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Edward Stanton Photographs
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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...
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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 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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Significant San Francisco Photographers Photograph Collection
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Artificial collection of about 200 original photographic prints by more than 25 significant 19th and 20th century photographers and photo studios covering a broad range of subjects and includes...
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Artificial collection of about 200 original photographic prints by more than 25 significant 19th and 20th century photographers and photo studios covering a broad range of subjects and includes portraits, landscapes, panoramic views, cityscapes and buildings of San Francisco and California. The photographers and photo studios include Abell and Priest, W. C. Billington, Bradley and Rulofson, J. C. Brewster, Horace Bristol, Bushnell, Cramer, William Edward Dassonville, Elite, Flaglor, Geo. D. Gardner, Arnold Genthe, Thomas Houseworth, Dorothea Lange, Theodore C. Marceau, A. J. McDonald, G. D. Morse, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Sonya Noskowiak, Perkins Photo, Rieman and Co., Daniel Sewell, William Shew, Taber, J. A. Todd, Carlton Watkins, Hugo Weitz, Edward Weston.
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D. H. Wulzen Glass Plate Negatives
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Collection of glass plate negatives shot by Dietrich H. Wulzen, Jr. documenting early 1900s San Francisco. Includes Chinatown, San Francisco circa 1900, and the destruction and aftermath of the...
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Collection of glass plate negatives shot by Dietrich H. Wulzen, Jr. documenting early 1900s San Francisco. Includes Chinatown, San Francisco circa 1900, and the destruction and aftermath of the Earthquake and Fire of 1906
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Willard E. Worden Glass Plate Negatives
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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...
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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 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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J. M. Williamson M.D. Board of Health Photograph Album of Chinatown, San Francisco
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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...
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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 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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George Christopher Papers
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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...
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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-mayoral years. Materials include memoranda, reports, correspondence, photographs, films, audio recordings, and newspaper clippings.
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Chloe Atkins Photographs Collection
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Chloe Atkins is a photographer who lives in the San Francisco bay area. The collection includes all her film from still photography, including associated proof sheets and model releases where...
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Chloe Atkins is a photographer who lives in the San Francisco bay area. The collection includes all her film from still photography, including associated proof sheets and model releases where available. Chiefly images of the GLBT community in the bay area, from the 1980s through 2014.
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Lynda Koolish Photographs Collection
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Lynda Koolish is a photographer and a professor of English and comparative literature. The collection contains portraits of gay and lesbian writers. Many of these images appear in Koolish's book...
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Lynda Koolish is a photographer and a professor of English and comparative literature. The collection contains portraits of gay and lesbian writers. Many of these images appear in Koolish's book African-American Writers: Portraits and Visions (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2001).
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United States Naval Station Treasure Island Photographs
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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.
Jeannie O'Connor AIDS Self-Portraits Collection
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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...
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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 facilities. The subjects included people with AIDS and HIV, as well as staff members, volunteers, and their families.
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Rick Gerharter Photographs Collection
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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...
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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 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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San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection
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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.
Tenderloin Times Photograph Archives
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Collection contains approximately 6,000 photographs pertaining to the run and publication of The Tenderloin Times, a free monthly newspaper published in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, 1977 – 1994,...
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Collection contains approximately 6,000 photographs pertaining to the run and publication of The Tenderloin Times, a free monthly newspaper published in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, 1977 – 1994, by the Hospitality House. The photographs in the collection begin in December 1981 and end in November 1993. Photographs document cultural activities, Tenderloin residents, local politicians campaigning, protests, AIDS activism, homelessness and advocacy. Also included are publicity photographs sent by theater groups, music performers and dance troupes.
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San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder Photographs
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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...
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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 early 2000s.
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San Francisco Oversize Photograph Collection
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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...
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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 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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Ken Maley and Firat Yener Papers
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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...
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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 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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California Photograph Collection
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The artificial collection contains over 48,440 photographic prints of California (excluding San Francisco) places, activities and cultural resources collected by the San Francisco History Center,...
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The artificial collection contains over 48,440 photographic prints of California (excluding San Francisco) places, activities and cultural resources collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library compiled from selections from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue gifts of donors, and purchases. The collection spans more than 100 years of California from the early 1880s to 1980s. The images provide comprehensive information about many activities and events important to California and its 20th century growth.
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