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Golden Gate Park. Two women in front of old Memorial Museum. The Fine Arts Building for the Midwinter Fair was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Statue of lion created in 1898 by Ronald Hinton Perry and donated to the park in 1906. Dore Vase in background. [Shana]
Golden Gate Park
[Shana] Couple with little girl walking through underpass beneath Main Drive near 10th Avenue
Golden Gate Park
[Shana] Two men with a spaniel dog, lying on the grass
Cathedral Hill
Portals of the Past on Lloyd Lake. Columns from the entrance to the Alban Towne Mansion on Nob Hill, destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Portals moved to Golden Gate Park in 1909.
Golden Gate Park
[Haight Panorama 1908] View across Golden Gate Park to Marin Headlands. Polytechnic High School, Arguello and Lincoln Way seen below. [View from Residence of Mr. & Mrs. T. Paterson Ross (likely 109 Edgewood Avenue). Oct. 17-1908]
Parnassus Heights
[Haight Panorama 1908] View past Golden Gate Park to Presidio. Market Street Railway car house, with tower (formerly Metropolitan Railway). Park nursery. Conservatory of Flowers. See wnp26.1466.
Parnassus Heights
[Haight Panorama 1908] View to Lone Mountain in distance. Intersection of Carl and Willard below. Haight Street car house, Young Men's Hebrew Association tower. See wnp26.1466s.
Parnassus Heights
View west to Mt. Sutro, Fort Miley in distance. Cole Valley, homes. Golden Gate Park with Strawberry Hill, Music Stand, and Memorial Museum (at far right). Grattan School lot with small wooden building, replaced in 1912 by a large permanent school building, at center far left.
Buena Vista
View southwest from Alamo Square toward Buena Vista Park and Mt. Sutro in distance.
Alamo Square
Bocce Courts and men playing on the current site Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (TEL Hi) Gymnasium. View North toward Chestnut between Powell and Mason. Flats at 572-578 Chestnut in the background [Recreation & Parks]
North Beach
Bocce Courts and men playing on the current site of Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (TEL Hi) Gymnasium. View north toward Chestnut between Powell and Mason. Flats at 566-568 and 572-578 Chestnut still stand 2021. Bauer-Schweitzer Hop and Malt factory at right was originally reconstructed in 1908 on the site of its prior operation dating to 1880, which had been destroyed in 1906. The portion on Chestnut and some other portions of the factory were demolished and converted to housing in the early 2000's. The taller portion in the far background which fronts on Francisco, was designated San Francisco Landmark #129 and converted to housing as part of the same project, retaining some of its original features. [Recreation & Parks]
North Beach
Palega Recreation Center (then called Portola Playground), near Hamilton and Felton. Children on lawn with house behind. Woman in costume, director telling story? (see also wnp26.1506, a couple of the same kids) [Recreation & Parks]
Portola
View north from Palega Recreation Center (then called Portola Playground), near Hamilton and Felton. Woman reading a story to small children. Bernal Heights in the background. (see also wnp26.1505, a couple of the same kids) [Recreation & Parks]
Portola
[Recreation & Parks] View north. Woman in costume telling story to children in park, tennis courts in background. Homes in background were demolished for Western Addition redevelopment, large apartment building on right still stands.
Cathedral Hill
[Recreation & Parks] View north past Fieldhouse (William Gladstone Merchant, Architect) and children playing volleyball and watching from balcony.
Forest Hill