Early History of the Auto in San Francisco
Techau Tavern Gives Away Car – 1912
Duesenberg Automobile Advertisement – 1925
New Ford Town Car Advertisement – 1929
Roster of Motor Car Dealers – 1931
New Hupp Skylark Automobile Arrives at the World’s Fair – 1939

Chinatown, Barbary Coast Gambling, Vice and Prostitution – 1871
A Melodeon Artist – 1876
Sailor "Boarding Masters," ETC – 1881
Barbary Coast - An Odd Corner of San Francisco – 1887
Barbary Coast Resorts, Cabarets and Saloons – 1908-1910
Sophie Tucker Visits the Barbary Coast – 1911
The Barbary Coast Must Go! – 1912
Helping Fallen Women of the Barbary Coast – 1917
Out of the Crowd – 1928
Barbary Coast Modernization Drive – 1937

Charles Alton Ellis
Bridging San Francisco Bay – 1872
Golden Gate Bond Issue Goes to the Voters – 1930
Rioting Stops Construction of Bay Bridge – 1934
Construction of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges – 1935
U.S.S. California Passes Under the Golden Gate Bridge – 1936
Bay Bridge Smashups Cause Traffic Troubles – 1940
Bay Bridge Earthquake Damage Photos – 1989
“Symphonies in Steel: Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate,” by John McGloin, S.J.

Radio – 1927
"S.F. Man's Invention to Revolutionize Television" – 1928
Debut of Carlton E. Morse’s “One Man’s Family” – 1932
Don Lee Television to Soon Come to San Francisco – 1939
New NBC Studios for San Francisco – 1940
“New Zanies on the Radio” (Coyle and Sharpe), by Dwight Newton – 1963
Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe Skit
KGO-AM Radio Tower Collapse – 1989
KFRC-AM – San Francisco
KPO-AM – see: Edna Fischer
RCA Shortwave Station KER – 1945
Ocean Beach Wireless Station – 1912

The Sunday Law and the Saloon-Keepers – 1881
A Great Industry – 1886
Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Company – 1887
San Francisco Flower Stands – 1927

The Removal of the Cemeteries
Map of Yerba Buena Cemetery – 1851
Hurry Up – 1887
Devastation in Cities of Dead – 1906
Laurel Hill Burial Crypt of Samuel T. Woodworth – 1937
BART Sued by Cypress Lawn to Protect California History – 1997

The Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred – 1849
Photograph: “Chinese Girl with Bound Feet”
Chinese Miners in the Gold Fields – 1860
Chinatown Gambling and Vice – 1871
View Inside a Chinese Opium Den
Anti-Chinese Sentiments in San Francisco – 1874
Kearneyism in California, by Viscount James Bryce – 1877
Kearneyism, The Chinese, and Labor Unrest – 1877
“You Sabe Him? Kealney Must Go!” – 1877
“The Sand Lot and Kearneyism,” by Jerome A. Hart – 1877
Remarks by Denis Kearney on Kearneyism in California
“The Kearney-Kalloch Epoch,” by Jerome A. Hart – 1879
The New California Constitution – 1879
“Chinatown Declared a Nuisance!” – 1880
Scene in a Chinese Opium Palace – 1880
Chan Pak Kwai – 1881
“China’s Menace to the World,” By Thomas Magee – 1890
Arrest in Chinatown – 1897
Arnold Genthe Photograph of Chinatown – 1898
Tour of Chinatown – 1900
Chinese Telephone Company – 1901
Why Chinatown has Remained Where it is – 1902
Funeral of Tom Kim Yung – 1903
Chinese Orphans Escape the Great Fire – 1906
“Asiatic Coolie Invasion” – 1906
Mayor Schmitz Bars Coolie Labor from Earthquake Reconstruction – 1906
Treatment of Chinese Refugees Following the 1906 Earthquake
Plans to Relocate Chinatown – 1906
China’s Empress-Dowager Contributes to Chinese Relief – 1906
National Guard Members Loot Chinatown – 1906
Relief for the Chinese – 1906
Smuggling of Chinese Slave Girls Thwarted – 1912
In Chinatown (Chinese Women Vote) – 1912
Chinatown Tong Wars of the 1920s
Chinese Wedding Mid Scenes of Splendor - 1924
Brief History of Chinatown, by Jesse B. Cook – 1931
English-Language Newspaper for Chinatown – 1940
Ronald Reagan at Charlie Low's Forbidden City – 1942
Paper Sons – 1969
“Celebrating Chinese New Year,” by Audrey Wong – 1995

Founding of the Mission Dolores – 1776
Mission Dolores Rancho
San Francisco Churches in the 1850s
History of the First Baptist Church of San Francisco
Bishop Arnett on the Negro - 1900
A Misplaced Love Letter - 1912
New Canon Kip House Opens – 1942

Turnverein's May Festival – 1856
Schuetzen Verein Club – 1859
Bohemian Club – 1885
Olympic Club Corner-Stone – 1891
New Olympic Club Building to Open – 1912
Sotomayor’s View of the Family Club – 1929

First Committee of Vigilance – 1851
Second Committee of Vigilance – 1856
The Hanging of Casey and Cora
Committee of Vigilance Proclamation – 1856
Funeral of James King of William – 1856
Judge David S. Terry Stabs a Vigilance Committee Policeman – 1856
Gen. Sherman and the Committee of Vigilance – 1856
Memoirs of an 1856 Committee of Vigilance Member
The Vigilantes – 1906

Execution of Jose Forner – 1852
Police Chief Patrick Crowley – 1870s
Capture of Black Bart in San Francisco – 1883
Preparedness Day Bombing – 1916
Coroner Leland Urges Gun Control – 1934

Tour of San Francisco – 1856
San Francisco vs. The Sand-Lot – 1880
San Franciscans at the Ocean Beach – 1880
The Men in the Telegraph Hill Job – 1887
The Utilization of Wave Power – 1887
An Important Sale – 1896
Tour of Chinatown – 1900
Suggestions for City Improvement – 1902
The Duboce Tunnel – 1927
Barbary Coast

California Earthquakes 1769 – 1994
Earthquakes of 1800 and 1808
Ft. Tejon Quake Felt in San Francisco – 1857
Great Oct. 8th, 1865 San Francisco Earthquake
Wreck of Popper’s Building – 1865
Mark Twain’s Description of the 1865 Earthquake
Report on Damage to the Custom House – 1865
October 21st, 1868 San Francisco Earthquake
Photographs: 1868 Earthquake Damage
Photograph: 1868 Damage to Railroad House and Rosenbaum’s Tobacco Warehouse
Effect of the 1868 Earthquake on Property Values
Earthquake at Inyo County -1872
“The Earthquake,” by John Muir – 1872
No Earthquake Danger in San Francisco – 1872
Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906
United Railroads' Great Work – 1906
Foreign Assistance to San Francisco During the 1906 Earthquake and Fire
Photographs: 1906 Earthquake Damage
Portals of the Past – 1906
“Early Work for Earthquake Research in California,” by Thomas J. Maher – 1929
Earthquake of March 1957
Earthquake and Fire of 1989

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