San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection

San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection

The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection contains photographs and works on papers of San Francisco and California scenes ranging from 1850 to the present. This collection includes views of San Francisco street scenes, buildings, and neighborhoods, as well as photographs of famous San Francisco personalities. The collection consists mostly of the photo morgue of the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, a daily newspaper, ranging from 1920s to 1965. The collection also contains albums, slides, postcards, cabinet cards, stereoviews, and lantern slides of San Francisco and California subjects.
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George Christopher Papers
The collection documents the two-term administration of San Francisco Mayor George Christopher during the years 1956 to 1964, and to a lesser extent his early years as a Supervisor and his post...
Show moreThe collection documents the two-term administration of San Francisco Mayor George Christopher during the years 1956 to 1964, and to a lesser extent his early years as a Supervisor and his post-mayoral years. Materials include memoranda, reports, correspondence, photographs, films, audio recordings, and newspaper clippings.
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Glen McCreary Photographs of United Nations Conference
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Golden Gate Park Photograph Album
The leather-bound album includes 32 gelatin silver prints documenting Golden Gate Park at the turn of the 20th century. The photographs depict activities including bicycling, polo, and baseball....
Show moreThe leather-bound album includes 32 gelatin silver prints documenting Golden Gate Park at the turn of the 20th century. The photographs depict activities including bicycling, polo, and baseball. The buildings include the Conservatory, McLaren Lodge, exterior and interior of the Fine Arts Museum and Sharon Building. The views comprise of the Alvord Lakelet, sand dunes, bison, and various landscaped elements of the park.
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Grace Miller Papers
The collection documents the life of Grace Miller through correspondence, subject files, photographs and negatives, and a scrapbook. Miller was a co-owner and bartender at two lesbian bars in San...
Show moreThe collection documents the life of Grace Miller through correspondence, subject files, photographs and negatives, and a scrapbook. Miller was a co-owner and bartender at two lesbian bars in San Francisco. As a result of serving underage patrons, she was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 1955. The scrapbook contains the newspaper coverage of her arrest and trial.
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Harold (Bill) Giddings Bradley's Corner Bar Photograph Collection
The collection documents the gay bar culture of Bradley's Corner Bar with 370 color prints of mostly men and some lesbian women. Bradley's Corner Bar, 1949 - 1987, was a neighborhood tavern located...
Show moreThe collection documents the gay bar culture of Bradley's Corner Bar with 370 color prints of mostly men and some lesbian women. Bradley's Corner Bar, 1949 - 1987, was a neighborhood tavern located at 900 Cole Street in San Francisco. In March 1965, the tavern became a gay bar. In 1967, the bar was owned by Harold (Bill) Lloyd Giddings and Thomas (Tom) W. Stuart. Giddings became the sole proprietor in 1971 and owned the bar until 1987. Bill Giddings compiled this collection of photographs of Bradley's Corner Bar. The bar events documented in the photographs include Halloween with cross-dressing, holiday and birthday parties and one wedding celebration. Most of the photographs are of the interior of the bar with a few exterior shots. The photographs not of the bar include a bus trip to Guerneville and house parties.
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Harry Hay Papers
The collection documents the personal and professional interests of Harry Hay and his partner John Burnside. Of particular note are the materials on the Mattachine Society, the Radical Faeries,...
Show moreThe collection documents the personal and professional interests of Harry Hay and his partner John Burnside. Of particular note are the materials on the Mattachine Society, the Radical Faeries, anti-draft activities, berdache and Native American culture, music, and California Kaleidoscopes. In addition, the series of writings and speeches includes work by Hay, Burnside and Will Roscoe, among others.
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Harvey Milk Photographs
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Scott Smith was his partner and friend. The collection documents the personal and political life of...
Show moreHarvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Scott Smith was his partner and friend. The collection documents the personal and political life of Harvey Milk, and the personal life of Scott Smith. The photographs document Milk's and Smith's activities in the gay community.
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Helen Holdredge Collection
The collection contains research materials and draft manuscripts for Holdredge's books on Mary Ellen Pleasant, Thomas and Teresa Bell, Lola Montez, Isaiah W. Lees, and Lillie Hitchcock Coit. It...
Show moreThe collection contains research materials and draft manuscripts for Holdredge's books on Mary Ellen Pleasant, Thomas and Teresa Bell, Lola Montez, Isaiah W. Lees, and Lillie Hitchcock Coit. It also includes some correspondence about her research and speaking engagements, as well as photographs and some realia.
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I. Magnin & Co. Records
Photographs, videos, printed materials, papers, and a small amount of audio and film documenting the San Francisco-based department store, from its early days as a local shop through its expansion...
Show morePhotographs, videos, printed materials, papers, and a small amount of audio and film documenting the San Francisco-based department store, from its early days as a local shop through its expansion into a regional and then a national chain via mergers with Bullock's, Federated Department Stores, and Macy's. Includes extensive files on individual I. Magnin stores, designers, advertising and publicity, and events, as well as a small amount of Magnin family papers.
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J. Gruber Papers
Gruber was one of the founding members of the Mattachine Society, a homophile organization. The papers contain letters, clipped news items, draft writings and photographs.
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J. M. Williamson M.D. Board of Health Photograph Album of Chinatown, San Francisco
The photograph album of 178 albumen photographic prints documents the campaign of Dr. Rupert Blue, the assistant surgeon of the U. S. Marine Hospital Service in San Francisco, to cleanse Chinatown...
Show moreThe photograph album of 178 albumen photographic prints documents the campaign of Dr. Rupert Blue, the assistant surgeon of the U. S. Marine Hospital Service in San Francisco, to cleanse Chinatown in 1903 of the third great pandemic of bubonic plague outbreak. Photographs document the facades of buildings on streets Dupont, Jackson, Sacramento, Stockton, Pacific, Clay and Sullivan’s Alley in Chinatown. The cleanse campaign began with the demolition work in March 1903 with a gang of deputized men with axes. Between March and October, 1903, 160 buildings in Chinatown were destroyed and are documented in the album. Of note are business signs in Chinese characters. Includes street views and alleyways of Chinatown.
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Jack Morrison Papers
Memoranda, notes, reports, resolutions, correspondence, and newspaper clippings documenting Morrison's service as a San Francisco Supervisor, particularly during his second term from 1966-1969....
Show moreMemoranda, notes, reports, resolutions, correspondence, and newspaper clippings documenting Morrison's service as a San Francisco Supervisor, particularly during his second term from 1966-1969. Includes some post-supervisorial, civic and consultant business activities.
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James A. Scott Photographs
The photograph collection documents the architectural styles of San Francisco buildings photographed by James A. Scott from 1960 – 1995 (with the bulk of the collection 1965 – early 1970s). Scott...
Show moreThe photograph collection documents the architectural styles of San Francisco buildings photographed by James A. Scott from 1960 – 1995 (with the bulk of the collection 1965 – early 1970s). Scott photographed significant San Francisco buildings as well as residences in neighborhoods across the city. Over the span of 35 years photographing the city’s architecture, Scott was able to document the buildings demolished by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency in the Western Addition and South of Market districts.
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J.B. Monaco Photograph Collection
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Jeannie O'Connor AIDS Self-Portraits Collection
The collection consists of negatives, contact sheets, proof prints, Polaroid prints, and oversized prints of self-portraits made at several San Francisco Bay Area AIDS and HIV-positive care...
Show moreThe collection consists of negatives, contact sheets, proof prints, Polaroid prints, and oversized prints of self-portraits made at several San Francisco Bay Area AIDS and HIV-positive care facilities. The subjects included people with AIDS and HIV, as well as staff members, volunteers, and their families.
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John Gerrard Graham Photograph Collection
Photographs and negatives from the collection of San Francisco transit historian John Gerrard Graham (1917–1995). The collection consists of two groups of images: original photographs and negatives...
Show morePhotographs and negatives from the collection of San Francisco transit historian John Gerrard Graham (1917–1995). The collection consists of two groups of images: original photographs and negatives photographed by Graham from approximately 1936 to 1994 of San Francisco street railways and official company and agency photographs. The collection includes operations of the Market Street Railway, Municipal Railway of San Francisco and the California Street Cable Railroad Company.
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John McLaren Collection
Diaries, daybooks, writings, correspondence, newsclippings, scrapbooks, photographs, books, and artifacts created and/or collected by McLaren and his granddaughter, Martha "Matie" McLaren Daniels....
Show moreDiaries, daybooks, writings, correspondence, newsclippings, scrapbooks, photographs, books, and artifacts created and/or collected by McLaren and his granddaughter, Martha "Matie" McLaren Daniels. The collection documents McLaren's gardening, landscape design, and landscape architecture work for private estates; his travels within the United States and to foreign countries; and to a lesser extent, his work as Assistant Superintendent of Golden Gate Park and then Superintendent of Parks for the City and County of San Francisco. Materials originally collected by McLaren have been added to, rearranged, and annotated by his granddaughter--possibly in preparation of a biography--and a small number of her writings are included.
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Ken Maley and Firat Yener Papers
Ken Maley is a San Francisco-based media consultant and promoter who has been involved with many civic organizations and events, several of which were for the LGBT community. Firat Yener is Maley’s...
Show moreKen Maley is a San Francisco-based media consultant and promoter who has been involved with many civic organizations and events, several of which were for the LGBT community. Firat Yener is Maley’s husband. The papers contain correspondence, flyers, clippings, subject files, photographs, negatives, buttons, and audiovisual materials that document local events, public figures, and the life shared by Maley and Yener. In the 1970s and 1980s, Maley’s circle of friends included Rock Hudson, Armistead Maupin, and Randy Shilts.
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King (Lillie Mae Ransom) Photographs and Papers
The Lillie Mae King (Ransom) collection is comprised of photographs and ephemera documenting the Ransom family as well as documentation from her tenure as Secretary of the Western Addition...
Show moreThe Lillie Mae King (Ransom) collection is comprised of photographs and ephemera documenting the Ransom family as well as documentation from her tenure as Secretary of the Western Addition Community Organization (WACO). Types of material include family photos, religious and school certificates, church and school related newspaper clippings, WACO correspondence, WACO financial ledger, and WACO member rosters.
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Latino Heritage Fair Project