San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue
Between 1966 and 1969, the San Francisco Examiner donated two libraries of photographs --what news staff call “morgues”-- to the San Francisco Public Library. The combined gift of the morgues from the San Francisco News and Hearst’s San Francisco Call-Bulletin was an estimated 2 million photographs. The San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue represents the working files created and used by the newspapers’ staff between the 1920s and September 1965. The collection consists primarily of photographs from news agencies and wire services depicting local, state, national and international events and people; filed together with photographs by local staff photographers, studio portraits, and promotional photographs supplied to the newspapers by families or agencies. Political, social, and cultural leaders, crime victims and suspects, celebrities, athletes and sporting events, accident scenes and victims, street scenes, shipping and waterfront views, and buildings are among the common subjects. Upon receipt of the collection, San Francisco places and portraits of local, famous individuals were separated and formed the base of the San Francisco History Subject Collections. The online collection represents significant San Franciscans as well as national/international celebrities.
- still image (219)
- Abolitionists--United States (2)
- Actresses (2)
- Admirals--United States (1)
- African American baseball players (1)
- African American civil rights workers (5)
- African American educators (3)
- African American gospel singers (2)
- African American judges (5)
- African American school principals (3)
- Ambassadors (1)
- Architects (1)
- Architectural models (1)
- Asian American actresses (6)
- Automobile dealers (22)
- Automobiles (1)
- Ballet dancers (1)
- Baritones (Singers) (2)
- Baseball players (1)
- Beaches (1)
- Billboards (1)
- Bookstore owners (1)
- Boxers (Sports)-- United States (2)
- Boxers (Sports)--Philippines (8)
- Buildings (1)
- Butchers (Persons) (2)
- Cable cars (Streetcars) (2)
- Candles (1)
- Canned foods (2)
- Catholic Church--Bishops (1)
- Catholic church buildings (4)
- Census (1)
- Census takers (Persons) (4)
- Charts, diagrams, etc. (1)
- Checks (1)
- Chess players (7)
- Chess--Tournaments (1)
- Children (2)
- Children--Hospitals (1)
- Chimpanzees (1)
- Chinese Americans (1)
- City planning (1)
- Clover (1)
- College sports (2)
- Conductors (Music) (1)
- Consuls (5)
- Crowds (1)
- Cuban newspapers (1)
- Dancers (1)
- Dinners and dining (1)
- Diorama (1)
- Dishwashing (1)
- Disney characters (1)
- Divorce settlements (1)
- Fathers and sons (1)
- Filipino Americans (1)
- Fire stations (1)
- Flight attendants (1)
- Food conservation (2)
- Football (2)
- Ford automobile (1)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies (4)
- Generals--United States (3)
- Glider pilots (4)
- Gliders (Aeronautics) (4)
- Governors--United States (1)
- Grocers (1)
- Horsemanship (1)
- Hotels (3)
- Infants (3)
- Insurance adjusters (1)
- Interior decorators (1)
- Italian American boxers (12)
- Jails (1)
- Jazz musicians (2)
- Jewelry (1)
- Jewish boxers (1)
- Jockeys (1)
- Judges (1)
- Judges--United States (2)
- Jump ropes (1)
- Leis (2)
- Life insurance agents (1)
- Married people (5)
- Mayors (1)
- Mayors--United States (3)
- Methodist Church-- Clergy (5)
- Mother and child (3)
- Motion picture actors and actresses (31)
- Motion picture theaters (1)
- Ocean liners (2)
- Opera producers and directors (9)
- Parties (1)
- Passenger trains (1)
- Plaques, plaquettes (2)
- Polo players (2)
- Portraits (64)
- Presidents' spouses--United States (2)
- Prisoners (1)
- Race discrimination--United States (4)
- Real property-- Maps (1)
- Sashes (1)
- School children (1)
- Scuba apparatus (1)
- Sculptors (1)
- Sheriffs (1)
- Shovels (1)
- Sopranos (Singers) (15)
- Surgeons (3)
- Television actors and actresses (4)
- Tenors (Singers) (13)
- Textile design (1)
- Textile designers (1)
- Theatrical producers and directors (4)
- Tickets (1)
- Tokens (2)
- Toys (1)
- Traffic police (1)
- Tunnels (1)
- Violinists (4)
- Weddings (1)
- World War, 1939-1945--Food supply (6)
- Wreaths (1)
- San Francisco Opera (27)
- Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America (8)
- California. Superior Court (San Francisco City and County) (6)
- United Methodist Church (U.S.) (5)
- United States. Office of Price Administration (4)
- KRON-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.) (3)
- Booker T. Washington Community Center (San Francisco, Calif.) (2)
- National Automobile Dealers Association (2)
- Roos/Atkins (Firm) (2)
- San Francisco City Hall (San Francisco, Calif.) (2)
- American Society of Planning Officials (1)
- Biltmore (Hotel : New York, N.Y.) (1)
- Broadway Theatre (New York, N.Y. : 1681 Broadway) (1)
- California Highway Patrol (1)
- California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Catholic Church. Archdiocese of San Francisco (Calif.) (1)
- Fairmont Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company (1)
- Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.) (1)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1)
- Palace Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Salvation Army (1)
- San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Education (1)
- San Francisco (Calif.). City Planning Commission (1)
- San Francisco Council for Civic Unity (1)
- Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children (1)
- Trans World Airlines (1)
- United States. Bureau of the Census (1)
- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.) (1)
- Western Union Telegraph Company (1)