Contains 476 photos
View North from Golden Gate Park toward grandstand and stables. Between Arguello, 5th, Fulton & Geary. Many hundreds of spectators, horses, gigs and carriages. [From Watkins Yosemite Art Gallery, Portrait and Landscape, 26 Montgomery St., opp. Lick House Entrance, S.F.]
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View north across sand dunes. Public Health Hospital in the Presidio in background.
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View north on 5th Avenue, the Geary, Park & Ocean steam train terminal at Fulton, with Bay District Race Track site at left. Men painting ad on fence at right. [502 Steam line to GG Park (unreadable) Geary St. 188x] (Bancroft/Jesse Cook Collection has this as Harbor View) [G57 SSTC-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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Geary Street Steam Dummy, Geary Street, Park, and Ocean Line. England Car 50
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[710 K.T. Grand Competitive Prize Drill - Battalion Drill, San F. Aug 25 1883.] Bay District Race Track looking North. Presidio and Marin Headlands in background. Knights Templar Triennial Conclave Drill Competition.
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[San Francisco Race Course] Infield of track with buggies and horses lined up; Odd Fellows Cemetery and Lone Mountain in distance
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[BD-4] Bay District Race Track Scoreboard, horse, jockey, people in foreground likely affiliated with the horses (i.e., owners, trainers)or other jockeys before mounting and heading to the track. It looks like the jockey at left is actually holding his saddle, and probably just came from being weighed. [F810 BD-004] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
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View north from Fulton between 1st and 4th Ave. Fulton Street Cable car in foreground. First Star of the Sea Church (1888–1918) in left background beyond grandstand.
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Bay District track. Detail of 26.546 view from Fulton between 1st and 4th Ave
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View southeast to Lone Mountain, Bay District Race Track, Golden Gate Park. Star of the Sea Church (built 1888) on right.
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[Arch-J. Marquis CABN-Jan'93] Artist's architectural drawing [Competitive Design for French Hospital...] Geary & 6th
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Panorama 1894 part 1. View toward Marin Headlands and Golden Gate. Midwinter Fair, Bonet Electric Tower. Sand dunes in Richmond District. Mt Tamalpais in distance. [F810 PAN-005a] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Golden Gate Park
Panorama 1894 part 2. View toward Marin Headlands and Golden Gate. Deer Glen, Casino, Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Early houses and Star of the Sea Church in Richmond District. Bay District racetrack and tree-lined Arguello Blvd (then 1st Avenue) at right. [F810 PAN-005b] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Golden Gate Park
Lake Street between 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue. [Cornerstone Ceremonies, Maria Kipp Orphanage. Bishop Nichols pronouncing the stone laid. No.5]
Presidio Terrace
Lake Street between 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue. [Cornerstone Ceremonies, Maria Kipp Orphanage. Lowering the stone to place. No.4]
Presidio Terrace
Lake Street between 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue. [Cornerstone Ceremonies, Maria Kipp Orphanage. Arrival of Procession - No.3]
Presidio Terrace
Photo of a newspaper image and clipping of last day at Bay District Track; view of jockeys, race promoters, and grandstand. One-mile race track between First Avenue (Arguello), Fulton Street, Fifth Avenue and Point Lobos Road (Geary). Grandstands near Balboa & 4th Ave.
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Last day at Bay District Track; view of jockeys, race promoters, crowd, and grandstand. Grandstand located near today's Balboa & 4th Ave.
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[From Strawberry Hill GG Park1898 GGP-9] Probably taken from Sweeny Observatory. Looking northeast towards the Inner Richmond and Lone Mountain. Main Drive in center. Stow Lake at right. Memorial Museum (old Fine Arts Building), later part of deYoung Museum, at center right, Casino on Fulton Street center. [F810 GGP-009] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Golden Gate Park
[Co. A Neb / James. F. Helton?] Spanish-American War, Nebraska Volunteers lined up for chow. (location is approximate)
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