Sunnyside District Photos

Sunnyside Avenue, East from Edna Street, 1919

A boy and a car on a very traffic-free Sunnyside Avenue (today's Monterey Avenue) in 1919, looking east.

Image: Courtesy of Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936 Volume 9 Unit ID 38. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Sunnyside District Photos
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Sunnyside District Photos

Sunnyside Avenue, East from Edna Street, 1919

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