Celebrity

Contains 708 photos

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Portola Festival

Portola Festival Committee. Men posing on English battleship in the bay. Yerba Buena Island in background.

1909

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1907 Graft Trials

4 men in a car, Maurice Foley, Abe Ruef, Police Chief William Biggy, unidentified, outside of the temporary courtrooms at Synagogue Sherith-Israel

1907 Pacific Heights

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Miraloma near Yerba Buena

Willie Mays' house, 175 Miraloma Drive [This is the new home 175 Miraloma Drive, for which Willie Mays, SF Giants center-fielder, offered $37,500. Willie's offer was turned down, the owner Walter A. Gneadiloff, explaining there was great neighborhood pressure against the deal. Gneadiloff commented:

1957 Sherwood Forest

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GGIE

Golden Gate International Exposition, Group of men; fair under construction, radio broadcast about horticulture

1938 Treasure Island

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GGIE

Golden Gate International Exposition, John McLaren with VIPS; fair under construction, NBC radio broadcast about horticulture

1938 Treasure Island

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Treasure Island

Mayor Angelo Rossi, John McLaren, and others on Treasure Island during construction of the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE). Nationwide NBC radio broadcast of John McLaren initiating and discussing horticultural program for upcoming fair. (Others possibly in photo, Edgar Sanborn, Oakland Chief Forester; Jules Girod; Don Thompson.) (duplicate negative version: wnp14.0271)

1938 Treasure Island

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Golden Gate Park

Groundbreaking ceremony for Panama Pacific International Exposition at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park. President Taft speaking to crowd. [President Taft groundbreaking for PPIE at Polo Fields dpwbook3 dpw426]

1911 Golden Gate Park

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Golden Gate Park

Groundbreaking ceremony for Panama Pacific International Exposition at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park. President Taft(?) with shovel. [President Taft groundbreaking for PPIE at Polo Fields dpwbook3 dpw427]

1911 Golden Gate Park