Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)

The Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR) include 156 strips of 35mm negatives, 26 contact sheets and digital scans photographed by Lee Sims from June 1970 to July 1971 of various South of Market district single-room occupancy hotels and residents affected by San Francisco Redevelopment Agency projects in San Francisco, California. Photographs include interiors and exteriors of various single-room occupancy hotels, storefronts, street scenes, demolition scenes by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, and housing rights activism. Activism includes protesting outside of the annual luncheon for the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. Individuals depicted include residents, resident activist George Woolf and attendees of community meetings. Other subjects include Third Street, Sixth Street and meetings of the organization Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR).