What images are available online from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection?
Approximately 38,000 images owned by San Francisco Public Library are available to view and download from the Library’s Web site. These photos represent the most popular subjects from the San Francisco History Subject Collection. The subjects include streets, buildings, people, earthquakes, fairs, neighborhoods, bridges, parks and more. See a complete list of digitized subjects. Images from our collection are continually being added to the Web site. Check the “What’s New” Page to see what we’ve digitized recently. While the San Francisco History Subject Collection is the primary focus of the digitizing effort, some materials from our other photo collections have also been scanned and are available online. Images from the Shades of San Francisco neighborhood photo project, the James A. Scott Collection, and the Willard E. Worden Glass Plate Negative Collection, are featured in special online gallery pages. New collections are added to this section as they are scanned.
