Contains 588 photos
Golden Gate Park Panhandle at Baker Street. View north toward Fell. Construction has not begun on Southern Pacific Hospital (Opened 1908).(Houses in the background still stand on Hayes near the corner of Lyon.) [William McKinley Memorial - Golden Gate Park] [published by Main & McGee]
Panhandle
View north across Market to Native Sons (Admission Day) Monument, Mechanics Savings Bank Building (then 'Pepsi Cola Center for Servicemen') at right. Many military men and women in uniform on the street. Monument was moved to Golden Gate Park in 1948, then returned to Market at Post and Montgomery Streets in 1977.
Tenderloin
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, entrance to Court of Palms with 'End of the Trail' statue at center.
Marina
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, sculpture ""Autumn" by Furio Piccirilli in fountain niche in Court of the Four Seasons.
Marina
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Fountain of Energy
Marina
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
Garfield Monument, located off Main Drive (now JFK) near Conservatory of Flowers. Created by California sculptor Frank Happersberger, it was unveiled on July 4, 1885, with a bronze statue of Garfield on a base and pedestal made of granite from Penryn, a town in Placer County in the Sierra Foothills. A statue of Lady Liberty sits on the pedestal, holding a broken sword and wreath, referencing the assassination.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island. Statue of Pacifica.
Treasure Island
Music Concourse. View west across concourse from U.S. Grant statue toward bandshell (Spreckels Temple of Music). Academy of Sciences at far left.
Golden Gate Park
Artist Beniamino Bufano working on a an oversize drawing of St. Francis of Assisi at his studio at 410 Natoma Street
South of Market
Benny Bufano and wife Ann Medalie Bufano working on 'St. Francis' statue in studio at 410 Natoma Street.
South of Market
Benny Bufano working on 'St. Francis' statue in studio at 410 Natoma Street.
South of Market
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
Statue of ram in front of City College of San Francisco. ['The City College' San Francisco Junior College] Statue was carved at Golden Gate International Exposition by sculptor Dudley Carter from a single redwood log, using primitive tools double bladed axe and chisels, entitled Big Horn Mountain Redwood Ram. In background, Science Hall designed by architect Timothy Pflueger.
Westwood Park
Panama Pacific International Exposition. Statue of 'End of the Trail' in front of the Court of Palms.
Marina