The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
San Francisco, Calif. - China Town, Sacramento St.
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 392. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Chinatown. This record contains unverified data from o... More
General view (looking northeast) Headquarters Presidio Reservation, Sa...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Francisco State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public C... More
[Frances Benjamin Johnston, with Maddie (her mother), 1903, with a pai...
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, 1906, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
San Francisco, California. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph
J197245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. Wesley Swadley; November 6, 1914.
Employment agency. San Francisco
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
[Two men cleaning street, horse-drawn wagon and damaged buildings in t...
Inscribed in lower right corner: 7. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 128.
Photograph of the West Front of the New Chronicle Building Showing Dam...
Original Caption: Photograph of the West Front of the New Chronicle Building Showing Damage by the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, 1906..Created By: U.S. Senate. Committee on Printing. (12/15/1841 - 1946)..Fr... More
Unemployed men sitting on the sunny side of the San Francisco Public L...
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Civilian exclusion order #5, posted at First and Front streets, direct...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and photo mount. Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-40. "OWI V 76." Forms part of: Farm Security A... More
San Francisco, California. Bank of America victory bond ad
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[The Evolutionary Rainbow mural by Yana Zegri in the Haight-Ashbury ne...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street ... More
Aerial view of San Francisco, California, with a focus on the waterfro...
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
Funky brake shop, 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 based on information provided... More
Mission Dolores, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mission Dolores has always had a central place in the religious, civic, and cultural life of San Francisco. Misión San Francisco de Asís was founded June ... More
Penguins at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Califor...
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
The Castro District, a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco,...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Commonly referenced as The Castro, it is one of the United States' first and best-known gay neighborhoods, and it is currently the largest. Credit line: T... More
The Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
2012 Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California
The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco to celebrate the lesbia... 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
[Muni light rail transit car at Embarcadero, with Bay Bridge in backgr...
Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More
Red Coca Cola sign 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
Arnold Genthe - In the heart of modern Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif...
JO 3216 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32323. 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 ... More
Mt. Tamalpais, near, San Francisco, Calif.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Panorama of San Francisco taken from the tower of the house of Mrs. Ma...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic city, cityscape, street view, buildings, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Photograph of the Effect of Earthquake on Houses After the 1906 San Fr...
Original Caption: Photograph of the Effect of Earthquake on Houses Built on Loose or Made Ground After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 1906..Created By: U.S. Senate. Committee on Printing. (12/15/1841 - 1946... More
[Block of burned buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake ...
H78972 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.G. Munson. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Photograph of a Group Cooking on a Stove in the Street After the 1906 ...
Original Caption: No. 50. Chimneys were destroyed and cooking in houses was prohibited...Created By: U.S. Senate. Committee on Printing. (12/15/1841 - 1946)..From: Record Group/Collection: 46..From: Committee ... More
Hall of Justice on Kearney St. - Public domain dedication image
Title: Hall of Justice on Kearney St...Alternative Title: Hall of Justice on Kearney Street..Creator: Stoddard [attrib.]..Date: 1906..Part Of: San Francisco earthquake..Physical Description: 1 photographic prin... More
Photograph of a Typical Bread Line in the Early Stages of Relief Distr...
Original Caption: Photograph of a Typical Bread Line in the Early Stages of Relief Distribution After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 1906..Created By: U.S. Senate. Committee on Printing. (12/15/1841 - 1946)... More
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
Richard Nixon wears a hard hat and speaks with a worker while visiting...
Photographic Materials Public domain photograph of the US industrial development, work of U.S. government, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cable car nears the top of Hyde Street, 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
Carol M. Highsmith - Row houses, 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
Air to air front view of 60th Military Airlift Wing's C-141 Starlifter...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Ken Hackman Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
San Francisco, California's most famous twins, Marian (left) and Vivia...
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
Cable car in historic Chinatown in San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View from the Top of the Mark Restaurant at the Mark Hopkins Intercont...
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
Fisherman's wharf, Pier 39, 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
Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California
The Sutro Baths were a large, privately owned indoor swimming pool complex in San Francisco, California, built in the late 19th century. The building housing the baths burned down in 1966. Title, date, and keyw... More
[Mural: San Fran, by Cuba, located in Clarion Alley, San Francisco, Ca...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit ... More
[History of San Francisco mural "Conquistadors Discover the Pacific" b...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Mural title and artist name from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. The Rin... More
Music Pavilion, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Conservatory, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Golden Gate Ave, Near Hyde St. - Public domain dedication image
Title: Golden Gate Ave, Near Hyde St...Alternative Title: Golden Gate Avenue, Near Hyde Street..Creator: Stoddard [attrib.]..Date: 1906..Part Of: San Francisco earthquake..Physical Description: 1 photographic p... More
International Workers Day May 1st rally, 1PM, Dolores Park
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bill Graham presents in San Francisco Otis Rush & his Chicago Blues Ba...
Print shows psychedelic design with woman's facial profile and hair. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hyde Street Pier, an exhibit at San Francisco Maritime National Histor...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Here, ferries once connected US Highway 101 with the Re... More
Detailed view of Chinatown 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
Presidio pet cemetery, 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 Air Mobility Command's C-5 Galaxy assigned to the 60th ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Jose Lopez Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
[History of San Francisco mural "Torchlight Procession" by Anton Refre...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More
V.C. Morris shop, San Francisco, California
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase... 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
Buena Vista Park, 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
[Cable exhibit at the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California]
The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in C... 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
Pier in San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
2012 Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California
The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco to celebrate the lesbia... More
View from the Top of the Mark Restaurant at the Mark Hopkins Intercont...
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
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The bridge, declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Engineers, links San Francisco to Marin County. Credit line: The Jo... More
Clown from the Carnaval San Francisco, an annual street parade and fes...
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, Pr... More
Ruins of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
REO Mountaineer, New York to San Francisco and back
Public domain image of an early automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Aviation, Latham over San Francisco
Photograph shows airplane flying over cityscape and harbor. Public domain photograph of propeller aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
California, San Francisco. Panama-Pacific Int. Exp. View of Tower of J...
Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Exhibitions.
Mural in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More
Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place, world heritage building, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Castro district at night, 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
Golden Gate Bridge, looking north toward Marin County, 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
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
Palace of Fine Arts, 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
Candlestick Park in the forefront of this aerial taken of San Francisc...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... 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 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
[History of San Francisco mural "Preaching and Farming at Mission Dolo...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Mural title and artist name from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. The Ri... More
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
The San Francisco Women's Building is a landmark internationally recog...
Mural painted in 1994 by Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Edythe Boone, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Meera Desai, Yvonne Littleton and Irene Perez, and others Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cred... More
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The eastern span replacement of the Bay Bridge has been under construction since 2002. It is scheduled to open to traffic in 2013. Credit line: The Jon B.... More
[History of San Francisco mural "Beating the Chinese" by Anton Refregi...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Mural title and artist name from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. The Rin... More
Market Street, San Francisco, Calif., Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publ...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The beach and Cliff House, San Francisco
Photo shows a crowd on the beach in the foreground, with the Cliff House in the background. H18445 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Effect of the earthquake on dwelling houses, San Francisco, Calif.
Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 9348; no orig. negatives. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More
San Francisco from captive airship, 1908
H111013 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; May 25, 1908. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago.
"Skid Row." Howard Street, the street of the unemployed in San Francis...
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. At Minna Street the army fo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
War poster on wall in Chinatown. San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Medusa mural by Lango in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francis...
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Artist name and mural title from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Street ... More
Skyline view of San Francisco, California, with the Transamerica Pyram...
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 Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest skyscraper in t... More
An old lighthouse stands on a spit of land at the Marina, San Francisc...
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