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General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–1890) with his daughters and granddaughter
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The Louis Agassiz statue, Stanford University, after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906
Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon (San Francisco)
1915 painting by Edwin Deakin, from the collection of the Crocker Art Museum
San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fire
Promotional poster for Mantra-Rock Dance 1967 musical event
image credit: Harvey W. Cohen
San Francisco in 1851
San Francisco Harbor, 1851
Mission District on fire, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Edward Teller at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1906 San Francisco earthquake
image credit: Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park
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Northern Valley Yukut Indians hunting on bay of San Francisco, California, Louis Choris c. 1822
Seal Rock, California, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872
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Karl Malden and Michael Douglas from the television program The Streets of San Francisco
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Mt. Diablo, San Joaquin Valley, John Ross Key, 1873. Chromolithograph of Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, viewed from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.
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Farallon Island, Albert Bierstadt, 1887
Strawberry Creek, Berkeley by Edwin Deakin (1892).
Shibuya Family, Mountain View, April 1942, prior to the World War II internment of Japanese Americans
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"First women to attain rate of Electric Welder, 3rd class, were Alyce R. Sawyers (on the left) and Josephine L. Hollingworth, in 1942. US Navy Yard, Mare Island., CA."
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Lake Merritt, Oakland (ca. 1890-1905)
Fleischhacker Pool & Bath House, San Francisco, 1979 (since demolished)
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Cosmonaut Gherman Titov at the Marina Safeway, San Francisco (1962)
M. Stanley Livingston (L) and Ernest O. Lawrence in front of 27-inch cyclotron at the old Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
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"Hayward, California. The Negi family, operators of a forty-acre intensively cultivated, leased truck farm, completes arrangements with a Chinese business man who is taking over this farm and equipment at the time of the family's voluntary evacuation to Colorado prior to Civilian Exclusion Orders." May 1942
Jack LaLanne (1961), creator of the nation's first fitness club in Oakland in 1936
image credit: Cliff Riddle, Hollywood
The Lark, magazine published by Gelett Burgess, 1895.
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Peralta Home, San Leandro (1960)
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing Haida Indian blanket design (1939)
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Vault with gold bars, Department of the Treasury. Bureau of the Mint. U.S. Mint, San Francisco, California (ca 1935)
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Merchant and Body Guard, Old Chinatown, San Francisco, Arnold Genthe (ca. 1896-1906)
John Cipollina at the Keystone Berkeley (1976)
Poster from Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium featuring Jefferson Airplane
North Beach, San Francisco, North East corner of Broadway and Columbus (1973). Carol Doda's Condor Club, Big Al's, Roaring 20s and Hungry I strip clubs.
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Mural, Coit Tower (Public Works of Art Project, 1933)
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Coit Tower (Public Works of Art Project, 1933)
San Francisco Oracle cover, 1967
image credit: Estate of Allen Cohen and Regent Press
Photographer Ansel Adams (ca. 1950)
image credit: J. Malcolm Greany/Yosemite Field School
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Menu, Coppa’s Restaurant, San Francisco (ca. 1930s)
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Cliff House and Seal Rocks (1902)
V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, by Frank Lloyd Wright (1948) (1981 photograph)
Victims of the 1918 flu pandemic, Oakland
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Cruiser USS San Francisco between 1890 and 1901
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"Marine Corps tanks-ready for the front lines-are swung aboard a barge at the Naval Supply Center by crane, for transhipment to our forces in the Pacific Far Eastern Command. Oakland, California, 1950. Acme."
Spencer Dryden, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner at the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival (June 1967)
image credit: Bryan Costales
Postcard, Topsy's Roost Restaurant (date unknown)
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"The City of San Francisco", color lithograph by Currier & Ives (1878)
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"Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Oakland. Reinforcement bars lie at the base of the Cypress viaduct of Interstate 880 near 14th Street"
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Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Collapsed section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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Damage from 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Emeryville, California
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Damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The top deck (Cypress Street Viaduct) of the Nimitz Freeway collapsed down onto the lower deck.
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"Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Structures damaged in the Marina District of San Francisco. The first story of this three-story building was damaged because of liquefaction; the second story collapsed. What is seen is the third story."
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"On the wharves, San Francisco, 1900."
Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre, as it existed prior to its burning in 1898, architect: J. A. Remer, SF. illustration: Wood engraving by T. J. Pettit & Co, San Francisco (unknown date, but prior to 1898)
image credit: T. J. Pettit and Company
Promotional postcard for duckhunting in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1915. caption reads: "Hundreds of thousands of wild duck haunt the marshy shoreline of some parts of San Francisco Bay, affording the finest sport during the season."
image credit: Publicity Commissioners of Alameda County
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"No. 246A Battery Davis Fort Funston, Calif., Placing Concrete Under step - ring at Gun Block No. 1. The barrels for the guns had been manufactured for mounting on the 35,000 ton battlecruiser U.S.S. Saratoga whose construction was stopped by the Treaty of Washington." (1938 image)
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"San Francisco, California. Many children of Japanese ancestry attended Raphael Weill public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets, prior to evacuation. This scene shows first- graders during flag pledge ceremony. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. Provision will be effected for the continuance of education." (Dorothea Lange, 20 April 1942)
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"Camp Merritt, California. Transport Indiana receiving troops and freight at Pacific Mail Docks on eve of departure. Crowd bidding farewell. June 27, 1898." (San Francisco)
"San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: The building with the large arch is the entrance to the Olympic Club on Post Street near Mason."
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A photochrome postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company showing Sutro Baths, San Francisco. (1900)
image credit: Unknown
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"Pavilion from Gestie", views in Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco (1860?-1880?).
image credit: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
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"Effects of the Earthquake, Oct. 21, 1868, Railroad House, Clay St." (San Francisco) C. E. Watkins: Pacific Coast series (1868)
image credit: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
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Advertising from an 1889 directory, showing an advertisement for J. Gundlach & Co. wine, Sonoma County
image credit: J. Gundlach & Co.
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Mystery Airship, The San Francisco Call, 23 November 1896.
image credit: unknown
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"California volunteers saying good-bye, on the wharf at San Francisco, before embarking." From Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, 1898
image credit: J.A. Cahill
Officers of the Chinese Six Companies, Chinatown (date not known)
image credit: Roy D. Graves
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"Dupon Gai" or Dupont Street, now Grant Ave in Chinatown (ca. 1910)
The Street of Gamblers (Ross Alley) (Chinatown) Arnold Genthe (1898)
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The visit of President William McKinley to the original Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1901
image credit: unknown
Workers on the San Francisco waterfront, 1901
image credit: unknown
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Grant Avenue at Market Street (and O'Farrell, which is the one that turns left in the foreground), San Francisco. The building on the right is now Wells Fargo. The temple on the left is now an Emporio Armani store. (1915)
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1882 political cartoon, San Francisco
image credit: Keller
Mission and First Streets, San Francisco (1970)
Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR. (1972)
Broadway, San Francisco, with the Condor Club featuring Carol Doda (1973)
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The Bay City Reds juggling troupe at the Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, 1975. Performers are, from left: Dan Mankin, Billy Kessler, Diana ??? Don Forrest, Merle Goldstone.
image credit: BillyKwiki
Winterland Ballroom, The Last Waltz, The Band with Bob Dylan and other guests performing "I Shall Be Released" (1976)
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Alvord Lake Bridge, Golden Gate Park, the first reinforced concrete bridge in the United States. (1984)
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2008 fire on Angel Island
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Golden Gate Bridge, view of Marin Headlands from South Tower, 1984
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1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition postcard
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"Chinese tea shop in San Francisco." From Die Gartenlaube (Germany, 1884)
image credit: Ernst Keil's Nachfolger
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Chinese sidewalk fortune teller, San Francisco (1892)
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"San Francisco Yeomanettes attached to the Naval Reserve, Twelfth District. San Francisco Bulletin." (June 1918)
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"Great Depression: unemployed, destitute man leaning against vacant store", San Francisco (1935)
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"Mission of Dolores of San Francisco, A.D. 1830" (published 1866)
image credit: The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco
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Illustration of various buildings in San Francisco, from Die Gartenlaube (Germany, 1874)
image credit: Die Gartenlaube
Fort Point, view from south-west with Golden Gate Bridge under construction (1934)
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Pan American Clipper (Boeing 314A NC18602) at Treasure Island in 1939. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is in the background.
2013 World Baseball Classic, pre-game ceremony at the Championship Game at AT&T Park, San Francisco
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James Clair Flood Mansion, 1000 California Street, San Francisco (National Register of Historic Places, 1940)
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"San Francisco's cable cars climbing the Powell Street hill" (ca. 1945)
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Bay Area Rapid Transit planning document. Looking northeast toward Cortland and what would now be called 30th Street BART, between Mission and Coleridge, from the 1948 Transportation Plan for San Francisco
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San Francisco International Airport terminal dedication, August 27, 1954
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Jules Irving as Lucky in "Waiting for Godot," 1957 - San Francisco Actor's Workshop
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Finocchio's Club, 1958, San Francisco
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Powell Street, San Francisco, showing Lefty's (1959).jpg
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Whittier Mansion, 2090 Jackson Street, San Francisco (1960)
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Cable car in front of Safeway, Chestnut and Taylor Streets, San Francisco (1963)
Candlestick Park, 1965. Hall of famer Willie McCovey making the play at first base in a Sunday day game vs the Mets
"Funeral Notice for Hippie", distributed by the Haight-Ashbury Switchboard, 1967
image credit: unknown
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San Francisco Municipal Railway car, 1967
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Poster for Ratha Yatra parade, San Francisco, 1969
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Carolans (sic), 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, June 1972, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
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Whale sculpture outside the California Academy of Sciences, 1970 (removed in 2000s during remodeling)
Mick Taylor, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco (1972)
"Early Oakland, 7th and Adeline Streets, The Southern Pacific Depot", William Keith (1867)
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Spreckels Temple of Music, Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park
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Chinese American woman and child, San Francisco (ca. 1870 - 1889)
Opium den, Chinese lodging house, San Francisco (ca. 1890)
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco (ca. 1891)
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Parade by the Ringling Brothers Circus, Market Street, San Francisco, September 1900
image credit: unknown
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Watercolor painting of Lone Mountain, San Francisco by Alice Brown Chittenden, 1910. Shacks or tents in foreground are from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Proposed San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, from Overland Monthly, April 1913
image credit: "KET"
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The mid-1920s, San Francisco (from personal collection)
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Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco , 1950s
image credit: Chalmers Butterfield
Promotional photograph of one day's output at the Chevrolet factory in Oakland, California, circa 1917. Photograph commissioned by Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Publicity Bureau. Photographer from Cheney Photo Advertising Co. Original photo part of Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room
image credit: Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Publicity Bureau
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"Oakland, California. Hot Jazz Recreation. Swing enthusiasts crowd against the band stand at an appearance of the Benny Goodman Band in a local dance hall. One of the boys in the foreground has a copy of "Hot Jazz" by Hughes Panassic (sic)." Photograph by Rondal Partridge (26 April 1940)
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Original file information from NARA: "Oakland, California. High School Youth. Two Negro youngsters look over the shoulders of a couple of fortunate enough to own a model plane. The white boys can hope to become aviators." Photograph by Rondal Partridge (1940)
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Open-air school in San Jose, California following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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"Women shipfitters worked on board the USS NEREUS, and are shown as they neared completion of the floor in a part of the engine room. Left to right are Shipfitters Betty Pierce, Lola Thomas, Margaret Houston Thelma Mort and Katie Stanfill. US Navy Yard, Mare Island,CA." (1943)
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Kenny Barron at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay (1986)
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Archie Shepp at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, August 19, 1982
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Trocadero Inn, Sigmund Stern Grove, San Francisco (1936)
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Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco (1928)
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Construction of the San Francisco Mint, 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco (1876)
1301 Montgomery Street, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (1940)
Adolph Sutro, with library interior, Adolph Sutro House, Point Lobos and Forty-Eighth Avenue, San Francisco
Adolph Sutro House, Point Lobos and Forty-Eighth Avenue, San Francisco
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Alta Street, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (1940)
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Spreckels Mansion, 2080 Washington Street, San Francisco (1960)
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Muffler Man, Downtown Hayward (since removed)
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Cindy Lauper at San Francisco Pride 2008
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"With nearly 1000 [African-American] women employed as burners, welders, scalers, and in other capacities at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, women war workers played an important part in the construction of the Liberty Ship, SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7th, 1943. Welder -trainee Josie Lucille Owens plies her trade on the ship." (1943)
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"The vintage in California – at work at the wine-presses", Paul Frenzeny, Harpers Weekly, late 19th century: from the Wine Country
image credit: Paul Frenzeny
Lena Horne, African American actress, singer, and sponsor of the SS George Washington Carver, swinging a champagne bottle to christen the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver as another African American woman looks on, Richmond Shipyard No. 1, Richmond, California, May 7, 1943.
image credit: E. F. Joseph, U.S. Office of War Information
Map of San Mateo County, 1878
image credit: Moore & DePue
San Francisco Chronicle building, 1901
image credit: Detroit Photographic Co.
Then United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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San Jose, 1875
image credit: C. B. Gifford - A.L. Bancroft & Co.
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Early Cliff House, and Seal Rocks, San Francisco, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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San Francisco Mint, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
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Steamship at the San Francisco waterfront, 1876
image credit: LLOYD, B. E.
Montgomery Block, San Francisco, 1862
image credit: unknown, collection of the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
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Palace Hotel, San Francisco
Aftermath of the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion
San Francisco Maritime Museum (date not known)
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Advertisement, Sonoma Valley winery, 1858
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The National Ignition Facility's target chamber being moved into the Target Bay, 1999
William Westerfeld House, San Francisco (1981)
The Call Building on fire during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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San Francisco in November 1848, prior to the California Gold Rush
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San Francisco in November 1849, after the start of the California Gold Rush
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Land in Bodega Bay selected for intensive housing development (1972)
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Portsmouth Square, San Francisco (1850)
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"View of San Francisco 1850, taken from a High Point on the South Side."
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"Entrance to the Straits of Karquinez (sic)" (1850)
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"Monte Diablo, near Suisun Bay" (1850)
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"Benecia" (1850)
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"Sonoma" (1850)
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The whaling vessel Niantic, prior to her being abandoned and grounded in San Francisco and converted into a hotel
image credit: Robert Harris-Stoertz
Article in The Californian on the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, the origin of the California Gold Rush
image credit: public domain
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Shattuck Avenue at Berkeley Way, Berkeley ca. 1893
"Champagne Corking", Buena Vista Winery, Sonoma
San Francisco Pacific Railroad Bond, 1865
image credit: City and County of San Francisco, California
William "Cocktail" Boothby, bartender at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco (1891)
image credit: Cocktail Boothby's American Bar-Tender, San Francisco 1891
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The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, interior book cover or frontispiece, by William "Cocktail" Boothby (1908)
image credit: William Boothby
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Palace Hotel, San Francisco (1911)
image credit: Palace Hotel Company
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Wine label, Paul Masson Champagne Company, Santa Clara County (San Jose on label as nearest city to winery)
Luther Burbank with his Spineless Cactus, Overland Monthly, 1908
Overland Monthly, January 1919
image credit: possibly Ruth Eastman, Mike Cline
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Overland Monthly, 1895
Macintosh SE "easter egg", featuring the computer's engineering team (Apple, Inc., Cupertino, ca 1987)
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Apple Computer initial public offering, 1980
Bret Harte, ca 1868
Apple 1 advertisement, 1976
Apple II advertisement, 1977
Sunset July 1904 issue, art by Maynard Dixon
Sunset, first issue
image credit: public domain
Wine label, Gonsalves Winery, Martinez
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Wine label, Mont-Rouge Vineyard, Livermore Valley
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Wine label, New Almaden vineyard
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Wine label, Italian Swiss Colony, Asti
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Chinese Junk Amoy, Richardson Bay
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"View of the Procession in Celebration of the Admission of California, Oct. 29th, 1850, Crossing the Plaza of San Francisco", lithograph by John Prendergast
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Three Brothers ca. 1875 (Currier & Ives)
German map of San Francisco Bay Area, ca. 1893-1897
image credit: F.A. Brockhaus' Geogr.-artist. Anstalt, Leipzig
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The Sam Kee Laundry Building before and after the 2014 South Napa earthquake
Smoke from a wildfire on Angel Island blankets San Francisco
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Mt. St. Helena, c. 1870s
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Street scene, San Francisco, c. 1870s
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Street scene, San Francisco, c. 1870s
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Chinese funerary customs, San Francisco, c. 1870s
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Sheriff's deputies and San Francisco Police officers confront demonstrators at the International Hotel, 1977
image credit: Nancy Wong
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The Silverado Squatters (1883), by Robert Louis Stevenson, about his time in Napa Valley in 1880
M. H. de Young home, 1919 California Street, San Francisco, circa 1880s
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Shiva laser target chamber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1978
M. H. de Young superimposed on the San Francisco Chronicle, 1885
Hart's Department Store, San Jose (1926)
image credit: John C. Gordon
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Berkeley's first police chief, August Vollmer (1929)
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Hacienda del Pozo de Verona, Livermore Valley, 1900
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