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Foster's and Bickford's diners and bakeries.
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Title:
Foster's and Bickford's diners and bakeriesCreator/Contributor:
Bickford's, Inc, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Gabriel Moulin StudiosCreator/Contributor:
Foster Lunch System, LtdAbstract:
Chiefly diner and bakery storefronts (exteriors), interiors, and window displays. Some photographs of staff in restaurants
and bakeries, and some portraits of unidentified executives are also present.
Date:
ca. 1940-1950? (issued)Subject:
n-us-caDiners (Restaurants) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
Restoroutes -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Photographies
Diners (Restaurants)
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Foster Lunch System, Ltd. -- Pictorial works
Bickford's, Inc. -- Pictorial works
Note:
Apparently compiled by the Foster's and Bickford's companies, as part of their corporate images files, or by an advertising
firm associated with them. Many Foster's views by Moulin Studios.
Album ( --AX box 2) disbound by library staff for preservation purposes.
Many of the photographs exhibit evidence of being used in publication.
Also present are some adveritising illustration proofs and typescript documents relating to Brown & Williamson tobacco. It
is possible all materials share provenance and originate with a single advertising firm.
Foster's images arranged in store number or bakery number order.
Title/date devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
AX box 1: RESTRICTED (brittle leaves): Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Purchase; 2002.
Store list available in library.
Samuel L. Bickford, of New York-based Bickford's, along with other investors, purchased the White Lunch System (a Pacific
coast restaurant chain) in 1924. They renamed the compnay Foster Lunch System, for co-owner Lamont Foster. In 1932 the Foster
chain became a subsidiary of Bickford's, Inc. (cf. The Bickford story, in American Restaurant Magazine, Aug. 1956).
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
2 boxes and 2 oversize boxes (ca. 700 photographic prints, some ephemera) : b&w, some hand-colored ; chiefly 8 x 10 in.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
AX box 1: RESTRICTED (brittle leaves): Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.