Cunningham's Wharf, Historic View, Commercial Street, San Francisco, S...
Survey number: HABS CA-1743 Public domain photograph of warship, battleship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of Civic Center from Goodyear blimp, Aug. 26, 1933
J14007 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
2213-2217 Van Ness Avenue (Houses), Historic View, San Francisco, San ...
Survey number: HABS CA-1235 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Clay Street Bank, Historic View, 35 Clay Street, San Francisco, San Fr...
Survey number: HABS CA-1744 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Battery Street, Historic View, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1723 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stockton Street, Historic View, San Francisco, San Francisco County, C...
Survey number: HABS CA-1815 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Wint...
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mission District firetrap. San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
G.M. Clemence Ast. Astronomer file records from the reorder. On the ri...
A black and white photo of a library, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Har... More
Card Alley. North Bean District (Italians). San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alice in Wonderland - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of...
Text on Poster: Federal Theatre Project Presents the Marionettes in “Alice in Wonderland” For Children Admission 25c 40c Every Saturday Matinee 2:30 Alcazar San Francisco A Federal Theatre Production D... More
Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scene along "Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Employment agency. San Francisco
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Golden Gate Bridge from southwest, 1937 Sept. 3rd.
J22263 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright renewal. Copyright by P.M. Bruner, San Francisco.
Oddrun Sigurasson, portrait, photograph, Northern California
Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Oddrun Sigurasson performing Icelandic songs on May 25, 1938, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in San Francisco, California.
Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. In the hall an audience awa...
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
San Francisco, California. Great Depression public domain photograph.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Indian court, Federal Building, Golden Gate International Exposition, ...
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing Apache devil dancer. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of th... More
Note on modern architecture and home building. San Francisco, Californ...
Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kern County, California. Sign on U.S. 99 main highway between Los Ange...
Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A group of men sitting next to each other on a boat - FSA / Office of ...
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More
Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Wint...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print and print in microfilmed lot misnumbered LC-USF341-038052-B; file print corrected 1998. File print is reversed; printed backwards. Title and... More
A black and white photo of people walking down a street. Office of War...
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
A black and white photo of a group of people dancing. Office of War In...
Title from related FSA images in the same call number range. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collecti... More
A group of people sitting around a table. Office of War Information Ph...
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
Waiting to enlist at recruiting headquarters. San Francisco, Californi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, San Francisco, California. Mo...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
San Francisco, Calif., June 1942 - An early comer, part of the first c...
Japanese American boy seated, full-length, on duffel bag, facing right. U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-84. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).
![San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - Two Japanese boys, one with strip "Remember Pearl Harbor" on his hat, wave good-bye [while] awaiting the bus](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTUvc2FuLWZyYW5jaXNjby1jYWxpZi1ldmFjdWF0aW9uLXR3by1qYXBhbmVzZS1ib3lzLW9uZS13aXRoLXN0cmlwLXJlbWVtYmVyLXBlYXJsLTVjZTI5NS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - Two Japanese boys, one with strip \"Remember Pearl Harbor\" on his hat, wave good-bye [while] awaiting the bus")
San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - Two Japanese boys, one with strip ...
Signal Corps photo no. 9CA-42-1115-PSF. No. S635. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Victory Gardens--for family and country. Hopscotch has been supplanted...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A couple of men standing next to a train. Office of War Information Ph...
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More
Rowing Boat, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
STORED ON SITE. mchr Survey number: HAER CA-254 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
LEATHERS YAWL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, ...
STORED ON SITE. mchr Survey number: HAER CA-261 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bank of Canton office in a building that once housed a telephone excha...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The pagoda was completed in 1909, three years after San... More
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Aerial view of San Francisco, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Cliff House is a restaurant perched on the headlands on the cliffs...
Cliff House overlooks the site of the former Sutro Baths, and a room-sized camera obscura. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ betwe... More
Aerial view, San Francisco, California
Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain image of San Francisco buildings, city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the Richmond District, San F...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
An original cast of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" welcomes visitors to...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Dusk, San Francisco, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Aerial view of Candelstick Park in San Francisco, California
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at dusk. San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Courtroom, James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Franc...
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
Exterior detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California
Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrat... More
Exterior door detail, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco, California
Beaux Arts building built in 1911 by architect Eames and Young. The street fronts are clad in ashlar granite from Raymond, California. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More
Art "Level As A Level," "Don't Nod," "I DID, DID I," and "MAPS, DNA, a...
Artist: Edward Ruscha, 2007. Archival ink on polyester scrim. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, Californi...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is the only one still situated on its original site. It was rebuilt in 1965, and renovation... More
Painting "1965, 1970, 2002" at the San Francisco Federal Building, San...
Artist: Rupert Garcia, 2003. Archival inkjet on canvas with acrylic. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the phot... More
Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Built and settled in the 19th and early 20th century, Japanese immigrants began moving into the area following the 1906 Earthquake. By World War II, the n... More
Painting "1965, 1970, 2002" at the San Francisco Federal Building, San...
Artist: Rupert Garcia, 2003. Archival inkjet on canvas with acrylic. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the phot... More
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More
The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, Calif...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. Credit line: The Jo... More
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More
San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Re-opened in 1915, in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement. The structure's dome is the fifth largest in th... More
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More
Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, Californi...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is the only one still situated on its original site. It was rebuilt in 1965, and renovation... More
Mural by M.J. Scott, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, P... More
Lotta's Fountain in San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
The Belle, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Belle, a landmark that evokes the cityÆs turn-of-the-century Barbary Coast energy. The 292-foot sternwheeler features Art Nouveau style on all three e... More
The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Aerial view of neighborhoods in San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Interior architectural details of the Fox Warfield Theatre, a 2,300 se...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Fog rolls across the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. In 2012 the Golden Gate Bridge celebrated its 75th anniversary. Title, date, ... More
Tiburon Peninsula, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Tiburon's name derives from the Spanish word tiburón, which means "shark." The name was probably inspired by the prevalence of native leopard sharks in th... More
A typical scene of houses located on one of the hills in San Francisco...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Surfers climb the rocks near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Project, a neighborhood effort to create a...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Begun in 2003 and led by artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher. Over 300 neighbors joined in making the tiles, with over 220 neighbors sponsoring handm... More
Surfers climb the rocks near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Skyline views in San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Sculpture, Hearts in San Francisco public art installation, Union Squa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Union Square is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, tourist trinket shops, art galleries, and sal... More
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. For more than a half-century, low-rent houseboats have inhabited Richardson Bay, just north of Sausalito. The inhabitants of 38 houseboats at Gates Co-op ... More
![[Untitled art mural by Krystal Lauk and Ryan Stubbs on Howard Street, South of Market, San Francisco, California]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTgvdW50aXRsZWQtYXJ0LW11cmFsLWJ5LWtyeXN0YWwtbGF1ay1hbmQtcnlhbi1zdHViYnMtb24taG93YXJkLXN0cmVldC1zb3V0aC1vZi0xMWM4ZGMtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/26/webp "[Untitled art mural by Krystal Lauk and Ryan Stubbs on Howard Street, South of Market, San Francisco, California]")
[Untitled art mural by Krystal Lauk and Ryan Stubbs on Howard Street, ...
Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural information from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More
Doorway detail on Mission Dolores, the oldest surviving structure in S...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Art in Golden Gate Park in front of the de Young Museum, San Francisco...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Point Reyes, San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Views from Howard Street hotel, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Murals, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Victorian architecture in San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Tiburon Peninsula, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Tiburon's name derives from the Spanish word tiburón, which means "shark." The name was probably inspired by the prevalence of native leopard sharks in th... More
Coit Tower, San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of city skyline, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
California Academy of Sciences Building, San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sutro Tower, San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Pioneers Monument by Frank Happersberger located outside City Hall, Sa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, P... More
Mail box, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of proposed Trinity Church. San Francisco. California
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Burton, G.W.
California fashions of furs for 1868 and 1869 / A. Nahl ; Nahl Bro's o...
Print shows two advertisements for California fur fashions by Adolph Müller of San Francisco; on the left are two women and a young girl wearing furs outside Adolph Müller's store at 113 Montgomery St. San Fran... More
Market St., northeast from Powell St. during Labor Day parade, San Fra...
Stereograph shows crowd watching boat-shaped float in parade. 73087 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 26553(?). Copyright by C.L. Wasson.
City Hall and Hall of Records, costing $7,000,000.00, from McAllister ...
H74490 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.W. Kelley. No. 6791. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl ... More
California St. from Sansome St. before the earthquake, San Francisco, ...
Stereograph showing view of long and high San Francisco city streets and tall buildings. H78239 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1906 by C. L. Wasson. On mount: Home Office and Works, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. ... More
San Francisco's City Hall and Civic Center, Calif.
J283021 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 26673. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sloop Yacht Kathleen, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Significance: The Kathleen is a shoal-draft centerboard sloop of the kind that dominated yachting on San Francisco Bay from the 1850s until about 1910. Built on North Beach in 1904–1905 by the Italian immigrant... More
San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...
Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More
San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...
Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More
San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Fran...
Significance: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. It is also one of the most important transportation links in the United States, ser... More