Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco Photograph Collection, ca. 1880-

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Summary

Title:
Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco Photograph Collection
Dates:
ca. 1880-
Creators:
Sisters of the Presentation
Abstract:
Extent:
32 record boxes and 64 oversize folders
Language:
Preferred citation:

Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco Photograph Collection. Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco

Background

Scope and content:

The Photograph Collection is arranged in the following series: Member Photographs, Ministries, Buildings, and Sisters. The Member Photographs are individual files of photos of living, deceased, and former members of the PBVM, San Francisco community since 1854. The photograph subjects in these files include individual, ministry, family, and others. The photographs in the Ministries Series document the sisters’ educational ministries since 1854; their work in parishes; their ministries to the poor, women, and immigrants; and the missions they established in Latin America (1965- ). The Building Series include convents, schools, churches, novitiates, and properties where the sisters ministered and lived. The Sisters Series includes photographs of sisters in community life and those who served in leadership. Among the featured subjects are schools and convents the sisters taught and lived at; community and parish occasions; and sisters working in their ministries. Early photographs include those of classes of students in the sisters’ schools dating from the 1880s, and ones documenting their experience during the 1906 Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco. Among the professionally done black and white photography from the 1940s-1960s are those of sisters and students at Presentation High School, San Francisco, interior shots of the San Francisco Motherhouse (c. 1920s), and the ceremonies of women receiving their religious habit. The collection also includes oversize and panoramic images of individual student portraits (1937-1942), class photographs, and events (1920s-1940s).

Acquisition information:
Most of the photographs were taken by the sisters as a record of their life and activities. There are also photographs taken by different professional photographers who were contracted-for-hire by the Sisters of the Presentation.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco staff.
Date Prepared:
ca. 1880-
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with Presentation Archives. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Archivist at Presentation Archives.

Preferred citation:

Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco Photograph Collection. Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco

Location of this collection:
Presentation Archives
2340 Turk Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94118, US
Contact:
(415) 751-0406
presarchives@pbvmsf.org
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