Jeu des habitans de Californie - Public domain book illustration
Native women watching men play game, possibly related to gambling, at a mission near San Francisco, California.
San Francisco from Rincon Hill, looking North
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 373. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More
Valencia St. Bet. 18 and 19th - Public domain dedication image
Title: Valencia St. Bet. 18 and 19th..Alternative Title: Valencia Street Between 18th and 19th . .Creator: Stoddard [attrib.]..Date: 1906..Part Of: San Francisco earthquake..Physical Description: 1 photog... More
Bernhardt, Sarah, in carriage in San Francisco after the earthquake an...
A black and white photo of a woman in a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Girl's High School Scott St. - Public domain dedication image
Title: Girl's High School Scott St...Alternative Title: Girl's High School, Scott Street..Creator: Stoddard [attrib.]..Date: 1906..Part Of: San Francisco earthquake..Physical Description: 1 photographic print: ... More
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
Valencia St., Southern Methodist University collection
Title: Valencia St...Alternative Title: Valencia Street . .Creator: Stoddard [attrib.]..Date: 1906..Part Of: San Francisco earthquake..Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 15 x 20 c... 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.
California Beauty Week, Mark Hopkins Hotel, July 28 to Aug. 2, auspice...
Each contestant numbered and refers to key on image. Copyright deposit; W. Wesley Swadley; August 31, 1927. No. 1.
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.
San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent among...
Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-525. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Informatio... More
[Japanese-American boarding up store front before evacuation, San Fran...
Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collectio... More
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
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 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
Campus of the University of San Francisco, 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, 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
Aerial looking straight down Market 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 - Aerial view, 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. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Japantown Peace Pagoda, 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
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
Driver of an F-Line trolley poses near his car at the end of the line ...
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
A port side view, looking forward, of the decommissioned nuclear-power...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Francisco Bay State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Steve Miller Release Status: Release... More
Air to air front view of a C-5 Galaxy, assigned to the 60th Military A...
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
[History of San Francisco mural "Reconstruction After the Fire" by Ant...
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
Historic Chinatown 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 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
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
Chinatown, 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, Pr... 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
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
World War II Memorial in San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
View from the Top of the Mark Restaurant at the Mark Hopkins Intercont...
Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, 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
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: Those We Remember by Edythe Boone located in Balmy Alley, San ...
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
Mural made out of bottle caps in the Mission District, 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
Trolly on Market Street 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
Crissy Field, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Crissy Field is a former airfield, now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photo... More
Sculptural mural building by artist Brian Goggin on the corner of 6th ...
The piece consists of tables, chairs, lamps and even a grandfather clock, all hanging precariously out of the building's windows. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. ... 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
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
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
Public toilets along the waterfront 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
St. Patrick's Catholic Church, San Francisco, California St. Patrick's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Founded in 1851, the church features Gothic architecture, with ribbed vaults, pointed arches, a central nave and two side aisles of lower height. Credit l... More
Stain glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... 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
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
Turtle at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Californi...
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
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
Chess players on Market Street 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 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
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
Houses 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
Golden Gate Bridge at night, 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 "Skygate" by Roger Barr along Embarcadero,] San Francisco, ...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Fog rolls across the hills near the Golden Gate Bridge, 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 Wave Organ, an acoustic sculpture in San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Constructed on the shore of San Francisco Bay by the Exploratorium. Through a series of pipes, the wave organ interacts with the waves of the bay and conv... More
Fort Point, San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Architecture on Howard Street 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
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Architectural detail 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
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
Surfers at the Golden Gate Bridge, 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
[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
[Mural by Mars-1 located at Jessie Street and 6th Street, South of Mar...
Artist name and location from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013. Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit lin... More
Market Street, San Francisco, U.S.A., California, 19th century steresc...
Stereograph showing busy business district with horse and carts, streetcars, and pedestrians. H121142 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1908 by J.J. Killelea & Co. On mount: The "Eureka" stereograph. Patented Ap... 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
Panorama of San Francisco taken from the tower of the house of Mrs. Ma...
Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Mt. Tamalpais, near, San Francisco, Calif.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The Golden Gate, San Francisco, Calif.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Lake Alvord, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The Cliff House, San Francisco, Calif.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage California postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
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
Nucleus Hotel, corner 3rd and Market Streets, San Francisco, Californi...
The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 556. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Commercial Bldgs (Businesses, Hotels, etc.). This reco... 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
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: William C. Billington Release Status: Releas... 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.
Bernhardt, Sarah, in carriage in San Francisco after the earthquake an...
A black and white photo of a man and woman in a horse drawn carriage. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Up Market St. from Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal.
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, 1906, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Palace Hotel on fire, San Francisco, California, during earthquake an...
Copyright by Pillsbure [i.e. Pillsbury] Picture Co. No. 10. Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
San Francisco, California. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph
J197245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. Wesley Swadley; November 6, 1914.
Card Alley. North Bean District (Italians). San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph of San Francisco, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
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 ...
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.
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