Private collector’s historic San Francisco photos now available online

[petronius]

San Francisco history aficionados are in for a spectacular treat: A private collector has donated thousands of incredible historic San Francisco photos to the Western Neighborhoods Project. WNP is, in turn, digitizing all the images and posting them online.

The first batch to be posted on their online archive — over 1,100 images in total — are of the Cliff House, Sutro Baths, Sutro Heights and Ocean Beach areas. You can see 10 of those images in the gallery above and the rest here.

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2015/01/28/private-collector-historic-san-francisco-photos-available/#photo-583876

This is very cool! links are in the article, or here: http://outsidelands.org/private/ (Seems a bit overwhelmed at the moment, though...)

[NV Whino]

1. Those are fabulous!

[hunter]

2. This will be fun!

I love seeing San Francisco as my great grandparents saw it.

San Francisco is "The City" for West Coasters, although that use of the word doesn't seem to cover as large an area as it once did, as other cities have grown. It's still common where I live, people will say, "Oh, we're going to The City this weekend..."

Another California word is "tules," as in, "they live out in the tules" which was the swampy areas of California's Central Valley, which have since been drained and converted to farmland.

There was some disdain for people who lived in the "tules," as the people who settled there tended to be "lower class" Europeans and Americans. My San Francisco born grandma and her sister could say some really obnoxious classist and racist things sometimes and be completely oblivious about it. Their mother, my great grandma, was even worse.

[Brother Buzz]

3. I read a lot of cool Western Neighborhood Project articles years ago. Good people

There were great photographs posted occasionally as well, photographs that were not in the SF Public Library digital archives. I did not realize it was all from a private collection. Bookmarked, thanks!

Here is the San Francisco Public library digitized images collection (pack a lunch before visiting)
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000028501