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.
- 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 (282)
- 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)
- [19--] (3)
- [1909 July 10] (1)
- [1909 July 19] (1)
- [1909 July 23] (3)
- [1910 July 02] (2)
- [1910 July 06] (2)
- [1910 July 09] (2)
- [1910 Oct. 31] (3)
- [1911 Apr. 11] (1)
- [1911 July 18] (3)
- [1911 Nov. 01] (1)
- [1912 Feb. 16] (2)
- [1912 Jan. 01] (1)
- [1912 July 27] (1)
- [1912 Oct. 08] (1)
- [1912 Oct. 11] (1)
- [1913 Sept. 22] (1)
- [1914 June 05] (2)
- [1914 May 25] (1)
- [1915 Aug. 26] (1)
- [1915 June 05] (1)
- [1915 June 15] (1)
- [1917 Aug. 23] (1)
- [1917 Feb. 09] (1)
- [1917 Nov. 26] (1)
- [1918 June 13] (1)
- [1919 Jan. 07] (1)
- [1919 June 15] (1)
- [1923 June 15] (1)
- [1923 Nov. 19] (1)
- [1924 Aug. 11] (2)
- [1925 Jan. 15] (1)
- [1926 Mar. 11] (1)
- [1926 Mar. 24] (1)
- [1926 Mar. 8] (1)
- [1927 Sept. 07] (1)
- [1928 Aug. 02] (4)
- [1928 Aug. 09] (1)
- [1928 Aug. 11] (1)
- [1928 Aug. 20] (1)
- [1928 Aug. 9] (1)
- [1928 July 09] (2)
- [1928 July 19] (2)
- [1928 Nov. 2] (1)
- [1928 Sept. 10] (1)
- [1929 Sept. 20] (1)
- [1930 Aug. 22] (1)
- [1930 Aug. 29] (1)
- [1930 July 09] (1)
- [1930 June 24] (3)
- [1930 June 2] (1)
- [1930 May 22] (1)
- [1931 Apr. 4] (1)
- [1931 Jan. 23] (2)
- [1931 July 17] (1)
- [1931 May 12] (3)
- [1931 May 26] (2)
- [1932 Nov. 16] (1)
- [1932 Oct. 28] (2)
- [1934 July 27] (1)
- [1934 Oct. 04] (4)
- [1934 Oct. 10] (2)
- [1934 Oct. 16] (1)
- [1934 Oct. 24] (1)
- [1934 Sept. 06] (1)
- [1934 Sept. 6] (1)
- [1935 Feb. 15] (3)
- [1935 Mar. 19] (1)
- [1935 Oct. 01] (2)
- [1936 Feb. 14] (1)
- [1936 Sept. 03] (1)
- [1936 Sept. 23] (1)
- [1936 Sept. 25] (3)
- [1937 May 10] (2)
- [1937 Nov. 16] (1)
- [1938 Jan. 21] (1)
- [1938 Sept. 14] (1)
- [1940 June 20] (1)
- [1941 June 09] (1)
- [1942 Sept. 17] (2)
- [1943 Apr. 19] (1)
- [1943 Apr. 21] (2)
- [1943 Apr. 26] (1)
- [1945 Aug. 06] (3)
- [1945 June 21] (3)
- [1945 June 28] (1)
- [1945 Oct. 01] (1)
- [1945 Oct. 19] (1)
- San Francisco Department of Public Works (San Francisco, Calif.) (767)
- 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)