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Hand-drawn sketch map of San Bernadino boundaries. Volume 1, page 738.
Date: 1840
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No Caption: A view of the large crowds surrounding an enormous United States flag and the Spanish-American War Memorial (Douglas Tildon, sculptor) at the Portola Festival of 1909. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.
Date: 1909
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No Caption: Court of Abundance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Fairmount [sic] Hotel - S.F.," C. 1906. View of the Fairmont Hotel, a luxury hotel in San Francisco. Although construction was mostly finished in 1906, the advent of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of that year damaged the hotel's interior and delayed opening until 1907. It was the first hotel in what is now the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. In 1945, the San Francisco hotel was host to an international conference that culminated in the formation of the United Nations.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: An adult male African lion at Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, Los Angeles, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, originally opened in 1879. After the most recent extensive rehabilitation, the conservatory reopened in 2003 and is a city, state, and national historic landmark.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: c. 1910. Grace McCarthy posing in a garden with an armful of flowers.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: Canada Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Lands End S.F." Lands End is a rocky shoreline at the mouth of the Golden Gate in San Francisco. Today it is a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Date: Undated