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

General Files, 1944-09 to 1945-01

Containers:
Box 838
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG, Codes: 105936 - 105939
Dates:
1944-09 to 1945-01
Scope and content:

Civilian and military activities on the home front during World War II. Includes blood plasma shipments and blood donation [105936-105938, 8 sleeves]; war casualties in various hospitals [105936, 11 sleeves]; war bond drives [105936, 3 sleeves]; Pearl Harbor Day services [105936, 1 sleeve]; new US Navy hospital in McLaren Park [105936, 1 sleeve]; students at McCoppin School giving to the War Chest [105936, 1 sleeve]; war casualties being transported by railroad on a hospital train [105936, 2 sleeves]; War Wounded Fund drive and war casualties receiving Christmas packages [105936, 10 sleeves]; Christmas carols, shopping, children sending letters to Santa Claus and other holiday activities [105936, 14 sleeves]; US Navy officers receiving Mexican medals [105937, 1 sleeve]; women laborers at the Enterprise Machine and Foundry Company in South San Francisco [105937, 1 sleeve]; baseball players Walter Mails, Lefty O'Doul, Ty Cobb and Tony Lazzeri visit war casualties at Letterman Hospital [105938, 1 sleeve]; manpower shortages at the shipyards in Richmond, at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and at Economy Meat Market [105938, 5 sleeves]; discharged servicemen looking for employment [105939, 6 sleeves]; Stage Door Canteen [105939, 1 sleeve]; US Army Quartermaster's show in Oakland [105939, 1 sleeve]; black market meat operations [105939, 2 sleeves].

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