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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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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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Rick Gerharter is a San Francisco-based free-lance photojournalist. This collection of images was selected by the artist and documents activities in San Francisco's LGBT community from 1988 through...
Show moreRick Gerharter is a San Francisco-based free-lance photojournalist. This collection of images was selected by the artist and documents activities in San Francisco's LGBT community from 1988 through mid-1995. Many photos were taken while on assignment for the Bay Area Reporter and capture the intensity and emotion of many facets of queer life, including AIDS activism, celebration, care-giving, sports, and visibility.
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Show moreRick Gerharter is a San Francisco-based free-lance photojournalist. This collection of images was selected by the artist and documents activities in San Francisco's LGBT community from 1988 through mid-1995. Many photos were taken while on assignment for the Bay Area Reporter and capture the intensity and emotion of many facets of queer life, including AIDS activism, celebration, care-giving, sports, and visibility.
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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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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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The Michael Brailove Photographic Negatives consists of 83 black and white 120 format film negatives that depict commercial businesses, residences and Freedom House meetings in the Western Addition...
Show moreThe Michael Brailove Photographic Negatives consists of 83 black and white 120 format film negatives that depict commercial businesses, residences and Freedom House meetings in the Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California in 1964. The images provide a look at the commercial businesses in the Western Addition including storefronts and business owners. The Freedom House was located at 1832 Fillmore Street and the images show the exterior of the building as well as attendees of a meeting. Includes images documenting a Freedom House Block Party on Redwood Street at Laguna Street.
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Show moreThe Michael Brailove Photographic Negatives consists of 83 black and white 120 format film negatives that depict commercial businesses, residences and Freedom House meetings in the Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California in 1964. The images provide a look at the commercial businesses in the Western Addition including storefronts and business owners. The Freedom House was located at 1832 Fillmore Street and the images show the exterior of the building as well as attendees of a meeting. Includes images documenting a Freedom House Block Party on Redwood Street at Laguna Street.
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Collection of approximately 17,000 frames of black and white negatives, 2,000 color photographic prints and 340 color slides by Edward Stanton of San Francisco, California between 1959 and late...
Show moreCollection of approximately 17,000 frames of black and white negatives, 2,000 color photographic prints and 340 color slides by Edward Stanton of San Francisco, California between 1959 and late 1980s. The photographs document the everyday of San Francisco including significant landmarks. Stanton documented street scenes; buildings; protests, demonstrations and parades; graffiti, signs and murals.
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Show moreCollection of approximately 17,000 frames of black and white negatives, 2,000 color photographic prints and 340 color slides by Edward Stanton of San Francisco, California between 1959 and late 1980s. The photographs document the everyday of San Francisco including significant landmarks. Stanton documented street scenes; buildings; protests, demonstrations and parades; graffiti, signs and murals.
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Collection of chiefly black and white photographic prints of former Naval Station Treasure Island, located in San Francisco Bay, by the United States Navy in 1958-1984.
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Lee Raymond was born and raised in Southern California and then lived in San Francisco. Raymond was an Empress of the Imperial Court, a fashion designer, and a drag performer in San Francisco,...
Show moreLee Raymond was born and raised in Southern California and then lived in San Francisco. Raymond was an Empress of the Imperial Court, a fashion designer, and a drag performer in San Francisco, circa 1974-1979. Raymond owned a fashion boutique called R.V.H. Ltd. with Richard Hayward. As a drag performer, Raymond used the stage name Flame.
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Show moreLee Raymond was born and raised in Southern California and then lived in San Francisco. Raymond was an Empress of the Imperial Court, a fashion designer, and a drag performer in San Francisco, circa 1974-1979. Raymond owned a fashion boutique called R.V.H. Ltd. with Richard Hayward. As a drag performer, Raymond used the stage name Flame.
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The collection includes approximately 6,402 prints and over 104,000 frames of various negative types by professional photographer Phiz Mezey of predominately of San Francisco from the early 1950s...
Show moreThe collection includes approximately 6,402 prints and over 104,000 frames of various negative types by professional photographer Phiz Mezey of predominately of San Francisco from the early 1950s to the early 2000s. Subjects of the photography include Our San Francisco book images; San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Western Addition project; Something That’s Happening (STEP) book about desegregation of the Sausalito schools book images; notables (national and local): musicians, artists, authors, public figures, politicians; China (self-assigned project); Lacandon of Chiapas, Mexico; lifestyles 60s and 70s: hippies, street photography, nudes and civil rights actions; protests 1964 – 2004; historic San Francisco; nature: stories about Big Sur, marine mammals, Academy of Science; travel and general: photojournalism, portraits, Mexico.
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Show moreThe collection includes approximately 6,402 prints and over 104,000 frames of various negative types by professional photographer Phiz Mezey of predominately of San Francisco from the early 1950s to the early 2000s. Subjects of the photography include Our San Francisco book images; San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Western Addition project; Something That’s Happening (STEP) book about desegregation of the Sausalito schools book images; notables (national and local): musicians, artists, authors, public figures, politicians; China (self-assigned project); Lacandon of Chiapas, Mexico; lifestyles 60s and 70s: hippies, street photography, nudes and civil rights actions; protests 1964 – 2004; historic San Francisco; nature: stories about Big Sur, marine mammals, Academy of Science; travel and general: photojournalism, portraits, Mexico.
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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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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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Collection of 120 Kodachrome color slides document both years 1939 and 1940 of the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco.
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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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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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Unbound album of black and white photographic prints taken by Leo Riegel Taylor Burton of work in Golden Gate Park in the 1930s, including jobs sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. The...
Show moreUnbound album of black and white photographic prints taken by Leo Riegel Taylor Burton of work in Golden Gate Park in the 1930s, including jobs sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. The photographs depict engineers and surveyors in the office and in the field, as well as WPA workers laboring on projects including road building and landscaping. The end of the album consists of photos of Golden Gate Park in 1921. Some photos have names of the people handwritten in pen on the photograph. The majority of the photographs have handwritten descriptions in pencil.
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Show moreUnbound album of black and white photographic prints taken by Leo Riegel Taylor Burton of work in Golden Gate Park in the 1930s, including jobs sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. The photographs depict engineers and surveyors in the office and in the field, as well as WPA workers laboring on projects including road building and landscaping. The end of the album consists of photos of Golden Gate Park in 1921. Some photos have names of the people handwritten in pen on the photograph. The majority of the photographs have handwritten descriptions in pencil.
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Three brown leather-bound photograph albums contain 232 gelatin silver prints with handwritten captions and dates in silver. The photographs record Spring Valley Water Company projects between 1918...
Show moreThree brown leather-bound photograph albums contain 232 gelatin silver prints with handwritten captions and dates in silver. The photographs record Spring Valley Water Company projects between 1918 and 1929 to expand San Francisco's water system to newly developed districts and improve the existing infrastructure to enable future construction and expansion. Some of the photographs were used in Spring Valley's quarterly magazine, "San Francisco Water," published between 1922 and 1930 when the company was purchased by the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs document workers performing a variety of jobs, including pipe-laying, pipe-fitting, welding, trench-digging and heavy-equipment operation.
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Show moreThree brown leather-bound photograph albums contain 232 gelatin silver prints with handwritten captions and dates in silver. The photographs record Spring Valley Water Company projects between 1918 and 1929 to expand San Francisco's water system to newly developed districts and improve the existing infrastructure to enable future construction and expansion. Some of the photographs were used in Spring Valley's quarterly magazine, "San Francisco Water," published between 1922 and 1930 when the company was purchased by the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs document workers performing a variety of jobs, including pipe-laying, pipe-fitting, welding, trench-digging and heavy-equipment operation.
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The Willard E. Worden Glass Plate Negatives contains 432 glass plate negatives taken by San Francisco photographer Willard E. Worden ca. 1911-1912. 227 of the images depict the building of the...
Show moreThe Willard E. Worden Glass Plate Negatives contains 432 glass plate negatives taken by San Francisco photographer Willard E. Worden ca. 1911-1912. 227 of the images depict the building of the Ingleside Terraces residential neighborhood by the Urban Realty Improvement Company. The remainder includes residences in Jordan Park, Richmond District and Visitacion Valley, various residential interiors, Sacred Heart School the Y.M.C.A. building at Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth, Y.M.C.A camps, and views of Berkeley and Piedmont.
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Show moreThe Willard E. Worden Glass Plate Negatives contains 432 glass plate negatives taken by San Francisco photographer Willard E. Worden ca. 1911-1912. 227 of the images depict the building of the Ingleside Terraces residential neighborhood by the Urban Realty Improvement Company. The remainder includes residences in Jordan Park, Richmond District and Visitacion Valley, various residential interiors, Sacred Heart School the Y.M.C.A. building at Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth, Y.M.C.A camps, and views of Berkeley and Piedmont.
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On February 19, 1910, A.S. Baldwin was hired to appraise all property owned by the Sutro Estate in the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs depict properties forming the estate of...
Show moreOn February 19, 1910, A.S. Baldwin was hired to appraise all property owned by the Sutro Estate in the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs depict properties forming the estate of Adolph Sutro including the Cliff House, the Sutro Baths, Sutro Heights, Ashbury Heights, Parnassus Heights, Rancho San Miguel and Sunset and Richmond districts. The photographs cover every piece of property owned by the Sutro Estate except two strips of land in which the titles were in dispute with the City. Baldwin’s report includes appraisal of the properties and statements of rental income and ownership.
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Show moreOn February 19, 1910, A.S. Baldwin was hired to appraise all property owned by the Sutro Estate in the City and County of San Francisco. The photographs depict properties forming the estate of Adolph Sutro including the Cliff House, the Sutro Baths, Sutro Heights, Ashbury Heights, Parnassus Heights, Rancho San Miguel and Sunset and Richmond districts. The photographs cover every piece of property owned by the Sutro Estate except two strips of land in which the titles were in dispute with the City. Baldwin’s report includes appraisal of the properties and statements of rental income and ownership.
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In 1941 Crittenden Van Wyck compiled this album of his photographs taken in 1908 documenting the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Van Wyck presented the...
Show moreIn 1941 Crittenden Van Wyck compiled this album of his photographs taken in 1908 documenting the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Van Wyck presented the photograph album to the San Francisco Public Library. All the photographs are captioned. A photo of Van Wyck is on the introductory page.
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Show moreIn 1941 Crittenden Van Wyck compiled this album of his photographs taken in 1908 documenting the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Van Wyck presented the photograph album to the San Francisco Public Library. All the photographs are captioned. A photo of Van Wyck is on the introductory page.
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The leather-bound album contains 148 gelatin silver prints documenting the aftermath and reconstruction from the San Francisco 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The photographs are not arranged...
Show moreThe leather-bound album contains 148 gelatin silver prints documenting the aftermath and reconstruction from the San Francisco 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The photographs are not arranged chronologically but date between May 1906 and May 1907. All the prints have hand-written captions documenting location and date. Earthquake refugee camps include Golden Gate Park, Hamilton Square and Jefferson Square. The refugees’ ethnicity is noted and include Italian, German and Russian. Noted scenes include Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, Market Street, Van Ness Avenue, city scape views. Significant landmarks include Sutro Baths, Cliff House, Sutro Heights, Golden Gate Park, the Chutes and Carville. Significant events documented include the United Railroad Strike in August 1906 and the Streetcar Strike in May 1907. Socializing events include “the Danes” drinking and frolicking at Ocean Beach and in Sutro Baths. One group portrait is captioned “boarders at 1622 Bush Street.”
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Show moreThe leather-bound album contains 148 gelatin silver prints documenting the aftermath and reconstruction from the San Francisco 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The photographs are not arranged chronologically but date between May 1906 and May 1907. All the prints have hand-written captions documenting location and date. Earthquake refugee camps include Golden Gate Park, Hamilton Square and Jefferson Square. The refugees’ ethnicity is noted and include Italian, German and Russian. Noted scenes include Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, Market Street, Van Ness Avenue, city scape views. Significant landmarks include Sutro Baths, Cliff House, Sutro Heights, Golden Gate Park, the Chutes and Carville. Significant events documented include the United Railroad Strike in August 1906 and the Streetcar Strike in May 1907. Socializing events include “the Danes” drinking and frolicking at Ocean Beach and in Sutro Baths. One group portrait is captioned “boarders at 1622 Bush Street.”
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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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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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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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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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