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Michael Brailove Photographic Negatives (1964) SFP
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Title: Michael Brailove Photographic Negatives
Date: 1964
Identifier/Call Number: SFP 103
Creator:
Brailove, Michael Isaac , 1939
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Physical Description:
1 folder
(83 black and white 120 format film negatives)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4567
sfhistory@sfpl.org
Abstract: 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 the commercial
businesses in the Western Addition including storefronts and business owners. The Freedom
House was located at 1832 Fillmore Street and the images show the exterior of the building
as well as attendees of a meeting. Includes images documenting a Freedom House Block Party
on Redwood Street at Laguna Street.
Physical Location: The collection is stored
onsite.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English.
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center's Photo Desk
hours.
All requests for permission to publish from photographs must be submitted in writing to the
Photo Curator. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public
Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item], Michael Brailove Photographic Negatives (SFP 103), San Francisco
History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Gift from Michael Brailove, 2016.
Michael Isaac Brailove was born in 1939 to Sylvia and Morris Brailove in Elizabeth, New
Jersey. Brailove grew up in New Jersey and attended Brandeis University in Massachusetts for
his undergraduate degree. Brailove moved to California in 1960 to attend graduate school at
University of California at Berkeley. His master's degree was in Spanish and his doctorate
in romance languages. In 1961, Brailove married Kathy Jean Chernick in Alameda County,
California. In 1965, Brailove was one of the founders of Cowell College Faculty at
University of California at Santa Cruz. While living in Santa Cruz, Brailove was an active
member of the Martin Luther King Direct Action Committee. The couple moved back to New
Jersey by the early 1970s. In the 1990s Brailove worked in adult education in a labor union
setting and as an antique dealer. Brailove currently resides in New Jersey.
The Michael Brailove Photographic Negatives consists of 83 black and white 120 format film
negatives that depict commercial businesses, residences and a Freedom House meeting in the
Western Addition neighborhood, San Francisco, California in 1964. The images provide a look
at the commercial businesses in the Western Addition including storefronts and business
owners. The Freedom House activities included registering citizens to vote, organizing block
clubs, and rehabilitating existing structures in the Western Addition as a form of
opposition to the San Francisco Redevelopment plan for Western Addition Project A-2 -- and
these activities are documented by Brailove. The photo documentation shows Freedom House
members communicating with Fillmore Street merchants as the process to organize the Fillmore
Small Business Co-op. Freedom House was located at 1832 Fillmore Street and the images show
the exterior of the building as well as interior with attendees at a meeting. The collection
includes documentation of a Freedom House block event with Redwood-Laguna Block Club. Block
club activities documented include sidewalk repair and cleaning up Redwood Street at Laguna
Street.
The collection is arranged in negative number order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Housing Development -- California -- San Francisco.
Urban renewal -- California -- San Francisco.
Community organization -- California -- San Francisco.
African American neighborhoods -- California -- San
Francisco.
Fillmore (San Francisco, Calif.)
Western Addition (San Francisco, Calif.)
Transparencies
Freedom House. (San Francisco, Calif.)