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Photo Id# AAA-9207
Title [Plaque on southernmost shore of Lake Merced commemorating the Anza expedition into California] [graphic].
Date 1949 Oct. 13.
Description 1 photographic print: b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Monuments-Anza Expedition.
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Notes Text on plaque: "Here on December 4, 1774, Captain Fernando Rivera Moncado, Military commander of California, left his soldiers and with Francisco Palou, chaplain, pushed northward to Point Lobos. These were the first white men to climb this eminence and view the Golden Gate at close range."
Subject Monuments -- Anza Expedition.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection