Military

Contains 459 photos

Civic Center
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Civic Center

Washington's Birthday Parade. Police officers salute the colors as flag bearers pass by on Polk Street side of City Hall. California State Building in background.

Civic Center
Candlestick Park
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Candlestick Park

Giants Opening Day, Marine color guard delivering the flag

Candlestick Point
Bush near Montgomery
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Bush near Montgomery

Sailors with rifles marching in formation up Bush St. Unique Diary Lunch at 318 Bush St. and Chas. H. Kewell Co. sporting goods at 316 Bush St. in background. [inscription: This is a better pictures of me. I never knew why the girls were calling me bay doll but I found out they see my dimples. You can see them for yourself . - Tommy]

Downtown / Union Square
View from Pacific Heights
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View from Pacific Heights

View northwest from approx. Green and Baker Streets towards Presidio and Marin Headlands. [21. North Cantonment, Presidio San Francisco, Calif.] Far left: Letterman Hospital and officers quarters. Temporary WWI barracks at top. Siam Pavilion, Palace of Fine Arts, and Oregon Building from PPIE.

Cow Hollow
Angel Island
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Angel Island

Camp Reynolds on Angel Island, viewed from the bay. Barracks at left behind flagpole. Parade ground at center.

Outside SF
Presidio
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Presidio

Crissy Field in the Presidio of San Francisco. View looking east from Lincoln Blvd towards World War II barracks, hangars, and airfield. City skyline in distance.

Presidio
Presidio
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Presidio

Crissy Field in the Presidio of San Francisco. View looking east from Lincoln Blvd towards World War II barracks, hangars, and runway. Alcatraz Island at left. (Barracks and runway were removed during the 1998-2000 renovations of Crissy Field.)

Presidio
Angel Island
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Angel Island

U.S. soldier addressing a group of Japanese prisoners-of-war on Angel Island at end of war. Former Immigration Barracks at left. [Japanese Soldiers in other parts of the world mirrored their disappointment over the loss of the war, this batch of prisoners of war at Angel Island appear pretty happy it's all over.]

Outside SF
Yerba Buena Island
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Yerba Buena Island

Sailors from U.S. Navy recruit training center on Yerba Buena Island carrying out mock assault on hill at east end of the Island. Some sailors lying on the ground playing dead. [This is my company in a sham battle.]

Yerba Buena Island
Ferry Building
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Ferry Building

View west towards Ferry Building with tower framed by big guns of a battleship. Notably missing is the Southern Pacific Building, completed 1917. [San Francisco from between the big guns of a Dreadnaught. 4314]

Financial District
Sacramento near Powell
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Sacramento near Powell

Night view east from Nob Hill to illuminated ships at anchor in bay, the 'Great White Fleet. Ferry Building visible at left with lights on tower and giant electric stars and stripes shield decoration in front. Kohl Building, Alaska Commercial Building (1907), Merchants Exchange, Clunie Building, Mills Building. Pagoda of Sing Fat Building (1907) outlined with electric lights. Sacramento & Powell intersection at lower right.

Nob Hill
PPIE
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PPIE

Panama Pacific International Exposition. [E192 Blowing Up Good Ship 'Zone' Zone-Day, P.P.I.E 1915] Underwater mine detonated to blow up a mock-up of warship moored off fairgrounds. Belvedere Island in right background. (Location approximated.)

Fort Mason
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Fort Mason

View south from ship on SF Bay toward Ft. Mason and Gas House Cove. Tug boat at center. Ship at pier on left. End of pier painted in Korean War motif.

SF Bay
Alcatraz Island
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Alcatraz Island

West side of Alcatraz viewed from a military ship with soldiers lining the rails. Probably a military transport heading into or leaving Fort Mason and the San Francisco Port of Embarkation.

SF Bay
Fort Mason
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Fort Mason

Elevated view west over piers toward Golden Gate Bridge. Tug boats and Army transport tied up alongside Pier 3 at the Port of Embarkation.

Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason