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San Francisco History 1901 – 1930

1901 – Chinese Telephone Company
1901 – Bird’s-eye View of San Francisco
1901 – Views of the Golden Gate
1902 – Why Chinatown has Remained Where it is
1902 – “City Should Buy Sutro Heights,” by Charles Bundschu
1903 – Views of the Cliff House
1903 – Dedication of the Dewey Monument
1903 – Funeral of Tom Kim Yung
1903 – Union Labor Party Platform
1903 – Movie of President Roosevelt’s Route During His Visit
1903 – Movie of Market St. Before President Roosevelt’s Parade
1903 – Movie of the President’s Carriage on Market St.
1903 – Movie of President Roosevelt in San Francisco
1903 – Movie of Union Square During Roosevelt’s Visit
1905 – Movie of a Trip Down Market Street
1905 – "Historical Sketch of San Francisco," by James D. Phelan
1906 – The Great Earthquake and Fire
1906 – Sunset Magazine’s Emergency Earthquake Edition
1906 – Earthquake Photographs
1907 – Reconstruction of the Ferry Building Tower After the Earthquake
1907 – “Reward for Rats” Poster
1907 – “Streetcar Strike,” by Robert Emery Bionaz
1908-1910 – List of Barbary Coast Resorts, Cabarets and Saloons
1908 – Congressional Hetch Hetchy Hearings
1908 – Map of Proposed Hetch Hetchy Project
1908 – “Hetch Hetchy Damming Scheme,” by John Muir
1908 – “The Endangered Valley...,” by John Muir
1908 – Sierra Club Telegram of Protest to Congress
1908 – Successful Test of Wireless Telephone
1909 – Report on the Causes of Municipal Corruption
1909 – “Let Everyone Help to Save the Famous Hetch-Hetchy Valley,” by John Muir


1909 – Goddess Comes Down at Last
1910 – Angel Island Immigration Station Opens
1911 – Fremont Older Wants Abe Ruef Released
1911 – Sophie Tucker Visits the Barbary Coast
1911 – A Temporary City Hall
1911 – Emma Goldman Attacks Gen. Funston on Patriotism
1911 – Ishi, Last of the Yahi Tribe
1912 – San Francisco Assessor Survives Titanic Sinking
1912 – U.S.S. Independence Decommissioned at Mare Island
1912 – Chinese Slave Girl Plot Broken Up
1912 – Railroad Schedules
1912 – Advertisement for Atkins Clothiers
1912 – Ocean Beach Wireless Transmitting Station
1912 – New Southern Pacific Depot
1912 – New Home for the Olympic Club
1912 – New Central Fire Alarm Station for San Francisco
1912 – New Lighting for Sutro Baths
1913 – Last Horse-drawn Streetcar Ends Journey
1913 – Raker Bill for Hetch Hetchy Water
1913 – Red Light Abatement Act, by Patricia O’Flinn
1914 – Windmill Power for Golden Gate Park
1915 – Panama-Panama-Pacific International Exposition
1915 – Overfair Railway at the PPIE, by Walter Rice and Karl Hovanitz
1915 – History of the Palace of Fine Arts
1915 – Lighting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
1915 – Mabel and Fatty at the World’s Fair
1915 – Map of the Exposition Grounds
1916 – Preparedness Day Bombing
1916 – An Aquatic Park is Needed
1916 – History of the de Young Museum, by M.H. de Young
1916 – Fistic Orgies at the Civic Auditorium
1916 – Gasoline Rises to 18 Cents Per Gallon
1917 – Helping Fallen Women of the Barbary Coast
1919 – Eamon De Valera Unveils Robert Emmet Statue in Golden Gate Park
1919 – "San Francisco's Own Returns from World War I

1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle SFPD Booking Photograph
1922 – Map of Spring Valley Water Co. Holdings
1922 – Marina Flying Field
1922 – Rum Bribery Higherups Hunted as Plotters
1923 – “A Christmas Pageant,” by Austin Lewis
1923 – A New Home for Fire Chiefs
1924 – Victor Co. to Open New Oakland Pressing Plant
1925 – Market Street Railway
1925 – Duesenberg Automobile Advertisement
1925 – Bebe Daniels Advertises the Chronicle
1925 – Police Recruits Taught to Sing, by Chief Daniel J. O’Brien
1927 – All Street Gas Lights to be Gone by 1929
1927 – Tragic Dole Air Race to Hawaii
1928 – "S.F. Man's Invention to Revolutionize Television"
1928 – "Dedication of the Duboce Streetcar Tunnel"
1928 – Southern Pacific Ferryboat Schedule
1929 – Sen. Phelan Attacks Prohibition and the Anti-Saloon League
1929 – Dedication of the Great Highway and Esplanade
1929 – “Early Work for Earthquake Research in California.” by Thomas Maher
1929 – Advertisement - O’Connor, Moffatt & Co.
1929 – Sotomayor’s View Inside the Family Club
1929 – Advertisement – Ford Motor Company
1929 – Advertisement – Hotel Mark Hopkins

1930 – Golden Gate Bridge Bond Issue Goes to the Voters
1930 – Largest Sprinkler System in World at Great Highway

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