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Yerba Buena Island Substation, Adjacent to north side of bridge on Yer...

Significance: This small building was constructed as an electrical substation for the Key System trains that originally ran on the Bay Bridge, from Oakland to the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco. It was a v... More

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, Warehouse, 1020 North Acce...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Presidio of San Francisco, Recreation Building, Crissy Field North can...

Survey number: HABS CA-2626 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000232

The Rooney waltzes - Public domain American sheet music

For piano

Metropolitan theatre ... Benefit of the Monumentals. The members of th...

2366E 2 1 Jy 46.; Rec. 7-11-46.; $5.00. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 2, Folder 4b.

[Resolution of convention assembled in the City of San Francisco on th...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 2, Folder 16a.

Carquinez Bridge, Spanning Carquinez Strait at Interstate 80, Vallejo,...

Significance: The Caquinez Bridge is a cantilever truss structure which carries three lanes of westbound Interstate-80 traffic across the Carquinez Strait. (Eastbound I-80 traffic is carried by a parallel stru... More

Letterman General Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Girard Road & Lincoln Bo...

Significance: The Nurses' Quarters is significant as one of the few remaining buildings of the historic Letterman General Hospital complex at the Presidio of San Francisco. The hospital, permanently establishe... More

Schooner C.A. THAYER, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco C...

Significance: By the end of the nineteenth century, the lumber industry on the West Coast was booming, and specialized vessels were needed to transport the lumber along the coast, of which C.A. THAYER was typic... More

Schooner C.A. THAYER, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco C...

Significance: By the end of the nineteenth century, the lumber industry on the West Coast was booming, and specialized vessels were needed to transport the lumber along the coast, of which C.A. THAYER was typic... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate,

Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail t... More

Ferry EUREKA, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, C...

See HAER CA-364 for documentation of the Eureka's Lifeboat No. 3. Significance: EUREKA, considered to be the only extant vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but van... More

Amos C. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Sa...

Reverend Dr. Amos Brown discusses his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi and meeting Medgar Evers, who quickly became his mentor. Brown was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo... More

Steam Tug EPPLETON HALL, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisc...

Significance: The steam side paddlewheel tugboat EPPLETON HALL was the last of the famed British paddleboats to be built. Its engine is the once-common, but now rare, twin sidelever "grasshopper" engine. It ... More

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on New York, San Francisco, and old Mexico,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Knights of Pythias Building, 101 Valencia Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The Knights of Pythias Building is a notable and rare surviving example in San Francisco of an early 20th-century building exclusively for a fraternal organization. In a city where many upper cla... More

Presidio of San Francisco, Cavalry Stables, Cowles Street, between Lin...

Significance: Within the Presidio, the cavalry stables form a distinct and rather isolated building complex with a unique character. Although they were constructed during the period when the Mission style had ... More

Pier 16 & Bulkhead Building, Howard Street, San Francisco, San Francis...

Significance: Pier 16 and Bulkhead were last remaining structures of a unified complex of Mission Revival style pier front and bulkhead buildings dating to the early 20th century. The structures were among the... More

U. S. Branch Mint, Mission & Fifth Streets, San Francisco, San Francis...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U. S. Branch Mint, Mission & Fifth Streets, San Francisco, San Francis...

Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma, First & Spain Streets, Sonoma,...

See also HALS CA-66 for additional documentation. Significance: Mission was founded in 1823 by Padre Jose Altimira as the last in a chain of 21 missions. Survey number: HABS CA-1138 Building/structure dates: ... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: T

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: T

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: T

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Trabajos parlamentarios de D. Francisco García Molinas, diputado á Cor...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

San Francisco bay waltz - Public domain American sheet music

Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: O

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Map showing the location of Sacramento Valley Railroad, Cal. Sacrament...

Sketch map of the first railroad in California, with projected extensions to San Francisco, Sonora, and Tehama, made by the engineer who built the Sacramento Valley Railroad. Scale ca. 1:1,100,000. From Report ... More

General map of a survey in California : in connection with examination...

Map shows "practicable railway routes" between Ft. Yuma on the Colorado River and the San Francisco Bay region. Scale 1:600,000. Relief shown by hachures. "Proof revised in Office of P.R.R. Surveys Feb. 10th 18... More

From San Francisco Bay to the northern boundary of California : from e...

Scale 1:760,320. Relief shown by hachures. At head of title: Routes in Oregon and California. Map no. 1. "Drawn by John Young." From U.S. War Department, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the M... More

Montgomery Street, San Francisco, instantaneous, from Eureka Theatre

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 150. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More

Residence of R.B. Woodward, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 421. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Private Residences. This record contains unverified ol... More

Pioneer Woolen Mills, Black Point, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 121. LOT subdivision subject: Mills (Lumber Mills, etc). This record contains unverified old data ... More

Fort Point, Golden Gate, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 402. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More

Entrance to Cosmopolitan Hotel, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 181. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Commercial Bldgs. This record contains unverified old ... More

Official map of "Chinatown" in San Francisco /

Cadastral map showing names of owners, businesses, "Chinese occupancy," "Chinese gambling houses," and "White occupants." "The map and colors show only the first, or street floor of Chinatown and the occupancy ... More

U.S.S. Charleston in San Francisco harbor

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020271. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Susan Lincoln Mills, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / Bus...

May Wright Sewall Collection (1890-1920). Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Boy in doorway of lamp store, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain portrait of a child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.