SOLD Circa 1897 San Francisco CA Vintage Stereoview - Golden Gate Park Conservatory of Flowers - Keystone Real Photo View

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Victorian San Francisco California circa 1897 stereo view of Golden Gate Park's Conservatory of Flowers located at the eastern side of the park. The Victorian-style Conservatory greenhouse - built between 1876 and 1883 - is modeled after the Palm house at the Kew Gardens in London, and houses a collection of tropical plants and flowers . James Lick was instrumental in building the Conservatory in Golden Gate Park. It survived the great 1905 San Francisco earthquake, and in recent years has been renovated, reopened to the public in 2002.

Bigger than New York’s Central Park, Golden Gate Park - designed by William Hammond Hall- covers 1,013 acres, and is about 3 miles long and 1/2-mile wide - with over one million trees, nine lakes, several fly casting pools and a lily pond within its borders. John McLaren succeeded Hall in 1887, and spent the next 50 years improving the park. By corresponding with gardeners and botanists all over the world, McLaren was able to gather plants — and particularly trees — from every land but one, Bolivia.

PHOTO NOTE: The photo images are very clean, crisp, sharp and in exceptional condition - with only slight surface wear noticeable in scans - much better than they appear in the scanned image - as if it just came out of the box.

View published by Keystone View Company of Meadville PA and Saint Louis Missouri. Copyright 1897 by B. Singley founder of Keystone.

Item ID: 27-0385B