Negative files of the Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive, circa 1930-2000
Sports Subject Files (codes 43000-77378), 1945 to 1981
- Extent:
- 144 boxes
- Scope and content:
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The Sports subject series is comprised of amateur, school, college and professional sports, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, from 1945 to 1981. Each category can include games, charity events, individual players, teams, administrators and owners, sports locales and equipment.
Subjects of note include baseball players Babe Ruth, Lefty O'Doul and many images of Joe DiMaggio, Examiner baseball school, Candlestick Park, the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, US versus Soviet Union sporting events, Stanford University versus UC Berkley Big Game and events, football player O.J. Simpson, Gaelic football , picketing against discrimination on school teams, sporting stunts, swimming feats in the Bay (especially with Jack LaLanne), rodeos and livestock shows, soccer player Pele and Special Olympic events.
Some negative sleeves include programs or speed cards for the games. Many negative sleeves labeled "Magic Eye caps" only include play by play captions of the games, which is especially prevalent in football.
- Arrangement:
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This series is further divided into separate code ranges by the following sports: baseball (43000-43584), basketball (46000-46305), football (49000-49560), golf (55000-55176), horse racing (57000-57083), boxing (60000-60121), swimming (64000-64052), tennis (67000-67069), track and field (69000-69104), winter sports (71000-71053), yachting (74000-74161) and miscellaneous sports(77000- 77378).
Contents
Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
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AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. SOME PORTIONS RESTRICTED.
Boxes 1-218: Restricted due to handling and transportation hazards. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. For Boxes 1-30 and Boxes 70-96 a sleeve-level listing is available in the library.
Boxes 219-3198: Available by appointment only. Advance notice required for use.
- Parent terms of access:
- Copyright to photographs taken by staff photographers of the San Francisco Examiner in this collection has been assigned to the University of California Regents. Only the photographs created by these staff photographers in this collection are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following attribution is required for all uses of these photographs: "Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license."
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481