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San Francisco: Paris of the WestCreated by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 2016
Aerial view of San Francisco, California, at dusk
Originally a Spanish (later Mexican) mission and pueblo, it was conquered by the United States in 1846 and by an invading army of prospectors following the 1848 discovery of gold in its hinterland. The Gold Rush made San Francisco a cosmopolitan metropolis with a frontier edge. In early 1900s the city tried to remake itself into a grand and modern Paris of the West.
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Jeu des habitans de Californie - Public domain book illustration

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

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

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 and fire of 1906

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

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 Damage by the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, 1906

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

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 the background, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake]

[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, auspices of San Francisco Chronicle

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 Library. California

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 (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

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 a contingent of 664, first to be removed from San Francisco, awaiting buses to transport them to the Santa Anita reception center at Arcadia, to be transported, later, to war relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

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 Francisco]

[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, directing removal by April 7 of persons of Japanese ancestry, from the first San Francisco section to be affected by evacuation

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

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 neighborhood, San Francisco, California]

[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

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

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 waterfront

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

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

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

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

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 in the Castro District, San Francisco, California

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-powered attack submarine ex-USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571) as it is towed toward San Francisco, California, by two YTB 760 class large harbor tugs, not visible. The NAUTILUS will be met at Naval Station, Treasure Island, California, by the fleet tug USS QUAPAW (ATF 110) for towing to Groton, Connecticut

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 Airlift Wing, Travis AFB, California, flying over the mountains, near the coast, north of San Francisco, California. Exact Date Shot Unknown

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 Anton Refregier at Rincon Annex Post Office located near the Embarcadero at 101 Spear Street, San Francisco, California]

[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

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, California

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 Francisco, California

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

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

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

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

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

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 Intercontinental Hotel located on Nob Hill, San Francisco, California

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, 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, 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 Francisco, California]

[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, California

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

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

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 St. and Howard St. in San Francisco, California

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

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

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

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

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 Catholic Church, San Francisco, California

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

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

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, California

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, California

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

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

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, California

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

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

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

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, California

[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, California

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 background. San Francisco, California]

[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 Market, San Francisco, California]

[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 sterescope card.

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.

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. Mark Hopkins

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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, California

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.

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, San Francisco, California. The Presidio in the 1870's matches ground plan. Triple-story bachelor officer quarter is on right, original Presidio building is left of center in picture (behind horse-drawn wood cart). Alcatraz is at the right edge of the picture in this view to north-northeast down center of the parade ground. At the right of the flag pole is the hospital, dating from 1854 and still at the original site. Post was inspected in 1866 when it had 1,156 officers and men in 16 companies, 14 of them preparing for duty in Arizona."

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, San Francisco, California. Parade ground located in center. Date approximately 1890

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 painted backdrop of the Cliff House in San Francisco, California ]

[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 and fire of 1906

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.

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.

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 and fire of April 18, 1906]

[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

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

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

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

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

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, California

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. Monday morning December 8, 1941, day after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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 contingent of 664 residents of Japanese ancestry to be evacuated from San Francisco, later to be housed in war relocation authority centers for the duration

San Francisco, Calif., June 1942 - An early comer, part of the first c...

Japanese American boy seated, full-length, on duffel bag, facing right. U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-84. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).

San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - Two Japanese boys, one with strip "Remember Pearl Harbor" on his hat, wave good-bye [while] awaiting the bus

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 by a new and serious game for these Girl Scouts--it's called Plant the Victory Garden. Like thousands of other school-age youngsters, Pat Nelson, Doris Laclair and Barbara Redford, all of San Francisco, are enthusiastic participants in the nation-wide Food for Victory campaign. Doris seems to be jumping the gun slightly, but at this stage cookies are more palatable than embryonic cabbages

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 exchange, San Francisco, California

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

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

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 just north of Ocean Beach on the western side of San Francisco, California

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

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