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Lake Merced
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Lake Merced

Girl Scouts at Lake Merced. Girl with bandana and hat sitting on dock in foreground. Two girls in a rowboat behind her.

Lakeshore
Lake Merced
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Lake Merced

Girl Scouts at Lake Merced. Girl with bandana and hat sitting on dock in foreground. Two girls in a rowboat behind her.

Lakeshore
Lake Merced
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Lake Merced

Girl Scouts at Lake Merced. Girl with bandana and hat sitting on dock, while two girls in a rowboat alongside hold oars upright.

Lakeshore
Laguna Honda near Clarendon
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Laguna Honda near Clarendon

'View uphill from Laguna Honda and Clarendon. [news copy: The wreckage above is all that remains of a five-room house which slide down a hill after three days of rain washed away the supporting soil from the underpinning. Walter H. Adams, British Consul, owner, had left the house earlier]

Forest Hill
View from Twin Peaks
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View from Twin Peaks

View south from Twins Peaks towards fog curling around Mt. Davidson. [City in the Clouds. Solid fog banks swirling around the hills of San Francisco give these hillside homes the appearance of a 'floating city.' Only consolation for dwellers in homes buried by the fog is weatherman's word that the vapor acts as a natural cooling system.}

Midtown Terrace
Nikita Khrushchev visit
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Nikita Khrushchev visit

Khrushchev departing a limousine and waving to crowd at SP Bayshore Yards. Mayor George Christopher at left.

Outside SF
Nikita Khrushchev visit
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Nikita Khrushchev visit

Khrushchev departing a limousine and waving to crowd at SP Bayshore Yards. Mayor George Christopher at left.

Outside SF
Hall of Justice
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Hall of Justice

Memorial for Judge Matthew Brady at Hall of Justice (Kearny and Washington), Irene Brady, wife of Judge Brady with safety patrol students of St. Mary's Chinese School and Ss. Peter & Paul School. Safety patrol boys include Louis Birleffi, Ray Pissiciotta, Roy Arrighhi, Francis Mark Jr. and Collin Quock. (Judge Brady annually held a meeting for school safety patrol on his birthday).

Chinatown
Lincoln High School
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Lincoln High School

Lincoln High School groundbreaking for new stadium. Carolyn Sherwood & superintendent Dr. Herbert Clish at controls.

Parkside
Kezar Stadium
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Kezar Stadium

Kezar Stadium, Mayor George Christopher presiding over May Day festivities with Polytechnic High School Gym in background.

Golden Gate Park
Junior Army Gardening
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Junior Army Gardening

Group of Polytechnic High School students gardening, possibly at Golden Gate Park.

Market near 5th
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Market near 5th

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson ( Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson ( Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player and civil rights activist)

Downtown / Union Square
Market near Grant
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Market near Grant

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Visible marchers John Lewis (future US representative and then head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), William Chester (march coordinator and Northern California Regional Director of the ILWU), James Farmer (activist and leader of CORE - Congress of Racial Equality), Reverend Hamilton Boswell ( Jones Street Methodist Church), Jackie Robinson (Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player)

Downtown / Union Square
Market & Grant
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Market & Grant

Human Rights March to Civic Center, 35,000 attended. Jackie Robinson and Reverend Hamilton Boswell at center.

Downtown / Union Square