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Note the backwards S's. This was written in the emulsion so it's easy to reverse the letters, I...

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The old fashioned way. The photographer, and subject, covered half of the frame and took a picture...

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Crew members of the USS Ranger in Baja California performing hydrographic research.c.1900 or before....

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c.1920 This is a sharper version than the one already up.

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in San Francisco a few years after the great Quake of 1906.

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Uploaded on Feb 1, 2012

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I'm feeling a little claustrophobic after looking at the previous picture.

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for a bike ride to the Marin Headlands. 16.8 miles from Embarcadero Bart station to the Marin...

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it would have been for a bike ride when this picture was taken over seventy-five years ago.

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on a large lathe. c.1910

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at the Oakland Speedway. c.1930's

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from the south tower of the Golden Gate bridge during construction. c.1935

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in the San Francisco bay showing the Golden Gate International Exposition worlds fair. 1939

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Does anybody recognize any ancestors? These are images of mining operations and the many miners who worked there.

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c.1923 in San Francisco

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at the Alcazar. c.1923. Gitchi-Gitchi ya ya dada might work here too. I found that on the web.

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