Strawberry Hill
View southeast of waterfall and pool from Sweeny Observatory in Golden Gate Park. Early Inner Sunset houses. Sutro Forest.
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View from Strawberry Hill
View southeast from the top of the Sweeny Observatory. Inner Sunset, Mount Sutro. Pump house, Sweeny Observatory pool and waterfall in the foreground. Olympic Club grounds, Reynolds house on Lincoln Way and 14th Ave. Streetcar poles on 9th Ave but not Lincoln Way, so sometime between 1894 and 1898. [MB Coll]
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View from Strawberry Hill
Looking southeast. Inner Sunset, Mount Sutro. Pump house, Sweeny Observatory pool and waterfall. People posing. Streetcar poles on Lincoln Way.
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View from Strawberry Hill
[Behrman Collection. From Strawberry Hill GG Park 1898 GGP-7] View East, to Stow Lake, Lone Mountain, Masonic Cemetery, Music Concourse. Memorial Museum (built as Fine Arts Building, later incorporated into deYoung Museum, then demolished, at center left.
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View from Strawberry Hill
[From Strawberry Hill GG Park 1898 SF Behrman Collection GGP-9 ]View northeast to French Hospital, Lone Mountain, Casino on Fulton Street. Memorial Museum (built as Fine Arts Building, later incorporated into deYoung Museum, then demolished, at center right, Odd Fellows Cemetery.
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Music Concourse
Golden Gate Park. Man and girl in front of 'Apple Cider Press' statue by Thomas Shields Clarke.
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Music Concourse
Golden Gate Park. 'Apple Cider Press' statue by Thomas Shields Clarke and towed field artillery cannon..
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View across Music Concourse to Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, UCSF Medical Center in distance. Mount Sutro. Francis Scott Key Monument. Probably taken from tower of de Young Museum.
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View across Music Concourse 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. Together with the Japanese Village (today's Tea Garden), these were the only buildings not demolished after the fair.
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Sharon Meadow view south to Francis Scott Key Monument in original location, crowd, carriages, Sharon Building. Affiliated Colleges and Mount Sutro in distance. Metropolitan Railway powerhouse visible on Carl Street. Raphael's sign on hilltop. Present site of tennis courts
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Fine Arts Building for 1894 Midwinter Fair under construction, on the future Music Concourse. Later called Memorial Museum. Became part of the de Young Museum before being demolished in 1929.
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Francis Scott Key Monument in original location. Crowd around monument, likely for a concert.
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Panorama of Music Concourse and Music Bandstand, also called Spreckels Temple of Music.
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View northeast along Music Concourse. Man in traditional Chinese clothing walking between benches towards Memorial Museum. Gladiator Statue (King Leonidas) at left.
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View south over tennis courts, Francis Scott Key Monument in original location, Metropolitan Powerhouse, Affiliated Colleges, Mount Sutro.
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