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Collection consists of approximately 16,770 photographs documenting the planning, construction, use and maintenance of San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW) Bureau of Engineering...
Show moreCollection consists of approximately 16,770 photographs documenting the planning, construction, use and maintenance of San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW) Bureau of Engineering projects from 1907 – late 1970s in San Francisco, California. SFDPW Bureau of Engineering was responsible for street improvements; the design and construction of civic buildings including schools and City Hall; and infrastructure construction. The department was initially tasked with organizing street construction and paving projects throughout the city and the earlier visual materials represent that focus. Photos also document construction of sewers and cisterns, construction of reinforced concrete, and construction of pumping stations. Formats represented include photograph albums, black and white photographic prints, glass plate negatives and film negatives.
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Show moreCollection consists of approximately 16,770 photographs documenting the planning, construction, use and maintenance of San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW) Bureau of Engineering projects from 1907 – late 1970s in San Francisco, California. SFDPW Bureau of Engineering was responsible for street improvements; the design and construction of civic buildings including schools and City Hall; and infrastructure construction. The department was initially tasked with organizing street construction and paving projects throughout the city and the earlier visual materials represent that focus. Photos also document construction of sewers and cisterns, construction of reinforced concrete, and construction of pumping stations. Formats represented include photograph albums, black and white photographic prints, glass plate negatives and film negatives.
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Materials collected and arranged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works documenting the planning of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Includes newspaper clippings, reports, hearings,...
Show moreMaterials collected and arranged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works documenting the planning of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Includes newspaper clippings, reports, hearings, correspondence, journals, construction proposals and engineering plans, legislative documents, agreements, applications, contracts, resumes, boring and other technical data, blueprints, and photographs. Bulk of the collection consists of proposals and engineering plans of bridge design, circa 1926, when over a dozen proposals were being considered by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, though none were chosen as the final plan. Documents were created by companies competing for construction of the bridge, their engineers, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reviewing the proposals, and the San Francisco Department of Public Works as represented by City Engineer M. M. O’Shaughnessy.
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Show moreMaterials collected and arranged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works documenting the planning of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Includes newspaper clippings, reports, hearings, correspondence, journals, construction proposals and engineering plans, legislative documents, agreements, applications, contracts, resumes, boring and other technical data, blueprints, and photographs. Bulk of the collection consists of proposals and engineering plans of bridge design, circa 1926, when over a dozen proposals were being considered by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, though none were chosen as the final plan. Documents were created by companies competing for construction of the bridge, their engineers, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reviewing the proposals, and the San Francisco Department of Public Works as represented by City Engineer M. M. O’Shaughnessy.
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Scrapbooks, communication books, head nurses' files, correspondence, videotapes, publications, and memorabilia collected by the nursing staff of AIDS Ward 5B/5A at San Francisco General Hospital,...
Show moreScrapbooks, communication books, head nurses' files, correspondence, videotapes, publications, and memorabilia collected by the nursing staff of AIDS Ward 5B/5A at San Francisco General Hospital, the first dedicated AIDS hospital ward in the U.S. The collection documents daily life on the ward among patients, their families and friends, nurses, and volunteers. Of note are the photos of public events and celebrations, minutes of nursing staff meetings, and copies of the "Best Hospitals" issues of US News and World Report, 1991-1997. The collection also reflects the changing role of nursing, as 5B/5A nurses were critical to the development of the multidisciplinary model of AIDS care that came to be known as the "San Francisco model."
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Show moreScrapbooks, communication books, head nurses' files, correspondence, videotapes, publications, and memorabilia collected by the nursing staff of AIDS Ward 5B/5A at San Francisco General Hospital, the first dedicated AIDS hospital ward in the U.S. The collection documents daily life on the ward among patients, their families and friends, nurses, and volunteers. Of note are the photos of public events and celebrations, minutes of nursing staff meetings, and copies of the "Best Hospitals" issues of US News and World Report, 1991-1997. The collection also reflects the changing role of nursing, as 5B/5A nurses were critical to the development of the multidisciplinary model of AIDS care that came to be known as the "San Francisco model."
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The archive includes slide images and descriptions of San Francisco murals painted between 1930-2000. The slides are from the collection of mural historian and photographer James Prigoff. The...
Show moreThe archive includes slide images and descriptions of San Francisco murals painted between 1930-2000. The slides are from the collection of mural historian and photographer James Prigoff. The descriptions are based on Timothy Drescher's book San Francisco Bay Area Murals (c. 1996) which lists murals by geographical areas of the city. The San Francisco Mural Archive also includes a selection of images that depict muralists at work, school murals, graffiti murals, and murals painted on the billboard outside the Galeria de la Raza, Mission District, San Francisco.
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Show moreThe archive includes slide images and descriptions of San Francisco murals painted between 1930-2000. The slides are from the collection of mural historian and photographer James Prigoff. The descriptions are based on Timothy Drescher's book San Francisco Bay Area Murals (c. 1996) which lists murals by geographical areas of the city. The San Francisco Mural Archive also includes a selection of images that depict muralists at work, school murals, graffiti murals, and murals painted on the billboard outside the Galeria de la Raza, Mission District, San Francisco.
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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...
Show moreBetween 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.
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Show moreBetween 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.
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San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder Photographs include San Francisco residences and businesses photographed by the San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder from the late 1940s through the...
Show moreSan Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder Photographs include San Francisco residences and businesses photographed by the San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder from the late 1940s through the early 2000s.
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Show moreSan Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder Photographs include San Francisco residences and businesses photographed by the San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder from the late 1940s through the early 2000s.
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The artificial collection contains over 7,100 oversize photographic prints of San Francisco places, activities and cultural resources collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco...
Show moreThe artificial collection contains over 7,100 oversize photographic prints of San Francisco places, activities and cultural resources collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. The collection spans more than a century of San Francisco from the early 1870s to 1990s. The images provide comprehensive information about many activities and events important to San Francisco and its 20th century growth. The photographs document neighborhoods; streetscapes; significant landmarks; cultural events: theater, celebrations, parades, fairs and expositions; activism: protests and strikes; buildings: residences, hotels, nightclubs, resorts; and means of transportation: railroads, streetcars, airplanes, automobiles, ships and boats.
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Show moreThe artificial collection contains over 7,100 oversize photographic prints of San Francisco places, activities and cultural resources collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. The collection spans more than a century of San Francisco from the early 1870s to 1990s. The images provide comprehensive information about many activities and events important to San Francisco and its 20th century growth. The photographs document neighborhoods; streetscapes; significant landmarks; cultural events: theater, celebrations, parades, fairs and expositions; activism: protests and strikes; buildings: residences, hotels, nightclubs, resorts; and means of transportation: railroads, streetcars, airplanes, automobiles, ships and boats.
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The San Francisco Police Department Records (SFH 61) includes glass plate negatives and over 12,000 acetate negatives photographed by the Bureau of Photography.
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The artificial collection contains over 5,000 photomechanical postcards of San Francisco, California collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. The postcards range...
Show moreThe artificial collection contains over 5,000 photomechanical postcards of San Francisco, California collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. The postcards range in date from the turn of the 20th century to 1990s. Events depicted on the postcards include world expositions the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the Golden Gate International Exposition and the disaster 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Places represented are significant San Francisco buildings, businesses, hotels and restaurants as well as many general views. Postcard publishers include by Edward H. Mitchell, Curt Teich, Smith News Company, Pacific Novelty Company, Stanley A. Piltz Company, and Mike Roberts.
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Show moreThe artificial collection contains over 5,000 photomechanical postcards of San Francisco, California collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. The postcards range in date from the turn of the 20th century to 1990s. Events depicted on the postcards include world expositions the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the Golden Gate International Exposition and the disaster 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Places represented are significant San Francisco buildings, businesses, hotels and restaurants as well as many general views. Postcard publishers include by Edward H. Mitchell, Curt Teich, Smith News Company, Pacific Novelty Company, Stanley A. Piltz Company, and Mike Roberts.
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The PUC online collection includes over 200 images, spanning 1887 to 1968, of significant events and projects such as the building of the Hetch Hetchy Railroad and O’Shaughnessey Dam, destruction...
Show moreThe PUC online collection includes over 200 images, spanning 1887 to 1968, of significant events and projects such as the building of the Hetch Hetchy Railroad and O’Shaughnessey Dam, destruction from the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, and the construction of Yerba Buena Shoals on Treasure Island. These historic industrial photographs document the pipelines, tunnels, reservoirs, dams, powerhouses and pumping stations that the PUC has built and maintained in order to provide water, sewerage and municipal power services to the City and County of San Francisco. These digital visual materials come from albumen prints, glass plate negatives, and lantern slides that the PUC has scanned; and the PUC retains physical ownership of the original formats.
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Show moreThe PUC online collection includes over 200 images, spanning 1887 to 1968, of significant events and projects such as the building of the Hetch Hetchy Railroad and O’Shaughnessey Dam, destruction from the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, and the construction of Yerba Buena Shoals on Treasure Island. These historic industrial photographs document the pipelines, tunnels, reservoirs, dams, powerhouses and pumping stations that the PUC has built and maintained in order to provide water, sewerage and municipal power services to the City and County of San Francisco. These digital visual materials come from albumen prints, glass plate negatives, and lantern slides that the PUC has scanned; and the PUC retains physical ownership of the original formats.
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This collection contains paper and photographic records of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Records document the project areas of Diamond Heights, Embarcadero-Lower Market (Golden Gateway),...
Show moreThis collection contains paper and photographic records of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Records document the project areas of Diamond Heights, Embarcadero-Lower Market (Golden Gateway), Western Addition A-1 and A-2, Yerba Buena Center, Hunters Point, and other project and survey areas.
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Show moreThis collection contains paper and photographic records of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Records document the project areas of Diamond Heights, Embarcadero-Lower Market (Golden Gateway), Western Addition A-1 and A-2, Yerba Buena Center, Hunters Point, and other project and survey areas.
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Photographs chiefly taken for use in San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) publications, exhibits, and promotional materials, as well as for administrative purposes....
Show morePhotographs chiefly taken for use in San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) publications, exhibits, and promotional materials, as well as for administrative purposes. SF SPCA building construction and vehicles; rescue, treatment, and care of animals; and shots of various types of animals, alone, together, and with human companions, are well-represented. Horses, cats, and dogs are animals most frequently pictured in the collection. Specific SF SPCA programs and events--particularly the Hearing Dog Program and Poochie Parade--are represented to a lesser but still significant extent. Most of the animal subject files are from the mid-late 20th century. Older photographs, going back to the 19th and early 20th century, are clustered in the Ambulances and vehicles, Buildings, Cruelty, and Horses files.
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Show morePhotographs chiefly taken for use in San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) publications, exhibits, and promotional materials, as well as for administrative purposes. SF SPCA building construction and vehicles; rescue, treatment, and care of animals; and shots of various types of animals, alone, together, and with human companions, are well-represented. Horses, cats, and dogs are animals most frequently pictured in the collection. Specific SF SPCA programs and events--particularly the Hearing Dog Program and Poochie Parade--are represented to a lesser but still significant extent. Most of the animal subject files are from the mid-late 20th century. Older photographs, going back to the 19th and early 20th century, are clustered in the Ambulances and vehicles, Buildings, Cruelty, and Horses files.
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Artificial collection consists of over 50 black and white professional souvenir photographs in folded paper mounts taken in nightclubs, hotels and restaurants in San Francisco, California between...
Show moreArtificial collection consists of over 50 black and white professional souvenir photographs in folded paper mounts taken in nightclubs, hotels and restaurants in San Francisco, California between 1942 and 1955.
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Show moreArtificial collection consists of over 50 black and white professional souvenir photographs in folded paper mounts taken in nightclubs, hotels and restaurants in San Francisco, California between 1942 and 1955.
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Stereographs are two photographs mounted side by side and appear three-dimensional when inspected with a viewer. The digitized collection of stereographs includes significant photographers Carleton...
Show moreStereographs are two photographs mounted side by side and appear three-dimensional when inspected with a viewer. The digitized collection of stereographs includes significant photographers Carleton Watkins and Thomas Houseworth, The stereo cards depict San Francisco landmarks and events
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Show moreStereographs are two photographs mounted side by side and appear three-dimensional when inspected with a viewer. The digitized collection of stereographs includes significant photographers Carleton Watkins and Thomas Houseworth, The stereo cards depict San Francisco landmarks and events
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The San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection consists of photographs from the 1860s to the early 2000s. This collection includes views of San Francisco street scenes, buildings, and neighborhoods.
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Shades of San Francisco is a community history photography project of the San Francisco History Center. On Shades photo days, held in different San Francisco neighborhoods, donors are invited to...
Show moreShades of San Francisco is a community history photography project of the San Francisco History Center. On Shades photo days, held in different San Francisco neighborhoods, donors are invited to bring in historic photographs of their families, workplaces, and neighborhoods so that these photos can be copied and added to the San Francisco History Center's Photograph Collection. The goal of the project is to add images of ethnic and cultural diversity, as well as broader representation of city neighborhoods, to the San Francisco History Center archives. Once collected in the archives, these photographs become important primary sources to assist students, scholars, and the general public in telling the story of San Francisco. The Western Addition, Mission District, Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside, Sunset District, Bayview/Hunters Point, LGBTQI community and San Francisco's Filipino-American community photo days have already been completed, but the Shades project will continue to other San Francisco neighborhoods and communities in the future.
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Show moreShades of San Francisco is a community history photography project of the San Francisco History Center. On Shades photo days, held in different San Francisco neighborhoods, donors are invited to bring in historic photographs of their families, workplaces, and neighborhoods so that these photos can be copied and added to the San Francisco History Center's Photograph Collection. The goal of the project is to add images of ethnic and cultural diversity, as well as broader representation of city neighborhoods, to the San Francisco History Center archives. Once collected in the archives, these photographs become important primary sources to assist students, scholars, and the general public in telling the story of San Francisco. The Western Addition, Mission District, Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside, Sunset District, Bayview/Hunters Point, LGBTQI community and San Francisco's Filipino-American community photo days have already been completed, but the Shades project will continue to other San Francisco neighborhoods and communities in the future.
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