FoundSF

Unfinished History

San Francisco from space.

Photographs from space taken by U.S. government satellites.

Find your own on the web at http://images.jsc.nasa.gov

Point Reyes juts into the ocean (right center); San Francisco with Golden Gate Park in the center.

San Francisco from space with fog encroaching. The city is at lower left; San Jose is in the right-center.

Looking north from an airplane, c. 1957, SFO airport at right, San Bruno Mountain dividing peninsula communities from San Francisco proper.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.5576

Looking north with Armory in foreground, Civic Center and downtown skyline, August 11, 1931, by the U.S. Air Corps.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.2671

Aerial from Mission Creek to northern shore and Marin County (at top), 1948.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org

Downtown aerial view, 1955.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org

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