A military parade proceeds down a major San Francisco thoroughfare in the early 1910s, led by a marching band and followed by columns of U.S. Army infantry in period field uniform. Large crowds gather along the sidewalks beneath the ornate commercial buildings of the era. Preserved in a Presidio-associated photo album and labeled 'Taft Parade,' the image likely documents a civic and military procession honoring President (later Chief Justice) William Howard Taft, whose presidency and subsequent visits to San Francisco were marked by parades featuring troops garrisoned at the Presidio of San Francisco. Project: 218577