Description
Local news photographs taken by staff
of the Examiner, a major San Francisco daily newspaper. The vast majority of the negative
files record local persons and events in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Northern
California. Included are all the topics typically found in local news coverage, including
politics, state and local government, society, sports, visiting dignitaries and celebrities,
fashion, the arts, crime, accidents, transportation, urban and suburban development, and
human interest stories. The negative files are not limited to images that were published in
the newspaper; most were never printed.
Extent
3,600,000 photographs
(approximately 3,600,000 photographic negatives in 3228
boxes)
; safety film, nitrate film and glass
: various film sizes, chiefly 4 x 5 in. and 35mm
Restrictions
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."
Availability
AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. SOME PORTIONS RESTRICTED.