Old photo

A collection of 62 posts

found photos

Wondrous Wulzen

New old photos of San Francisco to goggle over.

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Grab Bag #67

Daguerreotype haters, poetry, tanks, blimps, and baseball.

Sutro Baths

Professor Killick Patrols Sutro Baths

A man with rope, tights, and expertise in aquatic arts in 1890s San Francisco.

found photos

Re-exposed

Sam Crow’s 1910s and 1920s photographs are brought into the light.

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Grab Bag #64

Discoveries in old photos, arrest stats from 1858, Members Only jackets and Folger's Crystals.

Sunset District

Scrubland Living

In the 1860s, Cornelius Reynolds and his family took on San Francisco's scrubby west side.

Rincon Hill

Going Down

House-moving in 19th-century San Francisco went in all directions

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Grab Bag #62

Pancake palace, the big orange bridge, a new book, and bowling (again).

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Grab Bag #61

A gaseous San Francisco history grab bag of hats, instant photos, and one famous recipe.

Christmas

Tetrazzini's Christmas Gift

In 1910, the world's greatest soprano gave San Francisco a present.

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Grab Bag #57

Salty diner memories and Jack the Ink Thrower's reign of terror.

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Grab Bag #55

Babylands, acid-scarred roses, and three formidable women on a San Francisco vacation.

Downtown

Lotta’s 150th

A birthday for San Francisco's most liked landmark.

Telegraph Hill

Telegraph Place

Having a crush on some long-gone San Francisco houses and wondering what happened to Good Children.

Ocean Beach

Ocean Beach Airfield

In the 1910s, the Christofferson brothers flew high in San Francisco before tragedies brought them down.

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Grab Bag #54

The last house, the widest sidewalk, and the coldest winter San Francisco stories.

Octagon Houses

A Home for All

San Francisco's landmark octagon houses.

North Beach

The Beach at North Beach

San Francisco's North Beach may not have been where you thought it was.

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Grab Bag #50

Apartments in a park, baseball in a pasture, parents in a nightclub, and one goat.

Russian Hill

Living Off the Grid

San Francisco's 1840s Laguna Survey gave the city some growing pains

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Grab Bag #49

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but before the fire, and one man trying to get home.

Castro

Bringing in the Light

An homage to Orphan Andy's diner in San Francisco's Castro District

Silver Terrace

Selling Silver Terrace

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge had a job to do in southeast San Francisco in 1869.

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Grab Bag #48

Woody goes artifact-hunting in San Francisco's past.

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Grab Bag #47

Portsmouth Square in the 1850s, old photos found, and memorializing motherhood.