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Princess from the Portola Festival, Oct. 1913. (The 1913 Portola Festival mixed the themes, putting more emphasis on the 400th Anniversary of Balboa discovering the Pacific in 1513, but kept the name Portola Festival and some of the trappings of prior festivals.) (JF)
36th and Telegraph, Thomas Whealand lineman for Home Telephone company of Alameda was electrocuted on the pole
Outside SF
Transit car barn, steam dummies, and trailers of the Geary Street Park & Ocean Railway.
Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
[Opening day Twin Peaks Tunnel July 1917] crowd watching city engineer O'Shaughnessy speaking for the Twin Peaks Tunnel opening to pedestrians
Castro
Boats filled with sailors being towed to ship in front of Yerba Buena Island
SF Bay
The train ferry Solano (1879-1930) departing her Port Costa slip with a passenger train for her last trip across the Carquinez Strait to Benicia. Farewell crowds and the press fill her deck. The Solano made her last trip on the same day the Benicia-Martinez Railroad Bridge opened. [2051-53]
Outside SF
Elevated view southeast over Market to huge crowd of people overflowing intersection, possibly watching someone reading a large news scroll posted on the Hearst/Examiner Building at center. Monadnock building under construction at left. Palace Hotel far left. Spreckels/Call Building at right.
Downtown / Union Square
Large crowd gathered on hillside to watch Great White Fleet enter bay. Huge Welcome sign is visible on the hilltop
Telegraph Hill
Military parade on Grove Street; City Hall in background
Civic Center
Unknown boxing match with big crowd around ring
Elevated view northwest to thousands of war workers gathered for presentation from stage with banner 'KGO-Blue'; dignitaries on stage; United Iron Works personnel. Bethlehem Steel administrative building in the background center, later redeveloped as Restoration Hardware in 2022.
Central Waterfront
Crowd of people gathered around for the Jack Loreen Buried Alive attraction. View north to the Cliff House and Sutro Heights. Ocean Beach Pavilion to the right.
Sutro Heights
Group of sailors marching in formation, probably at recreation grounds of 1894 Midwinter Fair.
Golden Gate Park
View of crowd with Scenic Railway rollercoaster behind. Electric Tower in left background.
Golden Gate Park
[Races at GGP 1909] Bicycle race around Polo fields in Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park