San Francisco Department of Public Works Bureau of Engineering Photograph Records
Collection consists of approximately 16,770 photographs documenting the planning, construction, use and maintenance of San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW) Bureau of Engineering projects from 1907 – late 1970s in San Francisco, California. SFDPW Bureau of Engineering was responsible for street improvements; the design and construction of civic buildings including schools and City Hall; and infrastructure construction. The department was initially tasked with organizing street construction and paving projects throughout the city and the earlier visual materials represent that focus. Photos also document construction of sewers and cisterns, construction of reinforced concrete, and construction of pumping stations. Formats represented include photograph albums, black and white photographic prints, glass plate negatives and film negatives.
- still image (274)
- Photographs (274)
- Arches (1)
- Automobiles (8)
- Beaches (19)
- Benches (2)
- Bridges (6)
- Buildings (4)
- Bus stops (2)
- Cable cars (Streetcars) (7)
- Charts, diagrams, etc. (1)
- Cornerstone laying (1)
- Derrick cars (Railroads) (1)
- Docks (2)
- Expositions (12)
- Fire engines (2)
- Fire hose (2)
- Floods (1)
- Fountains (3)
- Fuel (2)
- Graffiti (1)
- Horse-drawn omnibuses (5)
- Hotels (1)
- Housing (1)
- Hydrants (2)
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 (1)
- Lagoons (2)
- Laundries (1)
- Liberty Bell (4)
- Lighthouses (1)
- Manholes (1)
- Mansions (1)
- Maps (1)
- Military parades (10)
- Monuments (1)
- Monuments--California (2)
- Monuments--California Volunteers (1)
- Neighborhoods (1)
- Parades (16)
- Parks (1)
- Pavements (3)
- Piers (6)
- Pile drivers (1)
- Plazas (1)
- Power-plants (1)
- Presidents--United States (3)
- Promenades (Pedestrian areas) (2)
- Public buildings--Restrooms (1)
- Railroad tracks (5)
- Reservoirs (3)
- Roads (17)
- Rubble (1)
- Sand dunes (1)
- Sea-walls (11)
- Sewage tanks (1)
- Sewerage (87)
- Sidewalks (3)
- Signs and signboards (1)
- Singers (1)
- Soldiers (2)
- Stairs (1)
- State courts (3)
- Storm sewers (2)
- Street cleaners (2)
- Streets (44)
- Swimming pools (1)
- Trenches (1)
- Tunnels (9)
- Urban parks (1)
- Viaducts (6)
- Water-pipes--Valves (2)
- Windmills (3)
- San Francisco Department of Public Works (San Francisco, Calif.) (274)
- Civic Center (San Francisco, Calif.) (36)
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) (15)
- San Francisco City Hall (San Francisco, Calif.) (15)
- Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) (8)
- Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (5)
- Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America (4)
- Ferry Building (San Francisco, Calif.) (4)
- American Red Cross (3)
- Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.) (3)
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fire Department (3)
- San Francisco Public Library (3)
- Fraternal Order of Eagles (2)
- Aquatic Park (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Foster and Kleiser Company (1)
- Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Hotel St. Francis (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- United States--Food and Drug Administration (1)