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View north to pedestrian underpass to Music Concourse. Memorial Museum in distance. 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. Small building at left was originally the Royal Bavarian Pavilion at the 1894 Fair. It was converted into an annex to the Memorial Museum.
Golden Gate Park
Aerial looking southeast. Left to right: Sutro Baths, Gift Shop, Cliff House, Sutro Heights, Point Lobos Ave, Ocean Beach, Playland, Outer Richmond District, Great Highway & Esplanade, Golden Gate Park. Seal Rocks at lower right. Duplicate of wnp4.0607.
Fulton Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. 'Infant Incubators' Exhibit, attendants in Red Cross uniforms. "Direct from Paris Resseurs Infant Incubators, visited at the World's Fair St. Louis by millions of people." "Infant Incubators the great scientific demonstration of rearing living babies by artificial means."
Richmond Inner
Telegraph Hill Observatory, also known as Layman's Folly and Layman's German Castle. It was a roadhouse, restaurant, and observatory at the top of Telegraph Hill and reached by the Telegraph Hill Railroad up Greenwich Street. Funicular cable car at center at terminus.
Telegraph Hill
Golden Gate Park. Originally the Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair, was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. 'Apple Cider Press' statue by Thomas Shields Clarke, Dore Vase, cannon, original sphinxes.
Golden Gate Park
[3050 Cliff House & Seal Rocks, S.F. Cal] View west from Sutro Heights over Cliff Road. Norman entry on SE corner, dating view to after 1883.
Sutro Heights
Couple standing in front of tropical plant greenhouse conservatory. Sign points to amphitheater. Summer house building on hill behind. Same image as Watkins stereoview 1631.
Mission
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
Golden Gate Park. View east across Pool of Enchantment to east wing of de Young Museum and old Egyptian style Memorial Museum, demolished in 1929. Turtle sundial (by M. Earl Cummings) installed October 1907 in right distance.
Golden Gate Park
Elevated view southeast of the interior of the Chutes amusement park, Scenic Railway, bar, cafe, landscaping, carousel, Hotel Webster, 1291 Webster St., in background. 3 women posed in front of Scenic Railway entrance. [A. Lipman 421 Clement. S.F.]
Western Addition
View north from Music Concourse to front courtyard of museum; Leonides statue (aka Roman Gladiator statue) at left. Golden Gate Park.
Golden Gate Park
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, Music Concourse. View northwest to de Young Museum (central portion and tower completed in 1921, western portion at far left completed in 1925). 'Apple Cider Press' statue by Thomas Shields Clarke, turtle sundial (by M. Earl Cummings) installed October 1907. Sphinxes at right.
Golden Gate Park
Music Hall and Italian Terrace
Mission
de Young / Memorial Museum, demolished 1929. View north over pedestrial tunnel to museum, replacement sphinxes, military field guns. 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