Troops marching out through the Presidio's Lombard Gate
1898
Soldiers leave the Presidio of San Francisco bound for Manila during the mobilisation for the Spanish-American War. The post served as the staging ground for American forces shipping across the Pacific, and the Lombard Gate was the route out to the city.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Part of San Francisco · Watch in the documentary
More from San Francisco
- An arrest in Chinatown watched by a street crowd
- A Chinatown restaurant illustrated for railroad tourists
- Engraved illustration of a Native archer with a fur quiver
- Book illustration of a Chinatown alley by George Roux
- Scow schooners unloading hay at the Third Street channel wharf
- Market Street looking east past the Flood Building