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

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).
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[Behind the counter of Jim's General Merchandise, 789 Howard, before destruction as part of South of Market Redevelopment]
[Behind the counter of Jim's General Merchandise, 789 Howard, before destruction as part of South of Market Redevelopment]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building being demolished, as seen from the Convention and Visitors Bureau Annual Luncheon]
[Building being demolished, as seen from the Convention and Visitors Bureau Annual Luncheon]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard, Flora Crane Service operates crane]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard, Flora Crane Service operates crane]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard, Flora Crane Service operates crane]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard, Flora Crane Service operates crane]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard, Flora Crane Service operates crane]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
[Building that housed South Center Library being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Buildings on the 700 block of Howard before being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Buildings on the 700 block of Howard before being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, South Center Library and Jim's General Merchandise]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Buildings on the 700 block of Howard before being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Buildings on the 700 block of Howard before being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, South Center Library and Jim's General Merchandise displaced]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Buildings on the 700 block of Howard before being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment,
[Buildings on the 700 block of Howard before being demolished as part of South of Market Redevelopment, South Center Library and Jim's General Merchandise as seen from across the street]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Contact sheet documenting residential hotels and other buildings schelduled to be destroyed,
[Contact sheet documenting residential hotels and other buildings schelduled to be destroyed, part of South of Market Redevelopment, 700 block of Howard and 100 block of 4th Street]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Contact sheet of a film roll documenting Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment
[Contact sheet of a film roll documenting Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment: presence at the Convention and Visitors Bureau Annual Luncheon]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Contact sheet of a film roll documenting Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment
[Contact sheet of a film roll documenting Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment: presence at the Convention and Visitors Bureau Annual Luncheon]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)
[Contact sheet of a film roll documenting Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment
[Contact sheet of a film roll documenting Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment: presence at the Convention and Visitors Bureau Annual Luncheon]
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Lee Sims Photographs of Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR)