Golden Gate Park

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Stow Lake
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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..

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Stow Lake
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Stow Lake

Golden Gate Park. View across lake toward Strawberry Hill. Sweeny Observatory visible atop hill.

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Golden Gate Park.
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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.

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Children's Playground
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Children's Playground

Golden Gate Park. People gathered in Children's Playground. Mother holding baby in foreground. Rustic building in background.

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Conservatory of Flowers
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Conservatory of Flowers

Golden Gate Park. View over Conservatory Valley from near Main Drive (today's JFK Drive) towards Conservatory of Flowers.

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Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

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.

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Stow Lake
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Stow Lake

Golden Gate Park, Stow Lake and boathouse

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Japanese Tea Garden
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Japanese Tea Garden

Golden Gate Park, entrance to Japanese Tea Garden

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Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Streetcar on right-of-way rustic stone overpass over South Drive (now MLK Drive) near Lincoln Way and 48th Ave.

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Camp Merritt
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Camp Merritt

View north from Golden Gate Park behind the Conservatory of Flowers. Soldiers viewing Camp Merritt from Golden Gate Park. Fulton Street car in background.

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Memorial Museum
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Memorial Museum

Museum - Golden Gate Park, SF, Ca. issued by Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Co. Fine Arts Building for Fair was renamed Memorial Museum in 1895 and eventually became part of de Young Museum. Dore vase, cannon, cupid statuary groupings (moved to front of bandshell in 1900) and sphinx in front. Building in background left was originally the Royal Bavarian Pavilion at the 1894 Fair. It was converted into an annex to the Memorial Museum.

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Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Bowling Greens, Francis Scott Key Monument, Sharon Building beyond. Affiliated Colleges (now UCSF) in the far background, Mt. Sutro

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Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

Second Music Concourse. on the current site of the tennis courts. Bandshell, Band Stand

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Conservatory of Flowers
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Conservatory of Flowers

Views from Main Drive (now JFK Drive), Golden Gate Park

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Golden Gate Park
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Golden Gate Park

de Young Museum, Palace of Fine Arts 1894 Building

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Golden Gate Park

Snoozing bison in the original buffalo paddock behind the current site of Academy of Sciences.

Golden Gate Park
Bear Pits
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Bear Pits

Grizzly Bear in Cage (Monarch) in Golden Gate Park

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Japanese Tea Garden
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Japanese Tea Garden

Golden Gate Park, Main Gate from inside [Leather Rose Album]

Golden Gate Park
Garfield Monument
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Garfield Monument

Golden Gate Park [Leather Rose Album]

Golden Gate Park
Stow Lake
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Stow Lake

Golden Gate Park, View southeast toward Rustic Bridge, Mt. Sutro in background [Leather Rose Album]

Golden Gate Park