Examiner (San Francisco) Photograph Archive Negative Files, circa 1930-2000

General Files, 1945-07 to 1945-12

Containers:
Box 736
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG, Codes: 98540 - 98564
Dates:
1945-07 to 1945-12
Scope and content:

Chiefly images of society and World War II home front activities. Includes Dogs for Defense [98540-98541, 3 sleeves]; social events and dancing sponsored by the United Service Organizations [98540, 98547, 98554, 4 sleeves]; ground observers for the Aircraft Warning Service in Marin County [98540, 1 sleeve]; Office of Civilian Defense disaster relief programs [98541, 1 sleeve]; Aircraft Warning Service classes in San Mateo [98542, 1 sleeve]; women canning at the Red Cross Food Center [98542, 1 sleeve]; various Red Cross activities [98543-98544, 98554, 98557, 6 sleeves]; women at the Aircraft Warning Service office at 85 Second Street [98544, 1 sleeve]; Women's Army Corps barracks at the Palace Hotel [98544, 1 sleeve]; US Navy WAVES one year anniversary [98544, 1 sleeve]; Red Cross phonograph record drive [98545, 1 sleeve]; Red Cross mural in progress [98545, 1 sleeve]; women recruiting for US Marine Corps [98546-98548, 3 sleeves]; Women's Army Corps doing calisthenics at the Palace Hotel [98546, 1 sleeve]; children at the Grant Nursery School [98546, 1 sleeve]; servicemen being provided with coffee, donuts and entertainment at the American Women's Voluntary Services canteen [98548, 1 sleeve]; women preparing Christmas packages for servicemen [98549, 1 sleeve]; US Navy WAVES at the Western Women's Club [98549, 1 sleeve]; US Army nurses in the Fox Theater lobby [98549, 1 sleeve]; women selling war bonds [98550, 1 sleeve]; Officer Club at the Fairmont Hotel [98551, 1 sleeve]; junior members of the American Women's Voluntary Services [98551, 98557, 2 sleeves]; Stage Door Canteen activities [98552, 98555, 58560, 4 sleeves]; United Service Organizations unit visits the Coast Guard [98552, 1 sleeve]; Red Cross Canteen [98553, 1 sleeve]; Mural Room at the Hotel St. Francis [98554, 1 sleeve]; American Women's Voluntary Service drill team [98558, 1 sleeve].

Contents

Access and use

Parent restrictions:

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:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481