Aerial Archives creates custom aerial photography of San Francisco, California and its library contains an extensive selection of aerial photographs of San Francisco, including historic San Francisco aerial photographs, aerial photography of the San Francisco skyline and over 500 additional categories of aerial photographs of San Francisco. If you can't find the photograph of San Francisco you need from this archive, let us create it for you.

San Francisco, CA; Image ID: AHLB2068

San Francisco, CA; Image ID: AHLB2051

The archive also contains an extensive collection of current and historic oblique aerial photographs of San Francisco, including bridges, commercial real estate, environmental subjects, wetlands, salt ponds, geographic features, airports, ports, harbors and marinas, industrial plants including each of the major refineries, manufacturing plants and fabrication facilities, and the skylines of each of the major urban centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and numerous additional categories.

Included in the archive is comprehensive vertical aerial photography and extensive oblique aerial photography of San Francisco beginning at the turn of the century, with additional aerial coverage increasing as the decades pass. The aerial photography archive also contains aerial photographs of the San Francisco international airport, Alamo square, Alcatraz island, Angel island, Aquatic Park, the Bay Bridge the Caltain railroad station, Candlestick Park, the Civic Centerand construction in San Francisco. It also includes Crissy Field, the San Francisco drydock, the financial district, Fishermans wharf, fog, Gas House Cove, Geary street, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Golden Gate Park.

Among the other subjects covered by the oblique aerial photography collection are Hayes valley, Hunter's point, Islais creek, the Marina Green, Market street, the Marriott hotel, Mission bay, the Mission district, the Moscone center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nob hill, north beach, Fishermanns Wharf and Pier 39, Pier 70, the Port of San Francisco, the presidio, Rincon hill, Russian hill, Oracle Park, the Sony metreon, the south of market SOMA district, Telegraph hill, the Transamerica building, the Transbay terminal, Union square, San Francisco at night, Van Ness avenue, the waterfront and vessels navigating along the San Francisco waterfront. The archive also includes a limited number of ground photographs, including photographs of the Loma Prieta earthquake, and photographs from various perspectives on San Francisco bay.

San Francisco, CA; Image ID: AHLB2076

San Francisco, CA; Image ID: AHLB2072 Numerous specialized categories are also contained in the archive including an extensive collection of infrared aerial photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area, night time aerial photography of San Francisco and the surrounding cities and other specialized images. In addition, aerial maps of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay area are available as is a poster of an aerial view of San Francisco during the Giants baseball game at Opening Day at SBC Park. For custom aerial photography or to obtain aerial photography of San Francisco not shown on this site, please contact Aerial Archives.