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Prior to the Midwinter Fair's opening day, in 1893, Isaiah West Taber won the concession to be the official photographer of the fair. Taber documented the fair from when the grading of the land began, and continued photographing the fair throughout its entirety. He sold his photos in a striking, multi-story pavillion durning the exposition, on the fair grounds. At the end of the fair he compiled about 130 of his original photographs into a souvenir book entitled Souvenir of the California Midwinter International Exposition. The commemorative collection of photos is hard to find today, and less than ten are known to exist today.

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Bonet's Tower was designed by architect, Leopold Bonet.

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Today, the Monterey pine trees are among the more labor intensive in the garden, according to previous landscape supervisor of Golden Gate Park, Ed Schuster. Every three years, the pines are layered into zig-zagged planes, creating an artistic designed favored by traditional Japanese landscape. These pines average to be sixty feet tall, so city arborists can spend up to six days pruning each tree. The pines are a symbol of longevity.

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The sport of polo came to California in 1876, when the California Polo Club was established with help of bay area native, Captain Nell Mowry. By the late 1800s, polo in San Francisco was dominated by the Golden Gate Driving Club and the San Francisco Driving Club. In 1906, the Golden Gate Park Stadium was built by private subscription from the driving clubs which contained both a polo field and a cycling velodrome. Later on the stadium was renamed simply the Polo Field. In the mid 1930s, the City and County of San Francisco used PWA and WPA funds to renovate the polo field. In 1939, additional WPA funds were used to build polo sheds, replacing already-standing horse stables. Polo continued being played through the 1940s but by the 1950s the sport of polo stopped being played. The sport had largely migrated to other bay area cities where land more suitable for polo was available. In 1985 and 1986, polo was brought back to the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park for the second and third annual San Francisco Grand Prix and Equestrian Festival. Polo is not regularly played on the Polo Field now, but from 2006 to 2010 Polo in the Park was hosted annually by Horses in California, Inc.

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In 2013, San Francisco photagrapher David Cruz first sighted and shot pictures of coyote pups in Golden Gate Park. It's estimated that over 1000 coyotes live in San Francisco, and there have been more sightings in Golden Gate Park than any other spot in the city. Coyotes have proven adaptive in the city, as they are live primarily in open prairies and deserts.