Jesse Cook's Scrapbooks of San Francisco

L. to R. Police Photographers Geo. Blum and Det. Serg. A. Jewel
examining a finger print camera. Mar. 1922

Somehow I ended up in this scrapbook with over 4000 images: Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936.  And I am glad I landed there. What an incredible span of years. Jesse B. Cook as part of the police force had a different viewpoint of the happenings in San Francisco. His scrapbooks cover such interesting things as the 1906 earthquake, the documentation of high pressure first system, finger print cameras, mug shots of the famous and not so famous, many photos of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition from different viewpoints than ones I've seen. Here are some of my favorites:

The Clowns from the Olympic Club and some of our Society young ladies at the Community Service Circus at Ewing Field, W. cor. Masonic Ave. & Turk St., March 25th & 26th, 1922. Lieut. of Police John J. Casey with the Broom.

The old home of D. Ghirardelli, the chocolate man,
N. W. corner Baker and Pacific Ave.
Taken 11/24/24
No, it's not still there. I checked.

The old Last Chance Saloon N. W. corner Bryant and Main St.
Built about 1886 when the Bay came up to the front door of the saloon,.
Taken Nov. 29/24
Also not there now. Near Red's Java House and Pier 28 and the Bay Bridge approach.

High Pressure Day, April 17-20, Market St. West from Kearny St.
Some additional pictures on how they achieved this high pressure system elsewhere in the scrapbooks.

23rd St. West from Hoffman Ave., 1920

Some PPIE images

Some older images in the albums outside the range of the Jesse Cook's range of photography.

The blowing-up of Arch Rock, San Francisco Bay.

Fanny Davenport of the Calif. Theater, 1879
I like how she is decorated with floral materials.
Many other pictures of entertainers, circus, comediens, including Lotta Crabtree.