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Donate History by Subject Page 3 San Francisco – Military – U.S. Army Zulu Prince with Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Alcatraz – 1899 Construction of Fort Point – 1853 Founding of the Veterans’ Home – 1882 Troops Depart for the Philippines War – 1898 Army Operations During the 1906 Earthquake and Fire "San Francisco's Own" Comes Home – 1919 San Francisco Stars Entertain Troops at Fort Ord – 1941 Command Decisions, Army History of WWII Army Air Force in WWII – 1942 Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1940-1941 Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1942 Army Evacuation of the Japanese from San Francisco – 1942 Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry – 1942 Photograph: Street Signs for Troops in Alaska – 1942 Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1943 Instructions for Air Raid Wardens – 1943 Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1944 Chronology of San Francisco War Events – 1945 RCA, San Francisco, Negotiates the Capitulation of Japan – 1945 Military Bases Ring Bay Area – 1955 San Francisco – Military – National Guard Looting of Chinatown by the National Guard – 1906 National Guard Ordered to San Francisco – 1934 National Guard Occupies the Waterfront – 1934 Governor Explains Why Guard Called – 1934 Mayor Rossi’s Request for More Guardsmen – 1934 San Francisco – Military – U.S. Navy Drive to Build a Dewey Monument in San Francisco – 1899 Navy Operations During the 1906 Earthquake and Fire U.S.S. Independence Decommissioned at Mare Island – 1912 U.S.S. California Passes Under the Golden Gate Bridge – 1936 Navy to Lease Treasure Island “For the Duration” – 1942 Navy Seizes Treasure Island – 1942 Navy Seizes Hunters Point Neighborhood – 1942 Mare Island; Where the Pacific Fleet is Maintained – 1939 Treasure Island – Environmental Hazards – 1995 Coast Guard in San Francisco Bay – 1996 San Francisco – Missions Founding of the Mission Dolores – 1776 Powerpost Beetle Attack Closes Mission Dolores – 2000 Bells of the Mission Dolores Basilica in RealAudio Mission Dolores Rancho “Missions of the Spanish Era had Wide Influence,” by F. Gordon O’Neill San Francisco – Multimedia—Internet “Netizens! Rally Against Censorship” – 1995 Text of Speech by Mike Godwin to Netizen’s Rally A Brief History of the Internet, by Robert X. Cringley – 1998 Schmidt Lithography Co. Clock Tower San Francisco – Municipal Buildings The Goddess of Progress Augustus Laver and the New City Hall – 1893 Deplorable Conditions at City Hall – 1900 Temporary City Hall – 1911 New Central Fire Alarm Station – 1912 Completion of the War Memorial Complex – 1932 San Francisco – Municipal Departments Office of the Mayor San Francisco Fire Department San Francisco Police Department San Francisco – Museums Founding of the de Young Museum, by M.H. de Young M.H. de Young Memorial Museum – 1895 San Francisco – Museums – Online Asian Art Museum Cable Car Museum California Academy of Sciences Exploratorium Fine Arts Museums’ “The Thinker” Golden Gate Railroad Museum Musee Mecanique Museum of the City of San Francisco San Francisco – Music NEW ADDITION A Frisco Girl Sheet Music of 1897 Late 19th–Century San Francisco Sheet Music Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969 Bibliography of the Grateful Dead Early History of Lydia Pense and Cold Blood Late 19th–Century San Francisco Sheet Music Jeanette MacDonald Patriotic Concert at the War Memorial – 1942 Lu Watters Returns to the Dawn Club – 1946 San Francisco –Parks–Recreation Golden Gate Park Proposed New Conservatory for Golden Gate Park – 1890 Morrison Planetarium at Golden Gate Park Golden Gate Park Windmill Pumps M.H. de Young Memorial Museum – 1895 Eamon De Valera Unveils Robert Emmet Statue in Golden Gate Park – 1919 Sigmund Stern Memorial Grove A Visit to Woodward’s Gardens — 1876 City Should Buy Cliff House and Sutro Heights Short Life of Steuart Street Park Alcatraz An Aquatic Park Needed – 1916 Victory for Slats – 1918 San Francisco – Poetry NEW ADDITION Casey at the Bat A Gold Rush Poem – 1864 A Kearny Street Idyl: a "Steal" from Tennyson - 1881 The Ruined Temple by Herman Scheffauer - 1912 Refugees' Rubaiyat - 1912 Sunset at the Beach by Joaquin Miller - 1914 San Francisco – Police Department San Francisco Police Department History Police Chief Patrick Crowley Police Uniforms – 1876 The Dive Law – 1887 Red Cross Chauffeuses Now Policettes – 1918 Literary Bob – 1918 Rum Bribery Higherups Hunted as Plotters – 1922 Police Recruits Learn to Sing – 1925 San Francisco – Politics Union Labor Party Platform – 1903 Report on the Causes of Municipal Corruption – 1909 Editor Wants Abe Ruef Released – 1911 “Stamp Out Sinclairism,” The Gubernatorial Election – 1934 Shelley For State Senate –1938 “The Mayor’s Race: Not Just Politics as Usual,” by Jim Balderston Mayor Jordan Showers with Disc Jockeys – 1995 Inauguration of Mayor Willie L. Brown San Francisco – Population Closing Gas Bill for Gas Consumed 1906 Population Data and Growth Maps San Francisco � Buildings Artistic Homes of California – 1891 Union Square in 1905 Seals Stadium 1939 San Francisco – Social Capt. Montgomery Ends Indian Slavery – 1846 A View of Women’s Rights in San Francisco – 1891 “Lower California as a Negro Home” – 1891 “Bishop Arnett on the Negro” – 1900 Gladys Bentley at Mona's 440 Club – 1942 Matrix Homeless Program, Joyce v. City and County of San Francisco – 1994 Holocaust Remembrance Day – 1995 AIDS Quilt goes Online – 1997 San Francisco – Sports Casey at the Bat The Immortal Casey Joe Di Maggio: The new “Bambino,” — 1937 Francis "Lefty" O’Doul Day at Seals’ Stadium – 1938 Di Maggio Not Demanding $80,000 — 1941 Di Maggio Marries Marilyn Monroe at City Hall — 1954 Joe Di Maggio Dies at 84 — 1999 San Francisco � Streets History of Pioneer Street Names, by Henry C. Carlisle A Kearny Street Idyl; a "Steal" from Tennyson - 1881 No Need for Street Lamps - 1883 Van Ness Avenue - 1876 Our Unfordable Streets - 1876 Oh, My Aching Feet - 1880 Etiquette on the Street - 1886 Down with the Telegraph Poles - 1886 Advertisement - 1896 Couldn't Buy the Land - 1917 The Story of a Lamp Lighter - 1924 San Francisco – Theaters “San Francisco Theatrical Memories,” by James Madison Playbill from the California Theatre – 1880 San Francisco – Transportation – Aviation Walter T. Varney was born December 26, 1888 in San Francisco Balloon Racing, Oakland to San Francisco - 1909 The Marina Flying Field – 1922 Tragic Dole Air Race to Hawaii – 1927 Dedication of New San Francisco Airport – 1937 Search Continues for Amelia Earhart – 1937 U.S. Radiomen Comb Air For Signals From Amelia – 1937 Amelia Earhart - Prelude to Greatness – 1938 Pan-American Clipper at Treasure Island Pan American Philippine Clipper Orders for the June 1 Flight from Treasure Island – 1939 San Francisco – Transportation – Ferry NEW ADDITION The Ferry Docks at Hyde and Jefferson Streets December 9, 1936 The Red and White Fleet - Launching a San Francisco Legacy San Francisco – Transportation – Railroads “A Practical Plan for the Pacific Railroad,” by Theodore Judah – 1857 Coming of the Transcontinental Railroad – 1869 The Future of California Railroads – 1880 The Last Spike – 1881 More on The Last Spike – 1881 Thomas Hill's painting "The Last Spike" – 1881 1906 Southern Pacific Operations New Southern Pacific Depot – 1912 Railroad Schedules – 1912 Southern Pacific Ferryboat Schedule – 1928Photograph – Southern Pacific Band – 1930s State Belt Railroad Operations – 1953 San Francisco – Transportation – Street Railways and Cable Roads Biography of Andrew Hallidie, Cable Car Inventor San Francisco Cable Car Museum Website Our Hills – 1876 Roof-Seats for Street Cars – 1881 Clay St. Cable Car Ends its Run – 1891 Founding of the San Francisco & San Mateo Railway Co. – 1892 United Railroads' Great Work – 1906 Last Horse-drawn Streetcar Ends Journey – 1913 Overfair Railway at the PPIE – 1915 Inauguration of the Duboce Tunnel – 1928 Castro St. Cable Service May Soon End – 1939 Market Street Railway – 1925 Market Street Railway Brochure Castro St. Cable Service May Soon End – 1939 Buses to Replace Cable Cars – Tracks Removed – 1941 Friedel Klussmann’s Fight to Save the Cable Cars — 1947 End of San Francisco Interurban Streetcar Service — 1949 Straigt Facts about Muni 1950 Inauguration of the “F” Market-Castro Streetcar Line – 1995 Municipal Railway Tourist Fares – 1996 Streetcars of the Municipal Railway – 1997 San Francisco – UN - United Nations United Nations San Francisco – Utilities - Power-Telephone Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Company – 1887 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. – 1897 San Francisco Gaslight Co. – 1897 New Chinese Telephone Company – 1901 Restoration of the Gas Supply – 1906 Restoration of the Electrical System – 1906 Restoration of the Telephone System – 1906 Western Union Telegraph Co. Restoration – 1906 Ocean Beach Wireless Transmitting Station – 1912 New Pacific Telephone Co. Coast Division Headquarters – 1925 All Gas lights to be Gone by 1929 – 1927 For water systems see: Water Supply San Francisco – Vice Chinatown, Barbary Coast Gambling, Vice and Prostitution – 1871 Barbary Coast Cabarets, Saloons – 1908-1910 Helping Fallen Women of the Barbary Coast – 1917 San Francisco – Views Bird’s-eye View of San Francisco –1901 Views of the Golden Gate – 1901 Trip Down Market Street – 1905 San Francisco – Water Supply Earthquake Damage to the Spring Valley Water Company – 1906 Spring Valley Water Company Water Rates in 1921 Congressional Hetch Hetchy Hearings – 1908 “Hetch Hetchy Damming Scheme,” – 1908 by John Muir “The Endangered Valley...,” by John Muir Sierra Club Telegram to Congress Protesting Hetch Hetchy Bill – 1908 “Let Everyone Help to Save the Famous Hetch-Hetchy Valley,” by John Muir – 1909 Raker Bill for Hetch Hetchy – 1913 Map of Spring Valley Water Co. Holdings – 1922 Largest Sprinkler System in the World – 1930 New PG&E-City Hetch Hetchy Woes – 1941 Damage to the Water Supply during the Earthquake — 1989 Windmill Pumps at Golden Gate Park “Proposed Auxiliary Water Supply System...,” by Rolla V. Watt — 1907 High Pressure Water System for Fires Following Earthquake Answers to Hydrantman’s Examination — 1911 Brief History of Greenberg Fire Hydrants — 1953 “Fire Department Water Supply,” by Steve Van Dyke — 1997 San Francisco — Weather Record Heat Wave in San Francisco – 1876 Current San Francisco Weather Effects of Past El Niño Events on San Francisco Bay Climate of San Francisco by E. Jan Null “A Year of Weather Extremes,” by the National Weather Service – 1998 San Francisco – Women and Women’s Issues Commandments from a Miner’s Wife – 1849 “Sale to Lotta, the Actress” – 1869 Vice, Prostitution and Gambling in Chinatown and the Barbary Coast – 1873 A View of Women ’s Rights – 1891 Helping Working Girls in San Francisco – 1891 A Successful Lady Dentist – 1891 Women in the Police Department – 1895 Sophie Tucker Visits the Barbary Coast – 1911 Souvenir Book of J.H. Coffey - 1918 A Woman Runs for Musician’s Union Board of Directors – 1932 Search Continues for Amelia Earhart – 1937 U.S. Airmen Listen for Signals from Amelia Earhart – 1937 Amelia Earhart; Prelude to Greatness – 1938 Sally Rand Nude Ranch at Treasure Island – 1939 “Flesh Shows” on the Gayway at Treasure Island – 1939 Harriet Pullman Carolan at the Clift Hotel – 1939 Women Replace Men in Jobs Because of the Draft – 1941 Movie Star Jeanette MacDonald and Women in the War Effort – 1942 Friedel Klussman Saves the Cable Cars – 1947 San Francisco – World War I Souvenir Book of J.H. Coffey - 1918 Women in War Work - 1918 Army and Navy Insignia Compliments of The Hof Brau Restaurant, San Francisco San Francisco – World War II Air Wardens Chronology of San Francisco War Events 1940-1945 San Francisco Stars Entertain at Fort Ord – 1941 20,000 Needed for Civil Defense Duty – 1941 Dimout Regulations Controversy – 1941 S.F. Collectors Boycott Hitler’s Stamps — 1941 Women Replace Men in Jobs Because of Draft – 1941 Instructions for Bombing and Gas Attacks – 1941 Japanese Planes over San Francisco — 1941 The Battle of Los Angeles — 1942 Emporium Department Store War Plan — 1942 San Francisco–War City – 1942 Evacuation of the Japanese from San Francisco – 1942 Jeanette MacDonald Patriotic Concert at the War Memorial – 1942 Air Raid Instruction Card for Your Home – 1942 Meet Your Air Raid Warden - 1941 Navy to Lease Treasure Island “For the Duration,” — 1942 Navy Seizes Treasure Island — 1942 Navy Seizes Hunters Point Neighborhood — 1942 Street Signs for Troops in Alaska – 1942 Stage Door Canteen Planned for San Francisco – 1943 Instructions for Air Raid Wardens – 1943 “San Francisco Faces West, the City in Wartime,” by John Dos Passos – 1944 RCA, San Francisco, Negotiates the Capitulation of Japan – 1945 San Francisco – Yerba Buena Yerba Buena, Before the Gold Rush Lithograph of Yerba Buena – 1846 Proclamation to Change the Name of Yerba Buena to San Francisco History by Subject Page 2<- Continue
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