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Golden Gate Park. Egyptian-influenced museum building 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.
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Lincoln Park, Palace of the Legion of Honor. Completed structure viewed from unpaved parking lot. Fort Miley water tower in background. The flagpole marked the original terminus of the Lincoln Highway with a plaque (visible here) around the base reading 'End of the Lincoln Highway'. [Legion Honor P-6]
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Golden Gate Park. Gustave Dore's 'Poeme de la Vigne' bronze vase in front of the 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. It was demolished in 1929. (The Dore vase was displayed near present Academy of Sciences during Midwinter Fair.)
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Looking northwest. Haight-Ashbury, Panhandle, Golden Gate Park, Original Chutes Theatre
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Sweeny Panorama, Strawberry Hill, Golden Gate Park, built 1891 as a gift to the park from Thomas U. Sweeney (Sweeney's name was misspelled on the observatory.)
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Golden Gate Park, SF CA. 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. Dore Vase and cannon at entrance. Lion Statue (donated 1906).
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Golden Gate Park. Memorial Museum on Music Concourse. Original sphinx statue, Dore Vase. 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. (Only one sphinx of original pair is visible in this view. The eastern sphinx collapsed and was removed in May 1905.)
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View north from Music Concourse past Pedestrian Underpass to Memorial Museum with Dore vase and original Sphinxes in front. Fine Arts Building for Midwinter Fair was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. - Golden Gate Park
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Memorial Museum - Golden Gate Park, original Sphinx statues. 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.
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Golden Gate Park - View east to Memorial Museum in background. People on lawn. 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.
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de Young Museum viewed looking north across Music Concourse - Golden Gate Park [de Young Museum G.G.P. P.20
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Golden Gate Park. Entrance to central tower of museum (1921) with Pool of Enchantment and M. Earl Cummings mountain lion statues in foreground.
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View northwest to Memorial Museum, with sphinxes and Dore vase in front. Golden Gate Park. Fine Arts Building for Midwinter Fair was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum.
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Golden Gate Park. U.S. Grant Statue at left, replacement sphinx statues, Dore Vase. 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. (Grant's bust was toppled on June 19, 2020.)
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Pond in front of Sweeny Observatory, a gift to the park from Thomas U. Sweeney (Sweeney's name was misspelled on the observatory.) on Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park.
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