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Caption: "Conservatory Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. Built in 1879, the Conservatory is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park, and the oldest municipal wooden conservatory in the country.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Hotel-Saint Francis," c. 1913. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square with partial north wing extension and the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904 and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.
Date: 1913
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Design and drawing of unidentified California National Guard Armory by Alfred Eichler. Project for California Military Department.
Date: undated
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Caption: "Column of Progress," shows The Adventurous Bowman (Hermon A. McNeil, sculptor) on top of column, with a four-panel frieze at the base of column (Isadore Konti, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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