With vintage black and white photos, each of people will has personal imagination of detail colorization. With Bennett Hall, an American photographer, exhibit designer/producer & historian and archivist, he painted color onto these historic pictures that captured San Francisco from the 1850s to 1890s to make them more lively.
And here they are...
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| Civic Center Plaza in the 1890s |
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| Hall of Records, San Francisco, ca. 1880s |
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| Hills Bros. Arabian Coffee & Spice Mills, located at the corner of Sansome and Sacramento Streets, ca. 1880s |
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| Meiggs' wharf, Telegraph Landing area, ca. 1870s |
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| Montgomery Street, Palace Hotel at end, ca. 1880s |
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| Montgomery to Market Street, 1876 |
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| Pier 27, San Francisco waterfront, 1885 |
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| Rincon Point in San Francisco, 1851 |
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| Samuel Kellett storefront at 765 Market Street, ca. 1860s |
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| San Francisco waterfront from Telegraph Hills, 1865 |
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| San Francisco waterfront, 1850 |
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| Upper corridor of Palace Hotel, ca. 1880s |
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| Vallejo Street wharf, viewing towards Telegraph Hill, 1866 |
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| Waterfront below Telegraph Hill, 1865 |
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| Fort Point and the Golden Gate, ca. 1880s |
(Photos hand-tinted ©
Bennett Hall)
