Examiner (San Francisco) Photograph Archive Negative Files, circa 1930-2000
General Files, 1940 to 1946
- Containers:
- Box 816
- Identifier:
- BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG, Codes: 103212 - 104226
- Dates:
- 1940 to 1946
- Scope and content:
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Aviation (transportation) [103212-103220, 1941 to 1942, 1944 to 1946] and fires and fire fighting [104210 to 104226, 1940-08 to 1941-03] in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aviation is chiefly clipper ship arrivals and departures and includes Sir and Lady Alfred Duff Cooper [103212, 1 sleeve]; author and diplomat Clare Booth Luce [103212, 1 sleeve]; Earl Mountbatten of Burma Louis Mountbatten [103213, 1 sleeve]; US Navy dirigible rescue at sea [103216, 1 sleeve]; US Navy Hellcat Squadron group portrait [103216, 1 sleeve]; Trans World Airlines, Inc. Stratoliner christening [103217, 1 sleeve]; US Army crew of the B-29 bomber Thumper (airplane) [103217, 1 sleeve]; US Army P-80 Shootingstar (jet plane) [103217, 4 sleeves]; Mills Field airport [103218, 1 sleeve]; men and women commercial airline pilots [103218, 1 sleeve]; actress June Allyson, William Gargan, Dr. Margaret Chung and pilot Robert "Duke" Hedman with a parachute delivery at Mills Field [103218, 1 sleeve]; aerial view from the Telephone Building (cityscapes) [103219, 1 sleeve]; Edward V. Mills, Marshall Dill and Mayor Roger D. Lapham at an airport groundbreaking ceremony [103219, 1 sleeve]. Fires and fire fighting includes a fire at Associated Oil in Avon [104210, 2 sleeves]; fires at City Hall and on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland [104221, 104222, 2 sleeves]; Capp Street fire and inquest [104225, 9 sleeves] portable fire truck and equipment in Emeryville [104226, 1 sleeve]; fire in Berkeley [104226, 1 sleeve].
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