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  • Tea Service at The Japanese Tea Garden

    Tea Service at The Japanese Tea Garden

    These are in fact very tough times for the Tea Garden family and about to get tougher. Politics and the wars will effect this family greatly within a couple years

  • Drum Bridge at The Tea Garden

    Drum Bridge at The Tea Garden

    Shinshichi Nakatani designed and built the Drum Bridge in Japan, dismantled it, and brought it back to San Francisco. Halfway through completion, the Expo ran out of funds. Shinshichi left San Francisco and returned to Japan where he sold off personal land holdings and brought the money back with him to complete the project.

  • Sundial by M. Earl Cummings in Golden Gate Park

    Sundial by M. Earl Cummings in Golden Gate Park

    Created in 1907 and donated to the park by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in California to commemorate three great navigators: Sir Francis Drake, Juan de Cabrillo, and Fortuo Ximines. Sits in front of the DeYoung Museum.

  • Temple Gate at The Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park

    Temple Gate at The Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park

  • Paper Airplane

    Paper Airplane

  • Strolling Before Going Inside

    Strolling Before Going Inside

  • Friends on The Grass by De Young

    Friends on The Grass by De Young

  • Junipero Serra by Douglas Tilden

    Junipero Serra by Douglas Tilden

    Commissioned in 1903 by Mayor James Duval Phelan and unveiled on November 17, 1907. Junipero Serra founded the 21 Franciscan missions throughout California.

  • A Quiet Moment

    A Quiet Moment

    The de Young Museum originated as the Fine Arts Building, which was constructed in Golden Gate Park for the California Midwinter International Exposition in 1894. In 1929 this original building was declared unsafe and demolished.

  • De Young Entryway

    De Young Entryway

    The Fine Arts Building was designed in a pseudo–Egyptian Revival style and adorned with images of Hathor, the cow goddess.

  • Apple Cider Press by Thomas Shields Clark

    Apple Cider Press by Thomas Shields Clark

    1892 sculpture originally exhibited at the Midwinter International Exposition in 1894. The fair encompassed 200 acres centered on the park's current Music Concourse. More than 100 buildings were erected for the exposition, and more than 2 million people visited.

  • Lion Statue by Roland Hinton Perry

    Lion Statue by Roland Hinton Perry

    Created in 1898. In 1906 it was given to the City of San Francisco by San Francisco jeweler Shreve and Company. The sculpture survived a fire in Shreve’s showroom caused by the ’06 earthquake.

  • Japanese Tea Garden

    Japanese Tea Garden

    The driving force in creating the Tea Garden was Japanese immigrant Makoto Hagiwara, a wealthy landscape designer. In 1895 after the exposition closed, the city decided to maintain the garden and named Hagiwara the official caretaker. He lived in the garden with his family until his death in 1925.

  • Copy of Sphinx by Arthur Putnam

    Copy of Sphinx by Arthur Putnam

    1912 copy of a black granite original for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. Sits in front of the De Young Museum.

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