Examiner (San Francisco) Photograph Archive Negative Files, circa 1930-2000
General Files, 1942-12 to 1943-04
- Containers:
- Box 831
- Identifier:
- BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG, Codes: 105831 - 105854
- Dates:
- 1942-12 to 1943-04
- Scope and content:
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Civilian and military activities on the home front during World War II. Includes launching of Andrew D. White (ship) [105833, 1 sleeve]; women shopping for shoes during shoe rationing [105836, 1 sleeve]; young women from Galileo High School volunteering as civilian defense messengers [105836, 1 sleeve]; women in the US Marine Corps [105836, 1 sleeve]; a man and a woman with a war bond at a store counter [105838, 1 sleeve]; crowds signing up for ration books [105839, 1 sleeve]; women from the US Marine Corps broadcasting over KYA (radio station) at I. Magnin department store [105840, 1 sleeve]; servicemen sleeping in hotel lobbies, at Civic Center, City Hall and the Ferry Building due to lack of housing [105840,105847, 9 sleeves]; two men on a roof with civilian defense pigeons [105846, 1 sleeve]; fire pump [105846, 1 sleeve]; war bond drive at I. Magnin [105847, 1 sleeve]; V-mail at Ninth and Folsom Streets [105849, 1 sleeve]; recruiting for Women's Army Corps [105849, 1 sleeve]; Red Cross rescue squad [105850, 1 sleeve]; dim out violators in court [105851, 3 sleeves]; Major General Alexander Archer Vandergrift [105851, 1 sleeve]; US Army housing at St. Vincent de Paul at 235 Minna Street [105851, 1 sleeve]; US Navy nurses at the Y WCA [105852, 1 sleeve]; US Navy recruits at the Federal Building [105853, 1 sleeve]; US Navy base at Treasure Island [105853, 1 sleeve]; US Army balloon barrage in Vallejo [105853, 1 sleeve]; bridge at Twenty-ninth and Church Streets being dismantled for scrap metal [105854, 1 sleeve]; Shriners housing for US Army servicemen [105854, 2 sleeves]; US Army M3 tank on Market Street for a bond drive [105854, 1 sleeve]; Circus elephants publicizing war bonds at I. Magnin [105854, 1 sleeve]; Bill "Bojangles" Robinson at a war bond drive [105854, 2 sleeves].
Contents
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