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Bridle path along newly-completed Great Highway. View south, two riders on horses heading north, northbound automobile traffic beside them.
Sunset
Great Highway
[Great Highway #296] Construction. Bulldozer grading the eastern embankment of Great Highway. View to south with LaPlaya Street in background.
Sunset
Great Highway
[#309 Great Highway Looking South] Construction at the foot of Golden Gate Park. View to south with construction work still in progress.
Ocean Beach
Lower Great Highway
Lower Great Highway / La Playa Street
Sunset Outer
Daniel's El Camino Del Mar
Construction work on Harding Blvd, later called El Camino Del Mar. [#401 Harding Blvd] Water tower and buildings of Fort Miley visible in center. View southwest from below Legion of Honor.
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Point Lobos Ave
Unstable slope below Sutro Heights across from Cliff House. View to east.
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Ocean Beach
Rocky cliffs and shoreline at north end of Ocean Beach near Cliff House. Japanese-style gate to Tea House on Cliff House terrace visible at center. View to northwest.
Sutro Heights
Sutro Heights
[G-183] View north from Ocean Beach, towards Dolce Far Niente balcony and observation tower. New rock fill below Point Lobos Avenue.
Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach
Landing of Transpacific Cable. Cable splicing ceremony on Ocean Beach with second Cliff House and Sutro Heights in background. Life Saving Service boat ramp in foreground. View looking north. Possibly taken on 12 Dec 1914 during failed first attempt?
Ocean Beach
Firth Wheel
[The Old Firth Wheel at the Cliff House. Taken in 1908 - S.F.] Located on Merrie Way above Sutro Baths.
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Third Cliff House
[New Cliff House - 1909. S.F.] From Point Lobos Avenue
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Sutro Heights
[Entrance to Sutro Heights 1909 S.F.] View looking south from across Point Lobos Ave (Cliff Road) towards Main Entrance Gate to Sutro Heights. Streetcar tracks in foreground.
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Gjoa
Roald Amundsen's Gjoa was the first ship through the northwest passage in 1906. Donated to San Francisco, she was displayed at the west end of Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972, when she was returned to Norway. [The Gjoa now in G.G.P. after sailing through all the Arctic Oceans. 1909 - S.F.]
Ocean Beach
Aberdeen shipwreck
Wreck of steam schooner Aberdeen on Ocean Beach near foot of Kirkham St. Shipwreck occurred January 28, 1916.
Sunset