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San Francisco – Military – U.S. Army

Zulu Prince with Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Alcatraz – 1899

Construction of Fort Point – 1853

Founding of the Veterans’ Home – 1882

Troops Depart for the Philippines War – 1898

Army Operations During the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

"San Francisco's Own" Comes Home – 1919

San Francisco Stars Entertain Troops at Fort Ord – 1941

Command Decisions, Army History of WWII

Army Air Force in WWII – 1942

Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1940-1941

Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1942

Army Evacuation of the Japanese from San Francisco – 1942

Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry – 1942

Photograph: Street Signs for Troops in Alaska – 1942

Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1943

Instructions for Air Raid Wardens – 1943

Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1944

Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1945

RCA, San Francisco, Negotiates the Capitulation of Japan – 1945

Military Bases Ring Bay Area – 1955

San Francisco – Military – National Guard

Looting of Chinatown by the National Guard – 1906

National Guard Ordered to San Francisco – 1934

National Guard Occupies the Waterfront – 1934

Governor Explains Why Guard Called – 1934

Mayor Rossi’s Request for More Guardsmen – 1934

San Francisco – Military – U.S. Navy

Drive to Build a Dewey Monument in San Francisco – 1899

Navy Operations During the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

U.S.S. Independence Decommissioned at Mare Island – 1912

U.S.S. California Passes Under the Golden Gate Bridge – 1936

Navy to Lease Treasure Island “For the Duration” – 1942

Navy Seizes Treasure Island – 1942

Navy Seizes Hunters Point Neighborhood – 1942

Mare Island; Where the Pacific Fleet is Maintained – 1939

Treasure Island – Environmental Hazards – 1995

Coast Guard in San Francisco Bay – 1996

San Francisco – Missions

Founding of the Mission Dolores – 1776

Powerpost Beetle Attack Closes Mission Dolores – 2000

Bells of the Mission Dolores Basilica in RealAudio

Mission Dolores Rancho

“Missions of the Spanish Era had Wide Influence,” by F. Gordon O’Neill

San Francisco – Multimedia—Internet

“Netizens! Rally Against Censorship” – 1995

Text of Speech by Mike Godwin to Netizen’s Rally

A Brief History of the Internet, by Robert X. Cringley – 1998

Schmidt Lithography Co. Clock Tower

San Francisco – Municipal Buildings

The Goddess of Progress

Augustus Laver and the New City Hall – 1893

Deplorable Conditions at City Hall – 1900

Temporary City Hall – 1911

New Central Fire Alarm Station – 1912

Completion of the War Memorial Complex – 1932

San Francisco – Municipal Departments

Office of the Mayor

San Francisco Fire Department

San Francisco Police Department

San Francisco – Museums

Founding of the de Young Museum, by M.H. de Young

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum – 1895

San Francisco – Museums – Online

Asian Art Museum

Cable Car Museum

California Academy of Sciences

Exploratorium

Fine Arts Museums’ “The Thinker”

Golden Gate Railroad Museum

Musee Mecanique

Museum of the City of San Francisco

San Francisco – Music    NEW ADDITION

A Frisco Girl Sheet Music of 1897

Late 19th–Century San Francisco Sheet Music

Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969

Bibliography of the Grateful Dead

Early History of Lydia Pense and Cold Blood

Late 19th–Century San Francisco Sheet Music

Jeanette MacDonald Patriotic Concert at the War Memorial – 1942

Lu Watters Returns to the Dawn Club – 1946

San Francisco –Parks–Recreation

Golden Gate Park

Proposed New Conservatory for Golden Gate Park – 1890

Morrison Planetarium at Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park Windmill Pumps

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum – 1895

Eamon De Valera Unveils Robert Emmet Statue in Golden Gate Park – 1919

Sigmund Stern Memorial Grove

A Visit to Woodward’s Gardens — 1876

City Should Buy Cliff House and Sutro Heights

Short Life of Steuart Street Park

Alcatraz

An Aquatic Park Needed – 1916

Victory for Slats – 1918

San Francisco – Poetry    NEW ADDITION

Casey at the Bat
A Gold Rush Poem – 1864

A Kearny Street Idyl: a "Steal" from Tennyson - 1881

The Ruined Temple by Herman Scheffauer - 1912

Refugees' Rubaiyat - 1912

Sunset at the Beach by Joaquin Miller - 1914

San Francisco – Police Department

San Francisco Police Department History

Police Chief Patrick Crowley

Police Uniforms – 1876

The Dive Law – 1887

Red Cross Chauffeuses Now Policettes – 1918

Literary Bob – 1918

Rum Bribery Higherups Hunted as Plotters – 1922

Police Recruits Learn to Sing – 1925

San Francisco – Politics

Union Labor Party Platform – 1903

Report on the Causes of Municipal Corruption – 1909

Editor Wants Abe Ruef Released – 1911

“Stamp Out Sinclairism,” The Gubernatorial Election – 1934

Shelley For State Senate –1938

“The Mayor’s Race: Not Just Politics as Usual,” by Jim Balderston

Mayor Jordan Showers with Disc Jockeys – 1995

Inauguration of Mayor Willie L. Brown

San Francisco – Population

Closing Gas Bill for Gas Consumed 1906

Population Data and Growth Maps

San Francisco � Buildings

Artistic Homes of California – 1891

Union Square in 1905

Seals Stadium 1939

San Francisco – Social

Capt. Montgomery Ends Indian Slavery – 1846

A View of Women’s Rights in San Francisco – 1891

“Lower California as a Negro Home” – 1891

“Bishop Arnett on the Negro” – 1900

Gladys Bentley at Mona's 440 Club – 1942

Matrix Homeless Program, Joyce v. City and County of San Francisco – 1994

Holocaust Remembrance Day – 1995

AIDS Quilt goes Online – 1997

San Francisco – Sports

Casey at the Bat

The Immortal Casey

Joe Di Maggio: The new “Bambino,” — 1937

Francis "Lefty" O’Doul Day at Seals’ Stadium – 1938

Di Maggio Not Demanding $80,000 — 1941

Di Maggio Marries Marilyn Monroe at City Hall — 1954

Joe Di Maggio Dies at 84 — 1999

San Francisco � Streets

History of Pioneer Street Names, by Henry C. Carlisle

A Kearny Street Idyl; a "Steal" from Tennyson - 1881

No Need for Street Lamps - 1883

Van Ness Avenue - 1876

Our Unfordable Streets - 1876

Oh, My Aching Feet - 1880

Etiquette on the Street - 1886

Down with the Telegraph Poles - 1886

Advertisement - 1896

Couldn't Buy the Land - 1917

The Story of a Lamp Lighter - 1924

San Francisco – Theaters

“San Francisco Theatrical Memories,” by James Madison

Playbill from the California Theatre – 1880

San Francisco – Transportation – Aviation

Walter T. Varney was born December 26, 1888 in San Francisco

Balloon Racing, Oakland to San Francisco - 1909

The Marina Flying Field – 1922

Tragic Dole Air Race to Hawaii – 1927

Dedication of New San Francisco Airport – 1937

Search Continues for Amelia Earhart – 1937

U.S. Radiomen Comb Air For Signals From Amelia – 1937

Amelia Earhart - Prelude to Greatness – 1938

Pan-American Clipper at Treasure Island

Pan American Philippine Clipper Orders for the June 1 Flight from Treasure Island – 1939

San Francisco – Transportation – Ferry    NEW ADDITION

The Ferry Docks at Hyde and Jefferson Streets December 9, 1936

The Red and White Fleet - Launching a San Francisco Legacy

San Francisco – Transportation – Railroads

“A Practical Plan for the Pacific Railroad,” by Theodore Judah – 1857

Coming of the Transcontinental Railroad – 1869

The Future of California Railroads – 1880

The Last Spike – 1881

More on The Last Spike – 1881

Thomas Hill's painting "The Last Spike" – 1881

1906 Southern Pacific Operations

New Southern Pacific Depot – 1912

Railroad Schedules – 1912

Southern Pacific Ferryboat Schedule – 1928Photograph –

Southern Pacific Band – 1930s

State Belt Railroad Operations – 1953

San Francisco – Transportation – Street Railways and Cable Roads

Biography of Andrew Hallidie, Cable Car Inventor

San Francisco Cable Car Museum Website

Our Hills – 1876

Roof-Seats for Street Cars – 1881

Clay St. Cable Car Ends its Run – 1891

Founding of the San Francisco & San Mateo Railway Co. – 1892

United Railroads' Great Work – 1906

Last Horse-drawn Streetcar Ends Journey – 1913

Overfair Railway at the PPIE – 1915

Inauguration of the Duboce Tunnel – 1928

Castro St. Cable Service May Soon End – 1939

Market Street Railway – 1925

Market Street Railway Brochure

Castro St. Cable Service May Soon End – 1939

Buses to Replace Cable Cars – Tracks Removed – 1941

Friedel Klussmann’s Fight to Save the Cable Cars — 1947

End of San Francisco Interurban Streetcar Service — 1949

Straigt Facts about Muni 1950

Inauguration of the “F” Market-Castro Streetcar Line – 1995

Municipal Railway Tourist Fares – 1996

Streetcars of the Municipal Railway – 1997

San Francisco – UN - United Nations

United Nations

San Francisco – Utilities - Power-Telephone

Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Company – 1887

Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. – 1897

San Francisco Gaslight Co. – 1897

New Chinese Telephone Company – 1901

Restoration of the Gas Supply – 1906

Restoration of the Electrical System – 1906

Restoration of the Telephone System – 1906

Western Union Telegraph Co. Restoration – 1906

Ocean Beach Wireless Transmitting Station – 1912

New Pacific Telephone Co. Coast Division Headquarters – 1925

All Gas lights to be Gone by 1929 – 1927 For water systems see: Water Supply

San Francisco – Vice

Chinatown, Barbary Coast Gambling, Vice and Prostitution – 1871

Barbary Coast Cabarets, Saloons – 1908-1910

Helping Fallen Women of the Barbary Coast – 1917

San Francisco – Views

Bird’s-eye View of San Francisco –1901

Views of the Golden Gate – 1901

Trip Down Market Street – 1905

San Francisco – Water Supply

Earthquake Damage to the Spring Valley Water Company – 1906

Spring Valley Water Company Water Rates in 1921

Congressional Hetch Hetchy Hearings – 1908

“Hetch Hetchy Damming Scheme,” – 1908 by John Muir

“The Endangered Valley...,” by John Muir

Sierra Club Telegram to Congress Protesting Hetch Hetchy Bill – 1908

“Let Everyone Help to Save the Famous Hetch-Hetchy Valley,” by John Muir – 1909

Raker Bill for Hetch Hetchy – 1913

Map of Spring Valley Water Co. Holdings – 1922

Largest Sprinkler System in the World – 1930

New PG&E-City Hetch Hetchy Woes – 1941

Damage to the Water Supply during the Earthquake — 1989

Windmill Pumps at Golden Gate Park

“Proposed Auxiliary Water Supply System...,” by Rolla V. Watt — 1907

High Pressure Water System for Fires Following Earthquake

Answers to Hydrantman’s Examination — 1911

Brief History of Greenberg Fire Hydrants — 1953

“Fire Department Water Supply,” by Steve Van Dyke — 1997

San Francisco — Weather

Record Heat Wave in San Francisco – 1876

Current San Francisco Weather

Effects of Past El Niño Events on San Francisco Bay

Climate of San Francisco by E. Jan Null

“A Year of Weather Extremes,” by the National Weather Service – 1998

San Francisco – Women and Women’s Issues

Commandments from a Miner’s Wife – 1849
“Sale to Lotta, the Actress” – 1869

Vice, Prostitution and Gambling in Chinatown and the Barbary Coast – 1873

A View of Women ’s Rights – 1891

Helping Working Girls in San Francisco – 1891

A Successful Lady Dentist – 1891

Women in the Police Department – 1895

Sophie Tucker Visits the Barbary Coast – 1911

Souvenir Book of J.H. Coffey - 1918

A Woman Runs for Musician’s Union Board of Directors – 1932

Search Continues for Amelia Earhart – 1937

U.S. Airmen Listen for Signals from Amelia Earhart – 1937

Amelia Earhart; Prelude to Greatness – 1938

Sally Rand Nude Ranch at Treasure Island – 1939

“Flesh Shows” on the Gayway at Treasure Island – 1939

Harriet Pullman Carolan at the Clift Hotel – 1939

Women Replace Men in Jobs Because of the Draft – 1941

Movie Star Jeanette MacDonald and Women in the War Effort – 1942

Friedel Klussman Saves the Cable Cars – 1947

San Francisco – World War I

Souvenir Book of J.H. Coffey - 1918

Women in War Work - 1918

Army and Navy Insignia Compliments of The Hof Brau Restaurant, San Francisco

San Francisco – World War II

Air Wardens
Chronology of San Francisco War Events 1940-1945

San Francisco Stars Entertain at Fort Ord – 1941

20,000 Needed for Civil Defense Duty – 1941

Dimout Regulations Controversy – 1941

S.F. Collectors Boycott Hitler’s Stamps — 1941

Women Replace Men in Jobs Because of Draft – 1941

Instructions for Bombing and Gas Attacks – 1941

Japanese Planes over San Francisco — 1941

The Battle of Los Angeles — 1942

Emporium Department Store War Plan — 1942

San Francisco–War City – 1942

Evacuation of the Japanese from San Francisco – 1942

Jeanette MacDonald Patriotic Concert at the War Memorial – 1942

Air Raid Instruction Card for Your Home – 1942

Meet Your Air Raid Warden - 1941

Navy to Lease Treasure Island “For the Duration,” — 1942

Navy Seizes Treasure Island — 1942

Navy Seizes Hunters Point Neighborhood — 1942

Street Signs for Troops in Alaska – 1942

Stage Door Canteen Planned for San Francisco – 1943

Instructions for Air Raid Wardens – 1943

“San Francisco Faces West, the City in Wartime,” by John Dos Passos – 1944

RCA, San Francisco, Negotiates the Capitulation of Japan – 1945

San Francisco – Yerba Buena

Yerba Buena, Before the Gold Rush

Lithograph of Yerba Buena – 1846

Proclamation to Change the Name of Yerba Buena to San Francisco

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