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 (767)
- Glass negatives (274)
- Photographs (767)
- Apartments (1)
- Arches (1)
- Automobiles (157)
- Bakeries (1)
- Banks and banking (1)
- Beaches (35)
- Benches (2)
- Bridges (31)
- Buildings (9)
- Bus stops (2)
- Cable cars (Streetcars) (7)
- Catholic church buildings (3)
- Charts, diagrams, etc. (1)
- Cliffs (7)
- Cornerstone laying (1)
- Derrick cars (Railroads) (1)
- Diners (Restaurants) (1)
- Docks (2)
- Drugstores (1)
- Employment agencies (1)
- Engineering models (4)
- Expositions (12)
- Express highways (4)
- Fire alarms (2)
- Fire engines (2)
- Fire hose (2)
- Fire stations (1)
- Floods (1)
- Fountains (4)
- Freight forwarders (3)
- Fuel (2)
- Funeral service (3)
- Gas reservoirs (4)
- Graffiti (1)
- Grocery trade (1)
- Horse-drawn omnibuses (5)
- Hotels (1)
- Housing (188)
- Hydrants (3)
- Incinerators (3)
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 (1)
- Jackhammers (1)
- Jeep automobiles (1)
- Lagoons (2)
- Landslides (63)
- Laundries (1)
- Lawns (1)
- Liberty Bell (4)
- Lighthouses (1)
- Manholes (1)
- Mansions (1)
- Maps (1)
- Military parades (10)
- Miniature craft (2)
- Monuments (1)
- Monuments--California (2)
- Monuments--California Volunteers (1)
- Mountains (7)
- Museums (2)
- Neighborhoods (1)
- Parades (16)
- Parks (1)
- Pavements (7)
- Piers (13)
- Pile drivers (1)
- Plazas (1)
- Podiatrists (1)
- Power-plants (1)
- Presidents--United States (3)
- Promenades (Pedestrian areas) (2)
- Public administration (6)
- Public buildings--Restrooms (1)
- Public toilets (2)
- Railroad stations (3)
- Railroad tracks (16)
- Railroad trains (4)
- Reservoirs (3)
- Restaurants (4)
- Retaining walls (20)
- Roads (20)
- Roller coasters (1)
- Rubble (2)
- Sand dunes (1)
- Sandbags (4)
- Sea-walls (14)
- Service Stations (3)
- Service stations (7)
- Sewage tanks (1)
- Sewerage (152)
- Sidewalks (99)
- Signs and signboards (1)
- Singers (1)
- Soldiers (2)
- Stairs (5)
- State courts (3)
- Storm sewers (2)
- Street cleaners (2)
- Streets (339)
- Streets--Maintenance and repair (5)
- Swimming pools (1)
- Tents (1)
- Traffic signs and signals (4)
- Trails (4)
- Trenches (2)
- Tunnels (9)
- Urban parks (1)
- Vacant lands (20)
- Viaducts (11)
- Water-pipes--Valves (2)
- Wharves (2)
- Windmills (4)
- viaducts (11)
- Civic Center (San Francisco, Calif.) (36)
- San Francisco City Hall (San Francisco, Calif.) (23)
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) (15)
- Aquatic Park (San Francisco, Calif.) (8)
- Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) (8)
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.) (6)
- Ferry Building (San Francisco, Calif.) (5)
- Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (5)
- Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America (4)
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fire Department (4)
- American Red Cross (3)
- Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.) (3)
- Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.) (3)
- San Francisco Public Library (3)
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company (3)
- Fraternal Order of Eagles (2)
- WPA Federal Art Project in the City of San Francisco (Calif.) (2)
- Alcatraz Island (Calif.) (1)
- Foster and Kleiser Company (1)
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Hotel St. Francis (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (1)
- Playland at the Beach (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.) (1)
- San Francisco General Hospital (Calif.) (1)
- United States--Food and Drug Administration (1)