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Arnold Genthe (8 January 1869 – 9 August 1942) was a German-American photographer, best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities.
He was known for shots of foggy San Francisco, [2] [3] and photos of San Francisco life from the 1940s to the 1960s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Lyon worked in different roles within photography, including as a military photographer, a photojournalist, a fashion photographer, landscape photographer, and as a street photographer.
23rd Street station is a light rail station on the Muni Metro T Third Street line, located in the median of Third Street in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The station opened with the T Third Street line on January 13, 2007.
Trinity Presbyterian Church, known from 1972 on as Mission United Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church at 3261 23rd Street in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. [2] It was built in 1891 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]
A connecting shuttle line running from 20th Avenue on Taraval Street, 33rd Avenue, Vicente Street, and 35th Avenue to Sloat Boulevard (meeting the 12 Ocean line) was opened by 1910. [2] This trackage, which saw infrequent passenger service, formed a barrier to continued expansion of the city-owned Municipal Railway into the Parkside district.
Fresco by Diego Riviera in the Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute SFDL 295 San Francisco Eagle Bar: 396–398 12th Street October 29, 2021 SFDL 296 Casa Sanchez Building: 2778 24th Street February 11, 2022 SFDL 297 Crocker National Bank Building: 1–25 Montgomery Street March 14, 2022 SFDL 298 "Allegory of California" fresco
Minor White was appointed by the founders to be the editor of the magazine, which was at first published out of San Francisco. [2] The magazine's dimensions were initially modest ( 9 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in or 240 by 160 mm), and in its first two decades the photographs discussed and published in its pages were exclusively black and white ...
With the California Gold Rush and grading for new San Francisco streets, the demand was so high in 1850 that a second gunpowder factory was built at 23rd Street and Maryland Streets. In 1857 San Francisco Cordage Manufactory (later renamed Tubbs Cordage Company) opened a rope-making factory at Potrero Point. [3]