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'''Farmers in the Richmond District plowing to make farms out of dunes in the 1880s.'''
[[Image:Plowing dunes with horses richmond wnp15.352.jpg]]


''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''
'''Grading dunes at the edge of the Richmond District looking south toward Golden Gate Park ca. 1910.'''


[[Image:richmond$richmond-history$cows_itm$cows-in-the-richmond.jpg]]
''Photo: by Willard E. Worden, courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp15.352''


'''Cows in the Richmond, c. 1880s.'''
[[Image:Rchcowfarm wnp26.632.jpg]]


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'''Ca. 1908 view southeast over Paton's dairy (variously called Old Park Farm and Richmond Dairy) to Affiliated Colleges (today's UCSF) in distance. Mt. Sutro on left and Strawberry Hill on right.'''
 
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.632''
 
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Latest revision as of 13:42, 31 August 2020

Unfinished History

Plowing dunes with horses richmond wnp15.352.jpg

Grading dunes at the edge of the Richmond District looking south toward Golden Gate Park ca. 1910.

Photo: by Willard E. Worden, courtesy OpenSFHistory.org wnp15.352

Rchcowfarm wnp26.632.jpg

Ca. 1908 view southeast over Paton's dairy (variously called Old Park Farm and Richmond Dairy) to Affiliated Colleges (today's UCSF) in distance. Mt. Sutro on left and Strawberry Hill on right.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.632


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