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Photo Id# AAK-0217
Title [World's largest American flag, Parade from Portola Festival, October 19-23, 1909] [graphic]
Date 1909 Oct. 21
Description 1 photographic print : b&w. ; 10 x 8 in.
Location Folder: S.F. Fairs-Portola Festival-1909
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 Written on back: "The October 21 Parade in the 1909 Portola Festival saw more than 400,000 people lined along Market Street. This was the world's largest American flag at that time. Oct. 23, 1950."
Copy Negative Negative #4968
Subject Fairs -- California -- San Francisco.
Fairs -- Portola Festival.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source San Francisco Call Bulletin.
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.