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View north to Memorial Museum in distance past south Pedestrian Tunnel. 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. (Undeveloped area at left is present site of Academy of Sciences.)
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Golden Gate Park. View north from Music Concourse, past pedestrian underpass, to Memorial Museum. 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. Building at left was originally the Royal Bavarian Pavilion at the 1894 Fair. It was converted into an annex to the Memorial Museum. 'Apple Cider Press' statue by Thomas Shields Clarke, Dore vase, original sphinxes flanking entry.
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Third Cliff House and Seal Rocks, looking northwest from Sutro Heights. Totem poles at left and right, Giant Camera (old Camera Obscura) at center. (Note wave patterns painted on Cliff House parapet.)
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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.
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Terrace deck at Cliff House looking north to Seal Rock Restaurant (formerly Tea House).
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View north past man in car to de Young museum in background with west wing (1925) completed.
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Elevated view northwest from Balboa and La Playa to The Chutes Tabloid Golf Course. Hawai-Land dance hall in Ocean Beach Pavilion in background.
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Golden Gate Park Women posing with 1918 Buick in front of Memorial Museum on Music Concourse. 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. Building at left was originally the Royal Bavarian Pavilion at the 1894 Fair. It was converted into an annex to the Memorial Museum. Turtle sundial (by M. Earl Cummings) installed October 1907. [Buick 1918]
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Auto parked in front of Memorial Museum / de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Military field guns, replacement sphinxes. 'New' de Young Museum at left. The old Memorial Museum was demolished in 1929.
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Carts pulled by goats, people sitting on bench, baby carriage. Likely taken in Children's Playground. [Goat teams, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Cal., USA]
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[Music Stand Golden Gate Park.] Second music stand or bandshell, future site of Tennis Court. Two ladies on path in foreground.
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Golden Gate Park, view northeast to Conservatory of Flowers after January 5, 1883 fire. (New dome in place by 1884) [479. Golden Gate Park]
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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.)
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1894 Midwinter Fair, Golden Gate Park. Elevated view southwest across concourse to Bonet Electric Tower, Administration Building, dunes. Strawberry Hill at extreme right. A cable stretches from the Tower toward the camera, and on it an aerialist dressed in white walks above the Grand Court.
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View of January 5, 1883 fire damage to the Conservatory dome, Golden Gate Park. Men pose inside. Chimney, view south. Golden Gate Park.
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