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San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, California 94102
Phone: (415) 557-4567
Email: sfhistory@sfpl.org
Collections with online items: 35
Physical collections: 356
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Agnos (Art) papers

This collection documents the political career of Art Agnos, who represented the 16th district in the California Assembly from 1976 to 1988 and was mayor of San Francisco from 1988-1992.

 
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Blaisdell (Marilyn) Photograph Collection

The Marilyn Blaisdell Photograph Collection includes over 17,000 prints and over 8,000 negatives (both glass and film) dating from the early 1850s to the 1980s. The collection contains a variety of visual formats including vintage photographs, stereographs, real photo postcards,...

Born (Chester (Chet)) Papers

Chester (Chet) O. Born's papers document his professional and public life from the 1940s until his death in 1973, tracing the trajectory of his career as a San Francisco Fire Department photographer; as well as his public life as a...

Brailove (Michael) Photographic Negatives

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 neighborhood, San Francisco, California in 1964. The images provide a look at...

Brower (Robert W.) Old Poodle Dog Restaurant Collection

Contains menus, wine labels, and postcards of the Poodle Dog, Old Poodle Dog and Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog restaurants.

 
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Deaf AIDS Center Collection

The Deaf AIDS Center Collection documents the educational and social activities of the Center through photographs, flyers, and ephemera.

Durden (Robert) Color Slide Collection

Collection consists of over 65,000 35mm color slides documenting San Francisco buildings, events and locations between 1950 and early 1990s. The bulk of the collection is from the 1980s to the early 1990s and documents the architectural features of San...

 
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Giddings (Harold (Bill)) Bradley's Corner Bar Photograph Collection

The collection documents 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...

Gonong (Maxine) Papers

Correspondence, documents, photographs, speech notes, newspaper columns, research notes and clippings, and other materials relating to Gonong's roles as a foreign service officer in the Philippine Consulate General of San Francisco, as a public speaker in that capacity along the...

 
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Holdredge (Helen) 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 also includes some correspondence about her research and speaking engagements, as...

 
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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 into a regional and then a national chain via mergers...

 
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Kularts Records

Kularts has produced contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts in the United States since 1985. The collection contains a five year plan (1985-2000), production notes, educational program files including children's work, meeting agendas, letters of recommendation, some correspondence, brochures, posters, photos,...

 
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Lee Edwin M.

Correspondence from government officials, photographs with dignitaries, and speech for 2012 inauguration. Preservation copies of press conference videos.

 
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McLaren (John) Collection

Diaries, 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...

 
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Nelson (Sonny) Papers

Newspaper clippings, photos, magazines, writings, correspondence, ephemera, and audio recordings documenting the work and interests of jazz musician and night club owner Sonny Nelson. Much of the collection is about the San Francisco North Beach night club the Cellar (aka...

Newsom (Gavin Christopher) Papers

This collection documents the mayoral career of Gavin Newsom, who served as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco, from Jan. 8, 2004 to Jan. 11, 2011.

 
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People vs. Owen Bathhouse Closure Litigation Records

Court documents and other records related to the case People of the State of California, ex rel. George Agnost, et al. vs. Ima Jean Owen, et al. (Superior Court No. 830-321), aka People vs. Owen, filed October 10, 1984, by...

 
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San Francisco Arts Festival Photographs and Records

The San Francisco Arts Festival Photographs and Records consist of photographic prints, slides, negatives, and a small amount of written and ephemeral records documenting the annual festival that was sponsored by the San Francisco Art Commission.

San Francisco Carte-de-Visite Collection

The artificial collection contains approximately 140 cartes-de-visite taken by over 30 known San Francisco, California photographers/photography studios working mostly in the 1860s and 1870s and collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.

San Francisco Department of Public Works Bureau of Engineering Photograph Records

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 projects from 1907 – late 1970s in San Francisco, California. SFDPW Bureau of Engineering was responsible...

San Francisco General Hospital AIDS Ward 5B/5A Archives

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, the first dedicated AIDS hospital ward in the U.S. The collection documents daily life on...

San Francisco Oversize Photograph Collection

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 compiled from selections from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue, gifts...

San Francisco Police Department Records

Records of the Board of Police Commissioners; the Office of the Chief of Police and subsidiary bureaus and units, including the Bureau of Identification, the Bureau of Inspectors (aka Detective Bureau), Photographs Bureau, and Patrol Bureau; and scrapbooks whose originating...

San Francisco Postcard Collection

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 in date from the turn of the 20th century to 1990s. Events depicted on...

San Francisco Punk Collection

This collection contains material documenting punk music and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area through zines, fliers, photographs, and other ephemera with the bulk of material dating from the late 1970s to mid-1980s. This is a growing collection comprised...

San Francisco Souvenir Photograph Collection

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 1942 and 1955.

San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection

The artificial collection contains over 155,000 photographic prints of 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...

San Francisco Unified School District records

This collection documents the San Francisco Unified School District's history through materials collected by the Teachers Professional Library beginning in 1854, the fourth year of the Department of Common Schools, as it was then known. While there are materials from...

Sandoval (Judith) Visitacion Valley Gift of Stories Collection

The Judith Sandoval Visitacion Valley Gift of Stories Collection consists of over 4,000 black and white photographs of varying sizes, contact sheets, negatives and images on CDs of the Visitacion Valley community between 1998 and 2005.

Sheraton (Leslie) Color Slides of California

Collection consists of 1,740 35mm color slides and 28 black and white photographic prints documenting Leslie Sheraton’s trips to California from 1948 to 1973. The trips include destinations of San Francisco, Disneyland, Los Angeles, Marineland, Swiss Colony, San Juan Capistrano,...

Significant San Francisco Photographers Photograph Collection

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...

Sotomayor (Antonio) Papers

Correspondence, artwork, photographs, and subject files of Bolivian-born artist Antonio Sotomayor, who lived and worked in San Francisco for most of his life.

Stanton (Edward) Photographs

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...

Stereograph (San Francisco) Collection

The artificial collection consists of over 800 stereograph cards of San Francisco, California collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. The stereograph cards range in date from the 1860s – 1915. Events depicted on the stereographs...

 
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Worden (Willard E.) Glass Plate Negatives

Collection contains 432 glass plate negatives taken by San Francisco photographer Willard E. Worden between 1907 and 1912. More then half of the collection depicts the building of the Ingleside Terraces residential neighborhood by the Urban Realty Improvement Company. The...