Gusle, close-up of neck and left-hand technique, photograph
Photograph caption: Close-up of Peter Boro demonstrating left-hand technique on the gusle. Photograph caption: Gusle from Herzegovina [Hercegovina], made and played by Peter Boro. Forms part of a group of field... More
Dinosaur sculptures in Half Moon Bay, a coastal city in San Mateo Coun...
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Golf course, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Dinosaur sculptures in Half Moon Bay, a coastal city in San Mateo Coun...
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Methodist Episcopal Church, 108 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Ma...
Significance: Built as a Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890, this building was sold by the church in 1905. Survey number: HABS CA-162 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Fitzpatrick Building, 2010 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: This structure was built for Edward R. Fitzpatrick, who had his law offices on the upper floor. After his death, his son Joseph R. Fitzpatrich had his law offices there. The original storefront ... More
James McCormick House, San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Count...
Significance: One of the most architecturally sophisticated houses built in Pescadero in the 1860s, this is a mirror image of the Thomas W. Moore House (CA-2136). Survey number: HABS CA-2131 Building/structur... More
Buelna's Roadhouse, 3915 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, San Mateo County...
Significance: Built for Felix Buelna, this roadhouse has continued its original use to the present. Patronized by Stanford University students and soldiers from Camp Fremont, the bar has had a long string of c... More
San Gregorio House, San Gregorio Road, San Gregorio, San Mateo County,...
Significance: A second floor was added to the existing house here in about 1865 when G.W.T. Carter opened a hotel. When John Evans acquired the building in 1875 he added seven bays to the three-bay house. Jes... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cloverdale Ranch Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo C...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-C Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cloverdale Ranch Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo C...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-C Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Pablo Vasquez Stable, 200 North Main Street, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo ...
Significance: Pablo Vasquez built this stable after his house in 1869, but before 1872 when a newspaper mentions it. Vasquez also briefly ran a stage line between Half Moon Bay and San Mateo. Survey number: H... More
Braddock Weeks House, Pescadero Road, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Braddock Weeks, a potato farmer. Survey number: HABS CA-2138 Building/structure dates: after 1860 Initial Construction
Pablo Vasquez House, 270 North Main Street, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo C...
Significance: Built in 1869 for Pablo Vasquez, livery stable owner. Survey number: HABS CA-2124 Building/structure dates: 1869 Initial Construction
Our Lady of the Wayside Roman Catholic Church, 930 Portola Road, Porto...
Significance: This church was built for the growing Catholic community at Portola Valley, with the assistance of a men's club called The Family. Survey number: HABS CA-2140 Building/structure dates: 1912 Init... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Ramsey-Steele House, Pescadero, San Mateo Cou...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-D Building/structure dates: 1873 Initial Construction
Steele Brothers Dairies, Ramsey-Steele House, Pescadero, San Mateo Cou...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-D Building/structure dates: 1873 Initial Construction
Villa Rose, Redington Road, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built in 1912 as a country retreat for Joseph Donohoe Grant, this Italian Renaissance house was sold in 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth, who renamed it Strawberry Hill and carried out extens... More
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Carolands, 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: A grand copy of the seventeenth-century French chateau Vaux-le-Vecomte, built for Harriet Pullman Carolan, heiress of the sleeping-car magnate. House intended for lavish entertaining, but the Car... More
Carolands, 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: A grand copy of the seventeenth-century French chateau Vaux-le-Vecomte, built for Harriet Pullman Carolan, heiress of the sleeping-car magnate. House intended for lavish entertaining, but the Car... More
Carolands, 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: A grand copy of the seventeenth-century French chateau Vaux-le-Vecomte, built for Harriet Pullman Carolan, heiress of the sleeping-car magnate. House intended for lavish entertaining, but the Car... More
Watkins-Cartan House, 25 Isabella Avenue, Atherton, San Mateo County, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, El Camino Real & Baldwin Street, San M...
Significance: The original church at this site, built in 1865, was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. Willis J. Polk, a parishioner, designed this church in the same village Gothic style. Survey number: HABS C... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
Watkins-Cartan Carriage House, 25 Isabella Avenue, Atherton, San Mateo...
Significance: The Carriage House, built in the early twentieth century, has been remodeled to house the present gardener and his equipment. The simple structure stands at the west end of the property facing th... More
Dvorgrle, rear view, photograph, Northern California
Photograph caption: "Double flute from Herzegovina [Hercegovina], owned by Peter Boro." Photograph caption: "No player has been located." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Peter Boro performi... More
Gusle, top, side, and end views and side view of bow, mechanical drawi...
Drawing caption: Gusla [gusle] owned and played by Peter Boro. Includes dimensions in inches and information about construction materials. Original in Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. Forms pa... More
San Mateo, California. Bailing out a life boat at a United States Merc...
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Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
Public domain photograph of a church interior, gothic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Bank of San Mateo County, 2000-2002 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo ...
Significance: The oldest stone-faced building in the county, this stately Renaissance Revival building dates from 1900. Incorporated in 1891, before moving to its present site, it is the earliest bank in San M... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Woodside Store, Kings Mountain Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Mathias Parkhurst and Robert Tripp as a general store, post office, dental office, saloon, and after 1859 a library, this store was operated by Tripp until his death in 1909 at the age o... More
Buelna's Roadhouse, 3915 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, San Mateo County...
Significance: Built for Felix Buelna, this roadhouse has continued its original use to the present. Patronized by Stanford University students and soldiers from Camp Fremont, the bar has had a long string of c... More
Diller-Chamberlain Store, 726 Main Street, Redwood City, San Mateo Cou...
Significance: The oldest brick commercial building in Redwood City, the Diller-Chamberlain Store once functioned as the social and civic center of the town. Survey number: HABS CA-2141 Building/structure date... More
San Gregorio House, San Gregorio Road, San Gregorio, San Mateo County,...
Significance: A second floor was added to the existing house here in about 1865 when G.W.T. Carter opened a hotel. When John Evans acquired the building in 1875 he added seven bays to the three-bay house. Jes... More
San Gregorio House, San Gregorio Road, San Gregorio, San Mateo County,...
Significance: A second floor was added to the existing house here in about 1865 when G.W.T. Carter opened a hotel. When John Evans acquired the building in 1875 he added seven bays to the three-bay house. Jes... More
Clark House, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: This distinguished Cotswold-style mansion, beautifully situated in the hills, was one of David Adler's greatest works. Its lavishly appointed interior featured European furnishings including anti... More
Clark House, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: This distinguished Cotswold-style mansion, beautifully situated in the hills, was one of David Adler's greatest works. Its lavishly appointed interior featured European furnishings including anti... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cascade Ranch House, Pescadero, San Mateo Cou...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-B Building/structure dates: 1862 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1884 Subsequent Work
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cascade Ranch House, Pescadero, San Mateo Cou...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-B Building/structure dates: 1862 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1884 Subsequent Work
Southern Pacific Depot, 21 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, San Mateo C...
Significance: Frame with clapboarding, 65' x 50', two stories with one-story wings, hip roofs with wooden shingles, bracketed eaves, overhanging roof on first-story level supported by columns on E elevation; wa... More
Pablo Vasquez Stable, 200 North Main Street, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo ...
Significance: Pablo Vasquez built this stable after his house in 1869, but before 1872 when a newspaper mentions it. Vasquez also briefly ran a stage line between Half Moon Bay and San Mateo. Survey number: H... More
Congregational Church, San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Count...
Significance: Oldest church surviving on its original site on the San Francisco peninsula. Survey number: HABS CA-163 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1889 Subsequent Work
Our Lady of the Wayside Roman Catholic Church, 930 Portola Road, Porto...
Significance: This church was built for the growing Catholic community at Portola Valley, with the assistance of a men's club called The Family. Survey number: HABS CA-2140 Building/structure dates: 1912 Init... More
Our Lady of the Wayside Roman Catholic Church, 930 Portola Road, Porto...
Significance: This church was built for the growing Catholic community at Portola Valley, with the assistance of a men's club called The Family. Survey number: HABS CA-2140 Building/structure dates: 1912 Init... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Ramsey-Steele House, Pescadero, San Mateo Cou...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-D Building/structure dates: 1873 Initial Construction
Isaac Graham House, Cabrillo Highway, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Isaac Graham on the crest of a hill on Rancho Ano Nuevo, where it served as a landmark for sailors. Moved to its present site in 1880 to make room for the house of Rensselaer Steele's d... More
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: One of the grandiose creations of a grandiose personality - William Chapman Ralston. Utilizing a modest villa, property of Count Cipriani in the 1850s and early 1860s, Ralston created a veritable ... More
James Johnston House, Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: Built in the saltbox form unusual to California. Survey number: HABS CA-2122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work National Reg... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
San Mateo County Courthouse, Middlefield, Hamilton, Broadway & Marshal...
Significance: The San Mateo County Courthouse has the largest stained-glass dome in the county. Although most of the building was rebuilt following the 1906 earthquake, the dome remains from the original 1904 ... More
Payne-Douglass House, Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo County,...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
Wells Fargo Building, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1701 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gusle, facing right, photograph, Northern California
Photograph caption: Gusle owned, made, and played by Peter Boro. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Peter Boro performing Croatian music on the gusle and misnice on May 7 and December 20, 1939... More
San Mateo, California. Learning the use of power tools at the United S...
Image source: U.S. Maritime Service training station. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Mor... More
Pacific Coast at Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, North Street, Pescadero, San Mate...
Survey number: HABS CA-2133 Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction
Bartlett V. Weeks House, 172 Goulson Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: Bartlett V. Weeks, who moved to this site in 1860, built this house in 1895. A descendant still lives here. Survey number: HABS CA-2137 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
Bank of San Mateo County, 2000-2002 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo ...
Significance: The oldest stone-faced building in the county, this stately Renaissance Revival building dates from 1900. Incorporated in 1891, before moving to its present site, it is the earliest bank in San M... More