Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco

Adolphine Sutro Fullerton

Adolphine Sutro Fullerton, daughter of Adolph Sutro who owned the Cliff House and Sutro Baths, frequently captured famous San Francisco landmarks in her work. She painted this depiction of the famous Roman Catholic church around 1925. Situated in San Francisco's famed North Beach, it became known as "la cattedrale italiana dell'Ovest" -- the Italian cathedral of the West -- in the early 1900s with the wave of Italian immigrants who settled there.

By the late 1920s, the Saints Peter and Paul Church had earned notoriety for its appearance in Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 version of The Ten Commandments, and for being the target of anti-Catholic anarchists, who used explosives to try to destroy the structure on five separate occasions between 1926 and '27. You can now find the church in the movies Dirty Harry, Deadpool, and What's Up, Doc?. Baseball legened Joe DeMaggio, a first generation San Francisco Italian, was married in the church, and his funeral was held there when he passed away in 1999.