Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Selected historical image/Archive
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General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–1890) with his daughters and granddaughter
image credit: Unknown
image credit: Trialsanderrors
Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon (San Francisco)
1915 painting by Edwin Deakin, from the collection of the Crocker Art Museum
1915 painting by Edwin Deakin, from the collection of the Crocker Art Museum
image credit: Crocker Art Museum
San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fire
image credit: Library of Congress
Promotional poster for Mantra-Rock Dance 1967 musical event
image credit: Harvey W. Cohen
San Francisco in 1851
image credit: Library of Congress
San Francisco Harbor, 1851
image credit: Library of Congress
Mission District on fire, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
image credit: National Archives and Records Administration
image credit: United States Department of Energy
image credit: Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park
Northern Valley Yukut Indians hunting on bay of San Francisco, California, Louis Choris c. 1822
image credit: (MOAC) Museums & Online Archive of California
Seal Rock, California, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872
image credit: Christie's
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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
Farallon Island, Albert Bierstadt, 1887
image credit: Carnegie Museum of Art
Strawberry Creek, Berkeley by Edwin Deakin (1892).
image credit: Amadscientist
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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"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
Lake Merritt, Oakland (ca. 1890-1905)
image credit: Library of Congress
Fleischhacker Pool & Bath House, San Francisco, 1979 (since demolished)
image credit: Library of Congress
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Cosmonaut Gherman Titov at the Marina Safeway, San Francisco (1962)
image credit: Eric Fischer
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
"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
Jack LaLanne (1961), creator of the nation's first fitness club in Oakland in 1936
image credit: Cliff Riddle, Hollywood
The Lark, magazine published by Gelett Burgess, 1895.
image credit: Night Ranger
Peralta Home, San Leandro (1960)
image credit: Jack E. Boucher/Historic American Buildings Survey
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
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
Merchant and Body Guard, Old Chinatown, San Francisco, Arnold Genthe (ca. 1896-1906)
image credit: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
John Cipollina at the Keystone Berkeley (1976)
image credit: David Gans
image credit: We hope
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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Mural, Coit Tower (Public Works of Art Project, 1933)
image credit: Another Believer
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image credit: Another Believer
San Francisco Oracle cover, 1967
image credit: Estate of Allen Cohen and Regent Press
Photographer Ansel Adams (ca. 1950)
image credit: J. Malcolm Greany/Yosemite Field School
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Menu, Coppa’s Restaurant, San Francisco (ca. 1930s)
image credit: California Historical Society
Cliff House and Seal Rocks (1902)
image credit: National Archives and Records Administration
V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, by Frank Lloyd Wright (1948) (1981 photograph)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Victims of the 1918 flu pandemic, Oakland
image credit: Oakland Public Library
Cruiser USS San Francisco between 1890 and 1901
image credit: Library of Congress
"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
Spencer Dryden, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner at the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival (June 1967)
image credit: Bryan Costales
Postcard, Topsy's Roost Restaurant (date unknown)
image credit: Jooojay
"The City of San Francisco", color lithograph by Currier & Ives (1878)
image credit: Library of Congress
"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
Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Collapsed section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
image credit: United States Geological Survey
Damage from 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Emeryville, California
image credit: sanbeiji / Joe Lewis
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
"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
"On the wharves, San Francisco, 1900."
image credit: National Archives and Records Administration
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
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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A photochrome postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company showing Sutro Baths, San Francisco. (1900)
image credit: Unknown
"Pavilion from Gestie", views in Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco (1860?-1880?).
image credit: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
"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
Advertising from an 1889 directory, showing an advertisement for J. Gundlach & Co. wine, Sonoma County
image credit: J. Gundlach & Co.
Mystery Airship, The San Francisco Call, 23 November 1896.
image credit: unknown
"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
Officers of the Chinese Six Companies, Chinatown (date not known)
image credit: Roy D. Graves
"Dupon Gai" or Dupont Street, now Grant Ave in Chinatown (ca. 1910)
image credit: Bancroft Library
The Street of Gamblers (Ross Alley) (Chinatown) Arnold Genthe (1898)
image credit: Arnold Genthe
{{center|The visit of President William McKinley to the original Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1901{{center|
image credit: unknown
Workers on the San Francisco waterfront, 1901
image credit: unknown
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
1882 political cartoon, San Francisco
image credit: Keller
Mission and First Streets, San Francisco (1970)
image credit: Drew Jacksich
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
Broadway, San Francisco, with the Condor Club featuring Carol Doda (1973)
image credit: Michael Holley
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
Winterland Ballroom, The Last Waltz, The Band with Bob Dylan and other guests performing "I Shall Be Released" (1976)
image credit: David Gans
Alvord Lake Bridge, Golden Gate Park, the first reinforced concrete bridge in the United States. (1984)
image credit: Historic American Engineering Record
2008 fire on Angel Island
image credit: Danleo
Golden Gate Bridge, view of Marin Headlands from South Tower, 1984
image credit: Library of Congress
1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition postcard
image credit: Library of Congress
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"Chinese tea shop in San Francisco." From Die Gartenlaube (Germany, 1884)
image credit: Ernst Keil's Nachfolger
Chinese sidewalk fortune teller, San Francisco (1892)
image credit: Chinese Customs - Indelible Photographs. Adolph Wittemann (New York) & Jos. Hofmann (San Francisco). 1892.
"San Francisco Yeomanettes attached to the Naval Reserve, Twelfth District. San Francisco Bulletin." (June 1918)
image credit: National Archives and Records Administration
"Great Depression: unemployed, destitute man leaning against vacant store", San Francisco (1935)
image credit: Dorothea Lange
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"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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Illustration of various buildings in San Francisco, from Die Gartenlaube (Germany, 1874)
image credit: Die Gartenlaube
Fort Point, view from south-west with Golden Gate Bridge under construction (1934)
image credit: Historic American Engineering Record
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
image credit: LiAnna Davis
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James Clair Flood Mansion, 1000 California Street, San Francisco (National Register of Historic Places, 1940)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
"San Francisco's cable cars climbing the Powell Street hill" (ca. 1945)
image credit: National Archives and Records Administration
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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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San Francisco International Airport terminal dedication, August 27, 1954
image credit: Bill Larkins
image credit: KFFOWLER
Finocchio's Club, 1958, San Francisco
image credit: A Gender Variance Who's Who
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Powell Street, San Francisco, showing Lefty's (1959)
image credit: Roger Wollstadt
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Whittier Mansion, 2090 Jackson Street, San Francisco (1960)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
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Cable car in front of Safeway, Chestnut and Taylor Streets, San Francisco (1963)
image credit: Eric Fischer
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
"Funeral Notice for Hippie", distributed by the Haight-Ashbury Switchboard, 1967
image credit: unknown
San Francisco Municipal Railway car, 1967
image credit: Drew Jacksich
Poster for Ratha Yatra parade, San Francisco, 1969
image credit: Gaura
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
image credit: Larry Rogers
Whale sculpture outside the California Academy of Sciences, 1970 (removed in 2000s during remodeling)
image credit: Gordon F. Smith
Mick Taylor, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco (1972)
image credit: Larry Rogers
"Early Oakland, 7th and Adeline Streets, The Southern Pacific Depot", William Keith (1867)
image credit: Oakland Museum of California
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Spreckels Temple of Music, Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park
image credit: OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons
Chinese American woman and child, San Francisco (ca. 1870 - 1889)
image credit: Bancroft Library
Opium den, Chinese lodging house, San Francisco (ca. 1890)
image credit: Bancroft Library
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco (ca. 1891)
image credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Parade by the Ringling Brothers Circus, Market Street, San Francisco, September 1900
image credit: unknown
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
Proposed San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, from Overland Monthly, April 1913
image credit: "KET"
The mid-1920s, San Francisco (from personal collection)
image credit: John Atherton
Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco , 1950s
image credit: Chalmers Butterfield
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
"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
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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Open-air school in San Jose, California following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
image credit: San Jose Library
"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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Archie Shepp at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, August 19, 1982
image credit: Brianmcmillen
Trocadero Inn, Sigmund Stern Grove, San Francisco (1936)
image credit: Robert W. Kerrigan, Historic American Buildings Survey
Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco (1928)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Construction of the San Francisco Mint, 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco (1876)
image credit: Eadweard Muybridge, Historic American Buildings Survey
1301 Montgomery Street, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (1940)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Adolph Sutro, with library interior, Adolph Sutro House, Point Lobos and Forty-Eighth Avenue, San Francisco
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Adolph Sutro House, Point Lobos and Forty-Eighth Avenue, San Francisco
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Alta Street, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (1940)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Spreckels Mansion, 2080 Washington Street, San Francisco (1960)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Muffler Man, Downtown Hayward (since removed)
image credit: Mercurywoodrose
Cyndi Lauper at San Francisco Pride 2008
image credit: Franco Folini
"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
"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
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
Map of San Mateo County, 1878
image credit: Moore & DePue
San Francisco Chronicle building, 1901
image credit: Detroit Photographic Co.
Then United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
image credit: Department of Energy
San Jose, 1875
image credit: C. B. Gifford - A.L. Bancroft & Co.
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Early Cliff House, and Seal Rocks, San Francisco, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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San Francisco Mint, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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Steamship at the San Francisco waterfront, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
Montgomery Block, San Francisco, 1862
image credit: unknown, collection of the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
image credit: New York Public Library
Aftermath of the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion
image credit: Mbz1
San Francisco Maritime Museum (date not known)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
Advertisement, Sonoma Valley winery, 1858
image credit: California Historical Society
The National Ignition Facility's target chamber being moved into the Target Bay, 1999
image credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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William Westerfeld House, San Francisco (1981)
image credit: Historic American Buildings Survey
The Call Building on fire during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
image credit: Library of Congress
San Francisco in November 1848, prior to the California Gold Rush
image credit: Bayard Taylor
San Francisco in November 1849, after the start of the California Gold Rush
image credit: Bayard Taylor
Land in Bodega Bay selected for intensive housing development (1972)
image credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Portsmouth Square, San Francisco (1850)
image credit: Bayard Taylor
"View of San Francisco 1850, taken from a High Point on the South Side."
image credit: New York Public Library
"Entrance to the Straits of Karquinez (sic)" (1850)
image credit: British Library
"Monte Diablo, near Suisun Bay" (1850)
image credit: British Library
"Benecia" (1850)
image credit: British Library
"Sonoma" (1850)
image credit: British Library
The whaling vessel Niantic, prior to her being abandoned and grounded in San Francisco and converted into a hotel
image credit: Robert Harris-Stoertz
Article in The Californian on the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, the origin of the California Gold Rush
image credit: public domain
Shattuck Avenue at Berkeley Way, Berkeley ca. 1893
image credit: Berkeley Public Library
"Champagne Corking", Buena Vista Winery, Sonoma
image credit: Eadweard Muybridge
image credit: City and County of San Francisco, California
William "Cocktail" Boothby, bartender at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco (1891)
image credit: Cocktail Boothby's American Bar-Tender, San Francisco 1891
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The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, interior book cover or frontispiece, by William "Cocktail" Boothby (1908)
image credit: William Boothby
Palace Hotel, San Francisco (1911)
image credit: Palace Hotel Company
Wine label, Paul Masson Champagne Company, Santa Clara County (San Jose on label as nearest city to winery)
image credit: California Historical Society
Luther Burbank with his Spineless Cactus, Overland Monthly, 1908
image credit: Overland Monthly
Overland Monthly, January 1919
image credit: possibly Ruth Eastman, Mike Cline
Overland Monthly, 1895
image credit: Maynard Dixon
Macintosh SE "easter egg", featuring the computer's engineering team (Apple, Inc., Cupertino, ca 1987)
image credit: Autopilot
image credit: Morgan Stanley and Hambrecht & Quist
Bret Harte, ca 1868
image credit: William Rulofson
Apple 1 advertisement, 1976
image credit: Apple Computer
Apple II advertisement, 1977
image credit: Apple Computer
Sunset July 1904 issue, art by Maynard Dixon
image credit: Maynard Dixon
Sunset, first issue
image credit: public domain
Wine label, Gonsalves Winery, Martinez
image credit: California Historical Society
Wine label, Mont-Rouge Vineyard, Livermore Valley
image credit: California Historical Society
Wine label, New Almaden vineyard
image credit: California Historical Society
Wine label, Italian Swiss Colony, Asti
image credit: California Historical Society
Chinese Junk Amoy, Richardson Bay
image credit: Bancroft Library
"View of the Procession in Celebration of the Admission of California, Oct. 29th, 1850, Crossing the Plaza of San Francisco", lithograph by John Prendergast
image credit: Bancroft Library
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Three Brothers ca. 1875 (Currier & Ives)
image credit: Bancroft Library
German map of San Francisco Bay Area, ca. 1893-1897
image credit: F.A. Brockhaus' Geogr.-artist. Anstalt, Leipzig
image credit: Sanfranman59
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The Sam Kee Laundry Building before and after the 2014 South Napa earthquake
image credit: James Gunn
Smoke from a wildfire on Angel Island blankets San Francisco
image credit: Brocken Inaglory
Mt. St. Helena, c. 1870s
image credit: public domain
Street scene, San Francisco, c. 1870s
image credit: public domain
Street scene, San Francisco, c. 1870s
image credit: public domain
Chinese funerary customs, San Francisco, c. 1870s
image credit: public domain
Sheriff's deputies and San Francisco Police officers confront demonstrators at the International Hotel, 1977
image credit: Nancy Wong
image credit: public domain
M. H. de Young home, 1919 California Street, San Francisco, circa 1880s
image credit: public domain
Shiva laser target chamber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1978
image credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
M. H. de Young superimposed on the San Francisco Chronicle, 1885
image credit: Library of Congress
Hart's Department Store, San Jose (1926)
image credit: John C. Gordon
Berkeley's first police chief, August Vollmer (1929)
image credit: Library of Congress
image credit: public domain
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Union Depot & Ferry House (Market Street, San Francisco, 1887)
image credit: public domain
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San Francisco, 1881
image credit: Public domain
San Francisco, Winter 1848
image credit: public domain
First post office building, San Francisco, 1848
image credit: public domain
"Wild Heliotrope and Poppies", San Francisco, John Marshall Gamble, between 1893 and 1906
image credit: public domain
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United Airlines travel poster
image credit: public domain
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TWA travel poster
image credit: public domain
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"scene in park and pleasure grounds at Oak Knoll, Napa Valley, California. - Residence of R. B. Woodward."
image credit: public domain
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Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco, 1877
image credit: public domain
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"Gardens and Groves of California", all in the Bay Area (1878)
image credit: public domain
lounge furniture commissioned by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum as a permanent installation by the artist Stephen De Staebler. The furniture is made of clay and was executed by the artist in 1969-1970. This is at the former museum location, now defunct.
image credit: UC Bill
SRI’s Bill English, engineer who built the first computer mouse prototype, prepares for the December 9, 1968 "mother of all demos"
image credit: SRI International
Mike's Pool Hall at 525 Broadway (1964). Cited as Mike's Place in the poem "Autobiography" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
image credit: flickr:Gary Stevens
Street scene on Market Street, painted by William Hahn.
image credit: Wmpearl
Residence of Belle and Charles Cora in San Francisco (1853).
image credit: ABF99
Photograph of the Mochida family taken in Hayward on May 8, 1942 by Dorothea Lange. The family was waiting for the bus to take them to a relocation center set up under Executive Order 9066; tags were applied to children and luggage to ensure the family unit remained intact.
image credit: Dorothea Lange, restored by Bammesk
Author Jessica Hagedorn, San Francisco, 1975
image credit: Nancy Wong
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