Description
The San Francisco Examiner photographic
print files consist of the news photographs collected by the San Francisco Examiner library.
Many are prints from negatives shot by staff photographers, while others originated with
wire services or as submissions from individuals or agencies. The photographs encompass the
full spectrum of local, national, and international events, including state, local, and
national government, politics, military conflicts, society, sports, fashion, the arts,
crime, accidents, transportation, urban and suburban development, and human interest
stories.
Background
The San Francisco Examiner was acquired by George Hearst in 1880 and given to his son,
William Randolph Hearst, in 1887. It was the founding cornerstone of the Hearst media
empire, and remained part of the Hearst Corporation's holdings until it was sold, in 2000,
to the Fang family of San Francisco. In 2004 the Examiner was sold again, to Philip
Anschutz's Clarity Media Group.
Extent
1,000,000 photographs
(approximately 1 million photographic prints in 1,075 cartons
and 258 oversize boxes)
Restrictions
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.
Availability
Collection is open for research.