Shaping San Francisco is a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco.
Our online wiki-based archive, FoundSF.org is a place to discover and shape San Francisco history. We focus on the history of the labor movement, the relationship between urban development and the natural environment, racial politics in San Francisco, land use, the history of women and feminism, immigration from many parts of the world, the emergence of gay San Francisco, the artistic life of the City, and of course, the specific history of each neighborhood.
We believe that history can be a process that grows naturally from our desire to understand the world, and that history can be de-professionalized, made into a popular, participatory process.
Find out more at: foundsf.org
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Mansions in Pacific Heights with original dune scrub in the foreground. (read more)
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Flood Mansion at top of Nob Hill as seen from the courtyard in front of the Mark Hopkins Hotel at Mason and California. (read more)
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Rainy day in 1938, Chinatown street scene. (read more)
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Cable car rolling on California near Grant Ave., 1930s. (read more)
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Just north of Market, office workers take a break to watch the demolition of an old structure on Market Street. (read more)
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Hayes and Buchanan intersection is below this northwesterly view with a crumbling billboard in the empty lot that is now built out. (read more)
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Northeasterly view of Hayes and Buchanan, c. 1958, (read more)
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Bay Bridge and San Francisco skyline from Yerba Buena Island, c.1958. Photographed by Kurt Bank. (read more)
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View down on Union Square in 1937 from upper floors of St. Francis Hotel. (read more)
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The recently finished Highway 101 in the mid-1950s where it intersects with Alemany Boulevard, looking west. Cortland Avenue is prominent at right side of photo as ... (read more)
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Aerial view of the North Mission toward Mission Bay. Mission Rock is at top of photo, the black "island" beyond the piers. Potrero Avenue is indicated ... (read more)
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View of Oakdale Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard from slopes of Bernal Heights before Highway 101 was built. Center top is an incinerator emitting smoke, to its ... (read more)
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Aerial shot of where the Mission District meets the Precita Park edge of Bernal Hill. The main street running from the top left corner to the ... (read more)
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Seals Stadium anchored the block between Potrero and Bryant on 16th for about 30 years and was home to the San Francisco Giants in 1958 and ... (read more)
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Aerial view of Noe Valley with San Francisco-San Jose railroad coming through the Bernal Cut at top right corner. 27th and 30th Streets are indicated in ... (read more)
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By the 1950s, a ring road was built around Bernal Hill. At top of photo, left of center, is a large PG&E gas storage tank, and ... (read more)
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Bayview Hill is altered and a portion of the San Francisco Bay is filled in (with land from the hill) to lay the ground for Candlestick ... (read more)
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