Shuttered San Francisco collection-architecture considered an "antiquated vehicle" in

considered an "antiquated vehicle" in 1917

all part of more than $21 million in final touches

"The slopes in the foreground were a precipitous

turned and shook hands with each other

Framed reprints may vary in width to reflect page proportions that changed from wide (pre-1954) to more narrow from 1997 to the present

Shuttered San Francisco collection-architecture considered an "antiquated vehicle" inThis image of Alamo Square Park in San Francisco is part of a collection of photos of once bustling locations that were rendered deserted by the global health crisis of 2020. Despite the emptiness or because of it, the locations took on a haunting beauty captured in The Times article, The Great Empty. During the height of the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020, The Times sent dozens of photographers out to take images of popular public plazas,