit: Larry Rogers

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"Early Oakland, 7th and Adeline Streets, The Southern Pacific Depot", William Keith (1867)

image credit: Oakland Museum of California

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600px Spreckels Temple of Music, Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park

image credit: OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons

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650px Chinese American woman and child, San Francisco (ca. 1870 - 1889)

image credit: Bancroft Library

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Opium den, Chinese lodging house, San Francisco (ca. 1890)

image credit: Bancroft Library

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Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco (ca. 1891)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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500px Parade by the Ringling Brothers Circus, Market Street, San Francisco, September 1900

image credit: unknown

112

600px Watercolor painting of Lone Mountain, San Francisco by Alice Brown Chittenden, 1910. Shacks or tents in foreground are from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

image credit: Alice Brown Chittenden

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Proposed San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, from Overland Monthly, April 1913

image credit: "KET"

114

600px The mid-1920s, San Francisco (from personal collection)

image credit: John Atherton

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450px Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco , 1950s

image credit: Chalmers Butterfield

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Promotional photograph of one day's output at the Chevrolet factory in Oakland, California, circa 1917. Photograph commissioned by Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Publicity Bureau. Photographer from Cheney Photo Advertising Co. Original photo part of Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room

image credit: Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Publicity Bureau

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600px "Oakland, California. Hot Jazz Recreation. Swing enthusiasts crowd against the band stand at an appearance of the Benny Goodman Band in a local dance hall. One of the boys in the foreground has a copy of "Hot Jazz" by Hughes Panassic (sic)." Photograph by Rondal Partridge (26 April 1940)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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500px Original file information from NARA: "Oakland, California. High School Youth. Two Negro youngsters look over the shoulders of a couple of fortunate enough to own a model plane. The white boys can hope to become aviators." Photograph by Rondal Partridge (1940)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px Open-air school in San Jose, California following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

image credit: San Jose Library

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600px "Women shipfitters worked on board the USS NEREUS, and are shown as they neared completion of the floor in a part of the engine room. Left to right are Shipfitters Betty Pierce, Lola Thomas, Margaret Houston Thelma Mort and Katie Stanfill. US Navy Yard, Mare Island,CA." (1943)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px Kenny Barron at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay (1986)

image credit: Brianmcmillen

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350px Archie Shepp at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, August 19, 1982

image credit: Brianmcmillen

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600px Trocadero Inn, Sigmund Stern Grove, San Francisco (1936)

image credit: Robert W. Kerrigan, Historic American Buildings Survey

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600px Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco (1928)

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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600px Construction of the San Francisco Mint, 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco (1876)

image credit: Eadweard Muybridge, Historic American Buildings Survey

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1301 Montgomery Street, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (1940)

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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Adolph Sutro, with library interior, Adolph Sutro House, Point Lobos and Forty-Eighth Avenue, San Francisco

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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Adolph Sutro House, Point Lobos and Forty-Eighth Avenue, San Francisco

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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600px Alta Street, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (1940)

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

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600px Spreckels Mansion, 2080 Washington Street, San Francisco (1960)

image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey

131

350px Muffler Man, Downtown Hayward (since removed)

image credit: Mercurywoodrose

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350px Cindy Lauper at San Francisco Pride 2008

image credit: Franco Folini

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550px "With nearly 1000 [African-American] women employed as burners, welders, scalers, and in other capacities at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, women war workers played an important part in the construction of the Liberty Ship, SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7th, 1943. Welder -trainee Josie Lucille Owens plies her trade on the ship." (1943)

image credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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600px "The vintage in California – at work at the wine-presses", Paul Frenzeny, Harpers Weekly, late 19th century: from the Wine Country

image credit: Paul Frenzeny

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Lena Horne, African American actress, singer, and sponsor of the SS George Washington Carver, swinging a champagne bottle to christen the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver as another African American woman looks on, Richmond Shipyard No. 1, Richmond, California, May 7, 1943.

image credit: E. F. Joseph, U.S. Office of War Information