Golden Gate Park
[Willis Polk SF Architect Memorial Stone in Golden Gate Park] Inscription reads "Planted by the Garden Club in memory of Willis Polk, Architect and Tree Lover, September 22, 1927." Near the Pioneer Log Cabin.
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Bush & Octavia
Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park plaque in the sidewalk at Bush and Octavia [Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park 1814-1904 - Mother of Civil rights in California - She supported the western terminus of the underground railway for fugitive slaves 1850-1867. This legendary pioneer once lived on this site and planted these six trees. - placed by the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society]
Japantown
Lotta's Fountain
[Lotta's Fountain at Market at Kearny] Market, Kearny & Geary.
Downtown / Union Square
Lotta's Fountain
[Detail Lotta's' Fountain] Market, Kearny & Geary. Lion's head and dedicatory plaque from Lotta Crabtree, 1875
Downtown / Union Square
Civic Center
[Victory Monument 27] View northwest from plaza to Welcome Home Victory Monument (1919-1924), column with winged sculpture at top erected following end of World War I. Postcard. In background, Cathedral Hill, Polk Street businesses, California Hall. Foliage in plaza in boxed planters.
Civic Center
Mt. Olympus
Triumph of Light Statue on the summit of Mt. Olympus. Plaque reads "Erected by Adolph Sutro 1887" (Dedicated on Thanksgiving Day). View west across undeveloped Cole Valley. Golden Gate Park and Strawberry Hill in right background.
Buena Vista
Golden Gate Park
Two women in hats sitting on ground in front of planters at Conservatory of Flowers. Garfield Monument in distance.
Golden Gate Park
USS San Francisco Memorial
Plaque seen through a shrapnel hole in the Memorial, located at the El Camino Del Mar parking lot below Fort Miley, also referred to as 'Memorial Parking Lot.'
Lincoln Park / Ft. Miley
Grove & Hyde
View northwest to Pioneer Monument at its original location at Grove and Hyde Old Main Library (now Asian Art Museum) in background. In 1993, the monument was moved to the pedestrian mall on Fulton Street between the Asian Art Museum and the new Main Library.
Civic Center
Market & Kearny
View north on Kearny across Market. Lotta's Fountain, Chronicle Building with Security Finance Co., W & H Cigars Liquors on the right. KSAY Radio sign on Schmidt Building, Granville's Jewelers with Bulova clock, Pastine's, O.P.O Clothes, Iron Horse, Moores on left.
South of Market
Post & Stockton
View southwest from the corner of Post and Stockton toward Union Square and St. Francis Hotel. Hotel Plaza at right. Dewey Monument at left. [1035 San Francisco St. Francis Hotel van Post str. Gezien 7.3.'23]
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Mason
View north across Market to Admission Day Monument (Native Sons Monument). Erected in 1897, sculpture by Douglas Tilden, located at the intersection of Market, Mason and Turk Streets. It commemorates California Admission Day (September 9, 1850), the date on which the state became part of the Union. In 1948 it was moved to Golden Gate Park, and in 1977 moved to its present location at Market and Montgomery St. The five-story building at the left is The Metropole, a lodging house built around 1883 at Turk and Mason. The Olympia Music Hall (later known as Tivoli Opera House), the large round building in the background, was built in 1884 as the Panorama Building and was later remodeled as the Tivoli Opera House. Two street sweepers at work. Pacific Shirt Co. at right. (PF)
South of Market
Geary & Stockton
View northwest across Union Square towards St. Francis Hotel, Chancellor Hotel. Municipal Railway (Muni) A-line streetcar at left. Dewey Monument at right. Two sailors standing on the corner.
Downtown / Union Square
Geary & Stockton
View west across Union Square towards St. Francis Hotel. Municipal Railway (MUNI) B-line streetcar at left. Dewey Monument at right. Birdcage traffic signals. B-Line streetcar, trolley bus.
Downtown / Union Square
Golden Gate Park
Francis Scott Key monument in original location at Music Concourse on site of present tennis courts. [Jas. Lick's Monument to Francis Scott Key. Unveiled in Golden Gate Park July 4th 1888 (No. 5 Market St.] Photo probably shows dedication ceremony.
Golden Gate Park