PBA Galleries

Large collection of approximately 350 photographs of San Francisco scenes, many with locations captioned in the negative, some captioned by hand in ink. Various sizes, most 9x7" and smaller.

A wonderful large collection of San Francisco scenes in the years and decades preceding the 1906 earthquake, includes several copy photographs of 1850s scenes by Fardon, most appear to be early 20th century copy photographs of 19th century images, some from the early years of the 20th century. Many produced by T.E. Hecht, with his studio name in the negative. Mostly scenes of the downtown business district, also a few photographs of early illustrations of San Francisco. A wealth of pre-earthquake information contained in these images.