Steve's San Francisco pages
This page lists Steve's work-in-progress SF pages and handy links to resources. For completed pages, see the website's drop-down S.F. menu. Some resource pages require account logins.
Booklets:
- Do I Dare Say I Was There? [Lindquist booklet]
- The Illustrated Directory [Glover 1895]
- San Francisco Before and After [1906 souvenir booklet]
- The San Francisco Disaster Photographed [1906 souvenir booklet]
Postcard catalogs:
Stereoviews:
- SF stereoviews [my collection]
- More SF stereoviews [from internet]
Parcel maps:
- 1864 Block Book
- 1886 Sanborn [Keys: All 1 2 3 3a 4 5; Volumes: 1 2 3 3a 4 5]
- 1894 Illustrated Business Directory
- 1899 Sanborn [Keys: All 1 2 3 4 5 6; Volumes: 1 2 3 4 5 6]
- 1901 Block Book [Horner's addition: key]
- 1905 Sanborn [Rumsey: Keys: All 1 2 3 4 5 6; Volumes: 1 2 3 4 5 6]
- 1906 Block Book [January; Horner's addition: key]
- 1906 Block Book [October]
- 1907 Block Book [homesteads only]
- 1910 Block Book
- 1913 Sanborn [Keys: All 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; Volumes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
- 1914 PPIE [Sanborn]
- 1929 R.E. atlas [downtown only: pp. 163 ff.]
- 1935 Block Book [Vol. 40]
- 1946 Block Book [Vol. 40]
- 1948 Sanborn [rev. of 1914; Keys: All 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; Volumes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]
- 1954 R.E. atlas [downtown only]
- Assessor's Property Information Map [current]
- Sanborn maps [other vols. of above]
Photo archives:
- FoundSF
- Online Archive of California
- OpenSFHistory
- SFMTA (MUNI)
- SF Public Library (geolocation map here)
Newspaper clippings:
Resources:
- Breer photos [1906]
- CA Digital Newspaper Collection
- Census
- City directories [SFPL list; reverse index from 1953]
- Cushman photograph collection [1952-1961]
- Daily Alta California [search 1849-1891]
- DataSF [SF Open Data project]
- Diamond Heights photos [via Josie Iselin]
- Hathaway CA Views [CA photo collection (watermarked)]
- Henggeler SF history pages [Muybridge, 1906, ...]
- Maps
- Notes
- NYPL stereoviews [Dennis collection]
- San Francisco Call [search 1890-1913]
- San Francisco Chronicle [search 1865-1922 via ProQuest]
- San Francisco Chronicle [search 1865-2017 via NewsBank (preferable)]
- SF photos [old pix not organized yet]
- SFPL online resources
- Spring Valley Water Co. [SFPL]
- Telephone directories [SFPL list]
- Theatres
- Valley Street photos [via Judy Vaughn]
In progress:
- 29th Street [pared-down version of Upper Noe page]
- Mission Street
- Noe Valley
- Notes [re other topics of interest]
More local history pages to come: Castro, Diamond Heights, Glen Park. Stay tuned!
