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'''View east along southern shore of India Basin, c. 1900. Wooden shipbuilding yards in foreground, and Hunters Point repair shipyard in distance.''' | |||
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Revision as of 13:01, 1 June 2023
Unfinished History
1920 view north from Hunter's Point Ridge over India Basin, Union Iron Works, Spreckel's sugar refinery, PG&E oil burning steam powered electrical generating facilities below Potrero Hill in the distance. Islais Creek waters below.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
View east along southern shore of India Basin, c. 1900. Wooden shipbuilding yards in foreground, and Hunters Point repair shipyard in distance.
Photo: George F. Lengeman collection
Indian basin, piers along shores of Hunter's Point, some probably belonging to Chinese shrimp fishermen. April 16, 1918.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.01833
India Basin Shipyards pictured in 1929
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp71.1164
India Basin, 1950s.
Photo: OpenSFhistory.org wnp14.2139
India Basin, pictured here in 1996, where a park was carved out of the industrial shoreline just north of Hunter's Point.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
India Basin as seen from above on Hunters Point Hill, December 2012.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The southeastern shoreline is also home to a number of indigenous plants and a restored habitat, the PG&E plant before its demolition on shoreline.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
