Islais Creek 1916 flood

Unfinished History

Islais Creek floods on January 14, 1916. This photo is looking north/northwest from Phelps near Jerrold, Bernal Heights in distance.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.01159; Original DPW Book 15, DPW2980

Islais Creek flood, January 14, 1916, looking north from Railroad Avenue (now Third Street) and Hudson (Potrero Hill is hill rising in distant right).

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.01160; Original DPW Book 15, DPW2981

A flood on Islais Creek in 1916 inundated this stretch of Innes Avenue in Hunters Point.

photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

Islais Creek flood, eleven days later, January 25, 1916, looking southwest from the railroad trestle.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.01166; Original DPW Book 15, DPW 2992

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