Examiner (San Francisco) Photograph Archive Negative Files, circa 1930-2000
General Files, 1943-08 to 1943-11
- Containers:
- Box 833
- Identifier:
- BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG, Codes: 105876 - 105889
- Dates:
- 1943-08 to 1943-11
- Scope and content:
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Civilian and military activities on the home front during World War II. Includes US Coast Guard Spars learning chemical warfare [105876, 1 sleeve]; women's auxiliary fire fighters [105878, 1 sleeve]; servicemen receiving medals at Letterman Hospital [105878, 1 sleeve]; high school students harvesting crops [105878, 3 sleeves]; servicemen housing at Civic Center [105879, 2 sleeves]; Governor Earl Warren and members of the California State War Council inspecting the information center of the Los Angeles Air Defense [105879, 1 sleeve]; crowds at Powell and Market Streets reacting to an air raid siren test [105880, 1 sleeve]; civilian defense gas bomb testing demonstration [105881, 2 sleeve]; copy of a letter from a war prisoner [105882, 1 sleeve]; US Coast Guard Auxiliary at Fisherman's Wharf [105882, 1 sleeve]; Italian surrender celebrations at bocci ball court, La Tosca Bar and at homes [105883, 3 sleeves]; war bond drives [105883-105884, 12 sleeves]; actors Dorothy Merritt, Betty Hutton, Greer Garson, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball and Lelland Krelle at a war bond drive [105884, 1 sleeve]; Dutch naval officers at a bar [105885, 1 sleeve]; US Marine Corps parade [105885, 1 sleeve]; British anti-aircraft unit [105886, 1 sleeve]; Women's Army Corps [105886, 5 sleeves]; police and fire auxiliaries [105886, 2 sleeves]; US Army specialized training program at Stanford University [105887, 1 sleeve]; disabled shipyard workers (labor) [105887, 1 sleeve]; Italian Americans in North Beach [105887, 1 sleeve]; crowds receiving new ration books [105888, 2 sleeves]; Navy Day Celebration in Oakland [105888, 1 sleeve]; dim-out scenes [105889, 6 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