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Title: [World's largest American flag, Parade from Portola Festival, October 19-23, 1909]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909 Oct. 21
Contributing Institution: San Francisco Public Library
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description: Folder: S.F. Fairs-Portola Festival-1909
Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
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.
Negative #4968
Type: image
Extent: 1 photographic print : 10 x 8 in.
Language: Eng
Subject: Fairs--California--San Francisco
Fairs--Portola Festival--1909
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Place: California
San Francisco

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