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"VENUS DE MILO AT SUTRO HEIGHTS CLIFF HOUSE, S.F."
ebay image
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Gryphon statue
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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Gryphon statue
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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Chinese Women in holiday dress (reverse)
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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"CARPET FLOWER BEDS, Sutro Heights"
A. J. Mcdonald, photographer (reverse)
(WNPCHP WNP136.16)
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"107 CARPET FLOWER BEDS, Sutro Heights"
"A J McDonald, Photographer, San Francisco, Cal." (reverse)
(WNPCHP)
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"107 CARPET FLOWER BEDS, Sutro Heights"
"A J McDonald, Photographer, San Francisco, Cal." (reverse)
(WNPCHP)
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"Sutro Heights, Flower Beds in Winter" by Perkins
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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"GARDEN VIEW - SUTRO HEIGHTS"
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"A Glimpse in Sutro Heights"
(WNPCHP)
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Well House
(WNPCHP)
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"D GARDNER"
Well House
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Adolph Sutro, Well House in background
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Sutro Heights - AJ McDonald
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"Palms. Grove."
"No. 76, Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal., 1886, Taber Photo"
Source: OAC (link) |
"Old Grove"
"No. 75, Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal., 1886, Taber Photo"
Source: OAC (link) |
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"Palm Avenue Sutro Heights San Francisco Cal."
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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"Drive Way, Sutro Heights, S.F. .McClearie""
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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Palm Ave
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke
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Stag, Taber (ebay image)
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"No. 78, Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal., 1886, Old Grove. Taber Photo"
Source: OAC (link)
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"No. 77, Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal., 1886, Old Grove. Taber Photo"
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"No. 28, Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal. 1886, Old Grove. Taber
Photo"
Source: OAC (link)
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"No. 21, Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal., 1886, Employees. Taber Photo"
(Adolph Sutro mid-left)
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Well House,
1966
SFPL (link)
- Newspaper Clippings -
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Daily Alta California - 26 Feb 1885
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The Mendocino Beacon - Jun 20 1885
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Sutro Heights opens to public
The San Francisco Examiner - Sep 6 1885
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New York Times - 20 Sep 1885
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The San Francisco Examiner - Mar 14 1886
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Pacific Rural Press - 8 May 1886
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The Topeka Daily Capital - Aug 11 1886
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Daily Alta California - 17 January 1887
For more on the Parallel Explosion click
here
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San Francisco Chronicle - Apr 24 1888
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The Los Angeles Times - Apr 1 1889
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Fall River Daily Evening News - Feb 26 1890
The Fête Champêtre
Charity event for the SF Polyclinic, 23 May
1891
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San Francisco Call - 24 May 1891
Charity event on Sutro Heights
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The San Francisco Examiner - May 24 1891 (pdf)
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"Sutro Heights Gate Receipts"
San Francisco Call - 10 Oct 1894
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The Wasp - Dec 1895
"THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WAR AT SUTRO HEIGHTS"
John Martini (12/19/2020): "Backstory is there was fear at the time of
attack by the British Navy, and the cartoon represents Mayor Sutro’s
concerns — jokingly, the destruction of “his plaster of Paris and old junk”
by naval gunfire."
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San Francisco Call - 24 Nov 1896
"Airship" visits Sutro Heights
For more on the Airship click here
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Cliff House owners will take over Sutro Heights
San Francisco Call - 2 June 1907
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San Francisco Chronicle - Jun 6 1920, page 1A
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San Francisco Chronicle - Jun 6 1920, page 2A
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San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 12 1920
"suggestive sketch by Edward H. Bennett of Chicago"
(click above image for full story)
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The Province - Dec 10 1935
Memorial plans (never built)
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San Francisco Chronicle - 3 Jul 1940
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San Francisco Examiner - 2 Oct 1940
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Santa Cruz Sentinel - 13 October 1953
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The San Francisco Examiner - 17 Aug 1980
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