Telegraph Hill from the Reservoir, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 439. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
Telegraph Hill from First Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 441. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
View in the Plaza, (Portsmouth Square) San Francisco
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of San Francisco, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.
Residence of Charles L. Low, Harrison Street, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 481. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Private Residences. This record contains unverified ol... More
Grace Cathedral, corner of California and Stockton Streets, San Franci...
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 460. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Churches and Synagogues. This record contains unverifi... More
From R.B. Woodward's residence, towards Rincon Hill, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 426. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
Road View--Cliff House, California, 19th century sterescope card.
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 410. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Cliff House, Seal Rocks, Ocean Beach. This record con... More
View on Bush St. from Leavenworth, looking East, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 229. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
House moving in San Francisco, California, 19th century sterescope car...
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 118. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
Jewish Synagogue, Sutter Street, from Union Square, San Francisco
Public domain photograph of synagogue building, Judaism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Francisco Street and North Beach - San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 120. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
Ladies' Protection and Relief Society Building - Franklin Street from ...
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 193. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Public Buildings (Schools, Hospitals, etc.). This reco... More
Building of the iron clad Monitor CAMANCHE, San Francisco, Front View
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 154. LOT subdivision subject: USS Monitor Camanche Ironside ship built in San Francisco. This reco... More
Powell Street, from Lincoln School House, San Francisco
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of San Francisco, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.
Jewish Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El, Sutter Street, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 233. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Churches and Synogogues. This record contains unverifi... More
From the Lincoln School House, looking South, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 506. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
South side of Market Street, above Montgomery, San Francisco
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 554. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
The banner in the grand procession
Illus. in: Souvenir, presented by Department of New York, to Department of California, Grand Army of the Republic, at National Encampment, San Francisco, Cal., August 1886, p. 47. Copyright by Grand Army Publishing Co.
Two men, one holding a child, standing in the street, Chinatown, San F...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Arnold Genthe - The drug store sign, Chinatown, San Francisco
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Man and children walking down a street, Chinatown, San Francisco
Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Man and two children crossing a street, Chinatown, San Francisco
Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arnold Genthe - Returning home, Chinatown, San Francisco
Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arnold Genthe - Poster of Protect the Emperor Society, Chinatown, San ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of living conditions, building, by Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Arnold Genthe - Women and children crossing a street, Chinatown, San F...
Public domain photograph of 19th century California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arnold Genthe - The street of the slave girls, Chinatown, San Francisc...
Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 43. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.
Arnold Genthe - Dressed for a visit, Chinatown, San Francisco
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of living conditions, building, by Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Arnold Genthe - Returning home, Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More
Man carrying a child accompanied by another child, Chinatown, San Fran...
Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arnold Genthe - The morning market, Chinatown, San Francisco
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The lodge, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Cal.
Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51266". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
In the great Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California, U.S.A
Copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, San Francisco, California, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Panoramic map of San Francisco. - Public domain old map
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
U.S. Military Prison, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay
Viewed from deck of boat. California. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
San Francisco and harbor from Nob Hill
S8680 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; F. W. Burnett; May 15, 1902. Copyright claimant's address: 526 Valencia St., S.F., Cal. Publisher's address: 213 Kearny St., S.F., Cal. Printer's address: S.F., Ca... More
Mural in the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Fra...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. This stylized building reflects the Beaux Arts classicism adopted by the U.S. Treasure Department for early twentieth-century feder... More
![[Cal. - San Francisco - Earthquake & Fire, 1906: Kearney St. from Telegraph Hill]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDYvMDEvMDEvY2FsLXNhbi1mcmFuY2lzY28tZWFydGhxdWFrZS1hbmQtZmlyZS0xOTA2LWtlYXJuZXktc3QtZnJvbS10ZWxlZ3JhcGgtaGlsbC02NDAuanBn/40/42/webp "[Cal. - San Francisco - Earthquake & Fire, 1906: Kearney St. from Telegraph Hill]")
[Cal. - San Francisco - Earthquake & Fire, 1906: Kearney St. from Tele...
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. California.
Ferry Building, San Francisco, Cal
"3166" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019232. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Market Street showing Call Building, the highest in San Francisco, Cal...
No. 6787. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arnold Genthe - San Francisco, April 18, 1906
Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 120. Purc... More
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: general view of ruins
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Registration Bureau
Group of people looking at wall, being used as bulletin board. Stereo copyrighted by Tom M. Phillips. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US; Photog. I.; Ca... More
Pine St. below Kearney St., San Francisco, Cal.
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, 1906, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Van Ness Ave., limit of fire, San Francisco, Cal.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ruins of Stanford Mansion and Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, Ca...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Feb. 20, 1914, one year befor...
J190376 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. Wesley Swadley; March 3, 1914. On front: "White lines indicate the skyline of the exposition when finished". Landmarks labeled on image.
Panorama showing south gardens, 3/20/14
J191707 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.; April 13, 1914. No. 1840.
Aeroplane view main group of exhibit palaces Panama-Pacific Internatio...
Picryl description: Public domain image of medieval and classical Italian architecture, Roman Empire, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Panorama taken from the south gardens, June 21st, 1914
J193953 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.; July 1, 1914. No. 2623.
Panorama showing Fine Arts steel works, Educational, Food Products & H...
J191709 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.; April 13, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44756. No. 1866.
San Francisco from Twin Peaks, Panoramic Photograph
J238088 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Sunset Photo Co.; November 24, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 625 Eddy St., S.F.
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Military prison, Alcatraz Island...
Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arnold Genthe - Street in Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More
Jacob Leese House, Historic View, Grant Avenue, San Francisco, San Fra...
Survey number: HABS CA-1869 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Powell Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1790 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bolton & Barron Building, Montgomery & Merchant Streets, San Francisco...
Survey number: HABS CA-1232 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[Golden Gate Bridge under construction, San Francisco, California] / Chas. M. Hiller, San Francisco, photographer.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjYvZ29sZGVuLWdhdGUtYnJpZGdlLXVuZGVyLWNvbnN0cnVjdGlvbi1zYW4tZnJhbmNpc2NvLWNhbGlmb3JuaWEtY2hhcy1tLWhpbGxlci05MDViNTgtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/49/webp "[Golden Gate Bridge under construction, San Francisco, California] / Chas. M. Hiller, San Francisco, photographer.")
[Golden Gate Bridge under construction, San Francisco, California] / C...
J15249 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Associated Oil Company. Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An old southern home, California, 19th century sterescope card.
Stereograph showing the San Francisco plantation house and surrounding land. J16224 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 33777 and 323. Handwritten on mount: San Francisco plantation, ... More
"San Francisco" plantation house on river road near Convent, Louisiana
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Indian court, Federal Building, Golden Gate International Exposition, ...
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing antelope hunt from a Navajo drawing. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress... More
Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. Sa...
Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Returning to headquarters. ...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
San Francisco, California. Inside view of the Bank of America
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Market Street, toward the ferries, San Francisco
Busy scene; meat wagon in foreground. California. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
In Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal., California, 19th century sterescope...
Stereograph showing view down street in Chinatown. Stereo copyrighted 1898 by B.L. Singley. No. 9232.
The Famous Cliff House and Seal Rocks, San Francisco, Calif.
Young girls and women climbing on rocks. H99173 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Standard Scenic Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index;... More
Presidio of San Francisco, Old Station Hospital, Funston Avenue & Linc...
1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: In 1864, in the midst of the Civil War, the Wright Army Hospital was built to replace an earlier, deteriorating structure. The elegant, southern style archit... More
Presidio of San Francisco, Motor Vehicle Shed Type, West end of Crissy...
Significance: These four vehicle sheds were built in 1940, and designed according to the Army's 700-series standard plans. They represent the mobilization of the Army for World War II, an Army that had not com... More
Presidio of San Francisco, Motor Vehicle Shed Type, West end of Crissy...
Significance: These four vehicle sheds were built in 1940, and designed according to the Army's 700-series standard plans. They represent the mobilization of the Army for World War II, an Army that had not com... More
Presidio of San Francisco, Motor Vehicle Shed Type, West end of Crissy...
Significance: These four vehicle sheds were built in 1940, and designed according to the Army's 700-series standard plans. They represent the mobilization of the Army for World War II, an Army that had not com... More
California State Building, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, San F...
Significance: The California State Building is a contributing element of the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Nationa... More
Grace Cathedral, George William Gibbs Memorial Hall, 1051 Taylor Stree...
Significance: Constructed in 1911, George William Gibbs Memorial Hall (hereinafter referred to by its common name, Cathedral House) is significant as the first permanent structure built in the Grace Cathedral c... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Building N...
Significance: Building 205 is located within the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a training station (1898-1923), Yerba Buena Island was essential in the establishment of a modern Ame... More
Fort Mason, Quarters No. 4, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174 Survey number: HABS CA-1880
Mission San Francisco de Asis, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, San Franci...
Suggested address, Mission & Sixteenth Streets, is not verifiable in documentation. See also HALS CA-83 for additional documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey num... More
Alcatraz, Military Chapel, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San Fra...
Survey number: HABS CA-1792-J National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000209
Alcatraz, Building No. 64, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San Fra...
Survey number: HABS CA-1792-G National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000209
Union Square, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph
J144487 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Round the World Picture Co.; August 18, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: San Francisco.
James King of William Banking House, Historic View, Montgomery & Comme...
Survey number: HABS CA-1822 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
San Francisco, Historic View, 1906 Fire, San Francisco, San Francisco ...
Survey number: HABS CA-1798 Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anglo & London Paris National Bank, One Sansome Street, San Francisco,...
Significance: One of a group of historically and architecturally important bank buildings in downtown San Francisco. Within this group, it is particularly notable for is monumental size, prominent location, and... More
Presidio of San Francisco, Storehouse & Administration, Crissy Field N...
Survey number: HABS CA-2624 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000232
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Quarters N...
Significance: Quarters 2 is significant as part of the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a training station (1898-1923), Yerba Buena Island was essential in the establishment of a mode... More
Presidio of San Francisco, Letterman General Hospital, Building No. 12...
Significance: Building 1049 is significant as an element built in conformance with the 1899 pavilion plan of Letterman Hospital and as a rare and exemplary surviving example of a ward pavilion in the United Sta... More
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Quarters N...
See also HAER No. CA-233-A for additional documentation of this structure (KEY 2/5/2004). Significance: Quarters 1 is significant as part of the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a tra... More
Francisco Sanchez Adobe, Linda Mar Boulevard & Adobe Drive, Pacifica, ...
Significance: San Pedro Valley is of interest in early California history, having been an outpost of the Mission Dolores of San Francisco around 1780. Francisco Sanchez constructed the present adobe near the s... More
Presidio of San Francisco, Chapel of Our Lady, Moraga Avenue, San Fran...
Survey number: HABS CA-1217 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000232
North Beach Place, 415 Bay Street, 415 Bay Street, San Francisco, San ...
Survey number: HABS CA-2727-A Building/structure dates: after. 1950- before. 1952 Initial Construction
North Beach Place, 531 Bay Street, 650 Francisco Street, 531 Bay Stree...
Survey number: HABS CA-2727-K Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Presidio of San Francisco, Post Engineer's Headquarters Office, Crissy...
Survey number: HABS CA-2627 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000232
Presidio of San Francisco, Enlisted Men's Barracks Type, West end of C...
Survey number: HABS CA-2623 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000232
Howard Street in San Francisco, known as "Skid Row," the district of t...
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Hotel Adams, 391 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco, San Francisco Coun...
Significance: The Hotel Adams has been determined by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to be eligible to the National Register of Historic Places as a Contributory Building to the San Francisco Apar... More
Hotel Adams, 391 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco, San Francisco Coun...
Significance: The Hotel Adams has been determined by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to be eligible to the National Register of Historic Places as a Contributory Building to the San Francisco Apar... More
National Association of National Park Superintendents, Panama Pacific ...
Gift. On front: "#136P, [Copyright], 1915, P.P.I.E. Co., Cardinell-Vincent Co., official photographers". Part of photo at left and right are missing. Possibly forms part of Mather Collection.
Presidio of San Francisco, Electrical Shop, Crissy Field North cantonm...
Survey number: HABS CA-2630 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000232
San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Fort Mason, Barracks, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1179 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alcatraz, Sally Port, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San Francisc...
Survey number: HABS CA-1792-K National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000209
Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Quarters N...
Significance: Quarters 3 is significant as part of the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a training station (1898-1923), Yerba Buena Island was essential in the establishment of a mode... More