Art

Contains 127 photos

de Young Museum
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de Young Museum

Golden Gate Park. View over Pool of Enchantment. Portions of the de Young Museum were later built around this pond. M. Earl Cummings Mountain Lion sculptures.

Golden Gate Park
de Young Museum
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de Young Museum

View north from Music Concourse to front courtyard of museum; Leonides statue (aka Roman Gladiator statue) at left. Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park
Memorial Museum
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Memorial Museum

Golden Gate Park. View from Music Concourse past Apple Cider Press statue to front of Memorial Museum. Dore vase and replacement sphinxes. Originally constructed as the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum.

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Early view of Garfield Monument, unveiled July 4, 1885, near Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park
Market, Bush & Battery
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Market, Bush & Battery

1906 Earthquake and Fire, View northeast to Donahue (Mechanics) Monument and ruins beyond. Man sits reading newspaper.

Financial District
Memorial Museum
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Memorial Museum

Golden Gate Park. View north across Music Concourse and pedestrian tunnel, with roadway lined with benches, to Memorial Museum. Fine Arts Building for Midwinter Fair was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Original sphinxes, Cider Press statue and Dore Vase.

Golden Gate Park
Market & Van Ness
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Market & Van Ness

View northwest across Market to Masonic Temple at Oak and Van Ness, California Volunteers monument, Muni H-line streetcar #10, The White Company, Mason Tires. At left, Young Men's Institute/International Center, 50 Oak St. (1914), extensively remodeled in 2000's for San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

South of Market
City Hall Square
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City Hall Square

View north to 'New City Hall Square' sign on Pioneer (James Lick) Monument (in its original location), City Hall behind. City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902, now the corner of Grove and Hyde) [Leather Rose Album] In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library. French-made cannon in front of monument was a Spanish-American war prize, presented by the Army in a ceremony on March 21, 1900. It is now in the Presidio.

Civic Center
Memorial Museum
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Memorial Museum

Golden Gate Park. Apple cider press statue, sphinxes, Dore vase, cannon, Golden Gate Park. Fine Arts Building for Midwinter Fair was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. (The right hand sphinx was removed in May 1905.)

Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

[Richard] [1925 San Francisco Park] U.S. Grant monument by Rupert Schmid on Music Concourse, with original cannon, sword, hat, and uniform bronzes on pedestal.

Golden Gate Park
Memorial Museum
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Memorial Museum

Golden Gate Park. Two women in front of old Memorial Museum. The Fine Arts Building for the Midwinter Fair was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Statue of lion created in 1898 by Ronald Hinton Perry and donated to the park in 1906. Dore Vase in background. [Shana]

Golden Gate Park
Mission District Mural
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Mission District Mural

Detail of mural showing two men. Painted on wall of Paco's Taco's, 24th & South Van Ness. [Mission Paco's]

Mission
Mission District Mural
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Mission District Mural

Detail of mural showing six women and children. Painted on wall of Paco's Taco's, 24th & South Van Ness. [Mission Paco's]

Mission
Mission District Mural
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Mission District Mural

Detail of mural showing three people and a pair of parrots and a palm tree. Painted on wall of Paco's Taco's, 24th & South Van Ness. [Mission Paco's]

Mission
Mission & 23rd
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Mission & 23rd

[Mission B of A mural] Detail of interior mural in Bank of America branch at 23rd and Mission. Dedicated by the artists to Mexican muralist David Alfao Siquieros, June 4, 1974. Design: Jesus Campusano, Luis Cortazar, Michael Rios; Artists: Jaime Carillo, Candice Ho, Julio Lopez, Anthony Machado, Jack Nevarez.

Mission