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Glen Park
Balloon ascension at Glen Park. View east across the valley toward San Miguel Hills. This is possibly the scene of an accident, the aerialist can be seen below the balloon attached to undeployed parachute. Light-colored structure at right is a model of Morro Castle, located at approximately today's Mizpah and Sussex Street.
Glen Park
McLaren Lodge
Golden Gate Park. Built in 1896, the McLaren Lodge was once the home of John McLaren, the Park Superintendent from 1887 to 1943. Also held Offices for the Recreation and Parks Department, a use that continues today.
Golden Gate Park
Stow Lake
Golden Gate Park. Little girl in white dress and little boy in sailor suit (Elsa and Henry Goecker) feeding ducks in Stow Lake.
Golden Gate Park
Stow Lake
Golden Gate Park. View northwest from slopes of Strawberry Hill to original boathouse with Prayer Book Cross (also Drake's Cross) in the distance..
Golden Gate Park
Stow Lake
Golden Gate Park. View across lake toward Strawberry Hill. Sweeny Observatory visible atop hill.
Golden Gate Park
Memorial Museum
Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. Originally constructed as Fine Arts Building for Midwinter Fair in 1894, it was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. It was demolished in 1929. Original sphinxes flanking stairs. Cider Press statue at left, and Dore Vase in center. Cupid cherub statuary groupings which were moved to front of the Spreckels bandshell from some time in 1900 until approximately 1915.
Golden Gate Park
Mill Valley
Passengers sitting in open carriage pulled by two horses. Probably taken on Miller Avenue near Throckmorton in downtown Mill Valley.
Golden Gate Park.
Sharon Building (also Sharon Lodge). Built in 1888, a sandstone building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style to serve as a canteen for children and mothers visiting the Golden Gate Park Children's Quarters. It was damaged the 1906 Earthquake and by fire in 1974, but it was restored to its original appearance after each of these disasters.
Golden Gate Park
Children's Playground
Golden Gate Park. People gathered in Children's Playground. Mother holding baby in foreground. Rustic building in background.
Golden Gate Park
Conservatory of Flowers
Golden Gate Park. View over Conservatory Valley from near Main Drive (today's JFK Drive) towards Conservatory of Flowers.
Golden Gate Park
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
City Hall Square
View northwest across City Hall Square (name changed to Marshall Square in December, 1902) to Pioneer Monument (James Lick Monument) and old City Hall rotunda. Gundlach's Wine Vaults (Philip Gundlach) in Marye Building at left. Monument later moved to Fulton Street between Larkin and Hyde.
Civic Center
San Mateo Central Grammar School.
Built in 1892 and demolished in 1923, when a replacement school was built on the site.
Mission Dolores
Pedestrians and bicyclists on Dolores Street passing in front of Mission Dolores, after removal of large portion of cemetery that encroached on sidewalk, and installation of steps into church necessitated by regrading of Dolores St. Gothic basilica at right, mission graveyard at left.
Mission Dolores