View of the largely undeveloped Lake Merced site prior to major construction of the new San Francisco State College campus, circa early 1950s. The landscape consists primarily of open fields, brush, and graded earth. A Parkmerced apartment tower is visible at right, situating the future campus within the rapidly growing southwest section of San Francisco. Within a few years, this open land would transform into the college’s new 19th Avenue campus, replacing the overcrowded Haight and Buchanan Street site.
