Guide to the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Newspaper Photograph Archive, ca. 1915-1965

Movie Stars -- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall(October 31, 1946) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 186, [141094.07]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Interview with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at Mark Hopkins Hotel. Stars seated and each looking at some written material.

November 1946 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 186-187, [141095-141104]

Physical Description: 250 negatives (estimate)

John J. Coston murder trial [141095, ca. 25 negatives]

New Federal Grand Jury

Show Folks of America wedding (circus or carnival performers?)

Foreign Minister Karl Gruber of Austria

Inspection by Liquor Control Office of bar interior at 390 Golden Gate Ave.

Secretary of the Interior J.A. Krug is Commonwealth Club guest

Gun sight and flag of Japanese battleship displayed

Congressional candidate Truman Young votes

General Feng Yu-Hsiang of China in dental chair

C. Marion French Infantile Paralysis Correction School in San Ramon (hopeless polio cases now walking) (health, disabled persons) [141099, 8 negatives]

C. Marion School of Paralysis Correction -- San Carlos, Calif.(November 09, 1946) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 187, [141099.09-11]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Hopeless polio (infantile paralysis) cases now walking (health). Three women and two men shown standing upright and walking with crutches. Lenore Wollams Harriet McLland, Lindra McDonald, Millio Millitti, C. Marion French (school director), and Leonard Arnold.

Copy photographs of Gustavo Polit of Mexico

State government conference (with George Neuner, Grover A. Giles, and Victor A. Meyers)

General Butner (ship) arrives from Shang Hai with Chinese pianists

Author Kathleen Norris and sister [141103, 6 negatives]

Author -- Kathleen Norris and Her Sister(January 17, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 187, [141103.10]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various poses of Kathleen Norris and her sister Mrs. Charles Conway Hartigan sitting by Norris' living room window, which offers a view of the city.

Actress Rita Hayworth and director Orson Welles (during filming of movie "The Lady from Shanghai") [141104, 6 negatives].

Movie Star -- Rita Hayworth(November 29, 1946) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 187, [141104.14]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Actress Rita Hayworth disembarks from train car for filming of movie "The Lady from Shanghai". She is shown standing among a group [press?, actors?].

Movie Star Rita Hayworth and Director Orson Welles(November 29, 1946) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 187, [141104.15]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Actress Rita Hayworth and director Orson Wells during filming of movie "The Lady from Shanghai" at the aquarium. Both shown sitting in director's chairs and behind a camera. Hayworth speaks with Captain H.E. Schonland and Dianne Morgan Schonland.

December 1946 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 187, [141105-141117]

Physical Description: 250 negatives (estimate)

Freeway traffic congestion in Oakland

Mayflower donut shop remains open during Oakland strike (crowded diner interior)

Chinese from Canada on board the General Gordon (ship) bound for China

General Wei Li-Huang of China and wife

National Association of State Auditors convention

American Farm Bureau convention

Anthony Brooke of Sarawak

Matsonia (ship) arrival

Author of "Memoirs of Hecate County" Edmund Wilson

Catholic Committee meeting

"No sugar for cookies" (housewife with kids in kitchen)

J.P. Morgan's yacht Corsair (ship) on bay

Actor Mickey Rooney at Southern Pacific depot [141115, 4 negatives]

Polio victim to be evicted from home (disabled persons)

Veteran and family living in garage (housing)

"Sad Sack" Marvin Betnum and Mayor Roger D. Lapham [141116, 2 negatives]

Overseas telephone call from South Africa (family surrounding telephone)

Yacht Breezing Through (ship) on bay.

January 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 187-188, [141118-141136]

Physical Description: 238 negatives (estimate)

Abortion cases (including some illegal abortion clinic interiors)

Tall-masted Danish training ship Danmark (ship) [141121, ca. 15 negatives]

Nuclear scientist Hans A. Gethe

NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) press conference

Actor Harold Lloyd

Vice Admiral E.G. Morsell

Musicians Jacques Thibaud and Pierre Monteux

New Berkeley Mayor Carrie Hoyt [141126, 6 negatives]

New Mayor of Berkeley -- Carrie Hoyt -- Berkeley City Hall(January 15, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 187, [141126.01]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Berkeley Mayor Carrie Hoyt seated at desk and talking with Police Chief John D. Holstrom.

Seismograph machine from Bikini Island [141126, 2 negatives]

Actress Shirley Ross

Radio telephone on train demonstrated

Opera singer Igor Gorin

Actors Susan Hayward and Jess Barker

Viscountess Furness press confrence

Matsonia (ship) passengers

"Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder case in Los Angeles and funeral in Oakland [141134, 11 negatives]

"Black Dahlia" -- Elizabeth Short Funeral -- Oakland(January 25, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141134.02]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Casket of "Black Dahlia" murder victim Elizabeth Short leaving chapel at Grant D. Miller Mortuary.

"Black Dahlia" -- Elizabeth Short Burial -- Mountain View Cemetery(January 25, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141134.03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mrs. Phoebe M. Short, Adrian West, and Virginia West shown crying in car and at funeral. Internment of casket of "Black Dahlia" murder victim Elizabeth Short. Reverend G. Raymond White and Clyde Drennan (mortuary manager) at funeral.

"Black Dahlia" -- Elizabeth Short Murder Case(February 22, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141134.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Murder suspect in "Black Dahlia" case and Los Angeles policemen at city prision. SFPD Inspector Van P. Denike, Phillip Smalley (suspect), LA Sergeant William Cummings, and LA Sergeant Lloyd Baughm.

Wool Growers Association convention

Ballet Russe ballerina Phyliss Nahl (Antonia Cobos)

Eyes for Heroes Foundation Inc. luncheon

Marine Lynx (ship) arrives (Chinese family presenting documents)

Real Estate Association meeting

Milk meeting

"Slot machine row" (gambling)

February 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141137-141151]

Physical Description: 325 negatives (estimate)

San Quentin prison (prison break, strike and riot, X-ray device, etc.) [14137-14138, 33 negatives]

Prison Break (Escape) -- California State Prison at San Quentin(February 03, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141137.01]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Warden Clinton Duffy looking under old industrial building where officials shot tear gas. Views of old industrial building corridor, South cell block where prisoners where kept, and prisoner's (Charles Hardy Adams) empty cell.

Prison Break (Escape) -- California State Prison at San Quentin(February 03, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141137.02-03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mug shots of escaped prisoners from prison files: Joseph Denton Callan, Charles Hardy Adams, and Gilbert Holmes. [Copy negatives].

Prison Break (Escape) -- Prisoners Captured -- California State Prison at San Quentin(February 04, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141137.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Escaped prisoners captured: Gilbert Holmes, Charles Hardy Adams, and Joseph Denton Callan. Warden Clinton Duffy standing behind seated prisoners. Duffy holds the rope the prisoners used.

Prisoners Strike -- California State Prison at San Quentin(February 19, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141137.05-06]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Warden Clinton Duffy greeting and thanking San Rafael policemen for their aid. Sausalito, San Anselmo, and San Rafael police officers with tear gas guns. Prison guard tower in background. Includes Russell W. Hannis, Paul Zensius, F.H. Farley, Sausalito Chief of Police James F. Doyle, Patrolman Bernard Johnson, Sergeant Jesse O'Brien, Sergeant Frank French, ...

Prison Riot -- California State Prison at San Quentin(February 27, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141137.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

San Quentin guards assisted by San Rafael police and State Highway Patrol to quell riot. Men cross bridge to and from prison tower.

Devices for Searching People -- California State Prison at San Quentin(March 27, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141138.01-02]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of x-ray device with guard tower in the background. Operator Jeanne Dean at control board. Warden Clinton Duffy undergoing examination with Guard George A. Mellon. Security device "New Magic Eye" inside prison. Includes Lieutenant W.M. Young, John Cullivan, N.W. Prescott, and Mike Fitzpatrick.

New State Insurance Commissioner Wallace K. Downey with Maynard Garrison

Actor John Wayne and wife [141139, 3 negatives]

New recreation and coordinating city committees (William Milo Coffman) [141140, 2 negatives]

Episcopal Diocese of California convention (Bishop Lane Barton, Karl Block, and Edward Parsons)

Little Children's Aid (Adrien J. Falk

Archbishop John J. Mitty)

Scotch reunion (Robotham family)

Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder

New Railroad Commissioner Kenneth Potter

Lung operation patient at Children's Hospital (health)

Rheumatic Fever caucus (health) [141144, 2 negatives]

Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter (age 87)

Tea conference with Joseph Bramsten and others

New Police Commissioner Edward V. Mills

Eagle Scout honor citations

Savings and Loan League convention

Ford (Motor Co.) parts exhibit (with J.D Zellerbach and Henry Ford II) [141146, 5 negatives]

Actor Danny Kaye [141147, 2 negatives]

Employee protest meeting at the California State Employment office

Adventurer Leonard Clark with shrunken head from Amazon

Actress Victoria Rodriguez (age 4)

Randolph Churchill press conference

Bankers' conference

Orthodontists' convention

Policeman shooting (Edmund G. Brown

Bernard L. Shea) [141149, ca. 15 negatives]

Bishop of Berlin Cardinal von Preysing [141150, ca. 20 negatives]

People arrested in raid on gambling house

Zionist lecturer Baron Hans de Meiss-Teuffen.

March 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188-189, [141152-141167]

Physical Description: 263 negatives (estimate)

President Charles Seymour of Yale University

Dentists' convention

Narcotics case

San Carlos Opera Company

Matsonia (ship) passengers

American Relief for Italy meeting

Family of nine evicted

General M.C. Meigs (ship)

California Canners meeting (looking at canned peaches)

State Chamber of Commerce meeting

Opera singer Ina Souez

"Blue Baby" Jimmy Hale (health) [141155, 2 negatives]

Lawyers Club meeting

Tanya Barber arrest (alias Gypsey Silver or Belle Silver)

Dope seized (narcotics)

Mayor invited to benefit dance for the blind (disabled persons)

Oscar winner Harold Russell (prosthetics)

Politician Carlos J. Solorzano of Nicaragua

Frozen Food Packers National Association officers and convention

Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach and communist demonstration against him in Berkeley (communism) [141161, 7 negatives]

Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach -- Berkeley(March 20, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141161.05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Lewis B. Schwellenbach arriving at Berkeley. Schwellenbach shakes hands with Ernest Marsh.

Communist Demonstration Against Secretary of Labor L.B. Schwellenbach -- Berkeley(March 20, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141161.06]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Protesters holding posters demonstrate in front of Bellevue Hotel (communism).

Western Metal Congress

Actors and exterior views of the Paramount Theatre on Market Street for Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Benefit (includes Desi Arnaz, Willlaim Demarest, Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, and others) [141164, 29 negatives]

Actors and Actresses -- Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Benefit -- Paramount Theatre(March 26, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141164.01]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Exterior views of Paramount Theatre showing crowds lining Market Street. Stars posing with others: Jerry Colonna, Mr. and Mrs. Van Johnson, Desi Arnaz, Virginia Wells, William Demarest, Alice Tyrell, Patty Thomas, and Olga San Juan.

Arrival of Jack Benny -- Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Benefit(March 26, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141164.02]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Chorus girl Marilyn Andrews greets actor Jack Benny on his arrival for Guild Show.

Actors and Actresses -- Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Benefit -- Paramount Theatre(March 27, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 188, [141164.03-06]

Physical Description: 22 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various actors and actresses signing autographs for fans, posing for photographers, singing duets, and acting in skits. Groups of adoring fans watch. Van Johnson, Frank Sinatra, Desi Arnaz, Russ Byrd, Jack Benney, Ogla San Juan, Billy De Wolfe, Sam Ledner, Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Alice Tyrell, William Demarest, Virginia Wells, Patti Thomas, Billy DeWolf, Mary Livingston, Jane Wyman, and Artie Auerbach.

Atom conference in Berkeley (with Leo Szliard, Michael Kasha, Philip Morrison and Selig Hecht) [141165, 2 negatives]

Blind baby operation story (Elizabeth Mae Klein) (health) [141166, ca. 15 negatives]

New steel plant in Oakland (portrait of Edward L. Ryerson)

Hellenic National Independance Day observance

Ambassador to China Emilio Escobar of Argentina.

April 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 189, [141167-141176]

Physical Description: 163 negatives (estimate)

Harris divorce case (various dates: April-July 1947) [141168, 11 negatives]

Dr. Joseph Schwartz (authority on Jewish refugees)

Sebastopol Apple Blossom festival [141168, ca. 15 negatives]

Matsonia (ship) arrives

Governor Sidney P. Osborn en route to UC Hospital

American College of Surgeons meeting

Former Chief Justice Paal Berg of Norway

Foreign Policy Association president Brooks Emeny

Americans for Democratic Action press conference with Leon Henderson and Melvyn Douglas

Health Council meeting (Sven Forssman, Bleeker Marquette, and Rodney Beard)

National Conference of Christian and Jews (Karl Block, Monroe Deutsch, and Richard Farley)

Marriner S. Eccles of Federal Reserve Bank

Actress Peggy Cummins

Mayor Earl Riley or Portland (Oregon) with broken ribs

Dentists' convention

Oakland Flower Show [141176, 13 negatives]

James Davind Mooney of Willys Overland

"Secret meeting" of Edmund G. Brown and police officials.

May 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 189, [141177-141186]

Physical Description: 350 negatives (estimate)

Nick De John murder case (various dates: 1947-1950) (organized crime?) [141177, ca. 190 negatives]

Singer Lucine Amara

General M.C. Meigs (ship) passengers

Irish Freedom League

NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) lunch (Earl Bunting, Alfred W. Eames and Clarence B. Randall)

Mount Tamalpais play rehearsal for "Alice in Wonderland"Salvation Army Fund Drive

Salvation Army Fund Drive

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company officials (with Leonard Firestone)

Republican Women's Club

Dr. Bailey Willis [141180, 10 negatives]

World Trade Conference (Stephen D. Bechtel, Murray R. Benedict, Leland Cutler, and others) [141180, 3 negatives]

French relief clothing collection

California Society of X-ray Technicians (X-radiography tubes)

Ballet Espanol

San Francisco Week (Lois Andrews, Betty Alascander, Esther Williams, Marvin Lewis, Jef Donnell...)

Odd Fellows convention

Propellor Club of US

National Association of Bank Auditors conference

President of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Leroy Lincoln

"Old cane drive" San Francisco Center for the Blind (disabled persons)

Actor Harold Russell arrives on Lark (ship)

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) member Congressman J. Parnell Thomas

Marine Industry exhibit (Admiral William Ward)

Shriners gathering at Islam Temple

Grand Jury meeting

"King of the Hobos" Sam H. Cole

Salesian Fathers anniversary celebration (Mayor Roger D. Lapham and Father E.A. Tozzi)

Shrine circus (elephants, clowns and children)

Public Relations Club (S. Vance Cagley and Dr. J.C. Geiger)

"Hubba Hubba girl" invents new brassiere that opens in front (stripper? model?)

Matsonia (ship) arrives

Public Health convention (Florence Rena Sabin and others)

Narcotics raid

Button show.

June 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 189-190, [141187-141198]

Physical Description: 313 negatives (estimate)

Oakland police officers convicted of rape

Marine Lynx (ship) passengers

Rotary Club convention [141189-141192, ca. 100 negatives]

Actress Dorothy Ford

New Catholic priests ordained

Pencils for kids in Europe

New "girl" attorneys (Jane Morgan, Mildred Gwin Corrick and Ruth Cesna Smith)

Borelli murder trial (various dates: May-December 1947) [141193, ca. 25 negatives]

National Tuberculosis Association convention (H. McLeod Riggins, Henry Stuart Willis, and Herman Hillboe) (health) [141193, 3 negatives]

Mission Merchants banquet

County Supervisors convention

William McDowell Hammon of UC Hooper Foundation (encephalitis traced to mosquito) (health) [141194, 3 negatives]

Salinas Rodeo

48th annual National Association of Retail Grocers convention (with Cecil B. Demille) [141194-141196]

San Francisco Golden Gate Tip Toppers Club

Matsonia (ship) passengers

Miss California Jean Emery

Library convention

Baby classes taught by Red Cross.

July 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 190, [141199-141214]

Physical Description: 400 negatives (estimate)

Actors Guy Madison and Jane Greer

Relief for Italy event at Bank of America

Missing baby Greta Mary Gale [141199, 21 negatives]

Largest diamond from Africa

Jewish refugees at Pier Forty-four (Margot Gimpel

Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Michaelis)

Library convention

Newspaper advertisment convention

NAEA (Newspaper Advertising Executives Association) convention (with Louis B. Mayer)

Birthday of actor Glenn Langan

President of United States Steel Corporation Benjamin F. Fairless

"Black Glove" rapist (Frank Avilez) case [141202, ca. 35 negatives]

"Boy killed by junkman" Roland Averill murder case (various dates: 1947-1948) [141203, ca. 15 negatives]

East Bay aerial views (Oakland, Alameda, and Hayward cityscapes) [141203, 5 negatives]

East Bay Aerial Views(July 14, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 190, [141203.13]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Aerial views (cityscapes) of Oakland (southeast Oakland and downtown and Lake Merritt area), Hayward, and Alameda.

Ambassador to China General Francisco J. Aguilar of Mexico

Governor Ingram M. Stainback of Hawaii

National clerks' convention

Copy negatives of San Salvador views (coffee, cocoa and rope manufacture)

New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Consul General Giovanni Bosio and family aboard the Conte Biancamano (ship)

Governor Harold E. Stassen arrives

Feature "A day on Lake Tahoe" (landscape and leisure acitivity views from Lake Tahoe and Washoe areas, including Alan Cranston playing golf) [141210, ca. 25 negatives]

Lions Club convention [141212, ca. 100 negatives]

Polish orphan refugees arrive from Siberia on Marine Adder (ship)

Play and filming of movie "I Remember Mama" (with Edgar Bergen, Irene Dunn and others) (various dates: July-August 1947)

Indonesian pickets in front of Dutch consulate.

August 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 190, [141215-141221]

Physical Description: 125 negatives (estimate)

El Retiro (Jesuit laymen retreat in Los Altos, general scenes) [141215, 15 negatives]

Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Presba Anderson

TWA (Trans World Airlines?) press conference

Actors arrive for hospital show (Jack Carson, Dave Willock, Tom Wells, and Janis Paige)

Prince Abdolezza Pahlavi of Iran

Catholic bishops (Thomas A. Connelly, Hugh Donohoe, and Archbishop John J. Mitty)

New Library Commissioner George D. Hart

American President Lines new president George Killian

Funeral of Archbishop Edward J. Hanna at St. Mary's Cathedral and services on the President Monroe (ship) [141219, ca. 35 negatives]

Actors George Raft and Marilyn Maxwell

Actor Frank Morgan

Milk price hearing with mothers and babies

Fans surrounding actors Rory Calhoun and Rhonda Fleming

General Meigs (ship) arrives

Actress Virginia Patton with minority children after being named "Miss Equality" for her performance in film "The Burning Cross" (race)

NSGW (Native Sons of the Golden West) gathering

National Convention of Sons of Italy in America

General Electric president Charles E. Wilson

Archbishop Athenagoras of Greece

Polio victim on flight home after being cured at Children's Hospital of San Francisco (health, disabled persons).

September 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141222-141231]

Physical Description: 150 negatives (estimate)

Red Mass at St. Mary's with Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen

Phoenix Marine (ship) sails with Australian immigrants

Youth Congress

Serra Club lunch with Archbishop John J. Mitty and Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen

Jews protesting at British Consulate over Palestine [141223, 4 negatives]

Jews Protesting Over Palestine -- British Consulate(September 05, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141223.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Picket line (people holding placards demanding that Britain open Palestine for settlement) in front of consulate. Committee of Jews in Consul's office. Acting Consul General A.J. de la Mare and Herman Ouittman (spokesman for Jewish group).

Spike Jones show for veterans

"Bubble gum king of America" Andrew J. Paris

Wedding on roller skates

State Government Regional conference (with Goodwin Knight and Rendell Mabey)

Senators Robert A. Taft and William F. Knowland (including labor leaders and pickets) [141225, 20 negatives]

Arrival of Senator Robert Taft and Senator William Knowland -- Berkeley(September 11, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141225.02-03]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Senator and Mrs. Robert A. Taft and Senator William F. Knowland arrive at the Berkeley Southern Pacific Railroad Station.

Senators, Labor Leaders, and Pickets -- Commonwealth Club Luncheon(September 19, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141225.04-05]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Gregory Harrison (Waterfront Employers) and Harry Lundberg (Sailors Union of the Pacific with Senator Robert A. Taft. Picketers demonstrating against Taft outside hotel, with signs protesting his labor policies and "Republican high prices". Taft speaks at luncheon at Palace Hotel.

Congressional committee on Federal real estate holdings in San Francisco (with Representatives Jack Z. Anderson and Ross Rizley)

Local politicians file for election (Don Fazackerley, Dan Murphy, Rex Glissman, Franck R. Havenner and others) (various dates: September-November 1947) [141226-141229]

Catholic missionaries arrive from Manchuria aboard the Marine Adder (ship)

New Chief of Police Michael Riordan

Congressional committee investigating cooperatives (with various representatives and William Tyler of the Amer-Hawaiian Sugar Co.)

Vatican Choir visits

Ann Cooper Hewitt/Frank Nicholson case (various dates: 1945?-1948) [141231, ca. 25 negatives].

October 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141231-141240]

Physical Description: 138 negatives (estimate)

Ann Cooper Hewitt/Frank "Rodeo Roy" Nicholson case (various dates: 1947-1948) [141231, 25 negatives]

National Conference of Christians and Jews

Cancer expert Dr. Charles Cameron

Cardinal Norman Gilroy and Archishop John J. Mitty

Actress Joan Crawford arrives from Honolulu on Matsonia (ship)

Lecture on sex problems by Dr. Gregory Zilboorg

Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin

Crowds at butcher counter during meat price war in San Mateo County

Rosary procession at St. Dominic's church

Meatless Tuesday

Ceremony of consecration in St. Mary's Cathedral (Bishops Thomas A. Connolly, Hugh A. Donohoe, James J. Sweaney, and others)

Aloha Week with Mayor Roger D. Lapham and Princess Kaleionamoku of Hawaii

American Legion National Commander James F. O'Neil

Patterson Sanitarium in Hayward

Housewives protest food prices [141236, 3 negatives]

Food Prices -- Housewives Protest -- Western Women's Club(October 13, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141236.02]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Four women speaking in front of a large group of housewives. Marian Alzaton, Maude Anderson, Thelma Steele, Judith Berkowitz, Helga Weigert, Catherine Corbett, and Mrs. Edward Corbett.

Actor Robert Montgomery

Jewish National Fund Council (Helen Waren and others)

Prince Abdul Kadar Kahn of Peshawar (India)

Congressional subcommittee hearing on food prices [141237, 8 negatives)

Food Prices -- Congressional Subcommittee Hearing -- City Hall(October 16, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141237.02]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Congressional Committee Meeting on Economic Report. Committee: Mitchel M. Carter, Norris Poulson, Senator Zales N. Ecton, Senator Ralph E. Flanders, Mayor Roger Lapham, Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Senator Joseph C. O'Machoney, and Senator F.E. Berquist. First witness: Dr. Emily Huntington.

Food Prices -- Congressional Subcommittee Hearing -- City Hall(October 17, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141237.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Investigation of raising food prices. Housewives in audience (in attendance at meeting) and other speakers: Margaret Hurt, Jean Beaulien, Juliette Beaulien (child), Charles Beaulien (child), Kathleen Davison, Verna Pedrin, and Claudia Hyer.

David Astor

California State Nurses Association (nurse shortage relief)

National Committee for Education on Alcoholism (Mrs. Marty Mann)

Pacific Coast Management Conference on employer-employee relations (labor)

Historian Edmund Osmanczyk of Poland

San Francisco Employers' Council (Almon E. Roth)

Builders' conference

Author Violet McNeal

Doctors' convention (heart specialists) (health).

November 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141240-141247]

Physical Description: 150 negatives (estimate)

Senator Jack B. Tenney's hearings on communism (state Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities?) in Oakland [141240-141241, 11 negatives]

Communism -- Senator Jack Tenney's Hearings -- Oakland(November 04, 1947 - November 05, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141240.04-05]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(State Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities?) Audience in courtroom. Carroll Barnes is a witness in Senator Jack B. Tenney's hearing. Attorney Bertram Edises and later Vern Smith being removed from front of courtroom by Officer Clifford Ralph. Also includes Eugene Toopeekoff and Reporter Leona Schneider. Picket lines demonstrate against Tenney Hearings outside courthouse.

State Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities -- Oakland(November 05, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141241.01]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

[Senator Jack Tenney's hearings on communism?] Witness Sidney Roger.

Faith healer Avak

"Fo-To Flash Jamboree" (actors Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Durante, and others)

Commonwealth Club of California luncheon with Cecil B. Demille

Solar eclipse

National Association of Real Estate Boards convention [141242, 11 negatives]

San Francisco Medical Society members

Duke and Duchess of Montoro (Spain)

Admiral Ross T. McIntyre

Postal Investigation Committee

National Safety Council meeting (Michael Riordan and others)

Western College Association meeting

Composer Rupert Hughes

General Motors "Train of Tomorrow"

Woman involved in white slave case (prostitution)

Attorney Emma Lum ("First Chinese girl to pass Bar")

Panhellenic Society officers

Polio victim Nancy Lou Hamilton on train trip (disabled persons) (various dates: 1947-1948) [141247, 17 negatives]

Consul Patrick Hughes of Ireland

Director of US Mint Nelly Taylor Ross

Women lovers marry (gays and lesbians) [141247, 6 negatives]

Women Lovers Marry -- Santa Rosa(November 26, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141247.08]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Thelma Jane Walter ("wife") and Marietta Cook ("husband") get married [gays and lesbians]. [Two women, one in dress, one in sports coat, wait in unidentified office].

Reverend Monsignor Edward E. Swanstrom

Children's Ballet Theater.

December 1947 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141248-141259]

Physical Description: 188 negatives (estimate)

Movie star Virginia Mayo presents swim suit to Miss San Francisco Virginia Phillips

View of butter prices at grocery store ($1.05 per pound)

New women lawyers admitted to Bar (including Emma Lum)

Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch speaking at luncheon at Hotel St. Francis

Dolphin Club reunion luncheon at Di Maggios

Actor Maurice Chevalier in San Francisco

Salvation Army Christmas campaign (San Francisco bankers)

Northern California Beer Distributers Association convention

National Council of Catholic Women conference

"Blue Baby" Adams (health)

New car "Playboy" (Playboy Motor Company, Buffalo, New York)

Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick of Chicago Tribune

Marie McDonald and Miss Venus contestants

Ethel Peterson (girl with artificial legs -- prosthetics)

Actress Ina Claire and husband Bill Wallace

Ross Valley Players

New Consul Ernest William Meiklereid of Great Britain

Zionist meeting (Morris Rothenberg and Albert Samuels)

Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton

Governor Herbert B. Maw of Utah

Oliver J. Todd and wife arrive from China

YWCA "Food to Europe" Drive

Carquinez Straits electric power cable installation [141258, 9 negatives]

Electric Power Cable Installation -- Carquinez Straits(December 20, 1947) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 191, [141258.02]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Transmission line installing second 220,000 volt line across Carquinez Straits. Views of electrical towers and men with extensive rigging on ramps. Includes Burl Kitchen, Ed Dexter, and William Patterson.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrives (health)

Ambassador to India Dr. Henry F. Grady

Ambassador Asaf Ali of India.

January 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141260-141272]

Physical Description: 263 negatives (estimate)

Democratic National Chairman Senator J. Howard McGrath

Nobel Prize winner Dr. Bernardo Houssay

Atwater Kent singing auditions

Milk Fund Drive

Jewish Fund (with Palestine expert James G. McDonald)

Plague experiments with fleas and guinea pigs by Public Health Service

Botanist Alice Eastwood

Sugar beet convention

Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett

Ocean wave power machine at Seal Rocks [141262, 4 negatives]

Ocean Wave Power Machine -- Ocean Beach(January 13, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141262.02]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Coast Guard boats placing anchored float off-shore from Cliff House [near Seal Rocks]. View of platform where weight is suspended. Inventor Lewis Rosce standing on platform in foreground.

Milk for Europe Drive

1948 Grand Jury members

California gold rush centennial celebrations [141263, ca. 65 negatives]

Marriage course at YMCA

Chris J. Christensen suicide (or disappearance) case (various dates: 1948-1949) [141264, ca. 35 negatives]

Refugees from Germany en route to Australia

Santa Fe Railroad president Fred G. Gurley

Opera singer Jennie Tourel

Singer Miklos Gafni and pianist Sylvia Zaremba

United Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Association convention

State housing redevelopment meeting

Actress Jacqueline Horner case (with sister Adele Horner) [141268, ca. 25 negatives]

Congressman Chester E. Morrow

World Union for Progressive Judaism (Rabbi Leo Baeck)

Views of proposed Bayshore Highway area (neighborhood) (cityscapes) [141270, 5 negatives]

Highways -- Proposed Bayshore Highway Area(January 26, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141270.01]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of neighborhood (cityscapes) where proposed Bayshore Highway will pass through. Taken at Army Street and Portrero Avenue.

Ballet dancer Tamara Toumanova

Dr. Mildred McAfee Horton of Wellesley College and director of WAVES.

February 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141272-141284]

Physical Description: 163 negatives (estimate)

Joseph M. Dodge of the American Bankers Association

Opera star Jossi Bjoerling

Furniture Mart show (models and appliances)

Catholic Bishop's Fund (Archbishop John J. Mitty, Vincent Brosman, and Edward O'Connor)

Rheumatic Fever speech by Dr. Saul J. Robinson (health)

Opening night at San Francisco Ballet

Milk prices hearing

Ballet dancer Igor Youskevitch

National President Greek War Relief William Helis

Actress Kathryn Grayson and singer Johnny Johnston [141275-141276]

Francisca Carrillo Vallejo (granddaughter of General M.G. Vallejo)

Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv (Israel)

San Francisco Tuberculosis Association Heart Division meeting (Salvatore P. Lucia and Arthur Selzer)

Baritone singer Stanley Noonan

Fan of Frank Sinatra pickets singer Johnny Johnston in front of theater

English journalist Honor Tracy

Member of National Defense Commission Department of California American Legion William J. Armstrong

Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper and Arthur W. Carlson

US Secret Service Chief James J. Maloney

Actor Eddie Cantor [141279, 6 negatives]

"Black Bart" movie promotions (with Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, and Jeffrey Lynn and a stagecoach on Market Street)

Freedom Garden Council (Mayor Elmer E. Robinson)

Oakland family of nine live in one room (housing)

Western Pine Association

Western Transportation conference

Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America conference

Judges filing for reelection

National Conference of Christians and Jews

Press conference with Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Howard Northrop

Communism hearing [141282, 3 negatives]

Communism Hearing -- San Francisco(February 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141282.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Courtroom scenes. Inspector Lloyd E. Gowan presiding. Nat Yanish and attorney Richard Gladstein seated at a table.

Armenian Relief benefit

Former Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson

Jewish Agency for Palestine

Canners' League convention (labor?).

March 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192-193, [141285-141302]

Physical Description: 325 negatives (estimate)

Yanish deportation hearing witness Merriel R. Bacon (communism) [141285, 1 negative]

New Federal Grand Jury members

CARE (Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere) Drive

American National Committee to Aid Homeless Armenians

College of Physicians and Surgeons Dental School convention [141286 and 141291]

Descendants of John Augustus Sutter

Portrait of James Rolph unveiled at City Hall

Douglas MacArthur for President campaign (MacArthur not shown) [141287, ca. 15 negatives)

Union Pacific Railroad president G.F. Ashby

"Blue Baby" Ernest McLaughlin (health)

Freedom Train celebrations (patriotic assemblies at local schools, book drives, Robert Gordon Sproul speaking, Mayor Elmer Robinson, Angelo Rossi, and Archbishop John J. Mitty, etc.) [141289, 67 negatives]

Freedom Train Committee -- City Hall(February 26, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.01]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Supervisor John J. Sullivan, former Mayor Angelo J. Rossi, Val King, and Joseph O'Donahue meet to discuss Freedom Train.

Rededication Week -- Freedom Train -- City Hall(March 05, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Manager James T. O'Dowd, Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, and Doctor Herbert C. Clish hold proclamation for a "redidication to American ideals."

Freedom Train -- Locomotives -- Round House(March 08, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Workers paint locomotives that will pull the "Freedom Train."

"Americanism" Rededication Week -- Freedom Train -- Raphael Weill School Children(March 09, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Odetta Marks reads to Cleo Ma and Marie Carr. Neil Dennis, Leore Cravings, Louis Ma, and Deanna Mondala paint picture of "freedom train." Taken at Buchanan and O'Farrell Streets.

Freedom Train Celebration -- Marina Junior High School(March 09, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.05]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Marine Corps bugler plays while armed service color guard stands at attention in auditorium. General Chairman Marjorie Cleveland speaks. Drum majorette Maureen Carol Ziebell performs with baton before Veterans of Foreign Wars drum and bugle corps of McQuade Post #1205. Doctor Herbert C. Clish speaks to audience. Army band performs before audience.

Freedom Train Committee -- City Hall(March 10, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.06]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Supervisor John J. Sullivan, Joe O'Donohue of New York, Eugene Bennett, and Val King attend "Freedom Train" organizational meeting. View of audience. John Sullivan pins committe ribbon on Mrs. Allan Pontius.

Preview for Children -- Movie "Freedom Train" -- Coliseum Theatre(March 10, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.07-08]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Children watch preview of the movie "Freedom Train" inside theater. I.M. Levin helps children Gran Schar and Forrest Spencer with large box of books. ROTC members Hyman Berston, Alan Doctor, and Gene Mortineau pack books donated by children for admission to preview. James Clymo and Bill Jo Britten read book donated by child. Assistant Manager Norm Gillis also shown.

Preview for Children -- Movie "Freedom Train"(March 10, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.09]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Lieutenant Melvin Rubin watches Frederico Costa donate a book for admission to preview. Bonnie Godke and Loretta Godke sit in large pile of donated books. Large crowd of children exits theater after preview. Roberta Ginniff looks at her book one last time before donating it [photographs taken at three different San Francisco theaters].

School Exhibits -- Freedom Train(March 11, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.10]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Students Ann Graber, Bob Perry, Lenore Scott, and John Schmaelzle perform play at Sloat Elementary School. George McIntosh and Judith Beckman look at Freedom Train exhibit. A kindergarten class at Sutro Elementary School poses with a "freedom train" made from cardboard boxes.

Preview for Children -- Movie "Freedom Train" -- Noe Theatre(March 12, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.11]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Kids stand in line outside theater while waiting for admission to movie preview (neighborhood). Kitty Karr and Joe Young take books donated by children for admission.

Rededication Week -- Freedom Train -- San Francisco Bar Association(March 12, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.12]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Harry Newbarth and Judge Milton Shapiro meet with Doctor Robert Gordon Sproul [to speak at meeting in connection with "Americanism" and the Freedom Train.

Bill of Rights -- Freedom Train -- City Hall(March 12, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.13]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

John McNab and Mayor Elmer E. Robinson pose with copy of the Bill of Rights.

Freedom Train in San Francisco -- Marina Green(March 14, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.14]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Supervisor John J. Sullivan and Walter O'Brien of the American Heritage Foundation stand by while Mayor Elmer E. Robinson speaks from the Freedom Train after its arrival in San Francisco. Mrs. Elmer Robinson and others examine the US Constitution [enclosed in glass case on board the Freedom Train]. Large crowd at Marina Green waits to gain entrance to the train (neighborhood). Crowd takes cover from rain. Lieutenant Robert Stubbs of the US Marines speaks with Roger Fritts outside train.

Freedom Train in San Francisco -- Marina Green(March 15, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.15]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd waits to gain entrance to the Freedom Train [with view of houses in background (neighborhood)]. Unifomed boys Ivan Lbister [sic] and Larry Dorshkind examine American flag from Iwo Jima on board the train [flag was borrowed from the San Rafael Military Academy].

Archbishop John J. Mitty -- Freedom Train -- Marina Green(March 15, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.16]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Archbishop John Mitty stands with Eamon de Valera next to seal of the United States on board the Freedom Train. Guard Captain Joseph O'Donohue of the US Marines, Archbishop John Mitty, Eamon de Valera and others examine the US Constitution and other documents.

School Children -- Freedom Train in San Francisco -- Marina Green(March 16, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.17]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Nancy Walker and Barbara Hendricksen of City College examine document on board the Freedom Train. Charlton Buckley and Donald Deeley look at the US Constitution. Sergeant Russell Bruland tells Wayne Lambert and other children about the Iwo Jima flag. A group of children on board train examine documents. Views of school children and parents waiting to board train at Marina Green (neighborhood).

Freedom Train Departs(March 17, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141289.19]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Engineer Harvey Scott waves farewell from the locomotive of the Freedom Train; shown shaking hands with Superintendant James Jordan of the [Coast?] Division.

Descendant of Confucius Kung Teh-Chen (Kung Te Cheng)

Playwright and Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce

Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith

California assemblymen and congressman file for reelection [141290 - 141291, 4 negatvies]

Filing for Re-Election -- State Assemblymen -- City Hall(March 05, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141290.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

State Assemblymen Arthur H. Connolly Jr., Raymond W. Blosser, Thomas A. Maloney, William C. Berry, and Edward M. Gaffney sign documents for election eligibility while registrar Thomas A. Tooney looks on.

Filing for Re-Election -- City Hall(March 06, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 192, [141291.01]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Congressman Franck Havenner files for re-election to Congress while Deputy Registrar John W. O'Brien looks on.

National Institute of Cleaning and Dyeing convention

Robert Emmet memorial statue ceremony (United Irish Societies of San Francisco)

Printer Raymond Duncan

Power shortage hearings and committees [throughout month]

Eye transplant at Stanford Hospital (health)

Eamonn DeValera and George R. Reilly [141293, 17 negatives]

Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander Ray Brannaman

General George C. Marshall and Robert Gordon Sproul at UC Berkeley and elsewhere [141294, ca. 20 negatives]

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) press conference with chairman Earl Bunting

Actress Jean Simmons

Social hygiene lecture (public health and sexually transmitted diseases)

Siren being removed from top of Tower Building (civil defense?)

Father Peter C. Yorke memorial services at Holy Cross Cemetery

United Nations (Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization members)

Helen Keller press conference

San Francisco-Oakland Newspaper Frolic (Danny Thomas, June Foray, Buddy Clark, and Abe Burrows)

Cooking utensils [141298 and 141301]

"Blue Baby" George Brann (health)

Senator Glen Hearst Taylor press conference

Hardware hats (fashion)

Musician Frederick Jacobi

National Safety Council meeting.

April 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141303-141314]

Physical Description: 238 negatives (estimate)

Catholic conference and Pontifical Mass

"Red Bud" festival related to Indians

105 year old woman Emily Richards

Senator Glen Hearst Taylor speaks at UC Berkeley

Kermit Roosevelt press conference

"Blue Baby" George Brann (x-rays) (health)

Actress Jeanette MacDonald

Salvation Army events (drives, salvage, etc.) [141305-141306]

Numerous home shows (furniture, appliances, utensiles, etc.)

National Fisheries Institute convention

Economic Security Conference for Nurses

Sebastopol apple blossoms

Jackson Day speaker Senator J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island and Edmund G. Brown

Interiors of Universal Manufacturing Company in Berkeley

Western Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons (William P. Shepard, Fred A. Brian, and others)

Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary

Citizens Advisory Council (Richard Combs, Jack B. Tenney, Hugh M. Burns, and others)

Author Arthur Koestler

PTA (Executive Board meeting and books for orphan homes) [141307 and 141311]

California Medical Association convention (new examination table with live model wearing bathing suit and high heels) [141307, 9 negatives]

Dr. Hans H. Hecht on heart disease (health)

Senator Harry P. Cain

California Heart Association meeting

Pan-American Day (Consul Edmundo Gonzales of Mexico, Consul Roberto Scaricabarozzi of Argentina, and Dr. J.C. Geiger)

Security Loan Drive ceremony at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

California Supreme Court justices [141309, 4 negatives]

Meeting of California Supreme Court Justices -- Palace Hotel(April 15, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141309.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Justice B. Rey Schauer speaking at podium. Justices seated at long table: Leonard Worthington, Justice Jesse Carter, Justice Roger Traynor, Justice Homer Spence, Judge Theresa Meikle, Justice John W. Schenk, Attorney Hoberg, and Justice Phil Gibson.

AMVETS (American Veterans of World War II and Korea) Preparedness Proclamation

Director Clark Eichelberger of the American Association for the United Nations

American Academy of Applied Nutrition meeting

American College of Physicians convention (health) [141310, 17 negatives]

Alcatraz Prison Warden James A. Johnston retires (includes views of Alcatraz) (various dates: April-May 1948)

False "blue baby" Peter Tiemann (health)

National Labor Relations Board (Paul M. Herzog)

National Conference of Christians and Jews (speaker Ronald Bridges and Judge Robert McWilliams)

Insurance conference (Mayor Elmer E. Robinson)

Francis Cardinal Spellman [141312, 7 negatives]

Household utensils [141312, ca. 25 negatives]

Eamonn De Valera

Dental Association convention

California Spring Garden show [141313, ca. 20 negatives]

"Jewish appeal" (George Murphy and Mrs. Langdon Post)

Lurline (ship) passengers

National Music Week

New Alcatraz Prison warden Edwin B. Swope

"Ruthless" stars Diana Lynn and Lucille Bremer.

May 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141314-141328]

Physical Description: 263 negatives (estimate)

Marine Art and Garden Center [141314, 10 negatives]

Archbishop Francis McIntyre

Hadassah (hospital supplies for Palestine)

Officials at new Dodge Motor Company plant opening

Crusade for Children Fund Drive (Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, George Christopher, Harold E. Snyder, Randolph Apperson Hearst, and others) [141316 and 141320]

104 year old Frances Acosta

Carbonator Supply Company (new semi-automatic soft drink vending machine)

Mrs. Ernest Wadel of Jewish Welfare Drive

"The Noose Hangs High" actors Bud Abbott and Lou Costello [141317, 2 negatives]

Ice Follies [141318, ca. 20 negatives]

Western States conference (Paul Scharrenberg, A.J. Mooney, and others)

US Army takes over railroad (Southern Pacific)

PG&E construction progress views of new Hunters Point power station [141318, 3 negatives]

NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) meeting

Actors Jack Parr and George O'Brien and John Agar

UNESCO luncheon and delegates (actress Myrna Loy, Albert H. Rosenthal, Thomas Rowe, and Joe E. Brown) [141320 and 141321, 8 negatives]

Mothers Milk Bank [141320 and 141325]

Third party presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace at various Independent Progressive Party events [141321, 19 negatives]

Independent Progressive Party Events -- Arrival of Henry A. Wallace(May 17, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141321.02]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Henry A. Wallace disembarks plane and is greeted by Elinor Kahn (State Director of Independent Progressive Party).

Independent Progressive Party Events -- Henry A. Wallace -- Fairmont Hotel(May 17, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141321.03]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Henry A. Wallace at luncheon. Wallace speaks with Hugh Bryson (member of state chapter of Independent Progressive Party).

Independent Progressive Party Events -- Henry A. Wallace -- Oakland(May 17, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141321.04]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Henry A. Wallace speaking at the podium in the Oakland Auditorium. Views of the stage, large audience, and crowds inside.

Independent Progressive Party Events -- Henry A. Wallace -- UC Berkeley(May 18, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141321.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Henry A. Wallace speaking on campus. View of massive crowd gathered under trees. Automobilies lined up in the distance.

Independent Progressive Party Events -- Henry A. Wallace(May 18, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141321.06]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Henry A. Wallace speaking at a podium at Cow Palace. Includes Harry Bridges and Frieda Salzman. View of crowd.

Chinese newspaper publishers in San Francisco (Chen Tsang-Po and Ma Hsin-Yeh)

Cancer laboratory at Laguna Honda Relief Home (Michael B. Shimkin, Elliott Rapaport, and Robert Jenkins)

World Trade conference (William H. Draper and William L. Montgomery)

Actor William Bendix arrives for premiere of "Time of your Life"

Episcopalian Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons

San Francisco Civic Ballet benefit (Herb Caen)

Ambassador to Philippines Emmett O'Neal aboard President Cleveland (ship)

Model of Santa Maria de Ovila monastery (gift to deYoung Museum by William Randolph Hearst)

San Francisco-Philippines Trade conference

Philadelphia Orchestra

Shrine circus (clowns, elephants, dogs, etc.) [141325, 11 negatives]

Actor Edward Everett Horton invited to Republican convention

Kiowa Tribe Indian headress given to Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

Physicist Hugh L. Dryden interview

"Blue Baby" cases (Shirley Brown and Patricia Sterling) (health) [141326-141327]

Hibernians convention

New bishop James T. O'Dowd

First television in San Francisco [141327, 8 negatives]

First Television in San Francisco -- Hotel St. Francis(May 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 193, [141327.01]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Large crowd gathered in front of television. Performers performing in front of cameras and set lights: Florence Del Turco and Virginia Beaudette. Includes Larry Reed, Edwin Pauley, and Vick Breeden.

British Royal College of Surgeons visit

Sonoma Trail Blazer trek [141328, ca. 20 negatives]

Charles Garry arrested for using public address system without a permit at a political rally

Actor Dennis Morgan

Cotton Queen Matilda Nail.

June 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141329-141340]

Physical Description: 225 negatives (estimate)

Survivors of flood in Vanport (Oregon)

Governor Earl Warren (Oakland election)

Catholic drive for refugees

Opening night of "Annie get your Gun"

Superior Court Judge Twain Michelsen elected

General M.C. Meigs (ship) passengers

Bay Area Industrial Exposition (various dates: June-July 1948) [141330 and 141338, 18 negatives]

Bay Area Industrial Exposition -- Opening Ceremony(June 02, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141330.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Oakland Mayor Joseph Smith cuts chain with a torch to open exposition as other Bay Area officials watch. Thomas Brooks stands to the right of the mayor.

Bay Area Industrial Exhibition -- Exhibit(June 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141338.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

American Trust Company exhibit assembled by Sanford Display Company. William Sanford and Marjorie Blomquist look at exhibit.

Bay Area Industrial Exhibition -- Various Exhibits(July 01, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141338.05]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Stagecoach that Buffalo Bill used in his show on display. Upholstering exhibit displays saddle that has the history of San Francisco etched into it. Muriel Townsend sits in cockpit of small aircraft[?] and drives a mechanical lift. M.C. Wood explains Electronic Crystal growth to Tim Courtney and Muriel Townsend. Includes Sergeant J.E. Raynor.

Bay Area Industrial Exposition -- Parade -- San Francisco(July 02, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141338.06]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Industrial parade on Montgomery Street and Market Street. Various trucks with trailers and other vehicles travel down street.

Bay Area Industrial Exposition -- Television Demonstration(July 02, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141338.07]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Large crowd stands in front of KGO-TV television demonstration. Joan Lynch applies special television makeup to her face. Two unidentified young women look at the television screen.

Economic Recovery Administrator for China Roger D. Lapham

Public hearing on milk prices

Harold Stassen for President

Actor Rudy Vallee

Author James A. Farley

Salinas Rodeo

Ice Follies [141332-141333]

Dr. J.C. Geiger receives medals from France and Nicaragua [141333 and 141340]

Princess Malia Sunar from Java

Kaiser-Frazer Corporation stock hearing

Opening ceremonies of Foreign Trade Zone Three

National Retail Dry Goods Association convention

Baby show

Serra Club lunch for newly ordained priests

California Centennial Seal [141335, 2 negatives]

Mayor Chulamalo Allana of Karachi (Pakistan)

Teeth of prehistoric man found by the UC African expedition

Republican convention delegates

Consul General Alberto Aleman of Panama visits Dr. J.C. Geiger

American Red Cross convention [141336-141337, ca. 17 negatives]

Oregon flood victims (Volunteers of America clothing drive and Antlers Junior Elks benefit dance)

Synthetic emeralds

Dr. Howard R. Bierman and cancer research (health) [141337, 5 negatives]

Cancer Research -- Laguna Honda Relief Home Cancer Clinic(June 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141337.07]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Poster titled "Essentials in a Cancer Research Program." Unidentified cancer patient (man) being attended by Dr. Howard R. Bierman. Unidentified man using medical apparatus. Another unidentified cancer patient (woman) lies in a room for tests (health).

Union Pacific Railroad Company Chairman E. Roland Harriman

James Warrren

US Ambassador to India Henry F. Grady

Shriners on President Wilson (ship) for pilgrimage to Orient

American Newspaper Guild convention

Actress Betty Hutton

Wake for Bishop Ryotai Matsukage

Catholic dignitaries (Bishops T.A. Connolly, James T. O'Dowd, Hugh A. Donohoe, and Archibishop John J. Mitty)

California Mayors luncheon

Architect Clarence W. Mayhew.

July 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141341-141348]

Physical Description: 125 negatives (estimate)

New cancer research lab at Laguna Honda Relief Home (Dr. J.C. Geiger) (health)

Governor Earl Warren arrives at San Francisco airport [141341, 15 negatives]

Arrival of Governor Earl Warren -- San Francisco Airport(July 01, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141341.03-04]

Physical Description: 15 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor Earl Warren disembarks plane, speaks with crowd of reporters and photographers, walks with other unidentified men, enters and sits in car.

Man claims he is outlaw Jesse James

Democratic delegates (Edmund G. Brown, daughter Kathleen Brown, and others) [141342, 3 negatives]

Democrats -- Democratic Party Delegates Leave for Convention(July 06, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141342.01]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at Ferry Building and Oakland. Edmund G. Brown, his daughter Kathleen Brown (as child), Elizabeth Heller, Edward Heller, and Roger Kent stand together. Jack Shelley and his daughter Joan Shelley give tickets to steward. Overhead view of crowd leaving for convention.

Actor Pat O'Brien

Senator Alexander Wylie

California Theaters Association drama awards

New Post Office stamp machine

Officials from Tibet

Leprosy victim from Philippines taken on General John Pope (ship) (Josefina V. Guerrero and Dr. J.C. Geiger)

New Federal Grand Jury

Gideons convention

Women's Benefit Association Festival of Flowers

Architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck and wife [141345, 4 negatives]

Architect -- Bernard R. Maybeck -- Berkeley(July 19, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141345.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. Bernard Ralph Maybeck (86 years old) sits in a chair and pets his dog Hector. Maybeck paints using his cane to steady his hand; his wife watches. Mr. and Mrs. Maybeck sit on a lounge chair; he points to his painting.

"It's a Living" radio program

Cancer and polio scientist Dr. Wendell M. Stanley

Man sells Jordan River water for baptisms

Toastmasters International convention

Mission San Rafael Arcangel (copy negatives of a drawing)

Doctor Yvonne Thery from Brazil to study American Red Cross blood donor system

James Roosevelt speaking at Commonwealth Club.

August 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141348-141355]

Physical Description: 150 negatives (estimate)

Furniture shows

Attorney Lee Pressman in spy story (communism & labor)

Milk protest

Red Cross delegates from Japan

Meat price war [141349 and 141352]

President Wilson (ship) passengers

American Pharmaceutical Association convention

Actors Margorie Main and Joe Besser

Mission Street Merchants Association dinner (with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson and others)

Actor Groucho Marx [141351, 2 negatives]

Socialist candidate Norman Thomas runs for President of US

Governor Earl Warren leaves for east [141351, 4 negatives]

Governor Earl Warren Leaves for the East -- San Francisco Airport(August 14, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141351.08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor Earl Warren stands and waves before he enters the plane. Governor Warren and William Reichel (Chairman of Northern? California Campaign for Women) pose together before they enter the plane.

President Polk (ship) passengers

American Veterinary Medical Association awards

Republican officers (Theodore Roche, Harold E. Talbott, and others)

Pacific Coast Regional Group convention

Actress Lois Butler

Society of Automotive Engineers meeting

Movie producer Walter Wanger

"Typical" New Zeland girl Mary Wootton

Army Navy Science awards

American Veterans honor William Randolph Hearst (Randolph Apperson Hearst present)

New Rabbi Alvin Fine

Old San Rafael Fiesta Day

American Legion Hospital Fund

Consul General Jean DeLagarde of France

Dr. J.C. Geiger takes tuberculosis test [141355, 2 negatives]

Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus [141355, ca. 20 negatives]

Singer Astrid Varnay.

September 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194-195, [141356-141363]

Physical Description: 225 negatives (estimate)

American Legion convention and parade [141356, ca. 55 negatives]

Governor Earl Warren cutting ribbon to open Sacramento State Fair

General Electric generator moved along Bayshore Highway to Hunters Point (highway and neighborhood views)

Consul General Jean DeLagarde of France presents medal to Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

Bernard Baruch at San Francisco airport (141357, 4 negatives]

Arrival of Bernard Baruch -- San Francisco Airport(September 08, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 194, [141357.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Bernard Mannes Baruch disembarks plane, stands and poses, sits in car. Baruch and Edmond D. Coblentz (holding cane) pose together by a car.

Lodi Grape Festival Queen and attendants visit Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

General M.C. Meigs (ship) passengers

Dress rehearsal at Opera House (Licia Albanese, Max Lichlegg, Kurt Herbert Adler, Regina Resnik, and others) (long shots of the stage) [141358, 8 negatives]

Miss Australia Judy Gainford

New Kaiser-Frazer automobile

Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen

French Hospital Women's Auxiliary (planning a benefit)

Industrial Mobilization meeting

Richard M. Nixon [141360, 2 negatives]

Congressman Richard M. Nixon(September 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box, [141360.09]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at Dewey and Warren campaign headquarters. Richard M. Nixon (California Congressman) poses (standing and then sitting) at press conference.

Governor Thomas E. Dewey [141361, 49 negatives]

Arrival of Governor Thomas E. Dewey -- Oakland and San Francisco(September 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141361.01]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor Thomas E. Dewey's car passes through crowds en route to Oakland City Hall. On Oakland side of bridge approach, Governor's car stops to put up convertible top. On San Francisco side of bridge, Governor's car stops again to put convertible top down. Governor's car participates in Market Street parade. Arrival of Governor and Mrs. Dewey at Hotel St. Francis.

Arrival of Governor Thomas E. Dewey -- Oakland(September 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141361.02]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor and Mrs. Dewey and bodyguard arrive at Sixteeth Street Station, Oakland. Protesters hold labor posters amid crowd of spectators. Close-up of Governor Dewey speaking at podium. Governor speaks before massive crowd in front of Oakland City Hall. Governor and Mrs. Dewey, Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Goodwin J. Knight, and unidentified woman stand on balcony of train caboose at Oakland depot.

Arrival of Governor Thomas E. Dewey(September 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141361.03]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Governor Thomas E. Dewey's car leaves auditorium for Hotel St. Francis after speech.

Arrival of Governor Thomas E. Dewey(September 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141361.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor and Mrs. Dewey and Dan London (head of welcoming committee) are seated on a couch. Newsreel cameraman films Governor and Mrs. Dewey, Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Goodwin J. Knight. Massive crowd assembled at Civic Auditorium. Arrival of Governor and Mrs. Dewey at Civic Auditorium.

Arrival of Governor Thomas E. Dewey(September 25, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141361.05]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dewey addresses crowd from podium in Civic Auditorium. Views of stage and massive crowd from balcony. Close-up of Governor Dewey and other officials on stage. View of crowd from balcony in St. Francis lobby. Governor Dewey alone in his hotel suite.

Governor Thomas E. Dewey(September 26, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141361.06]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor and Mrs. Dewey leave Hotel St. Francis to go to church, shake hands with Reverent Dean Lovgren, and walk to hotel after mass at Grace Cathedral.

Governor Thomas E. Dewey Leaves Oakland(September 26, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141361.07]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey on a train leaving Oakland, leaving St. Francis Hotel and getting into a car, posing with the Golden Gate Bridge and Treasure Island in the background, and on the Ferry Boat. Governor Dewey, while sitting in the car, shakes hands with a young girl. Governor and Mrs. Dewey and Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Goodwin Knight wave goodbye from the train caboose.

Dedication of new chapel by Goodwill Industries (Bishop Donald H. Tippett)

Anoxia Photometer test (infantile paralysis, polio)

"Blue Baby" Annie May Barton operation (health)

Furniture show.

October 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141363-141372]

Physical Description: 175 negatives (estimate)

Actor William Powell and wife

Newspaper "Press Oscar" recipient Thomas A. Brooks

Third party presidential candidate Henry Agard Wallace [141364 and 141368 23 negatives]

Arrival of Third Party Presidential Candidate Henry A. Wallace -- Mills Field(October 05, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141364.02]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Agard Wallace disembark plane at Mills Field, walk from plane to car, and stand by car.

Campaign of Third Party Candidate Henry A. Wallace -- San Francisco(October 06, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141364.03]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Henry A. Wallace and Harry Bridges stand and talk. Wallace presented with birthday cake. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace stand on speakers platform at Civic Auditorium. Views of platform and seated crowd at Wallace rally in the Civic Auditorium. Wallace speaks in front a microphone with crowd in background.

Campaign of Third Party Presidential Candidate Henry A. Wallace -- San Francisco(October 06, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141364.04]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Henry Wallace speaks at a microphone with a ship (shipyard?) in the background, speaks in room with reporters and other people, speaks in another room filled with unidentified men, and stands in the middle of a crowded street. People watch Wallace from fire escape.

Third Party Presidential Candidate Henry A. Wallace Meeting -- UC Berkeley(October 20, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141368.02]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Evelyn Gins speaks at podium to test microphone. Large crowd of students stand at Sather Gate for Wallace meeting.

Furniture shows

Kathleen Norris at Newspaper Day luncheon

Candidate for Congress Hubert Scudder

Actors Bing Crosby and William Gargan [141364, 3 negatives]

College of Physicians and Surgeons Women's Auxiliary meeting

Lucius Beebe's special railroad car (Charles M. Clegg Jr. and Robert Hanley)

Flag pole sitter comes down

Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky

"65 Club" of Hastings College luncheon

Presidential campaign signs (for Harry S. Truman and Thomas E. Dewey)

Author Marguerite Gaylord Tate

Performer Nelson Eddy

Movie actors arrive for Friar Frolic (Richard Lane, Ronald Reagan, Jack Benny, George Burns, Johny Mercer, Donald O'Connor, Williams Sisters, and others) [141367, 6 negatives]

Friars' Club -- Mayor Elmer Robinson Receives Bid to Benefit Show(October 15, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141367.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

At City Hall, Mayor Elmer E. Robinson receives invitation to Friars' Frolic benefit show from the Williams Sisters: Betty, Trudy, and Modi Williams.

Actors Arrive for Friars' Frolic Benefit Show(October 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141367.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Actors arrive for Friars' Club (organization) benefit show at Southern Pacific Railroad station. Supervisor Marvin Lewis welcomes Richard Lane. Other actors pose on baggage truck: Ronald Regan, Jack Benny (with fiddle), George Burns, composer Johny Mercer, Buddy Clarke, Donald O'Connor (hangs outside truck), and others.

Candidate for Congress William S. Mailliard and family

Methodist Bishop Donald H. Tippett

Actress and Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas

New Columbia Steel Plant at Pittsburg (Calif.)

Communist hearing (Norman Leonard, and others) (various dates: October-November 1948) [141369, 23 negatives] (communism)

Communism Hearing(October 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.01]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at the Federal Building. William Brandhove talks on a public telephone. Brandhove, William Handelsman, and Alex Harris stand together.

Communism Hearing(October 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.02]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at Federal Building. Courtroom scenes. Witness Frank P. Foisie and Attorney Norman Leonard on the stand; Charles Kersten and O.C. Thomas sit behind bench.

Communism Hearing(October 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at Federal Building. Courtroom scenes. Hugh Bryson on the stand; US Marshall George Vice and Alex Harris seated elsewhere in room. View of courtroom showing seated men and audience.

Communism Hearing(October 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.04]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at Federal Building. Courtroom scenes. Crowd enters doors to US Distric Court. View of courtroom showing seated men and audience. David Jenkins is seated. O.C. Nisher and Charles J. Kersten sit behind bench.

Communism Hearing(October 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Both US Marshall George Vice and Attorney Norman Leonard stand in the courtroom; Vice is holding Leonard's arm. Vice approaches Attorney Allan Brotsky.

Communism -- Picketers at Communist Hearing(October 22, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.06]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Long line of protestors picket outside Federal Building where communist hearings are being held. Men walk past picketers.

Communism -- Picketers at Communist Hearing(November 01, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Long line of protestors picket outside Federal Building where communist hearings are being held. View of picketers taken from elevated spot across the street and at street level.

Communism Hearing(November 01, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141369.08]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at Federal Building. Deputy US Marshall Rafael Baraona and Charles Pomerantz enter through double doors and later stand in front of door to US Marshall Criminal Departmen [?].

Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder

Dr. Robert E. Gross

"Blue Baby" Jeffrey Lore (health)

Senator Geronima Pecson of the Philippines

Earl Warren arrives for Dewey-Warren rally [141372, 12 negatives]

Governor Earl Warren Arrives for Dewey-Warren Rally(October 29, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141372.02]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor Earl Warren disembarks plane, walks to a car with Dan London, sits with Bill Mailliard in the backseat of a convertible, and shakes hands with Dan Gallagher.

Governor Earl Warren Arrives for Dewey-Warren Rally(October 29, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141372.03]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Helen Christopher and G. Peterson present Governor Earl Warren with a good luck cake. Mrs. Earl Warren seated. Governor Warren speaks at podium. View of large crowd seated in the Civic Auditorium. View of speakers stage and crowd.

Hollywood actors arrive for Dewey-Warren rally (Hoagy Carmichael, George Murhpy, Dennis Morgan, Lee Bowman and Arthur Lake).

November 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141372-141379]

Physical Description: 175 negatives (estimate)

Governor Earl Warren campaigning [141372, 50 negatives]

Republican Campaign -- Dewey-Warren Rally -- Oakland(November 01, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141372.01]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor and Mrs. Earl Warren, Virginia Warren, Robert S. Barkell, and Senator William F. Knowland are seated to the rear of the speaker's stage. Views of the stage and audience in the auditorium. Governor Warren speaks at a podium. Oakland Mayor Joseph Smith stands behind the governor. Flag bearers walk down center aisle of auditorium.

Republican Campaign -- Governor and Mrs. Earl Warren Vote -- Oakland(November 02, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141372.02]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various scenes of Governor and Mrs. Earl Warren voting. Governor Earl Warren gets out of car, signs paper, places in box, emerges from a voting booth, exits doors, and walks down street followed by photographers.

Republican Campaign -- Vice Presidential Campaign of Earl Warren(November 02, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141372.03]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at the Hotel St. Francis. Earl Warren speaks in front of numerous microphones. Close-ups of Warren and CBS reporter with a microphone. Warren poses with his family: Mrs. Earl Warren, Virginia Warren, Dorothy Warren, and Nina Warren.

Republican Campaign -- Earl Warren on the Evening of Election(November 02, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141372.04]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at the Hotel St. Francis. Photographers and reporters surround Warren. Earl Warren and Dan London sit on a couch and listen to the radio. Warren turns a knob on the radio. Both men are later smiling.

US Coast and Geodetic Survey heads O.W. Swainson and R.F.A. Studds

Roger D. Lapham press conference

Government officials and public voting in elections

Doctors' press conference (John McMichael, Arthur Selzer, and others)

KPIX television show filmed at new Macy's store [141375, 8 negatives]

Television -- KPIX Television Show Filmed at Macy's(November 08, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141375.02]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

KPIX television show filmed at new Macy's department store. Exterior view of new department store Macy's. Crowd watches models on televison set as show is filmed live. Interior views (displays, mannequins, clothes, shoes) of second floor of new building.

Actor Ed Wynn's birthday party

Judge Theresa Meikle

Making pennies at US Mint [141376, 3 negatives]

Money -- Penny Making Process -- United States Mint(November 10, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141376.02]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Director George B. Gillin displays a slab of copper, feeds blanks into a die machine to press the design on the coins, and holds new pennies stored in trays.

Author Alice Cook Fuller

National Association of Cost Accountants conference

Infantile paralysis cases (polio, disabled persons)) (various dates: November 1948-January 1949) [141377, ca. 15 negatives]

Chinese delegate to the United Nations (Dr. Peng Hsueh-Pei) [141378, 1 negative]

Actor Van Heflin [141378, 2 negatives]

Salvation Army Drive

Consul Reuven Dafni of Israel

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in San Francisco [141379, 6 negatives].

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Visits San Francisco(November 30, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 195, [141379.10]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek disembarks plane and sits in a car holding a bouquet of flowers. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek is surrounded by unidentified people.

December 1948 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141380-141386]

Physical Description: 125 negatives (estimate)

San Franciso County Hospital Children's Tuberculosis Ward (Bozo the clown and children)

Furniture shows

California State Chamber of Commerce (with Governor Earl Warren and Senator William F. Knowland)

Greek Orthodox leader Athenagoras I and Peter Boudures

Radiological Society of North America meeting (new X-ray equipment demonstration)

"Red Dean" of Canterbury Rev. Hewlett Johnson (communism)

Mutual Business Men's Club luncheon

Superior Court Judges Melvyn I. Cronin and Herbert C. Kaufman of San Francisco

Author Dr. David J. Bradley at San Francisco hospital

Consul General Frans A. van Woerten of the Netherlands

Histadrut speaker Dr. Isaak Ben Zvi of Israel

Mother's Milk Bank benefit

Amateur television (views of equipment) [141383, 5 negatives]

Television -- Amateur Television -- Burlingame(December 13, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141383.04]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of various equipment. Clarence Wolf pictured with control desk, control equipment, and transmitter. View of antenna. Picture of test pattern on receiver.

Missionary Jacob Deshazer (former prisoner of war) and family going to Japan

KPIX television station [141384, 7 negatives]

Television -- Station KPIX Broadcasts(December 17, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141384.03]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Al Towne (KPIX director of engineering), Wesley I. Dumm (President of Associated Broadcasters, Inc.), and Bob Laws (ad manager of program sponsor) tune in to first program.

Television -- Preparation for Radio Station KSFO--KPIX Broadcast(December 18, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141384.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Al Towne (KPIX director of engineering) and R.W. Didriksen check over master control panel of television station in tower of Mark Hopkins Hotel in preparation for broadcast of first television program.

Television -- Station KSFO--KPIX Broadcasts -- Practice Telecast(December 20, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141384.05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of KSFO--KPIX practice telecast with local ice hockey team Shamrocks. Men sit in front of monitors and other equipment. Cameramen film ice hockey players on rink.

March of Dimes Drive

Mayor and Mrs. Elmer E. Robinson

Centennial Commission Historic Caravan vehicles (and the Sir Francis Drake brass plate)

KGO television tower being erected in Sutro Forest

PG&E company new power distribution center in the Mission District [141385, 7 negatives]

Utilities -- PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) Company's New Power Distribution Center -- Mission District(December 23, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141385.06]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of exterior of new building at Eighth and Mission Streets, master control board, oil circuit breaker (110,000 volts, 800 amps capacity interpret circuit load condition), 12,000 volt switch gear room, 110,000 volt underground cable terminals, and 110,000-12,000 volt transformer.

US Customs officers with new two way radio cars

Pictures of W. & J. Sloan's television sets [141386, 6 negatives]

Television Sets -- W. & J. Sloan Company(December 29, 1948) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141386.03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various styles of television sets marketed at furniture store.

Shriners Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun.

January 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141387-141396]

Physical Description: 225 negatives (estimate)

New Superior Court Judge Twain Michaelsen

American Veterans Committee chairman Gregory Harrison

March of Dimes Drive

Aerial views of Bay Area (cityscapes) [141387, 16 negatives]

Aerial Views of the San Francisco Bay Area(January 04, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141387.08]

Physical Description: 16 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various aerial views (cityscapes) of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Poster for South Shore and California Joint Stock Company (1849)

1949 California State Legislature [141388, 23 negatives]

1949 California State Legislature -- State Capitol(January 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141388.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Members of Senate staff: Cleve Taylor, Johnny Les, Joe Nolan, Joe Beck. Also includes Randolph Collier, James J. McBride, Byrl R. Salsman, Nathan F. Coombs, Earl D. Desmond, Edwin J. Regan, Gerald J. O'Gara, Clarence C. Ward, and Bradford S. Crittendon.

1949 California State Legislature -- State Capitol(January 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141388.04]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Ernest R. Geddes, Augustus F. Hawkins, Frank Jordan, Jonathan J. Hollibaugh, John B. Cooke, Thomas J. Doyle, William H. Rosenthal, and Julian Beck. San Francisco delegation: Edward M. Gaffney, Thomas A. Maloney, Charles Meyers, Bernard R. Brady, William C. Berry, Arthur H. Connolly Jr., and Robert I. McCarthy.

1949 California State Legislature -- State Capitol(January 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141388.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

John W. Evans, Francis Dunn Jr., Jonathan J. Hollibaugh, Thomas A. Maloney, Ernest C. Crowley, Randal F. Dickey, James G. Crichton, Ernest R. Geddes, Wilkie Ogg (Sergeant at Arms), John B. Babbage, and Speaker Sam Collins.

1949 California State Legislature -- State Capitol(January 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141388.06]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

M.A. Burke, G.D. Morris, John W. Evans, John E. Moss Jr., Bruce V. Reagan, Robert C. Kirkwood, Thomas W. Caldecott, Francis Dunn Jr., Robert I. McCarthy, Charles Meyers, Ralph M. Brown, Albert I. Stewart, William S. Grant, and Laughlin B. Waters.

1949 California State Legislature -- State Capitol(January 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141388.07]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Bernard R. Brady, Richard Dolwig, Arthur H. Connolly, Thomas A. Maloney, William C. Berry, Edward M. Gaffney, Lloyd W. Lowery, Robert I. McCarthy, Charles Meyers, Richard J. Dolwig, Richard H. McCollister, and Vern W. Hoffman.

1949 California State Legislature -- State Capitol(January 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141388.08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Fred H. Kraft, Louis G. Sutton, Clyde A. Watson, Senator Jack B. Tenney, H.M. Burns, Nelson S. Dilworth, Ben Hulse, Thomas F. Keating, H.J. Powers, Charles Brown, Arthur H. Breed, Gerald J. O'Gara, Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. Knight.

1949 California State Legislature -- Wives of Members -- State Capitol(January 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141388.09]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Wives of new legislature members: Mrs. H. Allen Smith, Mrs. Nathan F. Coombs, Mrs. F. Presley Abshire, Mrs. Stanley T. Tomlinson, Mrs. Robert I. McCarthy, and Mrs. Gordon A. Fleury.

1949 San Francisco Grand Jury

PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) plant at Hunters Point

Dignitaries from Israel at Golden Gate Cemetery and Mayor Elmer E. Robinson's office (Captain Yaakov Wayland and Rabbi Franklin Cohn)

Construction Industry Week

Home Builders' Council of California awards

Telephone rate hearing

Printers' Week (Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, Harold Iverson, Worth Hale, and A.R. Tommasini)

Kitchen appliance exhibit

San Francisco Bar Association annual meeting

Reception for actress Jeanette MacDonald (with Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Zellerbach and others)

New officers of consular corps visit Mayor Elmer E. Robinson (Roberto Regala and others)

Furniture displays [141391-141392]

KGO television station at Sutro Forest

Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand

Red Cross (first aid class chairman E. Roland Harriman)

Botanist Alice Eastwood

Employing Printers' Association (Luis A. Ireland and B.A. Hansen)

Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrives (health)

National Conference of Christians and Jews (Ellen O'Gorman Duffy)

Youth Center of St. Dominic's (dance class)

Good Shephard Drive (Dennis Day and Bishop James T. O'Dowd)

National Auto Dealers Association convention

"Dick" Wylie hearing (C. Ellsworth Wylie, Robert Kenny, and Fred N. Howser)

Children visit Bureau of Internal Revenue

Kabat-Kaiser Institute (patients - health)

Dedication of the San Francisco Center for the Blind (Lion's Club) (disabled persons)

J.D. Zellerbach

Association of American Railroads Board meeting.

February 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141396-141405]

Physical Description: 250 negatives (estimate)

Home of the Good Shepherd publicity shots

Count Felix Von Luckner

"Nature Boy" arrested

"Red Pony" movie publicity

American Broadcasting Company president Mark Woods

J.D. Zellerbach

March of Dimes Drive (fashion show and hat auction with actors Bob Hope, Doris Day, Irene Ryan, and others) [141397 and 141399]

Household gadgets and utensils shows

Synchrotron at UC Berkeley Radiation Lab (Dr. Edwin M. McMillan, Marvin Malvin, and Walter Gibbins)

President Wilson (ship) passengers

Furniture show

Fomer Labour Minister Margaret Bondfield of Great Britain visits [141399, 2 negatives]

Western States Meat Packers Association convention

Folsom Prison views [141401, 8 negatives]

Chaplain -- Folsom Prison(February 15, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141401.04]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Copy negative of portrait of Father James J. White of Folsom Prison.

Prison -- Folsom Prison(February 15, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141401.05]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Interior views of Folsom Prison: soilitary cell in Tower Thirteen, isolation cell showing concrete bed, main line and men setting tables in mess hall, tueday supper (tray containing beef stew, salad, sauerkraut, creamed corn, bread, and tapioca pudding). Exterior view of Tower Thirteen. Warden Robert Heinze seated at desk. Copy of mug shot of prisoner William H. Roberts.

Sheets hanging out in protest of President Truman's rent control bill

Little Children's Aid Society lunch (with Archbishop John J. Mitty and Father James Murray)

"Heart Day" heart disease and Rheumatic Fever talks (Dr. Leo M. Taran) (health)

Irish tenor Christopher Lynch and wife

Western Women's Club (Russian refugees Countess Alexandra Tolstoy and Mrs. Paul Alexander)

French Merci Train (shots of train, parade, ceremonies, etc.) [141404, ca. 15 negatives]

"What Price Glory" -- Opera House Purple Heart benefit (Gregory Peck and his mother Mrs. Jane Maysuch, Oliver Hardy, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Pat O'Brien, Ward Bond, Jimmy Lydon, Ray Murphy, and others) [141404, ca. 20 negatives]

Musician from China Aaron Avshalomoff

Democrats Jefferson/Jackson dinner (Vice President Alben William Barkley, George Killion, and others) [141405, 4 negatives]

Democratic Party -- Jefferson-Jackson Dinner -- Palace Hotel(February 24, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 196, [141405.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Vice President Alben William Barkley speaking behind cluster of microphones. Barkley with George Killion. View of crowd and posters in the Garden Court of the Palace Hotel.

Senators Jack Tenney and Nelson Dilworth (of California un-American activities committee) (communism) [141405, 1 negative]

American Legion conference on communism (Benjamin Gitlow, W.C. Sawyer, Archie Closson, and Elizabeth Bentley)

Exhibition of French books at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor

International Council for Exceptional Children conference (Doctors Leslie Hohman, Olga Bridgman, Leo F. Cain, and Ray Graham).

March 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141406-141415]

Physical Description: 175 negatives (estimate)

"The Harvest of Stars" radio rehearsal (Dorothy Warenskjold)

"I Shot Jesse James" movie opening (with actors Barbara Britton, Preston Foster, and Robin Short)

Radio show rehearsal (actor Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, John Scott Trotter, and Robert Levitt)

Interview with Eleanor Roosevelt [141407, 2 negatives]

Interview with Eleanor Roosevelt -- Fairmont Hotel(March 07, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141407.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Eleanor Roosevelt seated and talking.

YWCA convention

National Catholic conference on family life [141408, 12 negatives]

Actor Red Skelton

"Enchantment" movie actors (David Niven, Wally King, Jayne Meadows, and Teresa Wright) [141409, 12 negatives]

"Canadian Pacific" actors arrive for premiere (J. Carrol Naish, Nancy Olsen, Victor Jory and others)

Fire Underwriters Association convention

Demonstration of portable respirator at Central Emergency Hospital

Opera singer Lily Pons and husband conductor Andre Kostelanetz

Marin County flood and landslide [141410 and 141413, 20 negatives]

Flood and Landslide -- Marin County(March 11, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141410.05]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Fireman George Baldini, Mrs. John Bodeen, and Barbara Jean Bodeen (child) travel in a boat down a flooded street. Will Ingwersen (child) fishes in 'dry' creek behind his house. View of flood. View of landslide near Sausalito approach to Golden Gate Bridge.

Flood and Landslide -- San Rafael, Marin County(March 24, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141413.06]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

People travel in boats down a flooded street. View of landslide near Sausalito approach to Golden Gate Bridge. A child pushes another child sitting in an inner tube down a flooded street. A child carries a dog through a flooded street. The two children sit on a see-saw in the middle of a flooded street. Views of the flood showing water completely covering yards.

Eighty-seven year old geology Professor Andrew C. Lawson becomes a father of a baby boy

Jewish refugees from China arrive in the General M.C. Meigs (ship)

Ambassador M.A.H. Ispahani of Pakistan

Furniture shows

Griller String Quartet

Milk prices hearing

Local wallpaper manufacture

Christening of Western Pacific "California Zephyr" train (with actress Eleanor Parker)

Entertainer Jack Benny

Matson liner Lurline (ship) (A.P. Giannini and Mrs. Hubert A. Good on board)

American Chemical Society convention

School children give blood samples (infantile paralysis) (health)

"The Set-Up" premiere with actor Robert Ryan

Actors Betty Grable and Harry James

Society of California Pioneers luncheon (William H. Worrilow and others)

Multiple sclerosis patient from Australia (health).

April 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141416-141424]

Physical Description: 188 negatives (estimate)

Advertising new cigarettes (Cavalier)

American Banker's Association convention

San Francisco Horsemen's Association gives honorary membership to Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

"El Paso" movie premiere with actor John Payne

Cyclotron expert Dr. G.W. Dunlap

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Amateur television at Berkeley [141418, 6 negatives]

Amateur Television -- Berkeley(April 09, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141418.01]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of television equipment. Bob Melvin (owner) sits behind camera and films his brother Don Melvin who sits in front of a microphone. Bob Melvin works on equipment, sits behind camera and shoots a small doll holding a platter. Image of doll on receiver screen.

Memorial services for Father Yorke

Lunar eclipse from Mount Davidson [141418, ca. 15 negatives]

San Leandro Nursery (models with tulips, lilies and daffodils)

Redbud Festival

"Life of Riley" Week and cast of actors [141419 and 141421]

National conference of Christians and Jews (Bishop Edward L. Parsons, Karl Justus, Morris Goldstein, and Preston Devine)

Pan-American Day events

San Francisco Center for the Blind activities (disabled persons)

Swiss officials study airport (City Attorney Dion R. Holm)

Leukemia victim (Ronny Calvert)

Actors Jack Carson and Marion Hutton and others

Shriners Imperial Potenate Charles Galloway

Bell of Mission San Antonio de Padua

Secretary of State [sic] Sean MacBride of Ireland

Mr. and Mrs. Jascha Heifetz

View from Angel Island Pier and Fisherman's Wharf

Oakland garden show [141423, 14 negatives]

Judges to view movie "Impact" (censorship?)

Foreign Minister Sean MacBride of Ireland

US Savings Bond Drive

Zionist Leopold Lerner

Bank of America head A.P. Giannini

Opera singer Helen Traubel

Serra Club international convention

State Medical Association dinner against socialized medicine (health) [141424, 3 negatives].

California Medical Association Dinner Against Socialized Medicine(April 29, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141424.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Overhead view of dining room showing the speakers' table and other tables. Speakers: Senator Harry P. Cain (Washington) and Senator Allen Ellender (Louisiana) converse. Senator Ellender, Dr. E. Vincent Askey (President of California Medical Association), and Senator Cain stand before two microphones.

May 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141425-141431]

Physical Description: 163 negatives (estimate)

Bell returned to Mission San Antonio de Padua

Lutheran convention

Sainthood hearing at Saint Mary's Cathedral

Variety Club convention and awards [141425-141426]

New KGO television studio at Sutro Mansion [141426, 13 negatives]

Television -- New KGO Television Studio -- Sutro Mansion(May 03, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141426.02]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Engineers Earl Holtmann and William Platz operate television console. Frank Samuels (KGO TV West Coast Division Manager), Robert E. Kintner (ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Executive Vice President), Robert H. Hinkley (NY Vice President), Gayle V. Grubb (KGO TV General Manager), and Frank Mark (Vice President of Engineering) stand in control room. Exterior views of television transmitter tower near mansion.

Television -- Arrival of ABC Network Executive for Opening of New KGO Television Studio(May 04, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141426.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at Southern Pacific Railroad Station (Townsend Street). ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Network Executive Vice President Robert E. Kintner disembarks from train. Kintner talks with Frank Samuels (KGO TV West Coast Division Manager).

Television -- Broadcast From New KGO Television Studio -- Sutro Mansion(May 05, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141426.04]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Men seated on television stage before broadcast starts: City Attorney Dion Holm, Gayle V. Grubb (KGO General Manager), Bishop Block, Archbishop John J. Mitty, Robert Kintner (ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Executive Vice President), Robert Hinckley (Vice President). Hinckley and Kintner present Mitty with an award.

Rodeo stars (Reno Brown and Whip Wilson)

Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder

Ambassador Wilhelm Morgenstierne of Norway

Miss America Beatrice "Bebe" Shopp (1948)

105 year old woman Frances Acosta

Wax dummy of witch found [141427, ca. 15 negatives]

Numerous furniture shows

Rehabilitation Center (1680 Mission Street)

Refugees return from China on President Wilson (ship) [141428, ca. 15 negatives]

Shrine circus [141429, 16 negatives]

Press conference on Asia's threat to Alaska (Father Bernard R. Hubbard)

Opera printed on tobacco paper (Joseph Paget-Fredericks with book)

California Centennial float

Veterans from Morocco watching "outpost in Morocco"

General W.H. Gordon (ship) passengers

Harry Bridges [141430, 7 negatives]

Labor -- Harry Bridges Goes to Court(May 27, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141430.06]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Harry Bridges goes into courtroom with two unidentified attorneys.

Labor -- Harry Bridges Surrenders(May 27, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 197, [141430.07]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Harry Bridges signs for his bond in the office of US Commissioner Francis Fox. Bridges seated in press interview. Marshall Emile Canepa is about to serve summons to Bridges as he leaves court. Bridges walks down the hall.

Baptist convention

Jaroslav Josef Polivka.

June 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141432-141438]

Physical Description: 225 negatives (estimate)

Catholic priests ordained

Hearing on frozen food sale

Bay Area Industrial Exposition in Oakland Auditorium [141432, 9 negatives]

Bay Area Industrial Exposition -- Exhibits -- Oakland(June 06, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141432.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Artist Stand Metz draws portrait of L.R. Muzsek and son Sandy Muzsek (child). Rita Wallace stands near a nylon dispensing machine (converted from a cigarette machine). Various machinery on display: boiler and hydraulic press brake.

Bay Area Industrial Exposition -- Exhibits -- Oakland(June 06, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141432.07]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Nancy Lewis tries the Reactometer (tests driver's training simulator testing reaction time) while Richard Sullivan stands nearby. Julius Ray Marr looks at train display of Oakland Naval Supply Center. Margaret Gogel of Oakland Phone Company shows Joan Inzerilla how to work a telephone switchboard. A few people look at a Standard Oil Company display.

A.P. Giannini funeral and copies of images related to Bank of America and to his life (various dates) [141432, ca. 65 negatives]

Gold Rush Centennial celebrations [141433, 3 negatives]

Ice Follies at Winterland [141433, ca. 30 negatives]

Sonoma State Hospital institutional hearing (grounds, facilities, hospital, court scenes with jurors and staff members associated with Grand Jury investigation of escapees) [141433, 36 negatives]

Sonoma State Hospital Institutional Hearing -- Grounds and Facilities -- Sonoma County(June 10, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141433.06]

Physical Description: 17 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of grounds, close-up of fence and wall, yard (benches and swings), main entrance gate, and paved yard surrounded by fence. Interior views of institution (facilities): men working at sewing machines, boys sitting in a classroom, and room with numerous cots (beds). Includes Superintendent Dr. Marshall Porter.

Sonoma State Hospital Institutional Hearing -- Grand Jurors Tour Facilities -- Sonoma County(June 11, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141433.07]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Grand Jurors associated with investigation of escapees tour facilities with staff members: solitary cells' hallway in Paxton Hall (door at end was taken off hinges by patients), classroom (schoolroom), grand jury foreman August Lepori is shown interior of a solitary cell, and exterior of Goddard Hall. District Attorney Charles McGoldrick, Mrs. Irving Sheperd, and Dr. Marshal E. Porter walk past a large group of boys.

Sonoma State Hospital Institutional Hearing -- Court Scenes -- Santa Rosa Courthouse(June 14, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141433.09]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Courtroom scenes. Various people speaking into a microphone at the podium: Ed Jorgensen, Irving Shepard, Gordon Tevis, Mrs. M.C. Blake, Garroll B. Andrews, and Dr. Lawrence Kolb. Group of officials: Dr. Marshall E. Porter, Elseworth Frank, Dr. Burton M. Castner, David T. Jones, and W.L. Gregoning. View of crowd with American flag displayed in the background.

Sonoma State Hospital Institutional Hearing -- Grand Jurors -- Santa Rosa Courthouse(June 15, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141433.08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Grand Jury investigation. Grand Jury members: Albert D. Tietjen, Robert R. Steitz, Jordeon Basileu, Mrs. Irving Shepard, August Leproi [Legori?] (foreman), Mrs. Carre Jenkins, and Bill Barlow.

Funeral of Judge James G. Conlan

Defendants in deportation hearing (Frank Carlson and others) (communism) [141434, 3 negatives]

Communism -- Deportation Hearing -- Defendants(June 13, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141434.04]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Defendants: Frank Carlson, Herman Lansburg, and William Heikklig. Attorney George Andersen.

Sonoma trail blazing on Upper Dry Creek (horses)

Rare Swiss watches show

Industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss

Ambassador Henrik Kauffmann of Denmark

Optimists International clubs convention

New plasma out (Dr. J.C. Geiger)

Home Economists National Convention and Exhibit

New Superior Court Judge William T. Sweigert

Funeral of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur

Mission Dolores

"Sand" movie premiere (with actors Rory Calhoun, Mark Stevens, and Isabelita)

President Monroe (ship) passengers on deck.

July 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141439-141444]

Physical Description: 100 negatives (estimate)

President Wilson (ship) passengers [141439-141440]

Foster mother of 800 children (Minnie Hinde)

Pacific Coast Board of Intergovernment Relations meeting (with Governor Earl Warren)

Opera singer Frieda Hempel

Bastille day events [141440-141441, 5 negatives]

Claire Giannini Hoffman press conference

Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation drive

Ambassador Chih-tsing Feng of China

American Association on Nurseymen convention

Cast of actors of "Brigadoon" go fishing on barge R.S. Wilber [141442, 8 negatives]

Opera star Kirsten Flagstad hearing

Gene Autry leads Optimists Fund Drive for children's home [141442-141443, ca. 15 negatives]

Poet James J. Metcalf

Actor Dan Duryea.

August 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141444-141453]

Physical Description: 225 negatives (estimate)

Sister Elizabeth Kenny Day

Furniture show

Charity bundles for Europe and Israel

Hiroshima survivor Reverend Kyoshi Tanimoto at Glide Methodist Memorial Church

Vice Consul William Olive of Shanghai (China) beaten by "reds" (communism?)

US Ambassador to China J. Leighton Stuart

Gravenstein apple caravan

Herbert Hoover birthday celebration [141447, 20 negatives]

Herbert Hoover Birthday Celebration -- Hoover Memorial Library(August 09, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141447.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

The San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce presents a cake to Herbert Hoover on the eve of his Seventy-fifth birthday. Hoover stands near birthday cake, shakes hands with James Elliott (Junior Chamber of Commerce), and is seated alone at desk.

Herbert Hoover Birthday Celebration -- Stanford Univeristy, Palo Alto(August 10, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141447.04]

Physical Description: 16 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of speakers' podium, men seated in chairs, and crowd. Herbert Hoover speaking at podium. Close-up of large crowd assembled. Hoover stands with General Mark Clark, Governor Earl Warren, and Dr. John Ewart Wallace Sterling. Close-up of Hoover seated at desk.

Vincent Hallinan and family pose with rescue helicopter at their Marin home

Bell of Mission San Antonio de Padua

San Francsico Ballet at Fulton Street Park

Loyal Order of Moose convention [141449, ca. 35 negatives]

President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines at Commonwealth Club

Music teachers' convention

Equador earthquake relief [141450 and 141452]

Stamp collectors convention

Governor Ingram Stainback of Hawaii and demonstrators

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and family

Institute on North Atlantic Pack (with Charles Easton Rothwell and Monroe E. Deutsch)

"Colored" Elks parade (Afro-Americans)

Electrical Engineers convention

Radio actors convention

State Bar Association annual conference

State centennial celebrations in Monterey

Opera star Enzo Maschenrini.

September 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198-199, [141454-141458]

Physical Description: 238 negatives (estimate)

Pope Pius XII with Archbishop John J. Mitty and Mayor Angelo Rossi (1936 and 1939) [141454, 6 negatives]

Pope Pius XII Visits San Francisco(September 01, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 198, [141454.01]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

[Copy negatives of various dates: 1936, 1939] Various scenes with Pope Pius XII, Bishop John J. Mitty, and Mayor Angelo Rossi. The three men stand on the Golden Gate Bridge. The Pope stands amid a large group of men during his San Francisco visit. Close-up of the Pope with Bishop Mitty. The three men stand in front of an airplane.

100th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi Church [141454 and 141458]

Senator Harry Cain

National Hadassah convention [141454, 2 negatives]

Louis Lurie birthday lunch (with Louis B. Mayer, Sol Lesser, and Mendel Silverberg)

Infantile paralysis (polio) drive

Funeral of Richard Joseph Welch

Knights Templar convention and parade [141456 and 141458, ca. 25 negatives]

Congressional candidate John Francis Shelley

Secretary of Commerce Charles V. Sawyer

Views of new sanctuary at Grace Cathedral with mural artist John H. De Rosen

Ticket lines at Key System transit terminal

New radio telephone aboard Southern Pacific Lark (train locomotive)

Democratic dinner with Vice President Alben W. Barkley (with James Roosevelt and others) [141458, 2 negatives]

Democrats -- Democratic Dinner With Vice President Alben W. Barkley(September 19, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141458.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Vice President Alben W. Barkley, Ester Murray, James Roosevelt, and Ellie Heller sit at a table. Nevada Governor Vail Pittman and Barkley shake hands while Oliver J. Carter looks on.

Supervisor elections (George J. Christopher, Paul O'Leary, and others) (throughout month)

Congressional elections (Lloyd Cosgrove, William M. Malone and John Francis Shelley) [141458, 13 negatives]

Candidate for Congress -- Lloyd Cosgrove(September 20, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141458.19-21]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Lloyd Cosgrove sits at desk at 2811 Mission Street. Pictured with family members Mary Ellen, Claire, John L., Mrs. Anne Cosgrove, and Joan at 399 San Benito Way. Lloyd Cosgrove files for candidacy in congressional election at City Hall.

Candidate for Congress -- John F. Shelley(September 28, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141458.22]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

John F. Shelley files for candidacy in congressional election with Deputy Registrar John J. Hannon at City Hall. Chairman William M. Malone of the Democratic Committee also shown.

State legislative committee lobby investigation (A.I. Stewart, Charles Conrad, Luther Lincoln, and others investigating political lobbying?) [141458, 8 negatives]

Eucharistic Congress and Episcopal Church convention

Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus at Cow Palace [141458, ca. 20 negatives]

Opera star Kirsten Flagstad arrives

"Red Danube" premiere at the Warfield Theater

Visiting Congressman James [sic] Kennedy of Massachusetts (actually John F. Kennedy) [141458, 2 negatives]

Congressman John F. Kennedy -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(September 24, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141458.38]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Congressman John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts speaks with reporter during visit to San Francisco.

Actor Farley Granger

Election candidates (Dion Holm, Francis V. Keesling, and others)

J.C. Penney convention

Consular Corps dinner (Jose Aybar, Roberto Regala, and others)

Introduction of the garment bag

Christian Businessmen's Committee convention

Children's Rheumatic Heart Pavillion meeting

USO (United Service Organizations) luncheon (with Adrien Falk and Harvey Firestone Jr.)

Father Serra beatification and convention of Third Order of Saint Francis

Miss America Jaque Mercer.

October 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141459-141469]

Physical Description: 225 negatives (estimate)

John Francis Shelley for Senator

Rolph C. Smith and new seat of World Affairs Council

Mechanical heart at Mount Zion Hospital (Eleanor Warren) (health) [141459, 2 negatives]

Mechanical Heart -- Mount Zion Hospital(October 04, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141459.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Eleanor Warren stands near mechanical heart apparatus (health).

Order of the Southern Cross

Buddhist priest Chief Abbot Kocho Ohtani and wife Tomoko Ohtani visit Mayor Elmor E. Robinson

Hotelmen's convention (with Governor Earl Warren and Dan London)

California Council for the Blind convention (with Dr. Newel Lewis Perry and others) (disabled persons)

"Nine young maidens" representing wine growing pass out grapes

Supervisors' lunch (with Roger Lapham Jr., Gordon Mallatratt, and Chester McPhee)

Chinatown celebration and parade [141461, 14 negatives]

Celebration -- Thirty-eighth Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Republic -- Chinatown(October 10, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141461.08]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Scenes of a parade: small children from various schools dressed in elaborate costumes. Chinese dragons. Paul Fung speaking at microphone [event m.c.?]. Joe How rides on float.

Actress Marie Wilson

National Executive Secretary of Americans for Democratic Action James Loeb, Jr.

Red Mass at Saint Mary's Cathedral

Jawaharlal Nehru visits (Madame Indira Nehru Gandhi, Robert Gordon Sproul, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Earl Warren and others) [141462 and 141469, 20 negatives]

Prime Minister of India -- UC Berkeley(October 12, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141462.07]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Madame Indira Gandhi, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Governor Earl Warren... stand for group photo. Jawaharlal Nehru speaks to crowd. Views of crowd. Earl Warren, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Robert Sproul enter theater.

Prime Minister of India -- Reception -- Scottish Rite Temple(October 31, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141469.07]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrives in car. Speaks to audience from podium. Views of audience. Question and answer session with American students of India. Taken at Sutter Street and Van Ness Avenue.

Arrival of General Gordon (ship) passengers

Community Chest Drive (Red Feather)

American Dental Association national convention [141464, ca. 15 negatives]

Violin virtuoso Gunnar Knudsen [141465, 14 negatives]

Saints and Sinners Milk Fund

Youth and community chest campaigns

Republican State Committee meeting (Goodwin J. Knight)

National Convention of Hadassah

Dion Holm luncheon

Medical doctors on wine tasting tour at Beaulieu Winery in Rutherford (Napa Valley) (with Andre Tchelistcheff) [141467, 17 negatives]

Bible Centennial Day

Women Bankers convention

General George C. Marshall (national director of American Red Cross)

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

New Consul General Baron Philippe Muzi Facolni of Italy

American Bankers Association convention.

November 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141469-141477]

Physical Description: 113 negatives (estimate)

Actress Gloria Swanson

Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks of Great Britain

Consul General Baron Philippe Muzi Facolni of Italy

Nurses' convention

Election activities (voting)

PTA bazaar

Polio (infantile paralysis) rehabilitation demonstration (health, disabled persons) [141473, 4 negatives]

Polio (infantile paralysis) -- Rehabilitation Demonstration(November 14, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141473.07]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Rehabilitation of children inflicted with polio (infantile paralysis). Bernadine Schroeder dialing a rotary telephone; Edward O'Neill learns to button and unbutton while Anne Murany watches. Karl Von Hacht sits at a potter's wheel while Mary McCormack watches (health).

Mission Miracle Mile Proclamation (Mayor Elmer E. Robinson)

Republican National Committee chairman Guy George Gabrielson

National Conference of Christians and Jews

Vaudeville revival

Dentists' convention

Saints and Sinners

Plug for Variety Club show

California Wool Growers convention

Detective story writer Erle Stanley Gardner

New tumor treatment at UC Hospital (health) [141476, 2 negatives]

New Tumor Treatment -- UC Hospital(November 23, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141476.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Pictures related to Ken Erhman story. Views of surgery being performed in x-ray room: patient is operated on (health).

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (with puppet Charlie McCarthy)

Bishop Donohue and associates consecrate new altar at St. Ignatious Church [141477, 9 negatives]

Interview with Ogden Nash

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

James D. Zellerbach.

December 1949 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141478-141484]

Physical Description: 100 negatives (estimate)

Actress Marilyn Maxwell

Actor Clark Gable and new wife Sylvia Ashley [141478 and 141483, 10 negatives]

Council for Civic Unity lunch (Ralph A. Reynolds, Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch, Robert Drewes, and George Christopher)

Jewish Welfare Fund (volunteer workers)

President Li Tsung-jen of China [141479, 6 negatives]

Arrival of President Li Tsung-jen of China(December 06, 1949) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 199, [141479.04]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

President and Madame Li Tsung-jen pose with various people in front of an airplane: Chieh Hou Kan, Superintendent Marvin Lewis, China's Consul Cowen (in San Francisco), Betty Tom, and Ming Lee. In some scenes, President or Madame Li Tsung-jen holds a bouquet of roses.

AAU (American Athletic Union?) convention

Senate Subcommittee hearing on Reber Plan (Senators Sheridan Downey and Robert S. Kerr)

Camp for the Blind (disabled persons)

Shah of Iran [141480, 2 negatives]

Actor Tyrone Power

Children's Home Society (homeless infant)

Actors of "Sands of Iwo Jima" visit Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

Consul General John M.L. Mitcheson of Great Britain

Home furniture promotion (with television set)

Ambassador Eliahu Elath of Israel

President Cleveland (ship) passengers

Mission San Rafael Archangel (views and rededication) [141482, 12 negatives]

James D. Zellerbach

Valentina Gardner (Russian barred from entering US)

Estate left to actress Ann Sheridan

Wendell Phillips

Actor Harold Lloyd and Edward L. Siller at Shriners' Hospital.

January 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141485-141494]

Physical Description: 163 negatives (estimate)

American Legion Drive "Toys for Kids of Europe"

Conductor Artur Rodzinski (with singers Frances Bible, Rose Bampton and others) [141485 and 141489]

Angus Ward arrives aboard President Wilson (ship)

Grand Exalted Ruler Emmett T. Anderson of the Elks

Memorial flight of the Constitution (airplane) to Guadalcanal

Candidate for governor Welburn Mayock

Petition drive in support of the Hoover Plan (FBI ?)

Hebrew nursing home (1335 Guerrero Street, San Francisco)

Polio Fund campaign at Children's Hospital

Actor Rudy Vallee (godfather at baby christening)

Installation of officers at Islam Temple

Railroad executives

Booker T. Washington memorial coin given to Joe Di Maggio

Opera singer Elena Nikolaidi

Winton I. Patmode of Hanford Works

Best dressed man E.A. Mattson and Miss California Joane Pederson

AMA (American Management Association) convention (with Alvin E. Dodd, Paul Davies, Lawrence A. Appley, and Lee a Du Bridge)

US Maritime Commission Chairman Major General Philip B. Fleming at Bohemian Club

Propellor Club meeting

Actor Bob Hope

National Director of Boys' Clubs of America David W. Armstrong

Skating Vanities girls get X-rayed

Eightieth birthday of Langley Porter

KNBC radio studio

President of National Foundation for infantile paralysis (polio) Basil O'Connor

Actor Jeffery Lynn and Sarah Churchill of "The Philadelphia Story"

Actress Jane Russell

Dr. Harry A. Overstreet

February 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141495-141503]

Physical Description: 125 negatives (estimate)

Call Bulletin "Secretary gals"

Dental convention on children's teeth

Rites and funeral for Bishop James T. O'Dowd. [141496, ca. 25 negatives]

UC researchers find method of foretelling artery and heart trouble (health)

Dial telephone system

Judge Harold Medina interviewed and crossing picket line of San Francisco Civil Rights Congress [141497, 5 negatives]

Wedding shower broadcast on KPIX television

Senator Kenneth Spicer Wherry

Homeless family

Press conference with Richard M. Nixon [141498, 2 negatives]

Press Conference -- Congressman Richard M. Nixon -- Whitcomb Hotel(February 10, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141498.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Richard M. Nixon speaks to reporters.

Edward S. Shattuck runs for Attorney General [141498, 8 negatives]

Candidate for Attorney General -- Edward S. Shattuck(February 10, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141498.05-06]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Edward Shattuck sits in "Call Bulletin" office [publicity photos for race for Attorney General]. Edward Shattuck sits with John Eliot and Herbert Bartholmew during luncheon in his honor at the Commercial Club.

Postwar Democratic orientation for Japanese (64 nationals aboard ship General Nelson M. Walker)

100 year anniversary celebration of Synagogue Sherith

Catholic relief for Europe (Monsignors Edward Swanstrom and Harold E. Collins, and Archbishop John J. Mitty)

Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul awarded the Royal Order of the North Star by Consul General Hanne Lindholm of Sweden

Brotherhood Week luncheon

Phoebe Apperson Hearst Memorial Fountain in Golden Gate Park

Jackson Day dinner (Wiliam Malone, Mrs. Edward H. Heller, Cyril Magnin, James Roosevelt, Oliver J. Carter, and J. Howard McGrath) [141500, 8 negatives]

Francis the Army talking mule

Archaeologist Dr. Adan E. Treganza with 3000 year old skull

Copy negatives of award-winning photograph by Bill Nichols of suicide from the Emporium Building

New mobile Blood Bank unit (Erwin Memorial)

Associated General Contractors of America.

March 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141504-141514]

Physical Description: 200 negatives (estimate)

Annie Oakley's exhibition rifle held by Dot Lind

Judge Edward F. O'Day files for election

California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (Dr. William D. Neff, Bruce Anderson, Frank J. Murphy and Carl Fisher)

Chang's International Folk Dancers

Girl (Alta Harpole) and her baby picket George Malekos for child support

Horse and wagon try to cross Golden Gate Bridge

New Federal Grand Jury

Joint International Committee for Eraditcation of Foot and Mouth Disease in Mexico (Oscar Flores and others at Bohemian Club)

Senator Gerald O'Gara files for election

US Census (various dates, March-April, 1950) [141507, 34 negatives]

Crew Leader Training -- US Census Bureau -- Fourth Congressional District Office(March 10, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Instructor Eddie Blaczack trains J.L. Murphy, K.J. Hammerel, Aubrey L. Arlington, and Andrew T. Hatcher on census taking. Margaret Waxmen also shown with material for seventeenth decennial census. Taken at 180 New Montgomery Street.

Enumerator -- US Census Bureau(March 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Census enumerator Peggy Smith writes down information received in interview of Viola Sanderson.

Citizens Committee for Census Cooperation -- City Hall(March 21, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

John McCloskey, Supervisor Patrick McMurray, R.W. Weis, Jr., and Paul Bissenger meet.

US Census -- Farrallon Islands(March 28, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.06]

Physical Description: 17 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Census enumerator Helen Leslie Mabbott and District Census Supervisor John F. McCloskey shown coming ashore [crane lifting their boat ashore], walking along shore [with view of beach and waterfront housing], and interviewing island residents. Views of island housing and residents. [Sleeve also contains newsclipping of images printed in story].

US Census -- Mayor Elmer E. Robinson(March 30, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mary Lindner of the the Department of Commerce's Census Bureau interviews Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Robinson at their residence. Taken at 2100 Pacific Avenue.

US Census -- Chinese District(March 31, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Chinese-American census enumerators, to handle the Chinese district of San Francisco, pose for group photographs. Enumerator May T. Gee takes census of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Quon and daughter Valarie.

US Census(March 31, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.09]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

District Census Supervisor John F. McCloskey interviews Mr. and Mrs. John F. Fixa and daughter Judy for US Census. Taken at 3485 Twenty-first Street.

Enumerators -- US Census -- City Hall(March 31, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.10]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

San Francisco District enumerators descend the steps of City Hall with books in hand, on their way to take the census.

Population Contest -- Census Supervisor -- US Census Bureau(April 05, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141507.11]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Census Supervisor R.W. Weis, Jr. looks over the results of the Call Bulletin's "population contest" in the newspaper. Taken at 180 Montgomery Street.

Actor John Barrymore Jr.

Conductor Leonard Bernstein

Secretary of State Dean Acheson [141508, 17 negatives]

Secretary of State Dean Acheson -- San Francisco Airport(March 14, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141508.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dean Acheson arrives at airport and speaks with reporters.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson -- Commonwealth Club Luncheon -- Palace Hotel(March 15, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141508.06]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd listens to Dean Acheson speak. Major General John E. Upston and President Goerge Killion of the APL sit with Dean Acheson. Dean Acheson speaking.

Secretary of State Dan Acheson -- UC Berkeley(March 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141508.07]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dean Acheson speaks to students in the UC Men's Gym.

Bishops War Fund (Archbishop John J. Mitty and children)

Dr. C.H. Li (Choh Hao Li)

Hibernian luncheon (Senator Gerald O'Garra, Father Dunne, George Reilly, and others)

Calvin W. Verity

Paul Reynaud and Lord Walter Layton

Edmund G. Brown with family as he files for Attorney General election [141510, 2 negatives]

Candidacy for Attorney General -- District Attorney Edmund G. Brown -- City Hall(March 22, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141510.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Edmund G. Brown files candidacy for Attorney General election with family members Cynthia, Kathleen, Mrs. Brown, and future governor Jerry Brown alongside.

Community Chest "Building for Youth" Drive

Agricultural Business conference

Rodeo Queen contestant Dianne Goldman

Consul Generals visit Mayor Elmer E. Robinson (Hans J. Gremninger of Switzerland, Anastasios Antonopoulos of Greece and Danilo Brugal of the Dominican Republic)

California Republican Assembly

Helen Gahagan Douglas

New Kaiser-Frazer automobiles [141512, 5 negatives]

New Kaiser-Frazer Cars -- Fairmont Hotel(March 29, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 200, [141512.08]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Manager H.V. Lindbergh stands by car. Crowd admires car on display. Sophie Pierce and Manager Lee Franklin of the Experimental Department also shown.

Dean McNealy files for State Senator

Judge Clarence Morris files for election

Grand New Party

Artist Alfred Owles' interpretation of flying saucer (artist and painting)

Jewish leaders back from Israel (Edward A. Nathan, Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel, and A.J. Shragge)

Governor Earl Warren files for reelection.

April 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141515-141523]

Physical Description: 175 negatives (estimate)

Reverend Karl M. Block

Manchester Boddy running for senator [141515 and 141518]

Actor William Bendix arrives

State Attorney General Fred N. Howser

Yellow Cabs [141517, ca. 15 negatives]

Actress Bette Davis and daughter Barbara

Melvin Belli with Frank Sullivan

Westinghouse refrigerator display

Candidate for governor Welburn Mayock

Japanese judges visit San Francisco court (Welburn Mayock and Manchester Boddy)

Tuberculosis Association free chest x-ray mobile unit

"Capo the Silversmith" Chester Griffin (friend of Jack London)

Congressman John Francis Shelley

Portraits of Adrien J. Falk

City gets tax check from PG&E

Eighteenth Annual California Spring Garden Show [141521, ca. 20 negatives]

Dentists' convention

Banquet for united nationalities

Old automobiles and horseless carriages parade

Actress Jane Wyman

Catholic War Veterans California convention

Buddhist convention.

May 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141524-141534]

Physical Description: 150 negatives (estimate)

New three cent Casey Jones US Mail stamp

"Movie Month" promotional activities [throughout month]

California Greys annual banquet

Home comfort exposition (freezers, furniture, etc.)

Conductor Arturo Toscanini

106 year old Frances Acosta

Baron Philippo de Rothschild and Princess Gabrielle de Liechtenstein

Helen Gahagan Douglas in helicopter

Nurses convention

James Roosevelt running for Governor of California [141526, 4 negatives]

Speech -- Gubernatorial Candidate James Roosevelt(May 09, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141526.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

James Roosevelt speaks to crowd at the corner of California and Montgomery Streets during campaign for governor.

White Cane Week (Dorothy Glass and others)

San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce Drive

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting

New Tivoli Restaurant in North Beach (with Governor Earl Warren)

San Mateo County relief home layout

Indian Ataloa gives concert

Governor Earl Warren opens 1950 campaign

James Roosevelt with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

Arrival of replica of Liberty Bell

World Trade Week Queen Clare Tower [141530 and 141532]

Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini of Rome

Celebrities present for movie drive (actors Frank Faylan, William Bendix, Arleen Whelan, producer William H. Pine, William C. Thomas and others)

Corneal transplant at Stanford Hospital (health)

Refugees and last US officials out of Red China aboard General Gordon and President Wilson (ships) [141531, 7 negatives]

Refugees from China -- Pier Forty-six(May 23, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141531.06-08]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Refugees from communist China sit in cabin of the General Gordon (ship) upon arriving in San Francisco. Herb Mcushin of the International Refugee Organization and Fritz Stahl of United Service for New Americans welcome part of Jewish refugee group and speak to them about the next part of their journey. US Consul General O. Edmund Clubb, one of the last US officials to leave "Red China," returns from Peking aboard the President Wilson (ship). First Secretary Leonard Bacon and Chief Administrative Officer John W. Gordhamer of the US embassy in Nanking pose with Mrs. Leonard Bacon and Mrs. John W. Gordhamer for group photo. Views of refugees and their friends aboard the General Gordan (ship).

National Foot Health Week (Dr. Robert Johns)

Homeward bound refugees (German or European refugees? from China?) [141532, 12 negatives]

Actor Lee J. Cobb and actress Jane Wyatt filming "The Gun" at Fort Point

Shrine Circus [141533, ca. 15 negatives]

New physiotherapy at Kabut-Kaiser Institute (health)

Ambassador Nauricio Nabuco of Brazil

Henry Ford II

Superior Court Judge Timothy I. Fitzpatrick

Politician James A. Farley.

June 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141535-141545]

Physical Description: 225 negatives (estimate)

Family of William Murry being held by "China Reds" (communism)

Salinas Rodeo Queen Joanne Phillips

Senator Gerald O'Gara

Monsignor Harold Collins

W.W. Wachtel

Sonoma Trail Blazers [141536, 10 negatives]

1950 elections (Earl Warren, John Francis Shelley, Clarence Morris, Edmund G. Brown, and others) [141537-141538, ca. 40 negatives]

Election Day Voting -- Governor Earl Warren(June 06, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141537.01]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Warren and daughter Virginia sign with election official and cast ballots at Oakland polling place.

Election Day Voting -- US Congressman Jack Shelley(June 06, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141537.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Jack Shelley signs in and uses voting machine at polling place. Taken at St. Mary's Avenue and Mission Street.

Election Day Voting -- District Attorney Edmund G. Brown(June 06, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141537.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. and Mrs. Edmund G. Brown sign in with election judge Irving Wenger at polling place. Taken at 175 Dorantes Street.

Election Day Voting -- Judge Clarence Morris(June 06, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141537.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Election candidate Judge Clarence Morris votes at polling place. Taken at 185 San Aleso Avenue.

Election Day Voting -- Polling Place(June 06, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141537.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Small crowd waits in line to vote at 155 Tenth Street.

Broadcast of Election Returns -- Station KFRC(June 06, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141537.06]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Arthur H. Connolly, Lyn Fox, and Robert I. McCarthy speak into microphone to give radio broadcast of election returns. Judge Clarence Morris, Edward M. Gaffney, George D. Collins Jr., Thomas A. Maloney, Jack Shelley, Charles Myers, G. O'Gara, William Cliff Berry, Governor Earl Warren, and Ben Alexander also shown giving broadcast. Taken at KFRC building off of Van Ness Avenue.

Press Conference -- Governor Earl Warren -- Hotel St. Francis(June 07, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141538.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Bob Warren congratulates his father Earl Warren on election victory. Mrs. Warren also shown.

Election Winner -- Judge Clarence Morris(June 07, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141538.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Clarence Morris, who won election to the Superior Court, shown with Mrs. Clarence Morris at 124 San Aleso Avenue.

Election Runoff -- William P. Riley(June 07, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141538.03]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

William P. Riley, in an election runoff for the Twenty-third Assembly District, sits with family members Mrs. William P. Riley, Catherine, and Christine.

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown(June 07, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 201, [141538.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Election winner Edmund "Pat" Brown sits with family members Kathleen, Cynthia, Barbara, Jerry, and Mrs. Brown at 460 Magellan Avenue.

Ice Follies parade and opening at Winterland

Seventeenth convention of California State Craft of the National Federated Craft Masons in Federal Service

Mayors conference [141539, 7 negatives]

Congressman John Francis Shelley gets citation

Henry J. Kaiser at dedication (Sailors' Union Hall)

Consul General Rafo Ivancevic of Yugoslavia

Annual US Post Office auction

New women attorneys

Salinas Rodeo [141542, 15 negatives]

Heart Disease convention (health)

AMA (American Medical Association) convention (heatlh) (Doctors J.C. Geiger, Henry R. Viets, Shields Warren, Gordon E. Dean, and others) [141543, ca. 30 negatives]

Consul General Jose Imperial and General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines

Fifth anniversary of United Nations Charter

Torah ceremonies

Ulysses S. Grant III

Korean Colonels returning to Korea to fight communism.

July 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141546-141552]

Physical Description: 150 negatives (estimate)

Funeral services for head of Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Theophlus [Theophilos?]

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman India Edwards

Dr. J.C. Geiger receiving award from Venezuela

United Cerebral Palsy Association show at Paramount Theatre (actors Bob Hope, Gene Tierney, Shirley Yamaguchi, and others) [141546, 10 negatives]

Actress Rosalind Russell

Assistant Secretary General Byron Price of the United Nations

Transamerica hearing (Thurman W. Arnold)

New Federal Grand Jury

Consul Aurelio Quatorino of the Philippines

Seventh Day Adventists convention [141548, ca. 40 negatives]

Horace Heidt show [141549, 18 negatives]

Atomic awards (Dr. J.C. Geiger and others)

Strip tease artist Lana Wong

Bay Area Council of California Indians

Maharajah of Kukeh (India)

Bookbinders' national convention

Conductor Arturo Casiglia and daughter Rose

AHEPA convention

Novena to Saint Anne [141551, 14 negatives]

Actress Margaret Field

Freedom Foundation Inc. luncheon

Ted Mack amateur show for disabled American veterans (various dates, July-August 1950) [141552, 15 negatives]

Macy's Third Architectural Forum (with Ernes Wertheim, William Hempel, and Douglas Baylis)

Press conference with John Foster Dulles.

August 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141553-141560]

Physical Description: 125 negatives (estimate)

Actress Gloria Swanson at Balboa High School

Movie director Rouben Mamoulian and wife

Alien registration (immigrants?)

Golden Gate Exchange Club lunch (Young Han Chan)

Federal Land Management inspectors

Movie producer Frank N. Seltzer

Disabled American Veterans convention [141555, ca. 55 negatives]

Zionist Mortimer May

Actress Joanne Dru

Princess Fushimi Hiroaki and Kyu Lee of Japan arrive aboard General W.H. Gordon (ship)

Korean flag raised for Republic of Korea Day (Consul Young Han Choo of South Korea) [141556, 2 negatives]

South Korean Flag -- Republic of Korea Day -- City Hall(August 15, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141556.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mayor Elmer E. Robinson assists South Korean Consul Young Han Choo in raising the South Korean flag in honor of "Republic of Korea Day." Han Nah Woo also shown.

100th anniversary of General Jose de San Martin's death

Mary Bromley Smith turns 100 (member of early California pioneer family)

Secretary General Moshe Rosetti of the Israeli Parliament

New Commander of American Legion Stan F. Dunmire

Spanish American War veterans anniversary

Supervisor George Christopher

Civil defense meeting (Earl Warren and others)

Missionaries leaving for Far East

Captured Russian armored jeep and submachine gun from Korea [141559, 3 negatives]

Gubernatorial candidate James Roosevelt and wife [141559, 2 negatives]

Queen of Mission District Mae Tai Sing

Newly elected auxilliary Archbishop Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle and family

Dinner for James Roosevelt [141560, 4 negatives].

September 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141561-141571]

Physical Description: 200 negatives (estimate)

Judge Oliver J. Carter

Florists' convention

Irwin Blood Bank Drive for Korea (Red Cross)

Dedication of plaque where first Jewish services were held

Air Force Association commends Mayor Elmer E. Robinson on defense program

Chamber of Commerce defense preparedness meeting

Board of Supervisors meeting on communist ban (communism) [141563, 2 negatives]

Communist Ban -- Supervisors' Meeting -- City Hall(September 07, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141563.01]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Supervisors hold hearing concerning the "communist ban" (communism). Views of crowd.

Crusade for Freedom (with actress Ruth Roman, Henry J. Kaiser, Adrien J. Falk, and others) [throughout month]

"Negro" bridge players participate in finals with white people (Afro-Americans, race relations) [141563, 2 negatives]

Racially Integrated Bridge Tournament -- Whitcomb Hotel(September 07, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141563.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

"Negro bridge players participate in finals with White People" [photographs of Afro-American bridge team to take part in finals of tournament] (race).

106 year old Francis Acosta and 100 year old Mary Bromley Smith with state flag (centennial celebrations)

Archbishop John J. Mitty

Actor William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy)

Actor John Barrymore, Jr. and mother Dolores Costello

Eleanor Roosevelt with son James Roosevelt and Helen Gahagan Douglas [141564, 4 negatives]

Eleanor Roosevelt with Son(September 12, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141564.08-09]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Eleanor Roosevelt sits with son James Roosevelt and his wife at the Press Club. Eleanor Roosevelt sits with Helen Gahagan Douglas and James Roosevelt at a Democratic luncheon. Taken at the Fairmont Hotel.

View of downtown Oakland from Montclair hills (cityscapes)

Fire chiefs' convention [141564, 19 negatives]

Furniture show

Press conference with Philo T. Farnsworth

Chinese opera singer Yi-Kwei Sze

Seneca Reservoir dedication [141566, 5 negatives]

Seneca Reservoir Dedication -- Oakland(September 19, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141566.07-08]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mrs. Louis J. Breuner opens valve on the new reservoir, with District Manager Thomas S. Neilson and President Louis J. Breuner of the Utility District Board of Directors looking on. Water released from valve on control tower begins filling up new million dollar reservoir. Long view of reservoir with onlookers.

Freedom Bell arrives [141567, ca. 15 negatives]

Corneal transplant operation in progress at Stanford Medical Hospital (health) [141567, 7 negatives]

Opera singer Mario del Monaco with Kenneth Monteagle

Bishop elect Henry H. Shires with Bishop Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle [141568, ca. 20 negatives]

California Dentist Association press conference

Governor Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey

Opera singer Lilly Pons

His Eminence Eugene Cardinal Tisserant and Archbishop John J. Mitty

Eagles Orphan Fund

Opera singer Renata Tebaldi

Sons of Italy banquet

Dress rehearsal of "Aida" (view of opera house stage with cast)

Luncheon honoring Captain Katsuji Mizutani of Japan

Armed Services Central Blood Processing Center [141570, 12 negatives]

Bone bank (health)

American Cancer Society third annual conference (Michael B. Shimkin, Lyell C. Kinney, F.R. Kerman, and Mefford R. Runyon).

October 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202-203, [141572-141586]

Physical Description: 325 negatives (estimate)

Views of Reno (Nevada) including street scenes and gambling (Bingo Salon, Harold's Club, transient housing, etc.) [141572, ca. 40 negatives]

Coro Foundation Group visits Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

Women's Auxilliary of the College of Physicians and Dental Surgeons

Handicapped jeweler at work (disabled persons)

Superior Court Judge Herbert C. Kaufman

Army artist's conception of San Francisco Bay Area and atomic bomb blast

National Association of Securities Dealers

Atomic bomb attack preparation (civil defense) [141574, 25 negatives]

Atomic Bomb Preparedness(October 05, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141574.04]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Unidentified persons show "what to do in case of atomic bomb attack." Woman shown shutting water main, natural gas, and electricity off, closing windows and drapes, storing food, flashlight, and tools, and lying face down with children in the garage, covering face with hands (civil defense). Taken at 210 Maywood Way in South San Francisco.

National Defense Precautions -- Atomic Bomb Preparedness(October 06, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141574.05]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Unidentified woman shown with painter and his truck, with sleeve advising "know your painter in the neighborhood" [as a precaution in the event of an atomic bomb attack]. Woman shown lying down in gutter beside car, brushing her clothes afterwards, washing face and hands with soap and water, covering nose and mouth with handkerchief, and pouring water to illustrate caution with drinking water [all precautions recommended in the event of an atomic bomb attack] (civil defense). Taken at 210 Maywood Way in South San Francisco.

Atomic Bomb Preparedness -- Nob Hill(October 09, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141574.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Unidentified woman shown lying on sidewalk along wall, and standing close to a building with her face turned to face uphill [recommended precautions in the event of an atomic bomb attack] (civil defense).

Atomic Bomb Preparedness(October 10, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 202, [141574.07]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Unidentified woman shown lying down in seat of car, standing against wall in doorway of house, sitting behind chair with dog, sitting under table, and closing drapes on window [precautions recommended in the event of an atomic bomb attack] (civil defense).

Blood donation drive

Housing survey

Senator William F. Knowland speaking

Masons' convention

Congressman Emanuel Celler

Samuel Goldwyn with attorney Joseph Alioto

Alben W. Barkley arrives to aid Democratic campaign (James Roosevelt, Helen Gahagan Douglas, and James Quigley)

Various officials taking state loyalty oath [various dates]

Mother Superior Marie Antoinette Blanchot

Furniture show

President Harry S. Truman arrives aboard the Independence (airplane) for San Francisco visit (W. Averell Harriman, Dean Rusk, Philip Jessup, Frank C. Pace Jr., General Omar Bradley, and others) [141578, 52 negatives]

Meeting with General Douglas MacArthur -- President Harry S. Truman(October 12, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.01]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

Scope and Content Note

President Harry S. Truman stops at Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base enroute to meeting with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific. Shown with special envoy W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Philip Jessup, Frank C. Pace, Jr., and General Omar Bradley. Harry Truman descends from airplane. The President's private airplane "The Independence" shown being refueled.

President Harry S. Truman -- International Airport(October 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.02]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

President Harry S. Truman descends from airplane as he arrives for San Francisco visit. Waves from car with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson and Vice President Alben W. Barkley.

President Harry S. Truman -- San Francisco Visit(October 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.03]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Harry Truman walks down Van Ness Avenue with secret servicemen (neighborhood). Speaks with fourteen year old Roger Lloyd, of Oakland, in front of the Fairmont Hotel.

President Harry S. Truman -- San Francisco Visit(October 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.04]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Harry Truman waves to crowd from back of car at Grant and Market Streets.

President Harry S. Truman -- San Francisco Visit -- Fairmont Hotel(October 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.05]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Harry Truman enters the Fairmont Hotel accompanied by Richard Swig, son of hotel owner Benjamin Swig. View of crowd around President.

President Harry S. Truman -- San Francisco Visit -- Fairmont Hotel(October 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Two year old Roberta Young holds an autographed photograph of President Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman -- San Francisco Visit(October 16, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.07-08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd waits in long line outside the Opera House to purchase tickets for President Harry S. Truman's speech (neighborhood).

President Harry S. Truman -- Speech -- Opera House(October 17, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.09]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Senator William F. Knowland and Mrs. Knowland and Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt wait in audience for speech. View of crowd. President Harry S. Truman sits then waves to crowd before speech. Harry Truman speaks from podium. Shown coming onto stage with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson. Harry Truman stands by podium after speech.

President Harry S. Truman -- San Francisco Visit(October 17, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141578.10]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Harry Truman leaves the Fairmont Hotel with Richard Swig and hotel owner Benjamin Swig. View of crowd in Opera House for Harry Truman's address. Harry Truman leaves the Opera House with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson. The President waves from departing airplane. Harry Truman and Mayor Robinson shown leaving hotel for Opera House and standing at podium in Opera House.

Governor's visit (Earl Warren, Vail Pittman, and Dan E. Garvey)

Defense transportation meeting (Captain T.R. Wirth)

United Nations Week events [141579, ca. 15 negatives]

Thomas Edison inventions (talking doll, first phonograph, and electric automobile)

Red Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral

J. Howard McGrath

National Beauty Salon Week

President Ben F. Fairless of US Steel and President Alden G. Roach of Columbia Steel

California Manufacturers Association general meeting (Congressman John Phillips)

Actors of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" give blood

Edmund G. Brown luncheon

Prince Sheik Fahad of Kuwait

Lions Club giving illuminated canes to the blind (disabled persons)

Death of Al Jolson [141583, 8 negatives]

Mental health expert Albert Deutsch

Milk Bank

Democratic luncheon for Governor Earl Warren

Consul General John M.L. Mitcheson of Great Britain

Imported coo-coo clocks

Bomb shelter at Pacific Avenue (civil defense)

Pin-up cowgirl Joan Evans

Sadlers Wells Ballet Co. (with Moira Shearer and others)

Bay Area transit meeting (transportation)

W. Averell Harriman [141586, 2 negatives]

Press Conference -- W. Averell Harriman -- Fairmont Hotel(October 31, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141586.08]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Portraits of statesman W. Averell Harriman at press conference.

Rental rate increase hearing (housing).

November 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141587-141596]

Physical Description: 150 negatives (estimate)

French movie actress Susanne

State defense meeting (civil defense)

Television and radio broadcasts of election returns

Helen Gahagan Douglas speaking

Earl Warren campaign rally

Minister of External Affairs Percy C. Spender of Australia

Election events (crowds and television or radio personalities, Governor Earl Warren and family, Edmund G. Brown, Franck Havenner, and others)

New Federal Grand Jury

John Freuler celebrates 100 birthday

Blindcraft (disabled persons)

New District Attorney Thomas C. Lynch

Actress Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz

Grover Magnin retires

Consul Jose F. Imperial of the Philippines

Senator Richard M. Nixon [141591, 3 negatives]

Senator Richard M. Nixon -- Call Bulletin Office(November 15, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141591.07]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Portraits of newly elected Senator Richard M. Nixon.

Center for the Blind (disabled persons)

Ambasador Henri Bonnet of France

Family arrives from Korea (immigrants? refugees?)

Testing of French wines (with poet Kenneth Rexroth)

Community Chest luncheon with Edmund G. Brown

Demonstration of new dental technique (Dentair)

Actor Robert Taylor and wife actress Barbara Stanwyck

Salvation Army Christmas kettle (with Benjamin Harrison Swig and actress Barbara Stanwyck)

New Golden Gate Bridge director Jessie Coleman

Salvation Army Bazaar

Handicapped workers make toys for Christmas (disabled persons)

Press conference with acting Mayor Dewey Mead

Arthritis Foundation lunch

Slashing tires bound for Red China (communism)

Possible location of atom bomb blast (Civilian Defense Director points to map of San Francisco) (civil defense)

White Russian refugees from Philippines arrive on board General M.L. Hersey (ship) [141595, 8 negatives]

Senator William F. Knowland and Adrien J. Falk.

December 1950 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141597-141606]

Physical Description: 163 negatives (estimate)

Alice Elizabeth Linn Fulton Gordon turns 100 years old

Filipino movie actress Leta Rio

Press conference regarding blood need for Korea

Jewish Festival of Lights

Strip tease artist Lana Wong case

Nutcracker Suite ballet

Centennial mass for sisters at St. Dominic's (Archbishop John J. Mitty)

New Golden Gate Bridge Director Maurice Moskovitz

Pearl Harbor memorial service (rifle salute)

Salvation Army Korea relief kettle (Benjamin Harrison Swig and acting Mayor Dewey Mead)

Bay Area Council lunch (Senators Arthur Breed and John McCarthy)

Superior Court Judge Daniel R. Shoemaker

Actresses Joan Shawlee and Kerry Vaughn pose in prehistoric movie costumes

Blind Actors Guild rehearsing (disabled persons)

Price J. Hall

Conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearsing with San Francisco Symphony [141600, 1 negative]

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra -- Igor Stravinsky -- Opera House(December 12, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141600.06]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the orchestra in preparation for three nights of performances [during which he conducted].

Toyohiko Kagawa [141602, 2 negatives]

Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa -- Press Interview -- California Hotel(December 14, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141602.01]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Interview with the "Man Christ of Japan," Toyohiko Kagawa [Religious leader].

Congressional Committee arrives (Congressmen Clair Engle, Norris Poulson, Walter S. Baring, and John P. Saylor) [141602, 2 negatives]

Congressional Committee -- Airport(December 17, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 203, [141602.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Congressional committee members Clair Engle, Norris Poulson, Walter S. Baring, and John P. Saylor pose for group photo after arriving in San Francisco.

Smog hearing

Block Warden organizational meeting

Actress Shirley Temple and husband Charles Black [141603, 4 negatives]

"Blue Baby" twins Marjorie and Mary Johansen (health)

St. Boniface Church decorated for Christmas

Barbershop quartet "Peninsulaeers"

Midnight mass at St. Mary's

Dean Maddox and Fred Goette

San Francisco Disaster Council meets with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson

Shriners Imperial Potentate of North America Hubert M. Poteat

Local Judges (Edward P. Murphy, Michael J. Roche, Clarence Morris, and Sylvain J. Lazarus)

Views of Financial District in shower of confetti (neighborhood)

Air raid sirens (civil defense)

New Golden Gate Bridge directors (Daniel F. Del Carlo, Joseph J. Diviny, and Judge Melvyn I. Cronin).

January 1951 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141607-141616]

Physical Description: 163 negatives (estimate)

Senator Thomas E. Maloney

Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos

Tully C. Knoles speaking at Commonwealth Club

New type of manure in pill form

Strip tease artist Lana Wong

Alien registration

New Superior Court Judge Clarence W. Morris

New Attorney General Edmund G. Brown

Opening of March of Dimes [141609, 10 negatives]

Art Commissioner Oscar Lewis and others

Ballet de Paris [141610, 10 negatives]

Russian weapons seized

New Grand Jury

Phonograph record dealer William Melander

Barber Shop Quartet

Red Cross Fund Drive

William W. Crocker and J.D. Sullivan

Diplomats John Hearne and Patrick Hughes from Ireland

Jobs for the blind (disabled persons)

Check for Cherry Valley Dam

Man of the Year Spencer Grant Jr.

Blood drive for Korea with Richard Emory (actor of "Korea Patrol")

Largest group of White Russian refugees arrives from the Orient aboard General Haan (ship) (members of Romanoff family, Colonel Pavel Savich, and Russian Orthodox priests) [141614, 5 negatives]

White Russian Refugees -- Navy Transport "General Haan" (ship)(January 25, 1950) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141614.04]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Greek Orthodox priests Matvei Medvedeff, Philaret J. Astrakanstry, and Arch Deacon Paul J. Metlenko lead 852 refugees in prayer upon arrival in the United States, with San Francisco in background (cityscapes). Family of fifteen "stateless" White Russians destined to live in New York wave from deck of ship. Phillip Romanoff, Irinxa Romanoff, Ivan Romanoff, Maria Romanoff, Vladimir Romanoff... shown. Colonel Paval Savich of the Imperial Russian Army stands on deck of ship, looking out over water. Refugees crowd on deck to see San Francisco as they pull into harbor; Golden Gate Bridge in background.

Paul Henrispaak of Belgium

Catholic War Relief conference

New Superior Court Judge Herman Van Der Zee

Father who sold daughter for $5 and a tank of gas (O'Brien family) [141616, 14 negatives]

February 1951 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141616-141626]

Physical Description: 163 negatives (estimate)

Father who sold daughter for five dollars and a tank of gas (O'Brien family) [141616, 5 negatives]

Marta Page weaves material for dresses

Yugoslav Relief Committee

Guide dogs for the blind (disabled persons)

Father James Keller of the Christophers

Ambassador Vladimir Popovic of Yugoslavia visits Mayor Elmer E. Robinson (Rafu Ivancecic and Antone Zietich)

Furniture at Macy's

Old time entertainers (Will Aubrey, Rosetta and Vivian Duncan, and Peter B. Kyne)

"Negro History Week" (Reverends R.L. Turner and E.L. Evans with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson) (Afro-Americans)

Anti-Communist League meeting and parade in Chinatown (communism) [141620, 9 negatives]

China Six Company -- Anti-Communist League(February 12, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141620.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

W.F. Doon presents child Barbara Jean Chan with paper [some sort of honor?]. Kenneth Kealy Lee and Albert Wong also shown (communism). Taken on Stockton Street [photographs taken for "war wounded story"].

Anti-Communist Parade -- Chinatown(February 12, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141620.03]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Two year old Linda Tom sits on ground to watch parade at 962 Sacramento Street. Views of marching band, parade of men [holding torches?], women and men holding signs with anti-communist slogans (communism), written in Chinese and English.

State Employees Association meeting

Former Attorney General Francis Biddle

Violinist Teresa Vannin and Naoum Blinder

FCC (Federal Communication Commission) Chairman Wayne Coy

Senators John F. McCarthy and Gerald O'Gara

Congressman Walter H. Judd of Minnesota

Donation to Heart Association (Mayor Elmer E. Robinson and "Blue Baby" twins Mary and Marjorie Johanson) (health)

Heart Association Day

Cast of actors of "Valentino" arrives (actors Alexis Smith, Audrey Totter, Edmond O'Brien, and others)

Meat Packers Association meeting

Member of Israeli Parliament Dr. Abraham Granott

Almond tree blossoms in Los Altos

New woman Judge Lenore Underwood

American Legion Naturalization Program

Doris Walker accused of communism by Cutter Laboratories

Volunteers of America meeting

Franciscan Fathers feed the hungry at St. Boniface Church

John Francis Neylan speaking in the Tonga Room of the Fairmont Hotel

Vein bank (Frank Leven, Albert Gerbode, and Brodie Stevens discuss vein graft) (health)

Norwegian poet Herman Wildenvey and wife Gisken

Samish subpoena

Gerald Moss' modern lamp factory

Jazz musician Pee Wee Russell being put into ambulance

Salvation Army canteen kitchen

Frozen waffles pop up from toaster

Chinese drum corps girls

Tie collection.

March 1951 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627-141636]

Physical Description: 213 negatives (estimate)

Senator Estes Kefauver crime investigation committee (part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) [141627, 77 negatives]

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Press Conference(March 01, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Men are seated and talking to each other: Senator Estes Kefauver, Harold G. Robinson, Downey Rice, and William (or Walter) Amis.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scene(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.02]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) View from the seats of the committee looking into the crowded courtroom. James G. Hamilton and Secretary Brewery's assistant?.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scene(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.03]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) William T. Baker (President of Regal Amber Brewing Company) stands in front of microphones and raises his hand.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scene(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Charles Lubbes sits on the stand; the committee faces him.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scenes(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) G.L. Fanning (Lucky Lager Brewing) and Henry Picard (Acme Brewing) stand taking oaths. Sante Quattrain (Wholesale Liquor Distric Association of California) testifies before the committee.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Witnesses(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.06]

Physical Description: 15 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Various men being sworn in and testifying before the committee: John Prunty, Rex Blom [Blum?], Stanley Cohen, Carl Bucher, Attorney Thomas J. Riordan, Patrick Mooney Sr., Patrick Mooney Jr., Harold Hoertkorn, and Holden Sanford.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scene(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.07]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) William T. Baker (President of Regal Amber Brewing Company) testifies before the committee. Arthur Samish is in the background.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scenes(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.08]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) View from the courtroom audience looking towards the committee; men take oath and testify. Arthur Samish and Governor Earl Warren.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scenes(March 02, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.09]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Various courtroom scenes: looking from the view of the cameras, the committee, and the courtroom audience. John Prunty, Lubbes, and Arthur Samish.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Witness(March 03, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.10]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Views from the courtroom audience looking towards the committee. Arthur Samish testifies before the committee.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scenes(March 03, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.11]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Investigator Downey Rice and Harold Hoertkorn sit before the committee. Court reporter is in foreground.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scenes(March 03, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.12]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Arthur H. Samish, Harold Hoertkorn, William Amos, and Senator Estes Kefauver.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Courtroom Scenes(March 03, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.12]

Physical Description: 29 negatives

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Views of men taking oath and testifying, committee members, pinball machine, crowds waiting outside courtroom, and audience in courtroom. Ernest (Mike) Schino, Attorney Emmett Hagerty, Arthur Samish, Herbert Van Brunt, John Prunty, Sheriff James Long, Rex Blom [Blum?], Assistant US Attorney Robert M. McMillan, Senator Estes Kefauver, and San Francisco District Attorney Thomas Lynch, and others.

Senator Estes Kefauver Crime Investigation Committee -- Witness(March 03, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141627.14]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

(Part of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce?) Attorney C.H. Palmer is a witness for Alfred Hart Distributing Company (Los Angeles). He testifies before the committee.

"Sack" canteen opening ceremony at Ferry Building

100 karat "Star of the East" diamond

Consul General Harry Albert Scott of Canada

New Federal Grand Jury

Guardsmen events [141629 and 141632]

Concert for Jewish relief and queen contestants (Mayor Elmer Robinson, Ben Blumenthal and Rabbi Elliott Burstein) [141629-141630]

Highland Hospital conditions investigation

Ex-ambassador to Israel James McDonald

Federal Reserve Bank money handling machines

Spiritual Foundation Week (Bishop Karl Morgan Block)

Examining Spanish land grant documents

New US Attorney Chauncey Tramutolo

American Academy of General Practice

Death and recovered body of Eugene Paton of the ILWU (International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union) (labor)

Grand Jury hearing witness on communist activity and espionage in Canada (Freda Linton Alexander) (communism) [141635, 2 negatives]

Grand Jury Hearing on Communist Activity and Espionage in Canada -- San Francisco(March 28, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141635.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Witness in grand jury hearing: Freda Linton Alexander.

Supreme Court luncheon (Edmund G. Brown with Justices Douglas Edmonds and Homer R. Spence)

Dancer Ruth St. Denis

Westbrook Pegler

Archbishop Monsignor Serapian Ouluohodjian of Armenia [141636, 2 negatives]

Armenian Archbishop -- Manx Hotel(March 31, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 204, [141636.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

His Most Reverend Monsignor Serapian Ouluohodjian, abbot general of the Mekhitarist congregation in Venice, shown alone and with companion to the archbishop Mr. K. Tandourjian.

Press conference of California Medical Association.

April 1951 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141637-141646]

Physical Description: 313 negatives (estimate)

Alcoholism clinic

Congressional hearing on small business

GOP (Republican) dinner (with Hugh Scott, George Murphy, J.J. Moore Jr., and Mayor Elmer E. Robinson)

Henry J. Kaiser with fiancee Alice Chester and his new home in Lafayette

Edmund G. Brown and Jake Ehrlich and others at Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner

United Nations official Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb

Pan-American Day

Senator Henry Cain speaks

Flag at half mast at corner of Fruitvale Avenue and Macarthur in Oakland (neighborhood)

Events surrounding General Douglas MacArthur's visit to San Francisco and protests of his dismissal by President Harry S. Truman [141641, 219 negatives]

Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur(April 11, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.01]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Operators shown handling wire messages to President Harry S. Truman protesting the removal of General Douglas MacArthur from his post in the Pacific.

Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur(April 11, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.02]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various "people on the street" give their views on the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur from his post in the Pacific by President Harry S. Truman. Seaman Pat Edwards, Beverly Sivertson, Kenneth Zub, C.L. Clark, Don Cartel, and James Kennedy shown.

American Flags at Half-mast -- Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur(April 11, 1951 - April 12, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.03-04]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Merchants at MacArthur Boulevard and Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland (neighborhood) hold American flag at half-mast in mourning for the dismissal of Douglas MacArthur from his post in the Pacific by President Harry S. Truman.

Praying for Guidance -- Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur(April 12, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Family shown "praying for guidance" after being "shocked" by President Harry S. Truman's removal of Douglas MacArthur from his post in the Pacific. Virginia, Chuck, David, Stephen, and Rosalie Mullineaux shown reading the Bible and praying with Mildrid Seeley.

General Douglas MacArthur in San Francisco -- Hotel St. Francis(April 16, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.06-07]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Hotel clerk Charles S. Lee holds mail received by Douglas MacArthur during his visit to San Francisco. Ann Cromach cleans Douglas MacArthur's suite and Carol Siegrist shown "checking up" on the status of the bedroom.

Invitation to Douglas MacArthur -- Columbia Park Boys' Club(April 16, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.08]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Joe Borg, Ray Worthington, Donald Cassio [dressed in American Indian costume] shown with written invitation for General Douglas MacArthur to join their "tribe," and with head dress to be presented to Douglas MacArthur.

Painting -- General Douglas MacArthur(April 16, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.09]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Artist John A. Nielson holds color photograph of painting he made of Douglas MacArthur. Taken at 2239 Lake Street.

Anti-War Slogans -- Central Police Station(April 16, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.10]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Amy Middleton, Charles Cannon, and Allan Lipney, three young people taken into police custody for painting signs protesting the Korean War along General Douglas MacArthur's parade route, sit at police station [sign read, "MacArthur's home: how about our boys?"].

Five Star Flag -- Dan London -- Hotel St. Francis(April 16, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.11]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dan London holds a flag with 5 large white stars [presumably in honor of five star general Douglas MacArthur, after his dismissal from post in the Pacific by President Harry S. Truman].

White Russian -- General Douglas MacArthur -- Color Tone Company(April 16, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.12]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Alex Dudoroff, a White Russian that lived under Douglas MacArthur [presumably during his tenure in the Pacific], shown working at 134 Battery Street.

Arrival of General Douglas MacArthur -- Airport(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.13-14]

Physical Description: 24 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd surrounds airplane of Douglas MacArthur, with servicemen in formation in honor of his arrival, television cameras, and civilian crowd in rear. Crowd applauds as Douglas MacArthur walks through [all long views]. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur descend from airplane. Douglas MacArthur sits with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson and Governor Earl Warren in automobile. Douglas MacArthur speaks to crowd [and into several radio station microphones]. Shown walking through crowd and reviewing honor guard. Earl Warren and Elmer Robinson greet Mr. and Mrs. MacArthur as they exit airplane. Views of crowd, including media persons, civilians, and servicemen.

Arrival of General Douglas MacArthur(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.15]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of crowds surrounding Douglas MacArthur [who is shown on foot and in car]. Crowd consists of civilians and servicemen.

General Douglas MacArthur -- Hotel St. Francis(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.16]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd surrounds Douglas MacArthur as he arrives at hotel.

Arrival of General Douglas MacArthur(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.17]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur seen through crowd as they arrive. People holding pickets [protesting war and the atomic bomb] march outside Western Air Lines. Views of crowd [in Union Square?] (neighborhood).

Arrival of General Douglas MacArthur -- Airport(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.18]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur wave as they descend from airplane. Above ground views of crowd awaiting his arrival.

Arrival of General Douglas MacArthur -- PAA World Airways -- Airport(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.19]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of airplane, servicemen, and journalists rehearsing for the arrival of General Douglas MacArthur.

Preparation for General Douglas MacArthur -- Hotel St. Francis(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.20]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Hotel mail clerk Charles S. Lee holds arm load of mail for Douglas MacArthur. Bellhop Virgil Worthington holds flowers for Douglas MacArthur.

Invitation to Salinas Rodeo -- General Douglas MacArthur -- Call Bulletin Building(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.21]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Norma Jean Silacci, posing with the head of a steer, holds invitation for Douglas MacArthur to attend the Salinas rodeo.

Preparation for General Douglas MacArthur -- City Hall(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.22]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

City workmen construct stand to be used in a parade for Douglas MacArthur; in front of City Hall (neighborhood).

Arrival of General Douglas MacArthur(April 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.23]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Douglas MacArthur walks through crowd with other servicemen. Rides in car with Mrs. Douglas MacArthur and son Arthur. Speaks to crowd and into several radio station microphones. Shown giving salute, with Governor Earl Warren and Mayor Elmer E. Robinson in background. Views of crowd waiting for MacArthur [along parade route?] (neighborhood).

General Douglas MacArthur(April 18, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.24]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Douglas MacArthur rides in parade with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson and Governor Earl Warren. Douglas MacArthur rides inside car with Arthur MacArthur and Mrs. MacArthur. Mrs. MacArthur, Mrs. Elmer E. Robinson, Mrs. Earl Warren, and Arthur MacArthur ride together on parade route. Views of General MacArthur's airplane at airport, with servicemen at attention for his departure. Views of crowd along parade route (neighborhood).

Welcome for General Douglas MacArthur(April 18, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.25-27]

Physical Description: 65 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Douglas MacArthur rides in automobile along parade route with Mayor Elmer E. Robinson and Governor Earl Warren [near Hotel St. Francis and the Civic Center]. Mrs. Douglas MacArthur rides with Mrs. Elmer E. Robinson, Mrs. Earl Warren, and Arthur MacArthur along parade route. Views of crowds and buildings along parade route (neighborhood). Douglas MacArthur speaks to crowd from stand in front of Civic Center. General MacArthur ascends stairway to airplane for departure from San Francisco. Views of airplane flying away. Dan London also shown.

Reception -- General Douglas MacArthur -- Civic Center(April 18, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.28]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Edmond D. Coblentz and George Creel sit in audience at reception for Douglas MacArthur.

Waiting for General Douglas MacArthur -- Hotel St. Francis(April 18, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.29]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Civilians and journalists, who have arrived early to wait for Douglas MacArthur, sit in front of hotel (neighborhood).

Arthur MacArthur(April 18, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.30]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Young man Jim Graber interviews Arthur MacArthur, son of Douglas MacArthur.

Parade -- General Douglas MacArthur(April 18, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.31-32]

Physical Description: 23 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Overhead views of parade in honor of Douglas MacArthur as it moves down Market Street (neighborhood). Views of crowd by City Hall.

General Douglas MacArthur(May 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.33]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Copy of photograph showing Douglas MacArthur in uniform [with trademark pipe in hand].

Grass Mat -- Gift for General Douglas MacArthur(May 17, 1951) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205, [141641.34]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Frank Vidal and Lupe R. Lopez hold up grass mat made by a sixteen year old girl in the Philippines and to be sent to Douglas MacArthur [the mat reads "United To Fight For Freedom"].

Dinner for Judge Lenore Underwood

Notre Dame centennial mass at St. Mary's Cathedral

California Dental Association convention

Oakland Disaster Council office vandalized

Seder dinner for servicemen

Ambassador G.C.S. Cores of Ceylon

"Reaction to gal showing a little leg" (Carole Wilson)

Assistant District Attorney Doris Schnacke

Press conference with Christians of Korea (foreign missions of the Presbyterian Church)

Girl (women) gas station attendants

Singer Lena Horne

Agriculture business conference

Actress Mercedes McCambridge and Charles Morrow

Good Posture Week.

May 1951 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 205-206, [141646-141656]