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San Francisco Of The Past In Black & White
Another photograph thread of San Francisco with the majority of the photographs found here, http://content.cdlib.org/view;jsessi...tems&brand=oac
and a few more that can be found here, http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=...tems&brand=oac All from the Online Archive of California, Bancroft Library. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0050210A.jpg ^Grand Stand in front of the City Hall on the Polk St. side. Sept. 10/23. N.S.G. [Native Sone of the Golden] West Parade http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049012A.jpg ^St. John's Church. Old church at the cor. 15th and Julian Ave. at the time of the fire of April 18th, 1906. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0050411A.jpg Opening of the Ball Season at San Francisco 1924. Chief of Police W. J. O'Brien. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0050492A.jpg Oct. 25/24. Inspection S.F.P. [San Francisco Police] Dept. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0051020A.jpg Civic Center construction http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0051188A.jpg Union Square from Stockton St. bet. Post & Geary Sts. in 1880 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0051230A.jpg Masonic Temple, N.W. cor. Montgomery & Post Sts. in 1879 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0051231A.jpg North from Geary St. bet. Stockton & Powell Sts. 1905 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0051964A.jpg West from Market, Fulton & Leavenworth Sts. Jany. 1929. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052043A.jpg North on 3rd St. from Howard St. Feb. 1929. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052281A.jpg The U.S. Mint, N.W. cor. 5th & Mission St. in 1889 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052334A.jpg North on Mission St. from Army St. July 31/31 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052381A.jpg On May 23/32, later destroyed. U.S.S. Akron over San Francisco showing bay and ocean. Piggott Photo, S.F. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052407A.jpg Jany 1932. California Street, San Francisco. Piggott, S.F. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052408A.jpg Jany 1932. Looking down on California Street, San Francisco. Piggott Photo. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052410A.jpg Sky line, San Francisco. Standard Oil Bldg. Shell Oil Bldg. Piggott Photo http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052411A.jpg Birds Eye View, Nob Hill. San Francisco, Cal. Piggott Photo. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052413A.jpg Financial District, San Francisco, Cal. Piggott Photo. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052438A.jpg Union Square, 1934. Cathedral Monument, Knight Templar Conclave, July, 7-13-1934. San Francisco, Calif. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052440A.jpg N.W. from top of the Examiner Bldg. 3rd & Market Sts. 1928 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0048366A.jpg German cruiser Nurnberg 1914 in San Francisco Bay. Later destroyed off Cape Horn by the British War vessel. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0048408A.jpg Portola Parade Oct. 22-25-1912 [1910?]. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0048962A.jpg Looking North on 3rd St. from Mission St., 1915. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0048998A.jpg The City Hall from McAllister St. looking West, 1889. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049001A.jpg City Hall from Hyde St. in 1889. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049036A.jpg Old church S.E. corner Gough and Eddy St., 1914. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0052554A.jpg Fleet Week, Sept. 1919. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049149A.jpg Howard West from 9th St., 1920. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049213A.jpg At the opening of the P.P.I. [Panama-Pacific International] Exposition, 1915. State and City officers in the lead of the Parade at the Fillmore Entrance. In the group are the following: Gov. Hiram Johnson, Mayor Jas. Rolph Jr., Supervisor Nelson, W.D. Fennimore, Jesse B. Cook, Judge F.M. Angellotti, Postmaster C.W. Fay, Attorney J.J. Lermen, T.A. Reardon of the Board of Works, Dr. T.B. Leland, Angelo J. Rossi. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049240A.jpg The Santa Fe Building, S.W. cor. 2nd and Market St. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049366A.jpg S.F. [San Francisco] from Pine and Kearny, North West, about 1889. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0049546A.jpg L to R: Capt. H. Wright - Chief Wiley, Dept. of Electricity - Capt. H. Gleeson, S.F. [San Francisco] Police Dept. - Commissioner Ehrman, S.F.F. [Fire] Dept. - Ed. Rainey, Sect. To Mayor Rolph and Chief D.J. O'Brien, S.F.P [Police] Dept., Sept. 1st, 1921 Quite a lot of photos continued in a later post; and that's all for now. Thanks for looking. |
Wonderful! I love these threads....
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I watched that church at Gough and Eddy burn--a huge loss IMHO. It was beautiful and unusual in that it was gothic but built of redwood, not stone. The fire was believed to have been started by some homeless people they had given shelter.
SF sure had some strange architecture. I saw one building in there that was a combo of gothic and Victorian. Couldn't have even imagined that until now. But a lot of those photos look very familiar. It's kind of amazing how much remains, having survived the quake and everything. |
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Breathtaking.
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Market Street Area
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Market Street below Beale Street. Studebaker Brothers, the Palace Carriage Repository. Ca. 1885. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013267A.jpg Market Street between Drumm and Davis. Tea store, with teapot on top of post; Hansford Block, with Wellman-Peck (canned goods), Dodge-Sweeney (canned goods), and M.J. Brandenstein (tea and coffee -- now M.J.B.). Ca. 1895. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013268A.jpg Beale Street between Market and Mission. Dunham, Carrigan and Hayden Company (hardware); Albert Mau and Company. Ca. 1890. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013269A.jpg South side of Market between First and Second. Standard Soap Company. Ca. 1890. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013270A.jpg Market and Pine. Eagle Building on extreme right. Ca. 1890. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013271A.jpg Bird's eye view toward Telegraph Hill. Fremont between Mission and Howard. Joshua Hendy Machine Works left center [now in Sunnyvale]. [Photograph by Taber] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013273A.jpg The later Niantic Building. Onseti Company [now Onseti and O'Connor]. 1880s. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013276A.jpg Bank of California. Photograph. Ca. 1888. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013277A.jpg Bank of California to the left. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013255A.jpg Montgomery Street looking south from California. Express Building at extreme left; California Safe Deposit and Trust Company left center; Palace Hotel in far distance. Ca. 1880. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013256A.jpg California Street looking east. California Safe Deposit and Trust Company on right; Express Building on left; Parrott Building extreme left (stone imported from China), which became the Emporium after the fire. 1875. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013257A.jpg California and Battery, north corner. Bank of California in distance. 1875. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013262A.jpg Montgomery Street north from Market. Grand Army of the Republic convention, 1886. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013263A.jpg Looking up Post Street at conjunction of Montgomery, Market, and Post. Chronicle Building at left; Crocker Building; Masonic Temple. Ca. 1900 or 1902. [Photograph by Waters and Co.] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013264A.jpg Bush Street looking west from Sansome. California Neck Tie Factory; Brooklyn Hotel; hacks and hotel stagecoach (called "bus"). Ca. 1875. [Photograph by Turrill & Miller] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013242A.jpg California and Sansome. Plank street. W.T. Coleman & Company. Ca. 1865. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013245A.jpg Merchants Exchange. 1880s. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013247A.jpg Express Building. Telegraph pole. Ca. 1863. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013250A.jpg Snowstorm of 1882. Market and Post. Palace Hotel on left. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013251A.jpg Business blocks of San Francisco. Montgomery Street from the corner of Pine, looking north. 1888. [Reproduced from ? July 7th, 1888.] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013229A.jpg California Theater. Bush Street between Kearny and Dupont. Engine 11 on right. [California Theater was replaced by the California Hotel later, which had brick chimneys on the east wall next to the firehouse. The morning of the earthquake, the chimneys fell through the firehouse to the basement, causing the death of the fire chief, Dennis Sullivan, and {the injury of} his wife. Throughout the fire, the various fire companies were on their own.] Ca. 1870. (The California Theater cost $125,000 to build. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013233A.jpg View of San Francisco. Ca. 1860. Goat Island. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013235A.jpg Russ House. Montgomery between Bush and Pine. [Now Russ Building.] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013236A.jpg Vienna Garden at Stockton and Sutter. Temple Emanuel. (Vienna Garden was formerly the Tivoli Gardens.) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013217A.jpg Geary Street looking west from Dupont. Unitarian Church on extreme left; Calvary Presbyterian Church (gothic windows) in distance [now site of St. Francis Hotel]; Trinity Episcopal Church on right. Ca. 1880. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013076A.jpg The White House. J.W. Davidson & Company. Decorated for a celebration. Ca. 1886. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013091A.jpg Union Square, looking northwest. Trinity Church to the left; Temple Emanuel center; Huntington and Stanford homes in the background. 1880. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013093A.jpg Kearny and Geary Streets. Lotta's Fountain. 1885. [Photograph by Taber] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013151A.jpg Looking southeast from California and Jones. Temple Emanuel in center; Palace Hotel in far distance. Ca. 1880. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013191A.jpg Society of California Pioneers building. Fourth and Pioneer Place. June 2, 1888. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0014888A.jpg Spreckels Building. Third and Market. [Call Building.] Ca. 1904. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0014915A.jpg Market and Taylor Sts. Weinstock-Lubin. Ca. 1905. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0014920A.jpg Hall of Justice. East side of Portsmouth Square. March 13, 1906. [Photograph by Turrill & Miller] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0014922A.jpg St. Patrick's Church. Mission St. looking east from Fourth. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0014985A.jpg Looking down Kearny Street from Telegraph Hill. Hall of Justice on left; Call Building distant right. 1906. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0015037A.jpg DeYoung Museum. Called the Palace of Fine Arts in 1894. The green wall near the present DeYoung Museum is all that remains of the original. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0013072A.jpg GAR Arch on Market Street, looking east from Grand Avenue. Parade in progress. July 4, 1886. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0012450A.jpg Sharpshooters of the Vigilante Committee. May 15, 1856. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0048991A.jpg Looking East on Geary St. from Stockton. See the Chronicle and Palace at end of street, 1895. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0051473A.jpg South on Fillmore St. from Fulton St. Feb. 1928. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0051798A.jpg Diamond Jubilee, San Francisco |
Good job with the then and now photos peanut gallery. Also, I wish Market and Post St. retained its older buildings. It was quite a crossing of streets,
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1177/...e23eb757_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/11986285@N06/1321289651/ Furthermore, I find it interesting that the building at Market and Pine is very reminiscent of the building that preceded it. |
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Thanks BigKidD. In most of those cases, I wish they could have retained more of the old stuff.
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Amazing pictures! Looks very European with a mix of the Wild Wild West.
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As much as I love downtown SF as it is now I wish some of those neo-Gothic and Italianate buildings had survived.
It's also interesting how the mainstream ethos of the city has changed. That looked very much like a city at work, and one full of churches, patriotic parades and vigilante committees, while it now projects itself as a hedonistic city and a militantly secular, politically radical one. I guess that could be said of any city to a certain extent, but it's particularly noticeable in San Francisco's case. |
What a century full of changes for SF!
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Fascinating insight into SF's past, both pre earthquake and after it.
The preponderance of all the Italianate and Gothic architecture in the photos is certainly very striking, even if there's not that much extant. |
^^^There's a lot more remaining than people realize. Some of it has been covered up by ugly modern facades (the 60's were a period in which a lot of that was done) and a few of those are now being stripped off such as at the DeYoung Building, now reborn as the Ritz Carlton Residences.
Here is a photo (taken by me) of the DeYoung showing 2 sections of the brick facade that have been restored with a section of the unrestored brick between them after the ugly 60's cladding has been stripped off: http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...g?t=1204157291 And this photo (also by me) shows some of the buildings wonderful brick detail: http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...g?t=1204157475 I think there are a lot more such gems under 60s sheet metal around town besides the ones just hidden by larger modern structures. |
That's interesting to know, I wonder how much is still hidden.
I haven't actually been yet so am just gaugeing on pictures and what I've heard. |
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