Visit the site here, or look below for some of the best photos we saw from the 1800s, marked with their locations in the city. (All photos via San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library.)
POINT LOBOS AVENUE AND 43RD, DICK’S SALOON, 1890
CENTRAL PARK, 8TH AND MISSION, CIRCA 1887
GROUP OF PEOPLE OVERLOOKING THE CLIFF HOUSE FROM SUTRO HEIGHTS, 1890
BUSH STREET, WEST OF KEARNY, 1877
PALM AVENUE IN JEFFERSON SQUARE, 1881
VIEW FROM CITY HALL, LOOKING SOUTH DOWN 8TH AT CENTRAL PARK, 1896
WOODWARD’S GARDENS, 1864
CALIFORNIA STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM MONTGOMERY, 1865
EXTERIOR OF THE WHAT CHEER HOUSE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SACRAMENTO, BELOW MONTGOMERY, 1865
BUILDING ON NORTHEAST CORNER OF FRONT AND CALIFORNIA, 1890
BALDWIN HOTEL BAR, 1880
STEUART STREET, 1864
J. C. FLOOD MANSION, CALIFORNIA STREET, 1886
ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SACRAMENTO STREET AND VAN NESS, 1895
SACRAMENTO AND VAN NESS, 1887
WOODWARD’S GARDENS, 1874
MISS LAKE’S SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES, CORNER SUTTER AND OCTAVIA, 1890
HOWARD STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM 6TH, 1866
1919 CALIFORNIA STREET, 1887
SOUTHERN PACIFIC PASSENGER DEPOT, 1879
CABLECAR AT SOUTH PARK, 1865
FIRE ENGINE NO. 13 AT 1458 VALENCIA, 1884
SHOTWELL STREET NEAR 20TH, SNOWFALL, 1887
THE WILLOWS, 18TH & VALENCIA, 1864
MUSICIANS PERFORMING OUTSIDE THE “HAUNTED SWING” AT THE MIDWINTER FAIR IN GOLDEN GATE PARK, 1894
