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1930s Historical Photograph Collection
SFGH.2015.005
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Contributing Institution:
Barnett-Briggs Medical Library, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center
Title: 1930s Historical Photograph Collection
Identifier/Call Number: SFGH.2015.005
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear Feet
(3 photo boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1930s
Abstract: This collection contains 4x5 cellulose acetate and cellulose nitrate negatives and some prints of SFGH in the 1930s. Included
are images of the outside of the hospital, patient rooms, equipment, ambulances, and emergency hospitals.
Physical Description: Two 4x5 photo boxes and one 5x7 photo box.
Language of Material:
English
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[Item], [Photo ID number], 1930s Historical Photograph Collection, SFGH 2015-005. Archives and Special Collections, University
of California, San Francisco.
This collection contains negatives and print images of SFGH. The images date from the 1930s, with some of the images specifically
dated to 1937. Included are images of the buildings' exteriors, the chest clinic, the chest clinic gate, the staircases,
equipment, interiors, patient rooms, ambulances, emergency hospitals, and kitchens.
The collection is organized into 20 series by subject: I. Outdoor Views; II. Buildings 80/90; III. Chest Clinic; IV. Chest
Clinic Gate; V. Staircases; VI. Patient Rooms; VII. Large Equipment; VIII. Equipment Kits; IX. Single Bed Rooms and Equipment;
X. Interiors with Staff; XI. Miscellaneous Interiors; XII. Kitchen; XIII. Ambulances; XIV. SFGH Emergency; XV. Non-SFGH Emergency;
XVI. Isolation Hospitals; XVII. Splints; XIII. Instruction Pictures with Captions; XIX. Boy Scouts; XX. Paper Negatives.
The collection is open for research.
Processed by Griffin Burgess in 2015.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission ofthe copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
No future additions are expected.
Gift from the Barnett-Briggs Medical Library, Stephen Kiyoi, Library Director, formerly Joy Graham, March 2015.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Medical photography
Photographs--History