This lecture provides an overview of San Francisco's history from the early Spanish missions to the 20th century. It discusses the city's growth during the Gold Rush and features images of landmarks, maps, and art from different eras. Key events summarized include the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed much of the city, major rebuilding efforts and plans like the Burnham Plan, and the two World's Fairs held in the city in the early 20th century which promoted its recovery. The lecture also highlights the work of photographer Dorothea Lange and references the counterculture movement of the 1960s.

1. Lecture 1: Mission to
Metropolis

2. Engravings by Louis Choris

3. “Headdresses of Mission Indians”
1816

4. “Native Hunters”
1816

5. Lithograph based on Choris engraving
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6. •Decorative Windows at Mission Dolores
•Representing Father Junipero Serra

7. Mission Dolores Cemetery

8. Mission Dolores
•Completed in 1789
•Second Mission building

9. Mission Dolores & Neighboring Parish
•Neighboring church destroyed in 1906
•Note funeral cortege in foreground
•Current church was rebuilt in 1920s

11. Jean Vioget survey of Yerba Buena 1839
•Earliest map of future San Francisco

12. Jasper O’Farrell Survey, 1847
1847
•First depiction of
American San
Francisco as
opposed to Spanish
representations

13. Modern depiction of abandoned gold rush ships
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14. •Lithograph made in the 1870s
•Depicting San Francisco as it appeared in 1846-47

16. Overview of Gold Rush California

17. “The Flying Cloud”
•Held record for fastest sea trip from New York to San Francisco until 1980s
•Navigated around Cape Horn in 89 days, 21 hours
•Piloted by Eleanor Cressy in 1851

18. “A View of the Elephant” (Seeing the Elephant)
Lithograph
1850s

19. •Carte de Visite
•photographic portrait of two miners
•1850s

20. •Dagguerrotype
•photographic portrait
•Solomon Yeakel

21. Lithograph of Chinese Mining Camp
•not dated
•racial/ethnic animosity
•the lesson of cooperation

22. “Black and White Miners Working Claim Together”
• “plein air” daguerrotype
• another lesson regarding cooperation

23. “Sunday Morning in the Mines
•1872
•Charles Nahl (1818-1878)

24. “Hydraulic Mining in the California Sierras”
•paper photograph (late 1850s)
•end of the Gold Rush

25. Lecture 2:
The Cultural Inheritance
of the Gold Rush

26. Bret Harte
1836-1902

27. Samuel Clemens
1835-1910

28. “Yosemite-Best General View”
Carleton E. Watkins

29. “Yosemite Falls”
Carleton E. Watkins

30. Half Dome
Eadeward Muybridge

31. “Sunset in the Sierra”
Albert Bierstadt

32. “San Francisco Bay From Oakland Hills”
Albert Bierstadt

33. California Mid-Winter
Fair
January - July 1894
Continuation of parts of the Columbian International

34. Bonet Tower
Spotlighting structure on Strawberry Hill with administration building to the
left and Hall of Horticulture on the right

35. Original Japanese Tea Garden
• Color Lithograph San Francisco “Examiner” supplement
• Japanese Tea Garden
• 1894

36. Original Japanese Tea Garden
• Lithograph San Francisco “Examiner” supplement
• Japanese Tea Garden
• 1894

37. “Eskimo Village”
California Mid-Winter Fair Midway

38. California Mid-Winter Fair Palace of Fine Arts
• Later renamed deYoung Museum
• On the same site as the current deYoung museum
• “Egyptian Revival”

39. Palace of Industrial Arts
“Islamic Revival”

40. Original Japanese Tea Garden
• photograph
• designed by Makoto Hagiwara
• interesting family story

41. The Silver Kings

42. “The Silver Kings”
• Clockwise from top: James
Flood, James Fair, John McKay,
William O’Brien

43. “The Big Four with Theodore Judah”
• Left to Right: Mark Hopkins, Collis P.
Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles
Crocker
• The “big four” of the railroad industry

44. “Westward, the Course of Empire Takes its Way”
• Color Lithograph
• Currier & Ives
• 1868

45. “The Curse of California”
• Lithograph
• Featured as a Magazine
Cover for “The Wasp”
• 1882

46. Lecture 3: A Survey of
Victorian Era Buildings

47. Map of San Francisco

48. Italianate Flat Front
• Peak popularity:
1870s
• Simple,
“classical,”
redwood used
to mimic stone
ornament

49. Italianate Slanted Bay
• Peak Popularity: 1870s
• Simple, “classical,” redwood used to mimic stone ornament

50. San Francisco Stick/ “Eastlake”
• Peak Popularity: 1880s
• Vertical, geometric, angular, inventive

51. Queen Anne Row House
• Peak Popularity: 1890s
• Horizontal, light frivolous, asymmetrical

52. Edwardian Style
• Continuation of late Victorian ideas in architecture
• Named for new king

53. Matt Evans
• Created the slide collection at SFSU in 1950s and
60s
• Made the photographs himself, sensing that the
buildings would soon be demolished

54. Queen Anne Row Houses
• Peak Popularity: 1890s
• Horizontal, light, asymmetrical, no tower
• Location: Steiner Street between Grove and Fell Streets
Contractor built, not architect designed

55. Romanesque Revival
• Historical source is late medieval church and feudal social structures
(abbeys, castles, etc.)
• Demolished c. 1965

56. Italianate
• Built ca. 1870s
• Location: Rincon Hill the site is now the west anchorage of the Bay Bridge
• Buildings demolished in 1930s

57. Italianate and 2nd Empire
• Italian-Renaissance architecture inspired these buildings
• Second Empire is a contemporary (1870s) French style

58. Queen Anne Tower House
• Location: Broderick and Lyon Streets
• Built ca. 1890s
• Originally a single family dwelling, now broken into several apartments

59. Italianate Flat Front
• Classical details are most evident in these “simple” structures
• Location: Ivy Alley in the Western Addition
• Western Addition was the “new” part of San Francisco developed in late 1850s and beyond

60. Italianate Slanted Bay
• Note continuation of classical “details”

61. San Francisco Stick
• These buildings are also
referred to as “Eastlake” style
• The details are said to be
taken from English furniture
designer Sir Charles Eastlake
• Eastlake asked that he not be
referenced as a source for the
structures

62. Stick-Eastlake Flats
• Response to declining space on which to build

63. Queen Anne Tower House
• “Busiest” of all San Francisco
Victorian-era buildings
• Note variations re: façade
• Matt Evans’s inquiry into the
social-psychological
implications of this kind of
architecture
• Contemporary with colonial
revival buildings in rest of
country

64. Haas Lilienthal House
• Queen Anne Mansion
• Location: 2007 Franklin Street

65. Hibernia Bank
• Construction: 1891-1892
• Currently unoccupied
• Location:1 Jones Street at Market, Tenderloin
• Largest Tiffany-style skylight on the west coast at the time of construction

66. Palace Hotel
• Completed in 1875
• Largest hotel in the U.S. at time of completion
• Interesting social history-racial affairs in San Francisco
• Built to address needs of Trans-Continental Railroad tourists
• Destroyed in 1906 fire and earthquake
• Location: Market at New Montgomery

67. Baldwin Hotel
• Built 1885
• Destroyed in
an 1894 fire
• First women’s
only billiards
room in U.S.
• Exhibits the
limits of
wooden-
frame
construction
• Location:
Powell at
Market

68. Chronicle Building
• Built 1891:
Architects, Burnham
and Root (Chicago)
• Location: Market at
Geary and Kearny
Streets aka
“Newspaper
Junction”
• Earliest “Chicago-
style” structure in
San Francisco

69. Chronicle Building
• Built 1891:
Architects, Burnham
and Root (Chicago)
• Location: Market at
Geary and Kearny
Streets aka
“Newspaper
Junction”
• Earliest “Chicago-
style” structure in
San Francisco

70. Call Building
• Built 1895: Architects
Reid and Reid (another
Chicago firm)
• Location: Market at
3rd Street (Newspaper
Junction)

71. Call Building
• Built 1895: Architects
Reid and Reid (another
Chicago firm)
• Location: Market at
3rd Street (Newspaper
Junction)

72. Call Building
• Built 1895: Architects
Reid and Reid (another • Resurfaced in
Chicago firm) 1930s and
10 additional
stories added
• Location: Market at
3rd Street (Newspaper
and renamed
Junction) “Central
Tower”

73. San Francisco Circa 1906
•Looking east on Market Street from Geary Street
•Foreground: Lotta’s Fountain
•Right background: Palace Hotel
•Before fire and earthquake of 1906

74. Lecture 4:
San Francisco in the
Twentieth Century

75. Burnham Plan for San Francisco
1905

76. Palace of Fine Arts
Panama-Pacific International Exposition

77. Temple of Jewels
1915

79. Part of Burnham’s original plan

80. San Francisco City Hall under Construction
1913-1915

81. Completed San Francisco City Hall
1915-Bakewell and Brown

82. Golden Gate International Exposition on “Treasure Island”
(1939-1940) Temple of the Sun

83. Court of the Nations
GGIE
1939-1940

84. Pacifica-Theme of GGIE
1939-1940

85. Aerial view of San Francisco
1940

86. The Two Bridges after Completion

87. Golden Gate Bridge
Completed 1935

88. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Completed 1936

89. Drawing of Plan for Bay Bridge
Early 1930s

90. Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
Preparing for her Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition

91. “White Angel Bread Line”
Dorothea Lange
1932

92. “Migrant Mother”
Dorothea Lange
1936

93. “Salute of Innocence”
1942
•part of Executive Order 9066

94. Dorothea Lange
•Part of Executive Order 9066

95. “Our Spiritual Forefathers”
Cover San Francisco Oracle
L to R: Timothy Leary, Allen
Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Gary
Snyder

96. Back Cover
San Francisco Oracle

97. “Dance of Siva”
San Francisco Oracle

98. Poster advertising Miller Blues
Band at Fillmore West
1960s
The drawing is by Auguste
Doré, French (1832-1883)

99. Gordon Lightfoot and Cold Blood
1968
Fillmore West