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

Interview and Reception -- Socialites -- Hotel St. Francis(August 18, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 91, [08-18-56.04-05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

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Portraits of Mrs. Sherman Adams at press interview. Family of US Attorney General Brownell and wife of national committee member Ronald Button pose with flower leis during reception.

Republican Press Conferences -- Fairmont Hotel(August 18, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 91, [08-18-56.06-07]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

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Stile Bridges sits at table alone and with others during press conference. View from audience of Harold Stassen speaking on stage during press conference

Republican Leaders -- Palace Hotel(August 18, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 91, [08-18-56.08-10]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

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Governor Goodwin Knight and Senator William F. Knowland sit during meeting and stand after meeting. Groups of people stand in room during caucus with Knight, Knowland and Richard M. Nixon. Knight, Knowland and Nixon play with toy elephant.

GOP (Republican Party) Arrivals -- Ferry Building(August 18, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 91, [08-18-56.11]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

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Senator John Bricker of Ohio and Mayor George Christopher stand outside of Ferry Building holding key to city. Postmaster John F. Fixa, former Postmaster Arthur E. Summerfield and Christopher stand together. Fixa, Summerfield, Christopher and Governor George Craig of Indiana stand together.

Various Events -- Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon -- Airport and Cow Palace(August 19, 1956 - August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-19-56.01]

Physical Description: 108 negatives

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Shots taken from underneath airplane showing propellers (5 negatives). Crowd stands outside airplane while politicians exit aircraft; Eisenhower greets crowd (4 negatives). Crowd stands in Cow Palace with balloons (3 negatives). Elevated view of crowd in street (6 negatives). State banners in the crowd, Nixon amongst crowd, people carrying signs in support of Nixon and Eisenhower (13 negatives). Eisenhower speaks outdoors to small crowd (1 negative). Eisenhower and wife shake hands with people at the Mayor's Ball (5 negatives). Nixon speaks at podium in Cow Palace (ca. 20 negatives). Unidentified man speaks at podium in Cow Palace (ca. 20 negatives). Eisenhower speaks at podium in Cow Palace (ca. 10 negatives). Eisenhower, Nixon and their wives wave from the podium (ca. 10 negatives). Nixon, Eisenhower and other men stand on stage in a line (ca. 3 negatives). Eisenhower speaks outdoors (1 negative). Eisenhower waves from "Republican Centennial" podium [at Mayor's Ball?] (ca. 8 negatives).

Republican Women -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(August 19, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-19-56.03-04]

Physical Description: 22 negatives

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Mrs. Louis Rogers, Mrs. Phyllis Loehr, Mrs. Collis P. Moore, Mrs. Kathryn Maloney, Mrs. Janice Reeve and twelve other newly elected Republican National Committeewomen stand and sit at table. Crowd waits while car pulls up outside of Mark Hopkins Hotel (neighborhood). Seated woman models stockings which read "I like Ike". Richard M. Nixon and Pat Nixon shake hands and talk to women's club members in the Mark Hopkins Hotel; partygoers drink tea and converse.

Heffelfinger Reception -- Huntington Hotel(August 19, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-19-56.05]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

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Senator Edward Thye of Minnesota, Congressman Walter H. Judd, Mr. and Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelfinger and House Speaker Joseph Martin stand around at reception.

Citizens for Ike Parade(August 19, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-19-56.06]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

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Old model cars, people on horseback, and women wearing "Ike" logo dresses and parasols march in campaign parade at Second and Market streets.

Opening -- Republican National Convention -- Cow Palace(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.02-14]

Physical Description: 56 negatives

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Overall view of audience pledging allegiance to the flag while hundreds of flags are raised. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel makes opening introduction in front of the Cow Palace. Senators William F. Knowland and Kuchel address crowd from the podium. Overall shots of podium speakers, delegations and news cameras. Governor Goodwin Knight waves to crowd from podium. Long-shot of Knight speaking. Close-up and long-shots of members of the Young Republican National Federation demonstrating for President of Young Republicans, Charles McWhorter, who is on the podium with Chairman Leonard W. Hall. Close-up and long-shot of President Carroll D. Kearn of the National Federation on Republican Women speaking from the podium while women delegates march to the podium. Close-up and long-shot of Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel of Kansas speaking at the podium. Anne Regand and Margie Doyle sit wearing Ike-logo clothing and accessories. Close-up and long-shot of the key note speaker, Governor Arthur B. Langlie of Washington, with Douglas McKay. Ann Potter and "Red" Jo[...?] Fisher watch television in railroad room in the Cow Palace [12 negatives]. Men and women at NBC Convention Central communication studio [12 negatives]. Leonard Hall opens convention by speaking from the podium. Reverend Hugh A. Donahue speaks at podium. Bourke Hickelooper speaks at podium. Senator Homer Capehart speaks at podium. Leonard Hall and Young Republican Charlie McWhorter at podiums. Small crowd walks toward Cow Palace with mounted patrol officers nearby. Young Republicans walk outside Marin Hall before demonstration holding "Hi Charlie" signs.

Second Session -- Republican National Convention -- Cow Palace(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.15]

Physical Description: 31 negatives

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Gene Tunny, Bob Gros and Governor Joe Foss of South Dakota converse on floor of convention center [during lull in session]. Virginia Warren speaks on telephone [in press quarters?] while Bob Considine and Kingsbury Smith work nearby. Governor Arthur B. Langlie of Washington delivers keynote address. Attendees converse in bandstand during session. Former Governor Douglas McKay of Oregon makes an introduction from the podium. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel waves from the podium. Fans demonstrate for Kuchel from the floor. Mrs. Knowland and Mrs. Nixon sit in bandstand. Douglas McKay and William F. Knowland at the podium. Governor Langlie and McKay at the podium. Langlie delivering keynote speech. Leonard Hall at podium. Hall and Knowland at podium. Langlie and McKay at the podium. Parade of colors at start of session. Unidentified people speak at podium, converse on floor

GOP (Republican Party) Delegates -- Hotel St. Francis(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.16]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

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Portrait of Illinois delegate General Robert Wood of Sears-Roebuck Company.

Presentations of Candelabra to Nixons by Young Republicans -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.17-18]

Physical Description: 16 negatives

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Views from behind and in front of Richard M. Nixon showing him speaking to crowd of youngsters. Nixon, wife Pat Nixon, and Chairman Charles K. McWhorter of the Young Republican Nation Federation shown on the stage, holding a wrapped gift, and standing with people in elephant costumes in the Peacock Room of the Mark Hopkins Hotel.

Governor's Ball -- Civic Auditorium(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.19-24]

Physical Description: 28 negatives

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GOP (Republican Party) live baby elephant greets visitors while another (decorative) elephant revolves in the background. Unidentified women in gowns and men in tuxedos shake hands, pose for pictures, converse, sit in audience. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stassen, Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, and Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin Knight greet one another at the ball. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, Governor and Mrs. Knight, George Christopher and Henry Cabot Lodge talk at the ball. Governor and Mrs. Knight greet Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stassen while Mr. and Mrs. Christopher stand by.

Citizens for Eisenhower Volunteers(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.25]

Physical Description: 1 negative

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Volunteer workers Donna Zander and Sheila Jacobs sit in Ike-logo dresses.

Republicans -- Richard M. Nixon and Dan Gainey -- Fisherman's Wharf(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.26]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

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Richard M. Nixon and wife tour Fisherman's Wharf on foot, shake hands, sightsee. Nixon, Dan Gainey and their wives look at fish selection in restaurant.

President Arrives -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Airport(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.01]

Physical Description: 26 negatives

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Close-up of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower. Reporters and cameras swarm the president. Ike and Mamie get off plane, meet dignitaries, talk to reporters, shake hands. Mamie holds a bouquet of roses. Shots of airplane landing, nose of plane, ramp. Official vehicle makes its way through a crowd. Eisenhower and wife stand outside of plane.

Republicans -- Hotel St. Francis(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.02-04]

Physical Description: 21 negatives

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Secretary to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Haggerty, during press conference in the press room of the Hotel St. Francis [2 negatives]. Women converse and get food at the buffet during Mrs. Nixon's Tea for Women's Clubs [7 negatives]. Bagpipes entertain crowds along the corner of Powell and Geary Streets waiting for Eisenhower arrival (neighborhood). Eisenhower waves to crowd from beneath hotel awning, gets out of car while Police Chief Frank Ahern stands by, stands with wife under awning, stands with wife and Dan London under awning. Elevated views of crowd in main lobby of hotel, close-ups of crowd cheering as Ike passes by.

GOP (Republican Party) -- Cow Palace(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.05-07]

Physical Description: 53 negatives

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Elevated view of floor of Cow Palace, view of balloons, general views of delegations, speakers, audience (23 negatives). Close-up and long-shots of demonstration for Charles McWhorter of the Young Republican National Federation. Demonstration for Mrs. Carroll Kears, President of the National Federation of Women's Clubs. Sherman Adams at the podium. Secretary of Treasury George Humphrey at the podium. Senator William F. Knowland and Joe Martin at the podium. Martin and Herbert Hoover at the podium. Demonstration for Herbert Hoover. Unidentified people speak at the podium. People converse on the floor. The audience claps and takes pictures. Speakers pound the gavel. Audience stands with hands crossed [in prayer or moment of silence]. [Izra Taft Bense?] at podium, Governor Goodwin Knight sits with his delegation. Overall view of the floor.

"Ike" (Dwight D. Eisenhower) Passes By -- Bayshore Freeway(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.08]

Physical Description: 1 negative

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Street view of presidential motorcade (neighborhood).

Hoover Receives Plaque -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.09]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

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McIntyre Faries and Robert Fenton Craig of the California Republican Assembly present plaque to former President Herbert Hoover.

California Delegation Caucus -- Sheraton Palace Hotel(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.10]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

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Governor Goodwin Knight, Senator William F. Knowland and James Hoyt sit at table while woman calls roll of the delegation. Knight speaks from podium. Delegation claps hands [as Nixon nomination is read]. Full view of French Room with Knight shaking hands with Charles S. Jones. Mrs. Mary Tibbits speaks at the podium wanting to nominate Governor Knight for Vice President while Knight stands by. Views of speakers and delegates.

Republican Convention -- Fairmont Hotel(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.11-12]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

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Harry Matthews presents gavel made from [Boston's?] North Church wood to Joe Martin. Sumi Utsumi, Mrs. Douglas McKay, Mrs. Styles Bridges, and Mrs. William F. Knowland stand in room during Republican Women briefing.

Foreign Visitors -- Top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.13]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

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Mrs. Oswald Lord, Aparana Mehta, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Ambassador G.L. Mehta of India, stand together at party.

Republican Convention -- Mayor's Ball -- Civic Auditorium(August 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-21-56.14]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

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Couple dances at ball. Three women stand together. Man and woman stand by door.

Republican Convention -- Mayor's Ball -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Civic Auditorium(August 22, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-22-56.01-02]

Physical Description: 30 negatives

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Congressman William Somers Mailliard sits with his mother. Mayor George Christopher and wife talk to Mr. and Mrs. [Jerd?] Sullivan. the Eisenhowers and Christophers enter auditorium. Views of Eisenhower making speech [7 negatives]. James Hagerty sits at a press conference. Elevated view of people filling the auditorium. The Eisenhowers and the Christophers sit, stand, wave on stage. Eisenhower delivers a speech [5 negatives]. Shots of Eisenhower and others on stage and on floor.

Republicans -- Hotel St. Francis(August 22, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-22-56.03-05]

Physical Description: 15 negatives

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks during press conference while reporters take notes and ask questions; photographers take pictures. Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover sit in adjacent chairs, stand and shake hands. Harold Stassen sits during press conference.

Tea for Republican Women -- Mamie Eisenhower -- Palace Hotel(August 22, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-22-56.06]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

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Mamie Eisenhower arrives at the Palace Hotel, is greeted by committee woman Mrs. John Eisenhower, shakes hands. Overall shots of people in room.

Richard M. Nixon Leaves -- Airport(August 22, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-22-56.07]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

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Richard M. Nixon and wife leave car to board plane. Nixon talks to reporters while walking up plane ramp.

Early Departure -- Richard M. Nixon -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(August 22, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-22-56.08]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

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Nixon answers questions from reporters while standing in elevator. Nixon walks down hall with Pat Nixon and Jim Goodfellow. [Nixon is leaving the convention early because his father suffered a heart attack].

Republican Convention -- The Big Clean Up -- Cow Palace(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.01]

Physical Description: 15 negatives

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Barbara Stuart of the telephone company shown with the phones that have been removed. Long- shots and close-ups of remnants of convention. Workers sweep floors of Cow Palace.

Departure -- Vice President Richard M. Nixon -- Mark Hopkins Hotel and Airport(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.01]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

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Richard M. Nixon and Dewey talk and laugh in Nixon's hotel suite [prior to his departure to Los Angeles to visit his father who is recovering from a heart attack]. Nixon and wife stand on plane ramp, Mrs. Nixon waves. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, Publisher Ogden Brownie Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, Representative William Ayres, and Timothy J. Murphy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars stand together indoors.

GOP (Republican Party) Convention -- Cow Palace(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.02-06]

Physical Description: 65 negatives

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Elevated view of delegates on the floor. Crowd lets go of balloons. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mayor of Monterey talk while they get ready for trip to Monterey. Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower wave [from train platform?]. Views of Richard M. Nixon supporters on floor of cow palace, delegations, balloons. Close-ups and long-shots of Nixon speaking at podium, Dwight D. Eisenhower at podium. General views inside the Cow Palace during the convention. Shots of crowd. Views of side of St. Francis Hotel.

Herter for Vice President Headquarters(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

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Views of back of man sitting in empty office with three desks looking out to street at 654 Market Street. (Republican convention-related?)

Press Conference -- Bracken Lee -- Conservative Headquarters(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.08]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

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Close-up and long-shot of Governor Bracken Lee of Utah talking to reporters at "conservative headquarters" at 1263 Market Street. (Republican convention-related?)

Republican Convention -- Nebraska Delegation Breakfast -- Palace Hotel(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.09]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

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Members of the Nebraska delegation eat breakfast together at long table in Palace Hotel with Terry Carpenter at far end of table. Carpenter and delegation chairperson Hazel Able talk at table.

Stripper -- Prescott Bush -- Sir Francis Drake Hotel(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.10]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

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Platform Committee member, Senator Prescott Bush, receives anti-cabaret tax petition from Evelyn "Treasure Chest" West.

Republican Party Events -- Hotel St. Francis(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.11-16]

Physical Description: 22 negatives

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Mamie Eisenhower and Bertha Adkins hold present they received from GOP (Republican Party) women. Eisenhower and Adkins stand among other women. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prescott Bush talk in chairs. Eisenhower speaks during press conference in room with large painting. Group shot of Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington, Governor Bennett of Utah, Thurston Morton of Kentucky, candidate James H. Duff of Pennsylvania, Senator Milton R. Young of North Dakota, John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, candidate Chapman Rivercomb of West Virginia, Homer Capehart of Indiana, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Everett Dirkson of Illinois, John M. Butler of Indiana, Douglas McKay of Oregon, candidate Douglas McKeever of Oklahoma, George Bender of Ohio, Herman Walker of Idaho, and Francis Case of South Dakota. Former Governor and current candidate for Governor of New Mexico, Edwin Meachem [Meacham?], sits with Eisenhower. Governor William Stratton of Illinois stands with Eisenhower. Group portraits of local GOP Finance Committee members.

Republican Convention -- Richard M. Nixon -- Airport(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.17]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

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Richard M. Nixon waves from airplane while Mrs. Nixon stands next to him. Nixon displays wife's "let's back Ike" pin.

Republican Convention -- Train Departure -- Dwight D. and Mrs. Eisenhower -- Bay Shore(August 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-23-56.18]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

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Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife wave from train's caboose. Eisenhower shakes hands with conductor. [They are going to Monterey].

New Secret Service chief Tom Hanson

49ers football team's new quarterback Earl Morrall

Cemetery strike (labor) [08-00-56, 1 negative]

Elizabeth Arden party (attended by Dwight D. Eisenhower) [08-00-56, 7 negatives]

Elizabeth Arden Party -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower(August 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 90, [08-00-56.21]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

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Dwight D. Eisenhower shakes hands with woman outside. Mamie Eisenhower shakes hands of many women inside. Over-all views of party goers and photographers inside.

Last working horse in San Francisco retires

Mambo band at cable car turn around [08-02-56, 3 negatives]

Original "Bloody Mary" (Mrs. Agnes Gray) from James Michener's "South Pacific" arrives on the Oronsay (ship)

New branch library at Fortieth and Ortega [08-03-56, 10 negatives]

Navy turns fire boat (ship) over to Harbor Commission

Handicapped kids open day camp at Fleishhacker Pool (disabled persons) [08-04-56, 10 negatives]

Handicapped Kids Open Day Camp -- Fleishhacker Pool(August 04, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 91, [08-04-56.01]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

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Diana Socacca leads group in singing [the song "God Bless America"] at open camp fire. Ken Knight, Cathy Valdez and Rickey Wo[...?] warm hands on camp fire. Camp founder, Janet Pomeroy, talks with campers. Blind girl feels boy's face. Boys hunt for bugs (child welfare, disabled persons).

New Grand Jury

Artist Beniamino Bufano working on animal sculptures for Hillsdale shopping center [[08-09-56, ca. 15 negatives]

Indian knife-throwing act with "Chief Whitecloud and Lili"

California Democrats leave for Chicago convention [08-11-56, 7 negatives]

California Democrats Leave for Chicago -- Airport(August 11, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 91, [08-11-56.01]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

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State Senator George Miller, Jr., Democratic Chairman of Northern California Roger Kent, Assemblyman John A. O'Connell, Alan Cranston (president of the California Democratic Council), and Mrs. Cranston stand in front of airplane. Cranston, congressional candidate Dr. H.R. Quinney of the sixth district, Miller, Kent, O'Connell and others wave from airplane steps. People stand on airplane steps. Close-up of three people in airplane seats.

Produce markets at Davis and Washington Streets (neighborhood)

Civic Center area scenes (cityscapes) from the roof of City Hall [08-15-56, 8 negatives]

Civic Center Scenes -- City Hall Rooftop(August 15, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 91, [08-15-56.03]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

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Views from rooftop of City Hall of parking lot and surrounding streets; facing east with views of plaza; facing south-west with Twin Peaks in the distance (cityscapes).

Abbott and Costello (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) at Seals Stadium

Floyd Wilson attempts escape from Alcatraz [08-16-56, 08-30-56, ca. 11 negatives]

Frank Alberts' first game as 49ers football coach [08-19-56, 6 negatives]

Gerald L.K. Smith of the Christian Nationalist Party holds press conference [08-20-56, 5 negatives]

Press Conference -- Gerald L.K. Smith of the Christian Nationalist Party -- Fairmont Hotel(August 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 92, [08-20-56.01]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

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Women fill the stairway and lobby of the Fairmont Hotel. Gerald L.K. Smith speaks in front of microphone [about Harold Stassen]. Smith stands next to wife during press conference and waves his arm. Reporters and listeners fill the stairway platform where Smith is speaking.

New Federal Building location (cityscapes) [08-27-56, 7 negatives]

New Federal Building Location(August 27, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-27-56.01]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

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Elevated views of corner with Crystal Palace Market billboard and surrounding streets (neighborhood, cityscapes).

Slenderella Salon opening

Consul General Pierluigi Alvera of Italy and Mayor George Christopher purchase tickets to film "La Strada" (international film festival?)

Strippers in court

Construction of six new toll booths for Bay Bridge [08-28-56, 2 negatives]

Actress Kim Novak arrives via train [08-28-56, 2 negatives]

Anne Giannini models de' Medici jewel during Italian festival

Powell River British Columbia Bagpipe Band given key to the city

Golden Gate Spectacle of Music

Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) national convention

Press conference with the Socialist Labor Party's candidate for vice president Georgia Gozzini [08-31-56, 4 negatives]

Press Conference -- Socialist Labor Party -- Californian Hotel(August 31, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-31-56.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Socialist Party vice presidential candidate Georgia Gozzini (woman candidate).

New San Rafael-Richmond Bridge opening ceremonies [08-31-56, 35 negatives]

Opening Ceremony -- New Richmond-San Rafael Bridge(August 31, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-31-56.04-05]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

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Opening ceremony speech is delivered while American flags are raised. People walk across bridge. Governor Goodwin Knight and Mrs. Knight reveal plaque on stone slat. People on stage hold "links" for Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. View from across street at flag raising ceremonies. Knight leads caravan across the new bridge.

New Richmond-San Rafael Bridge(August 31, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 93, [08-31-56.06]

Physical Description: 23 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of the nearly-completed bridge and of the toll plaza, control booth and panel, and the bridge upon opening [apparently taken on various dates in August, 1956].

September 1956 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94-95, [090056-093056]

Physical Description: 950 negatives (estimate)

Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu of Japan visits

Aerial bomb found on rubbish heap

Serbian conference

First traffic across Richmond-San Rafael bridge [09-01-56, 3 negatives]

First Traffic Across Richmond-San Rafael Bridge(September 01, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-01-56.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

First user Tony Cortese and toll collector Harry Clark. Line up of cars waiting for midnight opening. Keith Craig of California Highway Patrol leads Tony Cortese after opening of toll gate.

Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) national convention [09-03-56, 6 negatives]

Kids throw bomb at Temple Emanu-El (anti-semitism?, race relations?, juvenile delinquency?) [09-03-56, 3 negatives]

Bomb Damage -- Temple Emanu-El(September 03, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-03-56.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dark spot on the wall shows where the bomb hit Temple Emanu-El (anti-semitism, race relations).

Italian gathering and festival (with Ambassador Brosio, Consul General Pierluigi Alvera, Claire Giannini Hoffman and Kurt Adler) [09-04-56, 11 negatives]

International Association of Machinists convention with George Meany, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver (labor) [09-04-56 - 09-06-56, 22 negatives]

IAM Convention -- Governor Knight and Mayor Christopher -- Civic Auditorium(September 04, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-04-56.12]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd Shots. Governor Knight addressing IAM (International Association of Machinists). Al Hayes, president of the IAM pinning badge on Knight (labor).

IAM Convention -- George Meany -- Civic Auditorium(September 05, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-05-56.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

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George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, speaking at the IAM ( International Association of Machinists) convention (labor).

IAM Convention -- Adlai E. Stevenson and Estes Kefauver -- Civic Auditorium(September 06, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-06-56.11]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

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Senator Estes Kefaufer and Adlai Stevenson at microphones of IAM convention ( International Association of Machinists). Crowd shots (labor).

Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver arrival and reception [09-05-56, 14 negatives]

Adlai E. Stevenson and Estes Kefauver Arrive -- Airport and Fairmont Hotel(September 05, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-05-56.04-05]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

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Senator Estes Kefauver and Adlai E. Stevenson arriving at the airport. Crowd shots with campaign signs at the airport. Stevenson accepting a taste of a lollipop from a girl. At the reception in the gold room of the Fairmont Hotel: Stevenson in a mob as he enters. The crowd cheering as Stevenson speaks. Kefauver speaking with Stevenson in the background. Stevenson laughing at his own joke.

Bandit and girlfriend reunite [09-05-56, 3 negatives]

Adlai E. Stevenson with family members [09-06-56, 10 negatives]

Adlai E. Stevenson and Family Members -- Fairmont Hotel(September 06, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-06-56.06-07]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Adlai Stevenson at the breakfast table with his sons. Mrs. Ernest Ives, Stevenson's sister.

Modesto State Hospital investigation [09-06-56, 09-16-56, ca. 25 negatives]

Stephanie Bryan murder case and Burton W. Abbott trial [09-06-56, 1 negative]

Priest Henry Ambrose Pinger returns from Red China

Damaged highway at Sea Cliff [09-08-56, 6 negatives]

Damaged Highway -- Sea Cliff(September 08, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-08-56.03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Damaged highway. City worker standing next to a "road closed" sign. Woman and child.

Women's breakfast for Senator Thomas H. Kuchel

Opening day at Golden Gate Fields (horse racing)

Eva Sampson at 105 years of age

Crown prince of Germany visits

Opening dedication of flower market at Sixth and Brannan Streets

Nuns celebrate their jubilee in the order

Cornerstone time capsule opened during demolition of old Franklin School

Sociologist Dr. Hornell Hart

United Crusade rally

Chinese Moon Festival [09-14-56, 5 negatives]

Chinese Moon Festival -- Portsmouth Square(September 14, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-14-56.08]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

The traditional dragon dance on stage (neighborhood). Judy Weld (Miss San Francisco), Estelle Dong (Chinese Queen), Mayor George Christopher. Helen Lee (Moon Goddess) having her hair arranged by Mrs. Esther Wong.

Fox Theatre on Market Street [09-15-56, 15 negatives]

Consul General Don Amado Reo of Costa Rica visits

Portola Freeway labor dispute (at Portola Drive and Corbett Road) [09-17-56, 2 negatives]

Construction begins on exhibit hall under Civic Center [09-17-56 - 09-18-56, 8 negatives]

Zellerbachs attend premiere at Stage Door Theatre

Students line up for television courses at San Francisco State College (education) [09-19-56, 09-24-56, 6 negatives]

Richardson Bay Bridge opens [09-20-56, 5 negatives]

Richardson Bay Bridge Opens -- Richardson Bay(September 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 94, [09-20-56.01]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of cars moving across the new Richardson Bay Bridge.

San Francisco Opera director Kurt Adler accused of trying to force the Cosmopolitan Opera out of business

Leif Erikson Day proclaimed with visit from consul of Iceland

Saint Anthony's serves their three-millionth meal (charity, social services)

Senator John F. Kennedy at banquet [09-21-56, 3 negatives]

Senator John F. Kennedy at Banquet -- Fairmont Hotel(September 21, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [09-21-56.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mrs. Elizabeth Smith (National Democratic Committee), Senator John F. Kennedy, Bill Orrick (California Chairman for Stevenson-Kefaufer campaign), William M Malone (chairman of the banquet).

Auditions for movie "Saint Joan" with Otto Preminger and Max Slater [09-21-56, 3 negatives]

Senator Thomas H. Kuchel speaks at the Marine Cooks and Stewards Hall dedication (labor)

Mare Island award presentation

Two punks involved in riot (juvenile delinquency)

Treasure Island fire [09-23-56, ca. 20 negatives]

Variety of spring blades (knives, weapons) confiscated by police

Automatic weather report telephone message machine

Start of new educational television program at KQED [09-24-56, 3 negatives]

Start of a New Educational Television Program -- KQED Studios(September 24, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [09-24-56.09]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Verna Wallace (sophmore at San Francisco State), Dr. Thomas Lantos (assistant professor), Dr. J. Paul Leonard (president of SF state). Shot of studio (education, public broadcasting).

Eleanor Roosevelt campaigning for Adlai Stevenson [09-27-56, 2 negatives]

Eleanor Roosevelt -- Fairmont Hotel(September 27, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [09-27-56.01]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Eleanor Roosevelt sitting on couch holding article headlined "Knight Campaigns in San Mateo."

Big haul in marijuana (narcotics)

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon campaign headquarters grand openings (09-27-56, 8 negatives)

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon -- Campaign Headquarters Opening -- Market Street(September 27, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [09-27-56.05]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Ed Wilson, Senator William F. Knowland, and Joe Martin Jr. surrounded by crowd (interior only).

Town School for Boys dedicated (education) [09-27-56, 4 negatives]

Smog over San Francisco (cityscapes) [09-28-56, 2 negatives]

Smog over San Francisco(September 28, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [09-28-56.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

A shot from the top of Twin Peaks of smog covering downtown San Francisco and the bay (cityscape, environment).

Creek uncovered while digging for exhibit hall at the Civic Center (09-28-56, 2 negatives)

Creek Uncovered While Digging For Exhibit -- Civic Center Plaza(September 28, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [09-28-56.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shot of large pit for the Exhibit Hall at the Civic Center Plaza.

Cornerstone ceremonies for new Masonic building

October 1956 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95-96, [100056-103156]

Physical Description: 1025 negatives (estimate)

Actress Eve Arden at the Hamilton Hotel

San Francisco Port ceremonies (ribbon cutting at pier) [10-00-56, ca. 10 negatives]

Elevated cable car (lifted by crane) [10-00-56, ca. 10 negatives]

Home of J.D. Zellerbach

Home economist Ida Cogswell Bailey Allen

Secretary General of the Central American Liberation Committee G. Quesada of Nicaragua [10-02-56, 2 negatives]

Skin test injections for tuberculosis at Herbert Hoover School (health)

Jack LaLanne water skis to the Farallon Islands [10-02-56, 13 negatives]

Jack LaLanne Attempting to Water Ski to Farallones(October 02, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [10-02-56.09-10]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Jack LaLanne doing a handstand. LaLanne shaking hands with helicopter pilot. Shots of LaLanne water skiing, being pulled by helicopter. [Attempt was unsuccessful].

Opera Guild Fol De Rol ball (society event)

Two cranes and an orangutan move into the zoo

Dedication ceremonies for new library branch at Ortega and Thirty-eighth Avenue

Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas visits

Senator Hubert Humphrey speaks at the Palace Hotel [10-05-56, 5 negatives]

Sixth Army bagpipe band performs at the Presidio [10-06-56, ca. 15 negatives]

Blessing the fleet at Fisherman's Wharf [10-07-56, 5 negatives]

Blessing the Fleet -- Fisherman's Wharf(October 07, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [10-07-56.02]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of procession at Jefferson and Taylor Streets. Celebration honoring Madonna del Lume (Telegraph Hill and North Beach neighborhood).

Jewish National Fund

Surgeons convene to watch operation on television (health)

Irish coffee envoy arrives

Navy divers demonstration [10-09-56, 9 negatives]

Agnew State Hospital investigation [10-09-56, ca. 10 negatives]

Children's Hospital of San Francisco opens occupational therapy department (health)

Vice President Richard M. Nixon and wife visit [10-10-56, 26 negatives]

Vice President Richard M. Nixon -- Chinese Celebration -- Chinatown(October 10, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [10-10-56.01]

Physical Description: 15 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Vice President Richard M. Nixon and wife Pat look on as parade passes. Nixons riding in car in parade. Nixon and wife sitting under umbrella. Nixon at press confrence. Nixon shaking hands with a woman on the street. Crowd shots.

Richard M. Nixon and Wife Visit -- Oakland(October 10, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [10-10-56.02]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Richard Nixon and wife Pat arrive at the Oakland Airport and are greeted by many supporters. A group of Latin American women hold signs reading "Latin American women for Nixon". Nixon arrives at the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign rally and talks to the overflowing crowd. Nixon and wife mingle with the people at the rally.

Square and Circle Club (Chinese women's club) in rehearsal

Adlai Stevenson campaign speech [10-11-56, 12 negatives]

Adlai E. Stevenson Giving Campaign Speech -- Richmond City Hall(October 11, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [10-11-56.09]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Adlai Stevenson shaking hands with supporters. Stevenson addressing crowd. Bearded supporter (Ben Stewart). Stevenson arriving at rally.

New Embarcadero Freeway and park designs [10-11-56, 3 negatives]

New Embarcadero Designs -- City Hall(October 11, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 95, [10-11-56.10]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Sketches and plan of proposed Ferry Building Park at the Embarcadero. [Views of new freeway designs missing 2/1999].

Council of Negro Women's Committee on Citizen Education (Afro-Americans)

Homemade guns and knives found in San Quentin State Prison [10-12-56, 4 negatives]

Columbus Day festivities [10-12-56 - 10-14-56, 15 negatives]

Democratic Senators Gore (Albert Gore?) and Neuberger (Richard L. Neuberger?)

Citizens for Eisenhower bandwagon [10-13-56, 4 negatives]

Citizens for Eisenhower Bandwagon -- Stockton Street(October 13, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-13-56.09]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

"Ike girls" giving man political campaign paraphernalia. "Ike girls" in front of bandwagon truck. "Ike girls" cheering and waving and putting bumper sticker on car.

Republican dinner for victory (Richard M. Nixon, Governor Goodwin Knight, Senator William F. Knowland) [10-14-56, 11 negatives]

Republican Dinner for Victory -- Cow Palace(October 14, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-14-56.03]

Physical Description: 17 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd Shots. Senator William F. Knowland and Vice President Richard M. Nixon confer before the dinner. Governor Goodwin Knight, Nixon, and Knowland stand together. Mrs. Nixon and Knight talking together. Mrs. Knight, Knight, Nixon, Knowland, Gene Raymond (master of ceremonies) at dinner. Nixon, Knight, Knowland waving to crowd. Nixon extending best wishes to GOP candidates for the California legislature. Crowd applauding Nixon. Nixon signing an autograph. Butch Powers (lieutenant governor), Pat Hillings, Knight, Nixon and Knowland standing.

Eastern Star convention [10-15-56 - 10-18-56, ca. 66 negatives]

Thomas H. Kuchel election campaign headquarters opens on Market Street

Pan American airplane crash witnesses

Young Republicans arrested for political graffiti [10-16-56, 4 negatives]

Young Republicans Arrested for Political Graffiti -- California Street(October 16, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-16-56.07]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Man and woman caught painting "Ike signs" on street by police officer. Man and woman being booked.

Consul general of the Netherlands visits

Senator Thomas H. Kuchel talks to postal people

Centennial banquet for Notre Dame des Victoires (French church)

Pontchartrain (ship) comes through the Golden Gate bringing Pan American airplane crash survivors [10-19-56, ca. 55 negatives]

Grant Reynolds ("negro leader campaigning" for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon) (Afro-Americans) [10-19-56, 2 negatives]

Grant Reynolds -- Republican Campaign -- Whitcomb Hotel (October 19, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-19-56.15]

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Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Grant Reynolds standing with arms crossed. Grant Reynolds with Sara Blagburn, Solomon E. Johnson(?), and Dr. Theo McCurdy (Afro-Americans).

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon election campaign headquarters open on Market Street

Bakers' Union "labor beef"

Members of San Francisco High School Potential Spaceman electronics class (potential astronauts?) (space age)

New housing project exteriors and interiors at Hunters Point [10-23-56, 4 negatives]

Slenderella gals go out on strike (labor)

International Bakers' Union convention (labor) [10-24-56, 6 negatives]

Banquet for Archbishop John J. Mitty

Gal (Audrey "Pat" Reedy) installed as Commander of Company 2 of Women's Army Corps Veterans [10-25-56, 2 negatives]

Dr. Moses Rachmilewitz (Chief of Medicine at Hadassah Hospital) visits from Jerusalem

Harry Truman here for speech at Bakers' convention (labor) and dinner with ambassadors from India, Iran and Greece [10-25-56, 7 negatives]

Harry Truman and Chief Justice Earl Warren arrive at San Francisco International Airport [10-25-56 - 10-26-56, 10 negatives]

Former President Harry S. Truman Arrives -- Oakland Municipal Airport(October 25, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-25-56.11]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Harry S. Truman stepping off of airplane. Truman shaking hands with Herman Winters (vice-president of CIO-AFL) (labor).

Chief Justice Earl Warren -- Airport(October 26, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-26-56.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Chief Justice Earl Warren leaving airplane. Warren sitting. Warren greeting Dr. Edward LeRoy Elson (pastor). Warren with Wallace Lynn and Gee(?) Dixon.

University of Southern California rooters riot in Union Square [10-26-56, ca. 10 negatives]

San Francisco International Airport bond promotion [10-26-56, ca. 10 negatives]

Harry Truman eats breakfast at the Fairmont Hotel [10-26-56, 4 negatives]

Adlai E. Stevenson [10-27-56, 19 negatives]

Adlai E. Stevenson -- Civic Auditorium(October 27, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-27-56.01-02]

Physical Description: 19 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Adlai E. Stevenson speaking at a podium. Stevenson campaigning in a car. Stevenson with a woman and her dog. Crowd Shot. Shots of unidentified people. Shots of the convention hall.

Indian (Native American) legislation [10-27-56, 3 negatives]

Halloween pictures

Bay Meadows Race Track opening day (horseracing)

Senator Thomas H. Kuchel speaking at different venues [10-29-56, 5 negatives]

Senator Thomas H. Kuchel at Different Venues(October 29, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-29-56.18-19]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Senator Thomas H. Kuchel at an interview. Kuchel with Thomas Mellon and Harry Lundeberg.

Hoover Library receives books from Communist China (communism)

New underground hall being built in Civic Center [10-30-56, 12 negatives]

New Underground Hall Being Built -- Civic Center(October 30, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 96, [10-30-56.05]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of construction taken from the Civic Center and from opposite the Civic Center.

Consul Eiji Kageyama of Japan at Japanese Tea Gardens as publicity for movie "Seven Wonders of the World" [10-31-56, 2 negatives]

November 1956 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97-98, [110056-113056]

Physical Description: 800 negatives (estimate)

Alcoholics (unidentified rehabilitation or treatment home?; interior views)

Grand National Livestock exposition

Halloween stabbing case

Eleanor Roosevelt [11-02-56, 4 negatives]

Eleanor Roosevelt(November 02, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-02-56.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mrs. Roosevelt standing on a balcony with cityscape behind. Also, sitting on a couch.

Commonwealth Club talks about the Suez Canal situation

Women model new Civil Defense uniforms [11-02-56, 2 negatives]

Women in Uniforms(November 02, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-02-56.12]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mozelle Goodwin, Jean Homer, and Lovilla Lalor modeling new Civil Defense uniforms (fashion).

Police radio switchboard

World Trade Association at the Japanese Tea Gardens with Mayor George Christopher, President of the World Trade Association (George E. Talmage) and Consul General Akira Nishiyama of Japan [11-03-56, 3 negatives]

Republican lunch (Congressman William Mailliard, Governor Goodwin Knight and Chairman Robert Steele)

Citizens for Eisenhower participate in nationwide television show [11-05-56, 2 negatives]

Republican Rally -- Eisenhower Supporters(November 05, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-05-56.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

A crowd gathered in front of the Mark Hopkins Hotel to support Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican candidate for President.

Police and hospital crew attempt to save woman's life

Republican torchlight parade and rally at Union Square [11-05-56, 6 negatives]

Eisenhower Rally -- Union Square(November 05, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-05-56.04]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowds at Union Square rally for Dwight D. Eisenhower. Scottish bagpipers parade into the square. Senator William F. Knowland makes a speech. Knowland is also shown with Congressman William Mailliard.

Girl Scouts mind kids while mothers vote

Fourth grade school children vote in mock elections (education)

Election day coverage [11-06-56, ca. 28 negatives]

Prisoners escape from Yerba Buena Island

Toufic Blaeik leaves from San Francisco Bay to swim to the Farallon Islands

Helen Ivy murder suspect Claude A. Craig [11-08-56 - 11-09-56, ca. 20 negatives]

National Jewish welfare board

New Pacific Utilities Commission (PUC) gets new commissioner

Atomic bomb defense rations (civil defense) [11-08-56, 8 negatives]

Atomic Bomb Rations -- Palo Alto(November 08, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-8-56.20]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

The family of Gene Gilligan is shown with their atomic bomb civil defense rations (communsim).

Minister of Agriculture Esat Budakoglu of the Turkish Republic visits

Curette used to scrape arteries (health) [11-09-56, 3 negatives]

Teaching foreign language to children (education) [11-09-56, 4 negatives]

San Francisco in smog (cityscapes, environment)

Carrier (ship) Yorktown loads and leaves the bay

Shangri-La (ship) arrives

New building under construction at Taylor and California Streets (cityscapes) [11-12-56, 8 negatives]

Gals take course in making decorations at Legion of Honor

Tuberculosis fund drive (health)

Biggest tanker Universe Leader (ship) enters bay

Edward G. Robinson's four million dollar painting collection [11-14-56, 11-20-56, ca. 13 negatives]

Boy Scout annual appreciation dinner

Hungarian relief efforts (including prayers and masses) [11-15-56 - 11-21-56, ca. 6 negatives]

San Mateo Catholic schools attend Cinerama at the Orpheum [11-15-56, 6 negatives]

San Francisco Mental Health Society Fellowhip Club for former mental patients

Alcoholics Rehabilitation Association home interiors on Seventeenth Street

Mayor Sergio Osmena Jr. of the Philippines visits

New commanding admiral at Treasure Island [11-16-56, 3 negatives]

The Drunkometer (alcoholics) [11-16-56, 5 negatives]

Thanksgiving dinner served to newly arrived immigrants

Preview of new Cinerama film "Seven Wonders of the World" at the Orpheum Theatre [11-19-56 - 11-20-56, ca. 17 negatives]

Thanksgiving dinner served to the poor and disabled

Rally at Union Square for Cal (UC Berkeley) vs. Stanford "Big Game" (college football) [11-23-56, ca. 35 negatives]

Traffic jam at Union Square and at Geary and Grant Streets (neighborhood) [11-23-56, 10 negatives]

Traffic Jam -- Downtown(November 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-23-56.02-03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of stopped traffic with "Blums" store in background.

Traffic Jam -- Downtown(November 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-23-56.03]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dowtown traffic from atop Liebes store, on the corner of Geary and Grant Streets. Also, the corner of Grant and Market Streets (neighborhood).

Children in native dress help celebrate the tenth anniversary of UNESCO [11-23-56, 2 negatives]

San Francisco Boys' Club annual day at Playland at the Beach [11-23-56, 3 negatives]

Boys' Club Outing -- Playland at the Beach -- Ocean Beach(November 23, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 97, [11-23-56.04]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Boys' Club annual "Day of Days" at Playland at the Beach amusement park. Shows kids at Dodgem cars and lined up for The Whip.

Firemen repair toys for Christmas charity

Cal (UC Berkeley) vs. Stanford "Big Game" (college football) [11-24-56, ca. 30 negatives]

Captain John Avery talks about warfare at the Suez Canal

Care crusade sends food to Hong Kong [11-27-56, 2 negatives]

Maestro Enrique Jorda decorated at the Bohemian Club

San Francisco Art Festival (paintings and sculpture)

San Francisco Boys' Choir annual Christmas concert

New high-speed dental drill (health)

New heliport at San Francisco International Airport

December 1956 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98-99, [120056-123156]

Physical Description: 950 negatives (estimate)

View up Market Street (cityscapes)

Survivors of the Olson (sunken ship off Monterey)

Earl and Countess of Dundee visit

New helicopter service at the Ferry Building [12-03-56, 4 negatives]

First Passengers of Helicopter Service -- Ferry Building(December 03, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-03-56.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Helicopter service at Ferry Building operates. James J. Sullivan greets the first arrivals: Cyril Magnin and Phyllis Richlefs. View of a helicopter in the air and another on the ground.

New officers elected to the Chamber of Commerce

New Grand Jury

Betty Crocker contestants at Mission High School (education) [12-04-56, 10 negatives]

Test and Interviews -- Mission High School(December 04, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-04-56.07]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Betty Crocker contestants. Various views of girls taking test and individuals pictures of each girl during the interview. Includes Jo-Ann Guinti, Mary Alice Kane, Barbara Mitchell, and others (home economics?) (education).

Hanukkah services for servicemen [12-05-56, 3 negatives]

North Beach swimming pool dedication

Berkeley letter carriers (postal workers) carry dog biscuits for dogs

United Parcel Service (UPS) employees strike (labor) [12-06-56, 6 negatives]

Teamsters Picket Line -- United Parcel Service (UPS)(December 06, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-06-56.01]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

UPS Vice-President George Morton urges workers to return to their jobs. Various views of Morton surrounded by massive groups and close-up views of strikers. Some picketers carry signs.

Hungarian refugee family arrives

New proposed gateway to Chinatown [12-06-56, 2 negatives]

Illustration of Proposed Gateway to Chinatown -- City Hall(December 06, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-06-56.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Chair of Project Reverend Dr. T.T. Taam and Mayor Christopher hold an illustration of the proposed gateway to mark the entrance of Chinatown, San Francisco.

Federal grant for vocational rehabilitation

Olympic winning chefs

Joseph Lucas (highway patrolman) murdered by his wife

England's Dairy Queen (Evelyn Clegg) and Shari Lewis visit [12-07-56, 3 negatives]

Dutch Santa Claus

Pearl Harbor Day memorial services

Bill Russell wedding reception [12-09-56, ca. 25 negatives]

Murderer Stephen Nash imprisoned while victim is recovered from bay [12-09-56 - 12-10-56, ca. 26 negatives]

Clothes donated to Hungarians

Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Zellerbach host reception for Italians

Ground breaking ceremony for three million dollar Junior High School (education) [12-10-56, 3 negatives]

Ground Breaking Ceremony -- Junion High School(December 10, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-10-56.10]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Both the President of the Board of Education Adolfo De Wuoste and Superintendent Harold Spears hold the shovel in the breaking ground ceremony. Spears then proceeds to dig. An illustration of the proposed three million dollar junior high school is in the background (education).

Mariposa (ship) docks after maiden voyage to Australia

Un-American (HUAC?) hearings (communism) [12-11-56, 21 negatives]

Man On Trial Because of Communist Literature(December 11, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-11-56.06]

Physical Description: 15 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Committee members (Harold Velde, Chairman Clyde Doyle, and Gordon Scherer, Committee Counsel Richard Arens) look at evidence: Communist propaganda printed in China. Various court scenes of main witness Irving Fishman taking oath and testifying. Fishman is a New York customs collector who works on Communist literature (communism).

Communism Trial -- Witnesses and Their Attorneys(December 11, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-11-56.07]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various witnesses take the oath, testify, talk with their attorneys, or walk towards the building. Various witnesses and their attorneys: Clair Jensen and Attorney A. Gross, Louis Goldblatt and Attorney George Anderson, Grace Partridge and Attorney Norma Leonard.

Various Christmas activities

New rhinosaurus at the zoo

Aquatic Park project [12-12-56, 6 negatives]

Officials Look at Model of Aquatic Park Project(December 12, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-12-56.15]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Close-up view of a model of the proposed Aquatic Park project. President of San Francisco Maritime Museum Louis Ets Hokin, Director of Maritime Museum Karl Kortung, State Historian Dr. Aubrey Neasham, Dan London, and Vice President of Matson Navigation Hugh Gallagher look at the model.

Recommissioned Navy tanker Mattaponi (ship) hoists flag

Children's Hospital Christmas Tree Festival

Child gets head caught in stairway railing [photo is Hearst Award winner or entry]

Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu of Japan visits

Salvation Army performs in front of the Russ Building [12-14-56, 4 negatives]

Hungarian Relief Ball

Cub Scouts bring Christmas cheer to senior citizens [12-18-56, 5 negatives]

Feeding the zoo animals

Don Sherwood's wedding [12-15-56, 1 negative]

Moving the KQED (television or radio) antenna (cityscapes) [12-17-56, 10 negatives]

Workmen Climb KQED Antenna -- San Francisco(December 17, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 98, [12-17-56.01]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Workmen climb KQED (public broadcasting) antenna in order to dismantle the structure. Views of workmen climbing antenna, includes San Francisco cityscapes (Coit Tower, Bay Bridge, Marina and Piers, and the surrounding neighborhoods, districts) in the background.

Lexington (ship) arrives from the Far East

First woman federal probation officer (Verna Stocks) [12-17-56, 3 negatives]

Dedication of plaque for James King of William

Swearing in of new fire chief William F. Murray

KYA and KSFO strike (labor) [12-26-56, 3 negatives]

KYA, KSFO, and KLX Picketers -- Radio Strike(December 26, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 99, [12-26-56.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dave Dorris holds sign "On Strike Against Radio KYA"and Don Sherwood holds sign "On Strike Against Radio Station KSFO." Dorris and Sherwood rest for a moment while picketing. Dorris and Sherwood walk over and join two picketers: Bob Kunn of KLX and engineer Jim Hillbun of KYA. Kunn and Hillbun also hold signs (labor).

Chamber of Commerce gives children from broken homes lunch and five dollars to spend at Sears and Roebuck (child welfare, divorce)

Japanese girls here on friendship mission

Helicopter crashes in bay near Ferry Building [12-20-56, 9 negatives]

Rescue Effort For Helicopter Crash -- San Francisco Bay(December 20, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 99, [12-20-56.06]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Helicopter crashes in the bay near the rear of the Ferry Building. Rowboats from the Phoenix (ship) rescue people from crash; a crane onboard ship hauls up helicopter from water. An injured person is carried away on a stretcher. A small boat also helps with the rescue effort. Men dressed in SCUBA gear rest. [Also see 12-03-56].

Homes lit up with Christmas lights

Marcus baby kidnaper Betty Benedicto gets reduction in sentence

Name the rhinosaurus contest at the zoo

Hungarian Olympic team and refugees arrive

New buildings under construction in financial district [12-26-56, 9 negatives]

Construction of New Buildings -- Financial District(December 26, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 99, [12-26-56.05]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

New buildings (Crown Zellerbach, Pacific Employers Insurance Co., and Moore store) are constructed in the Financial District. Views of construction looking towards Market Street from Bush Street, towards Pine Street from across the street, corner of Post Street and Kearny, towards Market Street from Bond Street (cityscapes, neighborhood).

Anonymous gal leaves 7,000 dollars at Cancer Society (health)

California Federation of Teachers convention (education)

United Artists "Theme Girl" auto show

Unveiling painting of Harry S. Truman and United States delegation during the signing of the United Nations charter [12-27-56, 2 negatives]

Joseph A. Bialy retires after working 46 years on the cable cars (Municipal Railway) [12-27-56, 7 negatives]

Holdup victim Warren K. Billings

Ambassador John D. Zellerbach leaves for Rome

Top Junior Achievement team leaves for New York

Foundry and cable car rebuilding [12-28-56, 6 negatives]

Construction of Cable Car and Casting of Metal Parts -- Muni Car Barn(December 28, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 99, [12-28-56.07]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Workmen assemble a new cable car. Molder Fred Harang pours hot metal while Patternmaker Harry Jensen holds the ladel. Nilan pours hot liquid metal into molds while Jensen helps. Taken at Ocean Avenue and San Jose Avenue (the Municipal Railway car barn).

Blind door-to-door salesman (disabled persons)

New Year celebration with ticker tape in the Financial District (cityscapes) [12-31-56, 4 negatives]

New Year -- Financial District(December 31, 1956) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 99, [12-31-56.02]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Judy Bancroft who works in the Russ Building goes out to mail a letter and encounters ticker tape. Overhead view of the confetti and the traffic taken from the Russ Building. Street-level view of the corner of Montgomery Street and Bush Street (neighborhood).

Oronsay (ship) returns with Sir Austin and Lady Anderson and Australian cow girl Prudence Wilson

Divers inspect sunken Show Boat restaurant for salvage

January 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100-101, [010057-013157]

Physical Description: 900 negatives (estimate)

Snow on Twin Peaks

Indian Affairs

General Electric atomic reactor project in Pleasanton [01-00-57, 7 negatives]

General Electric Atomic Reactor Project -- Pleasanton, Calif.(January 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-00-57.08]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of the exterior of the reactor (atomic age). Shots of unidentified people.

Auto show opening and theme gal [01-02-57, 01-05-57, 12 negatives]

YMCA and Consul General Pierluigi Alvera of Italy sponsor dance for Italian sailors

Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell of Great Britain visits

Scandinavian trade show

Selling ships to commies (communism) [01-02-57, 2 negatives]

Selling Ships to the Communists -- Fraud -- Federal Building(January 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-02-57.09]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Ty Fong (suspect?) and Deputy US Marshal James Comerford(?) walking through the halls of the Federal Building (communism).

Firemen's story [01-04-57, 6 negatives]

Indian consul holds reception for San Francisco Ballet

De Vascello (Italian ship) at Treasure Island

Actress Shirley McLaine and her baby daughter visit [01-04-57, 6 negatives]

Memorial to the United States war dead

March of Dimes story on 19 year old with polio (health) [01-05-57, 2 negatives]

100 year old Matsunosuke Tsukamoto receives card from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Actor Anthony Quinn at the Palace Hotel [01-07-57, 3 negatives]

Five-alarm fire at Market and Drumm Streets

Covered wagon full of Indians (actors) on Maiden Lane for television publicity [01-09-57, 2 negatives]

Hula instructor teaching Hawaiian dance at the YWCA

Spike Jones and cast at the auto show [01-10-57, 5 negatives]

Maury Goldman released from prison

Meeting for uniform traffic regulations in the eleven western states

Last "Little Red Schoolhouse" where Navy children go to school (education) [01-14-57, 5 negatives]

Last "Little Read Schoolhouse" -- Yerba Buena Island(January 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-14-57.01]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Exterior views of the school and playground with children of navy personnel from Treasure Island. Exterior view of the school with children lined up to go inside. Interior views of the school showing students at their desks and their teacher (Miss Myra Graves) standing. Interior views of students gathered in semi-circle around the teacher. Shot of three children sitting in front of the teacher (education).

Dr. David Rioch talks on sex behavior

Dinner honors three Nobel Prize winners (Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, Dr. William Shockley and Dr. Edwin M. McMillan) [01-14-57, 3 negatives]

Nobel Laureates Receiving Honors -- Fairmont Hotel(January 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-14-57.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. William Shockley holding award. Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, Dr. Edwin M. McMillan and Shockley standing. Henry R. Rolph (member of the board of supervisor) and Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (president of Beckman Instruments) with Shockley.

Rose Lucas out on bail after murdering her husband

Composer and wife (Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Frimal) arrive from Honolulu

"Family of Man" photography exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor [01-15-57, 01-21-57, 6 negatives]

"Family of Man" Photography Exhibit -- Palace of the Legion of Honor(January 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-15-57.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mrs. James Maciel, Mrs. Jack Miller, Mrs. Robert Barbier, and Mrs. Marshall standing and drinking champaigne in front of a photograph. Mr. Clyde H. Rossi and Mrs. Martinez Gawley sitting down during the exhibit. [Exhibit of the photography of Edward Steichen and others].

"Family of Man" press conference -- Sheraton-Palace Hotel(January 21, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-21-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Wayne Miller, assistant to Edward Steichen, sitting and speaking about the "Family of Man" photography exhibit.

Bay Area views [01-15-57, 22 negatives]

Aerial Views -- San Francisco Bay Area(January 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-15-57.05]

Physical Description: 22 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Possible site of the atomic energy power plant at Livermore. Golden Gate Bridge and the Legion of Honor. Mount Diablo. Angel Island. City of Fremont (cityscape). UC Berkeley campus.

PTA founders day meeting

Chinese junk (ship) sails out of China Camp

Produce market area redevelopment plans for lower Market street [01-16-57, 6 negatives]

Produce District Redevelopment Plans -- Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill(January 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-15-57.05]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of a glass-encased, three-dimensional model of the proposed redevelopment of the produce area and lower Market Street area. Shots of a two-dimensional map of the area. Nat Owings and Roger Lapham, Jr. looking at the three-dimensional model. Nat Owings, Roger Lapham, Jr. and John B. Rodgers looking at the model.

Fire fighting school graduation exams at Treasure Island [01-17-57, 10 negatives]

Views of Golden Gate Bridge from the Presidio of San Francisco

Rehabilitation for patients at Laguna Honda Home (health)

United Steel Workers of America (with David J. McDonald) (labor) [01-18-57, 4 negatives]

United Steel Workers of America -- Sheraton Palace Hotel(January 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-18-57.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

David J. McDonald (president of United Steelworkers of America), Charles Smith (district director of district #38), and I.W. Abel (secretary of treasury, National Steelworkers Union) standing and looking at a document together (behind them hangs John Garth's "The Iron Worker"). Shots of the conference goers (labor).

Actress Ava Gardner arrives aboard the Yapeyu (ship) from Argentina [01-18-57, 3 negatives]

Fire Department training school test old and new smoke masks

B-52 bombers return to March Air Force Base after non-stop hop around the world [01-18-57, ca. 15 negatives]

B-52 Bombers Return to March Air Force Base(January 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-18-57.03-14]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of B-52 airplanes' returning from round-the-world-trip. Major General Archie J. Old, Jr. introduces his wife to the family of Sergeant Donovan W. Higgenbotham. General Curtis LeMay pins a "Distinguished Flying Cross" on Higgenbotham. LeMay congratulates Higgenbotham. Old looks out from the cockpit of the lead plane. Sergeant Carl H. Ballew is greeted by his wife and sons. Old stands at the far left as members of the flight are greeted by families. The three returning bombers, escorted by a jet trainer, circling before landing. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Morris looks out from the cockpit while taxiing. Old lines up the crew of the lead plane for an inspection upon arrival at the field. LeMay pins a "Distinguished Flying Cross" on Old. Long shot of LeMay decorating the crews. Lead plane landing.

New zoo members (anteater, hyena, and llama)

Snow at Heavenly Valley (ski resort)

Views in and around the Legion of Honor [01-21-57, ca. 30 negatives]

Views in and around the Legion of Honor(January 21, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-21-57.07]

Physical Description: 30 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views in and around the Legion of Honor.

French veterans explain France's position in North Africa [01-21-57, 2 negatives]

French Veterans Explain France's Position in North Africa -- French Consulate(January 22, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-22-57.12]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Gathered around a globe of the world are Maurice Debacq, Christian de Fels, and Michel Prevost (pointing to North Africa on the globe).

Deciding where to build North Beach library [01-23-57, 2 negatives]

Deciding Where to Build North Beach Library -- North Beach Playground(January 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-23-57.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

North Beach mothers with the city superintendant Charles Ertola on a sidewalk alongside the site.

Alcoholic Rehabilitation fund drive

Blind bowlers at Park Bowl (disabled persons) [01-24-57, 8 negatives]

Formosan kid (from Taiwan) gets heart operation

Eleanor Roosevelt [01-24-57, 3 negatives]

Eleanor Roosevelt -- Press Interview -- Hotel St. Francis(January 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-24-57.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Eleanor Roosevelt sitting at a table with interviewers.

Attorney General's (Edmund G. Brown) daughter weds at St. Cecilia's [01-24-57, 6 negatives]

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown's Daughter Weds -- St. Cecilia's Church(January 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 100, [01-24-57.10]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown and daughter Cynthia Brown (Kelly). Joseph Kelly (groom) and Cynthia Kelly. Bridal party on the church steps.

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [01-24-57, 2 negatives]

Chinese New Year festivities and parade [01-24-57, 01-28-01-31, 12 negatives]

Celebrating India's Republic day with Consul General B.N. Nanda of India and artist Beniamino Bufano

New atomic submarine at Mare Island Naval Shipyard [01-25-57, 8 negatives]

New Atomic Submarine -- Mare Island Navel Shipyard(January 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [01-25-57.08]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Workers busy constructing the submarine. Model of the completed submarine. Unidentified man sitting at his desk and talking.

Refugees arrive aboard the American Presidents Line's Cleveland (ship)

National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) [01-26-57, 01- 29-57 - 01-30-57, 12 negatives]

Mount Tamalpais in the snow [01-28-57, 7 negatives]

Stanford Medical School research on tears

Hungarian refugees registering

Doctors convene to discuss new iron shot for anemia

Ship explodes at Todd Shipyard (01-29-57 - 01-30-57, 23 negatives)

Ship Explosion -- Todd Shipyard(January 29, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [01-29-57.12]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots taken from the top side of the ship. Men looking for bodies. Burnt out boiler room. A victim who was rescued and still alive. Welders burning a hole in the side of the ship in order to get to victims. Bodies being removed through a hole in the side of the ship. Tanker with smoke coming out from the boiler room area.

Ship Explosion -- Todd Shipyard(January 30, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [01-30-57.01]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Tanker from a distance. Police cars at the scene. Victims being rescued. Hole to rescue victims being made.

Mount Diablo in snow

Miss America Marian McKnight

Reception for consul generals of the British Commonwealth

Harry Lundeberg's funeral

Marine swearing in ceremony in front of Oakland City Hall

Father and son lawyers Butch and Vincent Hallinan

February 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101-102, [020057-022857]

Physical Description: 850 negatives (estimate)

Hines' trained seals

Republican committee meeting with Edward S. Shattuck and Robert H. Steele [02-01-57, 2 negatives]

Republican Meeting at St. Francis Hotel(February 01, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 81, [02-01-56.01]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

The Republican National Committeeman and Chairman of the California Republican State Central Committee's Planning Committee, Edward L. Shattuck of Los Angeles meets with Robert H. Steele, Chairman of the San Francisco Republican County Central Committee.

Excavation in front of City Hall

Crowds and lion dance and crowning of Chinese New Year Queen [02-01-57, 7 negatives]

Crowning of Chinese New Year Queen(February 01, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-01-57.07]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

On Grant Avenue, between Jackson Street and Washington Street, the crowning of Chinese New Year Queen Ruby Kwong by Mayor George Christopher. Crowd scenes in Chinatown. Lion Dance with man in mask dancing around.

Woman box office boss at Seals Stadium

Columbia Park Boys' Club "Athletic Clinic" with Jock Mahoney

Dedication of James House housing facility of the Salvation Army

Interiors of new apartments for noncommissioned women officers at the Presidio

Junior Achievement winners

Appliances and swimming pool and furniture displayed at Furniture Mart [02-04-57, ca. 22 negatives]

Furniture Mart Displays(February 04, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-04-57.10]

Physical Description: 22 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Models with merchandise. Paula Lane with weather balloons. Barbara Fulwider with steel and plastic swimming pool, also with Western Holly Cooking Center. Mickie Kittel on Thayer Coggin bench with Peter Pepper clock on the wall. Paula lane with Russian mattressess (communism).

Office interiors of Internal Revenue Service tax processing [02-05-57, 11 negatives]

Jewish leader Louis H. Blumenthal shot [02-05-57 - 02-08-57, ca. 9 negatives]

Louis H. Blumenthal Recovering(February 05, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-05-57.05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

After being shot, Louis Blumenthal seen in a chair at Mount Zion Hospital.

Suspect in Blumenthal Shooting(February 07, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-07-57.13]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Inspector Frank Van Dervort and Inspector William Merrick question Arthur Smith in connection with the shooting of Louis H. Blumenthal.

Louis H. Blumenthal and Police Lineup(February 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-08-57.01-02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

A Police lineup of suspects in the Louis H. Blumenthal shooting. Participants include Ray Jones, Inspector John Kane, Inspector Frank Van Dervort, Arthur Smith and George Murphy (news reporter).

Suspect in Louis H. Blumenthal Shooting(February 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-08-57.02]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Inspector Jack O'Keefe, Inspector William Van Laake and reporter George Murphy.

Plans for Capehart housing project at Fort Ord [02-06-57, 6 negatives]

Capehart Housing Project -- Fort Ord(February 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-06-57.03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots showing plans for the style of the housing and maps of the location of the project with Lieutenant General Robert N. Young, the Sixth Army Commanding General and Director James C. Belda of the Federal Housing Administration.

Kyra Nijinsky at San Francisco ballet school

Insurance Bankers' Exchange meeting with attorney Melvin Belli and others

Miss Chinatown Ruby Kwong and others dining

Petrini Plaza supermarket interiors [02-07-57, 7 negatives]

Petrini Plaza Supermarket(February 07, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-07-57.05]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Advertizing shots of a woman shopping inside the supermarket (fashion).

Oldest patient Gaio Vavich at Laguna Honda Relief Home

Paint clean-up regarding University of San Francisco and Saint Mary's College rivalry

Interview with store founder J.C. Penney [02-07-57, 2 negatives]

Edward Bransten of MJB Company sampling tea

Attendees of Hospitality Ball including Consul General T.K. Chang of China and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz [02-08-57, ca. 12 negatives]

Hospitality Ball -- Fairmont Hotel(February 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-08-57.13]

Physical Description: 17 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Participants dining and dancing at the Hospitality Ball at the Fairmont Hotel. People include: Mr. and Mrs. Norman Colliver, Consul General T.K. Chang of China, Mr. Steve Sutro, Mrs. Stephen Zellerbach and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz among others.

Starting line of sports car rally for muscular dystrophy at Aquatic Park and Ghirardelli Square [02-09-57, 2 negatives]

Sports Car Rally for Muscular Dystrophy -- Aquatic Park(February 09, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-09-57.02]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Cars are lined up in starting postion with children ready to set them off. Children are Bobby Boyd (in wheelchair), Billy Frith and Barry Frith.

Boys' Club Boy of the Year Alan Sheridan

Blind kids with snakes at the Junior Museum (disabled persons)

Sound recording expert Oliver Read

Cadillac cars on display

Feature on woman attorney Mollie Strum

English class for non-English speaking students [02-11-57, 2 negatives]

Non-English Speakers in English Class(February 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-11-57.08]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

High school students ("some refugees, some immigrants") in class learning English (education).

Actors Aldo Ray and Robert Ryan promote "Battle Hymn"

Cable car rail removal on Washington Street line [02-11-57, 4 negatives]

Cable Car Rail Removal -- Washington Street Line(February 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-11-57.10]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shows men removal rails on Steiner Street and Jackson Street. Also shown is equipment involved and a city bus parked nearby (neighborhood).

Ralph Davies, Governor Goodwin Knight, and Herbert Hoover III at commisioning of American Presidents Lines' Herbert Hoover (ship) [02-11-57, 6 negatives]

Commissioning of the President Hoover (ship)(February 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-11-57.11]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shown celebrating the commissioning of the President Hoover (ship) for American President Lines are Chairman of the Board, Ralph Davies, Governor and Mrs. Goodwin Knight, Mrs. Herbert Hoover III, President George Killion of American President Lines and Captain Waldemar Nielsen.

Morris Weisberger of Sailors' Union of the Pacific (labor) [02-11-57, 2 negatives]

New Secretary-Treasurer of Sailors' Union of the Pacific(February 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-11-57.16]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shown is Morris Weisberger, elected to succeed Harry Lundberg as Secretary-Treasurer of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific (labor).

Ships tied up in moth balls at Hunters' Point shipyard [02-12-57, 4 negatives]

Ships at Hunters Point Shipyard(February 12, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-12-57.01]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shown is Captain C.E. Trescott, the Commander of Hunters Point Shipyard and the retired ships packed closely together.

Hunters Point Naval Radiological lab and bomb shelter (atomic age) [02-12-57, 2 negatives]

Naval Shipyard Bomb Shelter Plans -- Hunters Point(February 12, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-12-57.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Commander Donald C. Campbell, Science Director Dr. Paul C. Tompkins, and Technical Adm.(?) Officer Commander Robert E. Harris (atomic age).

Sea wall repair at yacht harbor [02-12-57, 4 negatives]

Sea Wall Crumbling -- Yacht Harbor(February 12, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-12-57.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of the sea wall at the Yacht Harbor crumbling, from various angles. Shows sandbar rebuilding at the entrance and the piling rotted away.

Old fashioned country telephones can be modernized

Suspect Peter Rasmassen threatened to blow up Treasure Island

Officers of Mission Street Merchants Coupon Company

Adlai Stevenson greeted at airport by Roger Kent [02-12-57, 8 negatives]

Adlai Stevenson -- Airport Arrival(February 12, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 101, [02-12-57.16]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Adlai Stevenson coming down ramp of airplane. Roger Kent, State Democratic Chairman, greets Stevenson upon arrival. Stevenson talking during a press conference.

Haig Terzian narcotics and arsenal case with guns and hand grenades seized [02-13-57 - 02-19-57, 13 negatives]

New San Francisco International Airport manager Belford Brown appointed [throughout month]

Annual dinner of the San Francisco Council of Churches [02-13-57, 10 negatives]

US Army Corps of Engineers model of water ways for planning commission [02-14-57, 5 negatives]

US Army Corps of Engineers Planning Commission(February 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-14-57.10]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Planning Commission members look over water ways scale-model. Members include: Thomas White, Mrs. Charles Porter, Robert Lillenthal, Robert Devine, Donald Kirby and Paul Opperman.

Democratic National Conference participants including Adlai Stevenson and Roger Kent and Senator Hubert Humphrey and Chairman Paul M. Butler [02-14-57 - 02-16-57, ca. 23 negatives]

Democratic National Convention -- "Big Wigs"(February 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-14-57.14]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

At the Fairmont Hotel Jan Binder, a volunteer Democratic Worker at the registration desk checking in Lieutenant Governor Harry Lee Waterfield of Kentucky. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota in hotel room going over a speech. Democratic National Committeeman and Chairman of Democratic Southern Conference Camille Gravel of Louisiana talks with Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler.

Democratic National Conference(February 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-15-57.01-02]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of registration desk at the Fairmont Hotel. Also Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler giving a speech.

Democratic Reception(February 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-15-57.02]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

In the Gold Room at the Fairmont Hotel. Rena Nicolai of La Pantera Restaurant and friend of Adlai Stevenson gives him a big kiss as they meet at reception. Also President Ray Freeman of the Pacific Student Presidents Association meets with Stevenson. Senator Hubert Humphrey, Louise Baldwin, Secretary in local club (Democratic?) and State Central Committee from Orange County, and Roger Kent, State Democratic Chairman talking.

Democratic Breakfast -- Fairmont Hotel(February 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-16-57.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Representative Michael Kirwan of Ohio with Representative Clair Engle of California, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler.

Actor Don Sherwood and wife

Arrest of actor Don Sherwood

Major General E.C.R. Lasher press conference [02-18-57, 1 negative]

Instruction at Berkeley's California School for the Deaf (education) (disabled persons) [02-18-57, 5 negatives]

California School for the Deaf -- Berkeley(February 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-18-57.09]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Kids in woodworking shop communicate with sign language. Instructor Sheldon McArtor teaching deaf pupil in shoe repair. Instructor Jean Leonard with microphone teaching in group hearing aid class. Carla and Zoe Ann, both five, in dormitory (education, disabled persons)

Israeli basketball team visits [throughout month]

Dr. Pieter A. de Vries reports on heart research at Children's Hospital (health)

Consul General Gunther Kempff and Social Democratic Party head Erich Ollenhauer of Germany at airport [02-19-57, 8 negatives]

Top secret Atomic Energy Commission meeting [02-20-57]

Atomic Energy Commission Meeting -- California Theater -- Berkeley(February 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-20-57.05]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Director Dr. Herbert York of the UC Radiation Lab at Livermore enters top secret meeting to be handed Atomic Energy Commission folder by Mary McMenamy of AEC security staff. AEC Director of Research Thomas H. Johnson of Washington, D.C. and Chief of Controlled Thermonuclear Branch Dr. Arthur F. Ruark of the AEC in Washington. John Edward Allen of the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England and Richard A. Fitch of British Atmoic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, England. Outside the California Theater movie being shown is "Top Secret Affair."

Opening night attendees of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at Curran Theatre

Beniamino Bufano and Kyra Nijinsky and Althya Youngman at Artist's Embassy exhibit

Kids audition in Disney talent hunt

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Arthur W. Radford and others at Commonwealth Club [02-25-57, 4 negatives]

Meeting on air pollution

Interior views of overcrowded county jail in San Bruno [02-26-97, 5 negatives]

Overcrowding in County Jail Number Two -- San Bruno, Calif.(February 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-26-57.04]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of cell block showing cots lining coridor on either side of cells. Deputy Carl Olson, Captain Thomas Burns, and Deputy Frank Thompson in front of the main building.

Sierra Hotel condemned for freeway right-of-way and used for firemen training

"Evening of Music" at DeYoung Museum with Kurt Herbert Adler and Enrique Jorda and others

Women arrested in massage parlor vice raid

Mayor George Christopher and others with plans for auto repair shop for juvenile probationers

Aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard (ship) arrives [02-28-57, 4 negatives]

Aircraft Carrier Arrives(February 28, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [02-28-57.06]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Sailors getting off the Bon Homme Richard (ship). Crowds gathered to greet the arriving sailors.

University of San Francisco alumni dinner with Major General Archie J. Old and others.

March 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102-104, [030057-033157]

Physical Description: 1050 negatives (estimate)

Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton arrives at airport [03-01-57, 6 negatives]

Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton -- Airport Arrival(March 01, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [03-01-57.16]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton exiting airplane. Seaton and wife sitting.

Neighborhood protest at City Hall over Geary Boulevard improvements

Teamsters' Union conference (labor) [03-02-57, 6 negatives]

Teamsters' Union Conference -- Fairmont Hotel(March 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [03-02-57.02]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Union heads entering Job Hill room for the conference. Joseph Deveny standing (labor).

Archduke Otto of Austria and Vienna Boys' Choir

Boy Scout leader makes Indian beadwork costumes

Pacific Coast League baseball owners meet

Vienna Boys' Choir visits Playland at the Beach [03-02-57, 3 negatives]

Vienna Boys' Choir Visiits Playland(March 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [03-02-57.10]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Group photo. View of two boys on a carousel.

Shortage of staff and medical equipment at county hospital (health)

Members of Blyth-Zellerbach citizens committee view model of downtown produce district redevelopment plan [03-04-57, 3 negatives]

Costumed guests attend Mardi Gras Ball [03-05-57, ca. 15 negatives]

Ash Wednesday mass at Mission Dolores church

Students in vocational cooking and baking class [03-06-57, 14 negatives]

Students in a Vocational Cooking and Baking Class -- Board of Education Cafeteria(March 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [03-06-57.06]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Students performing various tasks: stacking dishes, rolling out pastry dough, testing soup. [Some negatives appear to be missing].

Pianist Josepha Heifitz

Vampira promotion for movie with Maila Nurmi [03-07-57, 5 negatives]

Vampira Promotion for Movie -- Maila Nurmi -- Call-Bulletin Office(March 07, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [03-07-57.02]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

"Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) posing on chair. "Vampira" posing next to a bookshelf. "Vampira" standing. "Vampira" standing over 'frightened' woman.

Anniversary of Columbia Park Boys' Club

Actor Don Sherwood at Sports and Boat Show

Television actor Clint Walker signs autographs for kids

New building for IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) electricians union (labor) [03-08-57, 5 negatives]

New Building -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers -- Fillmore Street(March 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 102, [03-08-57.04]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Three men in front of the new IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) building on Fillmore Street. Two men standing where the name of the building is marked. View of the exterior of the building. View of the conference hall inside (labor).

Abortionists arrested

Mounted policeman clears beach for expected tidal wave

California State Federation of Labor delegates to AFL meeting (labor) [03-09-57, 2 negatives]

Delegates to the AFL Meeting -- California State Federation of Labor -- Jones Street(March 09, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-09-57.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Overall shot of the California State Federation of Labor delegates at the AFL (American Federation of Labor) meeting (labor).

Recreation for the blind (disabled persons) [03-09-57, 2 negatives]

Recreation for the Blind -- Funston Street(March 09, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-09-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

A group of high school students talking and gathered around "Recreation for the Blind" paraphernalia.

Tidal wave related view of aircraft carrier (ship) entering Golden Gate

Opera singer Tomiko Kanazawa conductor Carlo Moresco and guests

Chinese actress Patricia Joe Wong arrives [03-11-57, 3 negatives]

Distribution of Salk polio vaccine (health) [03-11-57, 3 negatives]

Distribution of Salk Polio Vaccine -- Health Department -- Grove Street(March 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-11-57.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. Ellis, the public health director for the city and county, gives women a shot while her children cover their eyes (health).

British newsmen arrive on BOAC (British Oversees Airways Corporation) inaugural flight

Consul General Gunther Kempff greets German Foreign Minister Heirich von Brentano and Ambassador Heinz Krekeler [03-11-57, 2 negatives]

State harbor commissioners with plans for new super pier [03-11-97, 2 negatives]

Thomas Carr Howe explains Brussels exposition plans

Daughters of the American Revolution conference

Bookie and abortionist arrested

View of Bay Bridge (cityscapes)

Mr. and Mrs. Edmund G. [Pat] Brown at airport

Army trains police in explosives

Draft dodger arrested

Burton W. Abbott execution including Abbott family active to stop execution and visit to San Quentin State prison and Governor Goodwin Knight [03-13-57 - 03-16-57, 58 negatives]

Abbott Family Works to Stop Execution -- Alameda, Calif.(March 13, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-13-57.03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Burton W. Abbott's aunt at a typewriter while Abbott's mother proof reads a petition. Abbott's mother looking over aunt's shoulder while she types.

Abbott Family Leaving San Quentin Prison(March 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-14-57.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Burton W. Abbott's aunt and brother leaving California state prison San Quentin in a car.

Abbott Family Makes a Final Visit to Burton W. Abbott -- San Quentin(March 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-14-57.08]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Burton W. Abbott's brother and mother walking through a doorway. Abbott's mother standing in front of the prison yard door. Abbott's mother and aunt walking towards the San Quentin prison gate.

Day of Burton W. Abbott's Execution -- Governor Knight Arrives -- Alameda Naval Air Station(March 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-15-57.01]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor Knight arrives at the airport. Knight watching television. Knight talking on the phone. Exterior view of an unidentified building.

Burton W. Abbott's Execution -- Last Minute Legal Maneuvers Fail -- State Building?(March 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-15-57.04-05]

Physical Description: 22 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Attorney George Davis Consoles Burton W. Abbott's brother. Various views of Davis and Abbott's brother awaiting, and finally receiving, the new of Abbott's death. Davis surrounded by reporters as he announces the death of Abbott. Views of the Abbot family leaving their apartment building.

Burton W. Abbott's Execution -- Final Appeal to Governor for a Stay -- Post Office(March 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-15-57.08]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Attorney George Davis talking on the phone with Governor Goodwin Knight.

Waitress in Burton W. Abbott Case -- Pring's Doughnut Shop -- Oakland(March 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-15-57.11]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mrs. La Verne Malloy listening to the radio broadcast of the Burton W. Abbott execution.

After Burton W. Abbott's Execution -- Post Street(March 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-16-57.01]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Attorney George Davis talking with Burton W. Abbott's brother.

After Burton W. Abbott's Execution -- George T. Davis Law Offices(March 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-16-57.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Attorney Leo Sullivan, Burton W. Abbott's brother, and George T. Davis. Abbott's brother seated in a chair and Davis standing.

Sunbathers on rooftop with San Francisco and view of Golden Gate Bridge behind (cityscapes)

High school science fair entries (education)

Dr. M.F. Ashely Montagu introduced by Dr. S.I. Hayakawa [03-13-57, 2 negatives]

Dr. M.F. Ashely Montagu Introduced by Dr. S.I. Hayakawa -- San Francisco State College(March 13, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-13-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. M.F. Ashely Montagu and Dr. S.I. Hayakawa standing together at a podium.

Night panorama of San Francisco from Twin Peaks (cityscapes) [03-13-57, 10 negatives]

Grammar school children in typing class (education) [03-13-57, 6 negatives]

Grammer School Children in Typing Class -- Fremont School(March 13, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-13-57.14]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Students typing while their teacher instructs (education).

Commander of Antarctic expedition Admiral George J. Dufek [03-14-57, 3 negatives]

Night view of San Francisco (cityscapes) from Corona Heights [03-14-57, 2 negatives]

Salesian Boys' Club

Return of San Francisco Ballet Company

Gracie Fields appearance

Fireboat Phoenix (ship) at work near Bay Bridge [03-18-57, ca. 28 negatives]

Woman electronics technician Rita Boulaugeo at Alameda Naval Air Station [03-18-57, 8 negatives]

Woman Electronics Technician Rita Boulaugeo -- Alameda Naval Air Station(March 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-18-57.06]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Rita Boulaugeo working with aircraft controls. Boulaugeo standing beneath an airplane. Boulaugeo working in a lab. Exterior view of an unidentified building.

Mrs. Lucas murder trial [various dates]

"Mongol" scholar John Hangin at UC Berkeley

Spring views in Golden Gate Park

Lehi III (ship) off Bodega Bay

Former Mayor Mott of Oakland visits Oakland City Hall [03-20-57, 4 negatives]

Former Mayor Mott of Oakland -- Oakland City Hall(March 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-20-57.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mayor Mott (mayor ca. 1900) sitting on a chair on the mezzanine, looking at electric chandelier he had installed during his term.

Defense Minister Kim Yong Woo of Korea at airport [03-20-57, 2 negatives]

Defense Minister Kim Yong Woo of Korea -- Airport(March 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-20-57.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Defense Minister Kim Yong Woo sitting on a couch.

Poll on capital punishment (death penalty)

Young Republicans meeting

Yogi Roman Ostoja pierces tongue and hand with needles [03-20-57, 5 negatives]

Yogi Roman Ostoja -- Hotel St. Francis(March 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-20-57.13]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Yogi Roman Ostoja standing on broken glass. Ostoja pushin a needle through his hand. Ostoja with a needle through his tongue. Ostoja drinking some water. Ostoja in a horizontal position while a man uses a sledge hammer to hit a piece of concrete positioned on Ostoja's stomach.

First Bay Area induction to military under critical skills program

Vice Admiral Redmond with Vice Admiral George De Wolf of Canada

Boston Red Sox dine at Di Maggio's Grotto

Premier Ferenc Nagy of Hungary at UC Berkeley Charter Day

Foreign Minister George K.C. Yeh of Nationalist China [03-21-57, 3 negatives]

George K.C. Yeh of Nationalist China -- The Hotel St. Francis(March 21, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-21-57.12]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Foreign Minister George K.C. Yeh of Nationalist China sitting in a chair. Yeh standing with papers in hand.

Massage parlor vice raid

Polio vaccinations at Homewood Terrace Orphanage

Earthquake damage [03-22-57 - 03-30-57, 93 negatives]

Earthquake Damage -- San Francisco Bay Area(March 22, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-22-57.01-05]

Physical Description: 42 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Caved-in road. Two taxi drivers talking to each other. Man selling used furniture. Building with broken glass. Car with a broken windshield. Men sweeping up debris. Structural damage to houses. Grocery aisle with foodstuff spilled on the floor. Damage to power lines. Family evacuating their house in case of flooding. Bulldozers clearing dirt. Residents sitting outside homes. Storefront damage. Structural damage to garage and home. Police officers standing guard in front of stores that are missing their windows. (Many views at Westlake shopping center, among other locations).

Earthquake Damage -- San Francisco Bay Area(March 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-23-57.02-08]

Physical Description: 21 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Policeman at M.H. De Young Memorial Museum pointing to damage. Mayor George Christopher examining a report of the damage. Damage to the back stairs of a house. Man reading a sign notifying the relocation of church services. Damage to church. Crack in a building. Caved-in road. Road damage to the Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1).

Earthquake Damage at Cemetery Row -- Daly City(March 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-25-57.07]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various tombstones and other objects damaged by the series of earthquakes. Damaged statues.

Earthquake Damage -- Loose Corner Stones -- White House Retail Store(March 28, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-28-57.12]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowds gathered to watch a fire truck check loose masonry. The fire truck with its ladder extended (Market Street neighborhood?).

Earthquake Damage -- Holy Cross Cemetery(March 30, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-30-57.06]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Fallen tombstones. Cracked tombstones.

Brother of President Dien of Vietnam (Ngo Dinh Nhu)

Disabled American Veterans award to Chester R. MacPhee

New and old admissions desks at Mission Emergency Hospital (health) [03-25-57, 6 negatives]

Representatives of Seafarers' Union of North America (labor) [03-25-57, 2 negatives]

Representatives of the Seafarers' Union of North America -- Whitcomb Hotel(March 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-25-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Seafarers' Union of North America representatives standing together: Morris Weisberger (secretary-treasurer, Sailors' Union of the Pacific), Fred Farnen (secretary-treasurer, Great Lakes district), Paul [?] (president, SLUNA), John Hawk (secretary-treasurer, SLUNA) (labor).

New lighting at Bush Street and Stockton Street tunnel (neighborhood view) [02-25-57, 6 negatives]

New Lighting -- San Francisco Streets(March 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-25-57.09]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of Bush street above Stockton Street Tunnel: the foreground has old lights, and new lights are one block down. View of Tenth Street and Market Street looking south toward a furniture store. View of Tenth Street and Market Street taken from Fell Street (neighborhood).

Consul General Pierluigi Alvera of Italy and model of planned Christopher Columbus statue [03-25-57, 9 negatives]

Consul General Peirluigi Alvera of Italy -- Italian Consulate(March 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-25-57.11]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Consul General Pierluigi Alvera of Italy sitting with Superior Judge Walter Carpeneti and Superior Judge John Molinari around a model for the proposed Quoit tower Christopher Columbus statue. Alvera, Clarence Peterson (chairman of the SF art commission), Louis Sutter (chairman of the art and recreation commission), Mrs. Albert Compodonico (member of the art commission), Carpaneti, and Molinari looking at the model. The model on a table.

Architect's model of new Stanford Medical Center

Italian architect Pierluigi Nervi [03-25-57, 2 negatives]

Italian Architect Pier Luigi Nervi -- Hotel St. Francis(March 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-26-57.06]

Physical Description: 1 negative

Scope and Content Note

Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi sitting in a chair.

Dope raid (narcotics) photos taken at scene during raid [03-26-57, 19 negatives]

Dope Raid -- Hotel at Eddy and Jones Streets(March 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-26-57.08]

Physical Description: 19 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Long views from a window of a suspect getting out of a car. Agents listening to a recording of suspects in an adjacent room. Suspect being arrested (narcotics).

Promotions of Brigadier Generals Paul Fancher and Clarence Canby

Rally supporting moratorium on death penalty [03-26-57, 6 negatives]

Rally Supporting Death Penalty Moratorium -- St. John's Episcopal Church(March 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 103, [03-26-57.14]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Overall view of the gathered crowd. Reverend C. Julian Bartlett, Dean of Grace Cathedral and attorney A.J. Zirpoli speaking. Family of Burton W. Abbott departing.

Founder of Italy Boy's Town Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing

Crowds on Market Street watching "maybe jumper" (suicide attempt) [03-27-57, 3 negatives]

Powell Street scene and cable car interiors

European representatives of AFL-CIO with Moroccan Federation of Labor [02-27-57, 3 negatives]

European Representatives of the AFL-CIO -- Hotel St. Francis(March 27, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-27-57.07]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Irving Brown and Talb Bouazza(?) (assistant general secratary, Moroccan Federation of Labor).

Seafarers' International Union conference (labor) [03-27-57, 3 negatives]

Seafarers' International Union Conference -- Whitcomb Hotel(March 27, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-27-57.11]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Rocco Siciliano, assistant secretary of labor (for the union?), speaking (labor).

Dinner preceding British paintings art exhibition

Officer Leon Getchel with opium pipe (narcotics)

Vice Consul Max de Montalembert of France and Admiral Chester Nimitz at Lafayette bicentennial

National Association of Women Deans conference

Model of path of Arend-Roland comet

Governor Samuel Wilder King of Hawaii en route to statehood hearings [03-28-57, 4 negatives]

Governor Samuel Wilder King of Hawaii en Route to Statehood Hearings -- Clift Hotel(March 28, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-28-57.10]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor Samuel Wilder King of Hawaii sitting and talking.

New Bayshore Freeway [03-28-57, 10 negatives]

New Bayshore Freeway(March 28, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-28-57.11]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of the Bayshore freeway ready to be paved. View of an overpass.

San Francisco Working Boys' Club

Retirement of Water Department head George W. Pracy

Franklin H. Williams at National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting [03-29-57, 2 negatives]

Franklin H. Williams at NAACP Meeting -- Whitcomb Hotel(March 29, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-29-57.02]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Franklin H. Williams seated at an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) meeting. Williams sitting with two unidentified people.

Opening of Hyde Street cable car line [03-29-57, 5 negatives]

Opening of the Hyde Street Cable Car Line -- Hyde Street(March 29, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [03-29-57.09]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Play house actors with a welcoming sign. Inspectors walking around the cable car.

Actor Henry Fonda

April 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104-105, [040057-043057]

Physical Description: 1075 negatives (estimate)

Oldsmobile president

Mining magnate Stanley Smith of Singapore

Smog tester for automobile emissions

Children's science exhibition (education)

Civil Defense meeting with Mayor George Christopher [04-00-57, 3 negatives]

Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe of Dublin (Ireland) visits [04-01-57- 04-03-57, ca. 40 negatives]

Lucas murder trial and re-trial [throughout month, ca. 30 negatives]

ILWU longshoremen's convention with Harry Bridges and others (labor) [04-01-57, 2 negatives]

Longshoremen's Convention -- ILWU Hall(April 01, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-01-57.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Alaska delegate Harold Wright, Vice Presidents J.R. Robertson and Germain Bulcke, local president of 142 Hawaii Tony Rania, and Harry Bridges converse before International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union convention.

Night cityscape of Mark Hopkins Hotel [04-02-57, 3 negatives]

Night Picture -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(April 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-02-57.09]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Night view of Mark Hopkins Hotel with Bay Bridge in background and San Francisco city lights (taken from an unidentified Nob Hill building) (cityscapes).

Marijuana (narcotics) arrest in Saint Mary's Cathedral

Cow milking contest in front of Sather Gate at UC Berkeley

Old folks eviction (senior housing) [04-02-57, 6 negatives]

Old Folks Eviction(April 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-02-57.14]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Old folks watching television. View of bedroom, exterior of building. Back steps and new door setup shown (housing, senior citizens). Taken at 1798 Great Highway.

Teen student science fair (education)

US Air Force officers at Electronic Defense System Arctic Radar Net presentation [04-03-57, 2 negatives]

New projection magnifier for eye treatment [or assisting the partially blind to read?] at Stanford Hospital (health) (disabled persons) [04-03-57, 7 negatves]

Maps of proposed Junipero Serra Boulevard freeway

Funeral services for Herbert Fleishhacker (senior)

Minister of Defense Kim Yong Woo of the Republic of Korea [04-04-57, 3 negatives]

Korean Minister Kim Yong Woo -- Presidio(April 04, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-04-57.10]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Colonal H.A. Davenport greeting Minister of Defence Kim Yong Woo of Korea. Nineteen gun salute. Minister and colonel walking past rows of soldiers at attention (military).

OAS (Organization of American States: Pan-American Union) press conference and pickets protesting Nicaragua (labor) [04-08-57 - 04-09-57, 10 negatives]

Press Conference -- Organization of American States(April 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-08-57.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Drier of Guatamala, Colonel Jose Luis Cruz-Salazar of Brazil, Dr. Galba Samuel Santos of Nicaragua, section general Dr. Guillermo Sevella-Sacasa, and Dr. Jose A. Mora of Uruguay answering questions from the press.

Protest -- Organization of American States -- Hotel St. Francis(April 09, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-09-57.13]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Picketers protest Nicaragua outside of hotel banquet (social protests). Nicaraguan Ambassador to the OAS Dr. Sevila-Sacasa reads and later tears up literature handed out by the protesters. Dr. Sevilla-Sacasa gives principle speech at banquet. Dr. Sevila Sacasa, chairman Henry Craft, Mayor Christopher and Brazilian chairman of OAS council Dr. Fernando Lobo pose for picture.

Felix Hurdes and Karl Weber of Austria

Miss Universe Carol Morris

Joseph Goebbels' diary in Hoover Archives collection

Opening of first Embarcadero Freeway ramp and views of freeway (cityscapes) [04-08-57, 12 negatives]

Opening of Embarcadero-Southbound Ramp -- Top of Matson Lines Building, Market Street(April 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-08-57.12]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of new freeway ramp at Embarcadero street from the top of the tower at the Matson Line building on Market Street. (cityscapes). Looking south at ramp with beginning of Bay Bridge in background. Very little traffic (transportation).

Opening of Embarcadero Street Freeway Ramp -- Beale Street and Mission Street(April 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-08-57.13]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Henry Rolph cutting ribbon with Division of Highways representative Frank B. Durkee, president of Downtown association Roy Buell, and crowd surrounding. Skyline of downtown in background. (cityscapes).

Movie producer Stuart Miller

Civil defense meeting on evacuation of schools (Admiral Cooke and PTA president Mrs. Tony Patch pictured)

Nike missiles on San Francisco ocean front [04-09-57, 9 negatives]

NIKE Guided Missile Site -- San Francisco Ocean Front(April 09, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-09-57.08]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

NIKE guided missiles shown in various attack modes. Men preparing new missile and Sergeant Essel Atkinson directing NIKEs to vertical firing position. All missles shown aimed at direction of potential attack from the ocean front, and view of San Francisco hills in background. (military, defense).

Ground Observer Corps (civil defense) [04-10-57, 8 negatives]

Ground Observer Corps Watch for Unidentified Planes -- Ground Observer Corps Watch Tower(April 10, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 104, [04-10-57.05]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Assistant chief observer Worth V. Headley of 1232 Seventh Avenue watches sky with observer trainee Margaret Lippman of 2100 Hyde Street outside watch tower of the San Francisco ground observer corps' (GOC) at Lands End. View of bay in background.

Produce district redevelopment model

Maiden Lane Daffodil Festival

Women booked in massage parlor vice raid

Washington Street at Embarcadero blocked by trucks unloading (neighborhood)

Actors (Barbara Rush, Clifton Webb, Dorothy Johnson, Robert Wagner, and John Harvey) and producer Samuel Engel at "Boy on a Dolphin" premier

Fashion designer Christian Dior arrival and fashion show [04-11-57 and 04-12-57, ca. 30 negatives]

Scientific instruments made at the planetarium

Interior of Rincon Annex post office

International Settlement district (Pacific Street - Barbary Coast neighborhood) cleaned up for movie "My Pal Joey" [04-13-57, 4 negatives]

Clean up of International Settlement Street for Movie -- Pacific Street(April 13, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-13-57.05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Pacific Street in International Settlement district is cleaned up by a movie company for the movie "My Pal Joey". View looking down street (neighborhood). Three storefronts in particular are made up for pictures.

Actress Rita Hayworth arrives

Training ship Esmeralda from Chile sails under Golden Gate Bridge

Actress Kim Novak

Earthquake and fire anniversary at Lotta's Fountain [04-18-57, 2 negatives]

Fifty-first anniversary of Earthquake and Fire -- South of Market Boys -- Lottas Fountain(April 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-18-57.09]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

William Ben and others of South of Market Boys organization hang wreath at Lotta's Fountain (at Third and Market Streets) fifty-one years after the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Civil defense demonstration [04-22-57, 2 negatives]

Civil Defence Demonstration -- Downtown(April 22, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-22-57.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

A civil defence exibit at California Street between Sansome and Montgomery. Rescue service with an emergency vehicle and various rescue equipment and a large crowd gathered on sidewalk. Description by photographer reads "This thing was really screwed. The poor civilian will get defenced right into an atomic cloud if this is any example".

President and Mrs. Lester L. Roth of Brandeis University

Office workers evacuated in civil defense drill [04-23-57, 8 negatives]

San Francisco Civil Defense Ready Week -- Office Evacuation Drill(April 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-23-57.11]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Office workers evacuate building and board buses during civil defence drill. Disaster corporation director Admiral A.G. Clark sits with the siren which sounded the alarm. Taken at 450 Mission Street.

Civil rights leader Reverend Fred. L Shuttlesworth [04-24-57, 2 negatives]

Press interview -- Reverend F.L. Shuttlesworth -- Sir Francis Drake Hotel (April 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-24-57.01]

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Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Reverend F.L. Shuttlesworth of the Alabama Christian Movement for Civil Rights speaks at a press conference at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel (civil rights).

San Francisco cityscapes from the liner Caronia (ship)

Woman's head shaved for movie publicity stunt

Guests at Italian Consulate for screening of film on Boy's Town of Italy

"Baby atom smasher" at Stanford for cancer treatment (radiation, nuclear medicine, atomic age, health) [04-24-47, 4 negatives]

Baby Atom Smasher -- Stanford Hospital(April 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-24-57.08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. Malcolm A. Bagshaw shows twenty-two month old Gordon Isaacs the "Baby Atom Smasher" with Dr. Henry S. Kaplan. The "Baby Atom Smasher" will be used on tumor patients (health, nuclear medicine, radiation).

Miss Golden Gate beauty queen finalists

Exhibit preview for Treasures from the Pierpont Morgan Library (including guests Mrs. Grover Magnin, Ina Claire Wallace, Junius Morgan and Thomas Carr Howe)

Man climbing Golden Gate Bridge cables [04-26-57, 6 negatives]

Man Climbing Golden Gate Bridge Cables(April 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-26-57.02]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Man climbing cables of the Golden Gate Bridge. He climbs down and is arrested by the San Francisco Police with the head of the Golden Gate Bridge Jim Adam in the group.

Laguna Honda Home nurse in narcotics case

Frances Shasken and Dr. Alfred Auerbach and Fred C. Whitman at interview on Community Mental Health Services Act

Frank Lloyd Wright arrives by helicopter [04-27-57, 2 negatives]

Helicopter Brings in Frank Lloyd Wright -- San Francisco International Airport(April 27, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-27-57.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright is brought by helicopter with his San Francisco representative Aaron Green and helicopter pilot Clay Farnsworth. Arrival at the San Francisco International Airport from Berkeley.

Elliot Lee Richardson and William M. Brinton and Dr. Erwin C. Sage at Mental Health Luncheon

Governor G. Mennen William of Michigan at Democratic breakfast [04-29-57, 2 negatives]

Lee Tung Dai (elderly Chinese man tortured by communists) returns to San Francisco [04-30-57, 6 negatives]

Elderly Man Tortured By Communists Returns -- San Francisco International Airport(April 30, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [04-30-57.06]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Eighty year old Lee Tung Dai is escorted off the plane by his two sons Lee Bin Foon and Lee Bin Yim. His family surrounds him.

Author Kathleen Norris with "Jackie" twins Marvin and Norman Haukass

May 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105-106, [050057-053157]

Physical Description: 900 negatives (estimate)

San Francisco street scenes and cityscapes [05-00-57, 38 negatives]

Street Scenes -- San Francisco(May 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-00-57.01-02]

Physical Description: 30 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of Chinatown, highway traffic, downtown, looking down Powell with cable car, and others (cityscapes).

Street Scenes -- San Francisco(May 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-00-57.02]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Sailor posing on the beach. View looking down Lombard Street. Coast looking towards the ocean. Park and tree views, etc.

King Mohammed of Morocco with Mayor Ben West of Nashville and Mayor Celebrezze [05-00-57, 5 negatives]

King Mohammed of Morocco -- Sheraton Palace(May 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-00-57.05]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

King Mohammed of Morocco with Mayor Ben West of Nashville and Mayor Celebrezze. West shaking hands with Prince Moulay Abdullah. Moroccan royalty walking across runway and greeted by soldiers at airport.

Hunters Point shipyard [05-00-57, 21 negatives]

Activites -- Hunters Point Shipyard(May 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-00-57.06-07]

Physical Description: 17 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Workmen at workstations. Large ships in the water. Shot of exterior scaffolding.

Elevated View -- Hunters Point Shipyard(May 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-00-57.07]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of Hunters Point from atop "world's largest crane." Operator Mike Bratovich 240 feet up in the air, moth ball fleet behind him.

Parkside children's May Queen court

Feature on smuggling (gems, jade and jewelry)

Synchronized swimmers at North Beach Swimming Club [05-01-57, 5 negatives]

Synchronized Swimmers -- North Beach Swimming Club(May 01, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-01-57.11]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of swimmers in water at the North Beach Swimming Club (Lombard and Columbus Street). Included are Patricia Cronin, Lucille Ferretti, Ingrid Oyen, Ginger Degenkolb, and Yvonne Nurrie, among others.

Abortion arrest

Russians at Congress of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage

Excavation and construction of Mole Hall by San Francisco City Hall [05-02-57, 9 negatives]

Excavation and Construction of Mole Hall(May 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-02-57.01]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Excavation site in front of City Hall. Men with girders and scenic views of Land's End.

Under Secretary of the Interior O. Hatfield Chilson and Representative Clair Engle [05-02-57, 2 negatives]

Grand Banquet of Third Congress of International Commission on Irrigation, Flood Control, and Drainage(May 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-02-57.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Undersecretary of the Interior O. Hatfield Chilson talking with Master of Ceremonies Representative Clair Engle, Democrat, of Red Bluff in the Gold Room of the Sheraton Palace Hotel.

Dinner for Assemblyman Thomas A. Maloney with Mayor George Christopher

Miss Golden Gate beauty queen contest

Scout-O-Rama at the Cow Palace

California Emergency Defense Committee red hearing (communism) [05-03-57, 10 negatives]

California Emergency Defense Committee -- Red Hearing(May 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-03-57.02-03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Portraits of Judge James R. Duncan, head of the Committee, witness William M. Ford, and witness Evelyn Hanson (communism).

California Emergency Defense Committee Red Hearing(May 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-03-57.03]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Portraits of Timothy Evans and Don Kirby (communism).

Bay Area blackout (power failure) caused by Navy planes

Folger's coffee plant

Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks [05-03-57, 2 negatives]

Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks -- Fairmount Hotel(May 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 105, [05-03-57.11]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Sinclair Weeks at the podium during a luncheon in his honor.

Call Bulletin courier boys tour a Navy ship

Youth ambassador to Pakistan chosen and pictured with Consul General L. Shaffi

Children being taught to speak (and other activities) at Gough School for the Deaf (education) (disabled persons) [05-06-57, 4 negatives]

First Western Bank's new headquarters

Abortionist booked [05-06-57, 3 negatives]

Mayor George Christopher and Jessica Beth Romm at proclamation of Israel independence celebration

Pakistani woman newspaper editor Begum Ali Kahn Mohammedzai of the Daily Eastern Examiner

Mudflats of Emeryville (cityscapes)

Share Your Birthday Foundation with Consul General Laurie Shaffi of Pakistan and Royal Consul General Christian A. Axelos of Greece

Singer Nat King Cole with Gene Barry and Samuel Fuller and others at premier of movie "China Gate" [05-07-57, 4 negatives]

Premier of Movie "China Gate" -- Fox Theater(May 07, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-07-57.05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fuller (producer, writer and director), Mr. and Mrs. Gene Barry (actor), Mr. and Mrs. Nat "King" Cole (singer and actor) and sisters Patsie and Kathlene Low at the film premiere.

President Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam and Consul General Robert Luc of France [05-07-57, 2 negatives]

Private Luncheon for President of Vietnam -- Fairmont Hotel(May 07, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-07-57.15]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Meeting between President Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam, President Dr. Robert Blum of the Asia Foundation, and French Consul General Robert Luc.

Author Kathleen Norris at home

Youth winners of Industrial Education Exhibit [05-09-57, 3 negatives]

Wedding of ex-Berkeley mayor Louis Bartlett and his sister-in-law

Repair work on San Francsico Airport runway

Camp Fire Girls

Boys' Club Mothers' Day breakfast

Mayor George Christopher arrives at airport

Sierra Club members practice rock climbing

Murder of Doctor Trimble and accused G. Sidney Klass in Oakland [05-13-57 - 05-15-57, ca. 22 negatives]

Duke and Duchess Serge and Olga de Beauharnais naturalized

Interiors and equipment at new firehouse at Drumm and Sacramento Streets

Irene Doyle trial [05-14-57 - 05-20-57, ca. 30 negatives]

Torregano suit contesting will [05-15-57 - 05-27-57, ca. 22 negatives]

Consul General Marques de la Vera of Spain with Amabassador Conde de Montrico and Vice Admiral Dennison

Youth Joseph Attard assaulted by teacher

Edward S. Shattuck with Governor Goodwin Knight and Mayor George Christopher at California Republican National Committee [05-15-57, 2 negatives]

California Republican National Committee Meeting -- Elk's Club, Post Street(May 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-15-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Edward S. Shattuck, guest of honor, Governor Goodwin Knight, and Mayor George Christopher.

Young Republicans welcome Governor Goodwin Knight [05-15-57, 1 negative]

Aid to visually handicapped (children and educators with large-print lesson books) (disabled persons)

"Red" (Chinese commmunist) peace talks with Cheng Yin Fun (aide of Chiang?) and Consul T.K. Chang(?) at airport [05-17-57, 2 negatives]

Peace Talks with "Red China" -- Airport(May 17, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-17-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Meeting between Cheng Yin Fun (aide of Chiang?), Chinese Consul T.K. Chang and the Welcoming Committee (communism).

Hundreth anniversary of S.H. Frank & Co. (with Paul Stuehler, Ben Swig, and Joseph Solomon)

Inventions and gadgets exhibited [05-18-57, 4 negatives]

Inventors Convention -- Scottish Rite Auditorium(May 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-18-57.05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Ernest Schlesicher with his necktie bib, Joyce Retzleff with her model for a new clothesline, Bessie Silva with her toothbrushes that contain their own paste, and Athos Murphy, Vice President of the California Inventors Association, inspecting a model of a rooftop swimming pool.

World Trade and Maritime Festival

Consul General Akira Mishiyama of Japan at I. Magnin's

Conductor Eugene Ormandy

Crowd in Board of Supervisors' chambers at City Hall for FEPC (Fair Employment Practice Commission) decision [05-20-57, 4 negatives]

Decision for the Fair Employment Practice Commission -- City Hall(May 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-20-57.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd inside the Board of Supervisors' Chambers in City Hall, gathered to hear decision on the Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC). Standing is Supervisor James J. Sullivan (labor).

Miss San Francisco beauty pageant and winner Christine Falkenberg [05-23-57 - 05-24-57, 17 negatives]

Governor Goodwin Knight and T.S. Peterson of Standard Oil Co. at Pro-America luncheon [05-23-57, 2 negatives]

Governor Goodwin Knight Receives Award at Pro-America Luncheon(May 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-23-57.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

At the home of Mrs. Hans Klussman, Governor Goodwin Knight with an award given by the American Heritage Foundation and President T.S. Peterson of the Standard Oil Company.

Miss San Francisco and others on Vespa scooter at Stonestown

Rolls Royce and Jaguar automobiles on exhibit

AFL-CIO merger meeting (labor) [05-25-57, 4 negatives]

AFL-CIO Merger Meeting -- Clift Hotel(May 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-25-57.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

John Despol, head of CIO council in California, C.J. (Cornelius) Haggerty, of the AFL, and President George Meany of the AFL-CIO (labor).

Twentieth anniversary of Golden Gate Bridge feature

Enlisted man Jim Henderson in Treasure Island brig for shooting officers [05-28-57, ca. 20 negatives]

Graduates of Mission Adult High School (education)

Brain surgery at Mount Zion Hospital (health) [05-28-57, 8 negatives]

Brain Operation -- Mount Zion Hospital(May 28, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-28-57.08]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View from control room into operating room, Nurse Norma Genten RN checking woman patient, and the surgical team Elwood W. Wright, Jr., W. Watson Alberts, Bertram Feinstein and Grant Levin. Miscelaneous views of people skiing.

Chinese Six Companies luncheon

Vandalism at Japanese Tea Garden

Memorial Day services at Lotta's Fountain

Aircraft carrier Ticonderoga (ship) near the Marina

Airport departure of United Nations president Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand [05-31-57, 2 negatives].

Departure of UN President Prince Wan Waithayakon -- Airport(May 31, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 106, [05-31-57.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand standing in front of a plane before his departure.

June 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107-108, [060057-063057]

Physical Description: 1025 negatives (estimate)

Littleman Stores supermarket views

Magician entertains elderly patients

Swim lessons for disabled children

Heart surgery views (health) [06-00-57, 11 negatives]

Heart Surgery Views -- Mount Zion Hospital(June 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107, [06-00-57.09]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Doctor consulting with the patient. Preparations for the operation. Views of the surgery (health).

Don Sherwood trial

Feature on artist Beniamino Bufano

Jimmie Tarantino released from San Quentin State Prison

UC Berkeley students arrested for bomb

Mary Martin party

Opening of "South Pacific" at Curran Theatre

New freeway near completion [06-03-57, 6 negatives]

New Freeway Near Completion(June 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107, [06-03-57.10]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Richard Wong, state engineer inspector, standing right of asphalt machine. Views of the freeway with buildings (apartments?) nearby.

Dining at Trader Vic's

A.P. Giannini Junior High School PTA and student council formulate code of behavior (education)

Launching of destroyer Bauer (ship) at Bethlehem shipyard [06-04-57, 6 negatives]

Launching of Destroyer Bauer (ship) -- Bethlehem Shipyard(June 04, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107, [06-04-57.04]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Destroyer Bauer and crowd on scaffolding awaiting launching of the ship. Midshipman William Dale Bauer, Lieutenant General C.C. Jerome, and Mrs. Joseph Bauer preparing to christen the ship. Mrs. Bauer christening the ship. The ship leaving the shipyard.

Chinese Cardinal Thomas Tien arrives [06-04-57, 2 negatives]

Consul General Akira Nishiyama of Japan with John Bolles and Mayor George Christopher

KQED public television fund raising auction

Soccer match with Glasgow Celtics and San Francisco All Stars

Richard L. Russell wins cane at UC hospital

Governor Goodwin Knight receives plaque from California Newspaperboy Foundation

Scenic views of beach and windmill in Golden Gate Park

Actor Myron McCormick and others backstage at "South Pacific"

United Nations (UN) plaque on wall of Veterans' Building

Body of knifed Alcatraz inmate Edward Gauvin at dock

US Navy First Fleet visits [06-06-57, 2 negatives]

Actress Jean Seberg promoting "Saint Joan"

Guardsmen Chinatown rally [06-07-57, 5 negatives]

Views aboard the Awobasan Maru (ship)

ROTC graduation at UC Berkeley

Graduations (commencements) at various schools and colleges [throughout month]

Woman screenwriter of horror films Patricia Felder(?)

Ex-Supreme Court Judge Leslie Blackwell of Africa

Flower stand owner Albert Nalbandian commutes as Hollywood extra

Judge Michael Roche swears in US Attorney Lloyd H. Burke

New RCA president John L. Burns

Lawrence Ferlinghetti with attorney after lewd poetry charge (censorship) [06-11-57, 3 negatives]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti with Attorney after Lewd Poetry Charge -- Hall of Justice(June 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107, [06-11-57.08]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Lawrence Ferlinghetti with his attorney Lawrence Speiser standing and conversing (censorship).

Kids picket barber for not giving "Yul Brynner"-style skin head haircuts (fashion)

Female American Legion post commander Rachel McKune

Consul General Herbert Stanley Marchant of Great Britain

Governor Bunzo Akama of Osaka with Mayor George Christopher and others

Engineers exhibit large concrete model of San Francisco Bay [06-12-57, ca. 16 negatives]

Salvation Army training college

Navy officers' reception and sailors' dance at the Whitcomb Hotel and the YMCA

First Fleet passing under Golden Gate Bridge and arriving in bay [06-13-57, ca. 30 negatvies]

General Young with Admiral Nimitz and others at Yacht Harbor

Various views related to Navy visit

The Rochester (ship) and related social events [throughout month]

Frank Eagan [Frank Egan?] to be parolled

Dr. Lincoln Bell Hale on bonds for Israel

Actor Burt Lancaster visits

Women police officers exhibit guns and other handbag contents

Peter Gluckman in airplane for solo flight to Hawaii

Eddie Cantor and others for bonds for Israel

Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi of Japan with Ambassador Koichiro Asakai [06-17-57, 8 negatives]

Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi with Ambassador Koichiro Asakai of Japan -- Fairmont Hotel and Airport(June 17, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107, [06-17-57.04-05]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

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Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, Ambassador Koichiro Asakai, and Mayor Christopher sitting at a table. Nobusuke standing with Mrs. Baltzen Peterson, Mrs. Nion Tucker, Mrs. MacDonald Denman, Mrs. Yeshiki Yameuchi, and Mrs. Robert Blum. Nobusuke, arriving at the airport, shaking hands with Christopher. Nobusuke at the airport shaking hands with Mayor General Earle Jones. Nobusuke being handed a microphone by Christopher. Kishi and Wiley T. Buchanan, state department chief of protocol, at the airport.

Chairman Sartono of Indonesian Parliament

Actress Frances Farmer at the Palace Hotel

HUAC (Committee on Un-American Activities) hearings at City Hall (communism) [06-18-57 - 06-21-57, 120 negatives]

HUAC (Committee on Un-American Activities) Hearings -- City Hall(June 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107, [06-18-57.02-03]

Physical Description: 38 negatives

Scope and Content Note

General scenes of the hearing. Angela Ward and her Attorney Norman Leonard. Dr. Jack Patten testifying. Frank Tavenner, committe counsel asking questions. Irving Kermish, witness, with his attorney Julian Mack. Attorney Jay Darwin. Crowds outside waiting to get in. Barbara Sherwood with her attorney (unidentified) (communism).

HUAC (Committee on Un-American Activities) Hearings -- City Hall(June 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 107, [06-18-57.04]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Edward Hanchott with attorney Lawrence Speiser. John Horowitz swearing in. Horowitz sitting with attorney Speiser. Jane Scribner swearing in. Jane Scribner talking with temporary clerk Billie Wheeler. Jane Scribner sitting down with attorney Wayne Collins (communism).

HUAC (Committee on Un-American Activities) Hearings -- City Hall(June 19, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-19-57.01-02]

Physical Description: 27 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Morton L. Elkins swearing in. Elkins sitting at hearing. Thomas C. Hardwick conferring with his attorney Lloyd E. MacMurray. Hardwick sitting before committee. David Sarvis conferring with attorney MacMurray. Sarvis sitting before committee. Milton R. Strathkoetter telling reporters and police he wants to appear before the committee. Sarvin Standing with MacMurray. Robert Nissen standing with attorney Harold A. Galloway. Nissen swearing in. Nissen conferring with his attorney. Sarvis swearing in. Sidney Rubin signing paper for temporary clerk Billie Wheeler (communism).

HUAC (Committee on Un-American Activities) Hearings -- City Hall(June 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-20-57.06]

Physical Description: 24 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. Sol Bineman sitting with attorney Lloyd E. MacMurry before the committee. Bineman conferring with MacMurry. Witness Mary T. Shephards sitting before the committee. Dr. Evelyn Siris sitting with attorney Elmer P. Delaney before the committee. Siris conferring with Delaney. Dr. Asher T. Gordon sitting with attorney James W. McIness before the committee (communism).

HUAC (Committee on Un-American Activities) Hearings -- City Hall(June 21, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-21-57.02]

Physical Description: 24 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Hugh B. Miller, Jane Castellanos, Rebecca L. Melner, Benjamin Dreyfus, and Charles R. Garry swearing in. Garry sitting with attorney James C. Purcell during the hearing. Garry conferring with Purcell. Melner sitting with attorney Wayne Collins before the committee. Castellanos sitting with attorney Wayne Collins before the committee. Castellanos conferring with Collins. Miller sitting with attorney John R. Golden before committee. Miller conferring with Golden (communism).

Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Kenney at old Poodle Dog Resataurant

Construction at Carquinez Bridge in Crockett [06-18-57, 6 negatives]

Ice Follies open at Winterland Auditorium

International Lions' Convention including many events and large parade [throughtout month]

Women pilots plan for Powder Puff Air Derby

Don Sherwood trial

Women clerks of Railway Express confront teamsters picket line (labor) [06-20-57, 2 negatives]

Teamsters Picket Railway Express -- Folsom Street(June 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-20-57.12]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Women clerks trying to walk into the Railway Express building while teamsters picket. Teamsters' business agent Herman Kleist in an argument with a policeman (labor).

Senator William F. Knowland and family [06-21-57, 6 negatives]

New architect's model for Hall of Justice

Canadian navy ships arrive in bay

Student rides Vespa scooter across country

Ann Landers visits

Views on board nuclear submarine Nautilus (ship) [06-24-57, 9 negatives]

Nuclear Submarine Nautilus (ship) -- At Sea(June 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-24-57.06]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Commander W.R. Anderson on the bridge of the nuclear submarine Nautilus (ship) with San Francisco in background. Lieutenant S.M. Jenks looking through a periscope. View of forward torpedo room. Control room during a dive. Lieutenant William Labor looking through a periscope. Looking astern of Nautilus with the Golden Gate Bridge on the horizon. Two unidentified men, one holding a plaque reading "Presented by USS Nautilus ISSN-570."

Woman sheriff Mithan J. Lam of Bombay with sheriff Matt Carberry of San Francisco

Justice Earl Warren at retirement dinner for Judge William Denman and at luncheon with Theodore R. Meyer and Judge Frederick J. Hamley and others

Architect's plans for Storyland

Inmates in aftermath of Santa Rita prison riot [06-27-57, 4 negatives]

Inmates in Aftermath of Prison Riot -- Santa Rita Prison Farm(June 27, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-27-57.13]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Two inmates showing cuts on their arms they received during the riot. View from above: inmates that were injured during the riot. Sheriff H.P. Gleason watches inmates pick up uniforms that were stripped during the riot.

Berkeley sidewalk art show [06-28-57, 4 negatives]

Sidewalk Art Show -- Berkeley(June 27, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-27-57.07]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and wife standing with the Kingston Trio (Mrs. Nimitz is playing the bongo). Mrs. Nimitz cutting a birthday cake. General scene of paintings on the sidewalk with people looking. Susan Cook painting.

Singer Harry Belafonte and wife [06-28-57 and 06-29-57, 8 negatives]

Foster Rhea Dulles arrives for Lions' Club speech [06-28-57, 11 negatives]

Foster R. Dulles, Lions' Club Speech -- Civic Auditorium(June 28, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-28-57.13-14]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of the crowd. Foster R. Dulles waving to the crowd. Dulles speaking. Lions' Kiltie Band (Bagpipers from British Columbia). John J. Stickney, Lions' past president, receiving an award from W.H. Bartley. Dulles stepping down from airplane. Dulles shaking hands with Edward G. Barry, new president of the Lions Club. Dulles in the backseat of a car.

Ann Landers at Commonwealth Club

181st anniversary cermonies at Mission Dolores

Civic Auditorium performances (June Christy, Nat King Cole, and the Hi Lo's) [06-30-57, 4 negatives]

June Christy, Nat King Cole, and the Hi Lo's -- Civic Auditorium(June 30, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [06-30-57.02]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

June Christy and Nat King Cole talking in a dressing room. Christy on stage. The Hi Lo's performing on stage.

July 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108-110, [070057-073157]

Physical Description: 925 negatives (estimate)

Ann Landers visit

US Navy fleet arrives

Golden Gate Bridge from Marin side

Art students in painting class (education)

Street performer Bill Crosby doing ballet dance

New Oakland councilman Robert L. Osborne

Administrators of Cathedral School for Boys

Author Norman Vincent Peale press conference and visit [07-01-57, 2 negatives]

Author Norman Vincent Peale -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(July 01, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [07-01-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Norman Vincent Peale poses in front of a window with his book "Stay Alive All Your Life."

Don Sherwood trial and acquittal [throughout month]

Women pilots of Powder Puff Air Derby talk about flying

Opening nighters attending singer Harry Belafonte concert

Dedication of Upper Noe Valley Recreation Center and Playground

Fire Commissioner James E. Murphy and Civil Service Commissioner Lenore Underwood sworn in

Chef Little Oscar presents Oscar Mayer Weiner mobile to girl in hospital bed [07-02-57, 2 negatives]

World's Tiniest Chief Gives Toys To Children -- Shrine Children's Hospital(July 02, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 108, [07-02-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

The world's tiniest chef Little Oscar gives an Oscar Mayer Weiner mobile toy to a girl lying in a hospital bed. Two boys sit at the foot of her bed.

Opium smugglers arrested (narcotics)

Ambassador for Hot Dog Month

Fourth of July feature

Turncoat (traitor?) Andrew Fortuna of Detroit and red China (communism) returns aboard President Wilson (ship) [07-03-57, 10 negatives]

Traitor Returns To The United States -- President Wilson (ship)(July 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-03-57.05]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Andrew Fortuna is surrounded by reporters upon returning to the United States aboard the President Wilson (ship).

Aerial views of San Francisco and vicinity from blimp (cityscapes) [07-03-57, 19 negatives]

Aerial Views -- San Francisco(July 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-03-57.06]

Physical Description: 19 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of blimp (side reads "Join the US Naval Reserve; Be A Naval Aviation Cadet, Oakland, California"); Golden Gate Bridge covered in fog and Richardson Bay in the background; Twin Peaks Tower? and the surrounding neighborhood; freeway onramp to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Ferry Building and piers in the background; Market Street ending at the Ferry Building; Angel Island with Richardson Bay in the background; man wearing sunglasses and cap looking out opening to the city below; Golden Gate Fields (racetrack)?; vicinity around Market Street; two blimp operators speaking with a woman; woman sitting at the steering wheel; woman and pilot walk on airstrip while blimp is anchored in background; and women and pilot eating amid machinery of blimp.

Congressman William S. Mailliard and Milicent Fox at airport [07-03-57, 3 negatives]

Arrival of Congressman William S. Mailliard -- San Francisco International Airport(July 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-03-57.07]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Congressman Mailliard and his fiancée Millicent Fox disembark plane. Mailliard waves.

Mrs. Jacob Gould Sherman displays her hat collection (fashion)

Street cave-in and water main break at Seventh and Howard Streets (South of Market neighborhood)

Cable car bell ringing contest [07-05-57 and 07-06-57, 6 negatives]

Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest -- Union Square(July 05, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-05-57.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Five finalists of cable car bell ringing contest: Albert E. Ward, Nicholas Papadakis, Vernon Dilworth, Icaas Price, and Becker D. Blake. Overall picture of contest includes Master of Ceremonies Bill Brannan speaking at the microphone, Icaas Price ringing the bell, judges observing from the platform, and crowd watching event.

Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest Winner -- Union Square(July 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-06-57.06]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Genie Stone who was one of the judges in the contest listens as winner Albert E. Ward rings the bell. Stone presents trophy to Ward. Crowd stares as contest ends and cleanup begins.

De Young Museum art shipment under way

General views of Scott Street during fire fighting (neighborhood) [07-06-57, 2 negatives]

Fire -- Scott Street(July 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-05-57.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Overhead view of Scott Street with firetrucks and numerous hoses occupying street, firefighters fighting blaze, and crowds lining street. Close-up view of firefighters fighting fire.

New freeway and Brisbane cut-off at Candlestick Point [07-08-57 - 07-11-57, 8 negatives]

New Freeway and Brisbane Off-Ramp -- Candlestick Point(July 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-08-57.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of traffic traveling upgrade on the old freeway heading towards San Francisco and Brisbane. The new freeway crosses Candlestick Point and has an off-ramp for Brisbane. Views of the new freeway and Brisbane off-ramp.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony For New Freeway(July 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-11-57.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Irene Johnson, Miss South San Francisco Roberta Woods, Chairman of the San Mateo Board of Supervisors Ed MacDonald, Mayor George Christopher, Miss San Francisco Christine Jorgenson, and Ruth Kelley hold a ribbon of 5000 orchids. Mayor Christopher cuts the ribbon with a gigantic scissors and group of people including State Director of Public Works Frank Durkee.

Opening night attendees of "My Fair Lady"

Jack Dempsey has interest in motel

Preview of Mapes Gold Cup race or regatta at Tahoe (speedboats)

Salinas Rodeo [07-09-57 and 07-11-57, 30 negatives]

Editor of Tulsa Tribune Jenkin Lloyd Jones

American Society of Newspaper Editors' convention [throughout month]

Elks national convention [throughout month]

Opera singers Florence Quartararo and Italo Tajo announce secret marriage [07-10-57, 2 negatives]

Jean and Lloyd Eisenhower with new baby

Automobiles in mock evacuation drill (civil defense) [07-12-57, 2 negatives]

Mock Evacuation Drill -- Fort Mason(July 12, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-12-57.01]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Officers F.P. Hyatt (Deputy Commander T.T.C., Bay Area) and Colonel E.M. Newman (Chief of Staff T.T.C. of the Pacific) watch automobiles exit lot in mock evacuation drill. Automobiles lined up in front of a building at Fort Mason.

New French jet helicopter

French flag raised for Bastille Day

Mrs. Oknah Kim Lah of Seoul Korea tours US

Heroin, cash, and prisoners after narcotics raid [07-13-57, 2 negatives]

Father Raymond Feely teaches communism at University of San Francisco [07-15-57, 22 negatives]

Interview With Priest Who Teaches Communism -- University of San Francisco(July 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-15-57.08]

Physical Description: 22 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Father Raymond Feely seated at a desk during the interview. Feely stands in front of his extensive collection of books on communism. Feely holds the latest US Supreme Court decisions on cases regarding communism.

Architects model and drawing of planned Ferry Building Park and Embarcadero Freeway [07-16-57, 3 negatives]

Model and Drawing of Ferry Building Park(July 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-16-57.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Tom Brooks, Henry Budde, architect Mario Campi, and Roger Lapham Jr. stand around model of Ferrry Building Park and Embarcadero Freeway. Copy of architect's drawing of Ferry Building Park. View of model looking down Market Street (to match model).

Man injured in fight after hod carriers union meeting (labor) [07-16-57 and 07-18-57, 4 negatives]

Injured Man With Complaint -- District Attorney's Office(July 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-16-57.13]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

John F. Kenny was injured with a blow to the head after a hod carriers union meeting. Kenny with Attorney Emmett Hagerty and Assistant District Attorney Albert Wallenberg Jr. His opponents with their wounds were also in the District Attorney's office earlier with the same complaint (labor).

Four Union Members Involved In Fight -- Hall of Justice(July 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-18-57.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Attorney Emmett Hagerty examines the head injury of John F. Kenney. Kenneth Lee, Attorney Emmett Hagerty, Peter Reilly, and William McArthur watching examination (labor).

Victor S. Swanson and attorney pictured after labor leader mail threat

Founder Sontuku Ninorgiya with other members of Japanese organization Seinendan

Conductor Arthur Fiedler and San Francisco Symphony [07-19-57, 3 negatives]

Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy of Pakistan visits [07-19-57 - 07-20-57, 23 negatives]

Accident on new Bayshore Freeway

First woman cab driver Gladys Angel behind wheel

New Swedish modern furniture at Furniture Mart

Naturalization of Prince Daniel and Princess Xenis Wolkonsky of Russia

Louis B. Mayer visits [07-23-57, 2 negatives]

Louis B. Mayer Visits San Francisco(July 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-23-57.07]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Louis B. Mayer visits San Francisco to participate in Stanley Dollar luncheon. Mayer disembarks from airplane. Mayer gets haircut from barber Ernest Nebielini.

Members of San Francisco Commission for Equal Employment Opportunity (race relations) [07-23-57, 2 negatives]

Members of San Francisco Commission for Equal Employment Opportunity -- Mills Tower(July 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-23-57.10]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Supervisor Henry Rolph (served on hearing board), co-chairman W.M. Roth, co-author of Fair Employment Ordinance Terry A. Francois, Secretary of San Francisco Committee Mrs. Myer Kahn, San Francisco Chairman Edgar D. Osgood, and Executive Secretary of San Francisco Urban League Don Glover. Several commission members talk outside and observe cityscape (rae relations).

Western Freeway conference to "Stop Freeway Blight" [07-23-57, 2 negatives]

Chris D. McKeen at Western Freeway conference(July 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-23-57.11]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Associate Chairman of Western Freeway Conference Chris D. McKeen speaks to group asking that the sticker "Stop Freeway Blight" be given to interested citizens to place on their car windows. Co-chairman Val King and Public Relations Officer Phillip Brady are also in attendance.

University Mound Reservoir checked for radioactivity

Helicopter power line laying demonstration for Public Utilities Commissioner

Press conference with actress Shirley Temple Black [07-25-57, 5 negatives]

Actress Shirley Temple Black -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(July 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 109, [07-25-57.05]

Physical Description: 5 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shirley Temple (Mrs. Charles A. Black) talks with reporters. Black poses with Shirley Temple Dolls in front of the camera for photographers and then in front of a movie camera.

Woman seated in kitchen at ironing board to demonstrate heart saving techniques (health)

Handicapped (disabled) persons form social club [07-25-57, 4 negatives]

Kurt Herbert Adler and James Schwabacher, Jr. at opera luncheon

New hospital operating room lighting with camera (health) [07-27-57, 2 negatives]

Actress Jane Greer promotes "Man with a Thousand Faces"

Duncan Hines shown steak

Miss Cloak and Dagger beauty contest

Fire destroys two blocks in San Rafael [07-29-57, 07-30-57, 23 negatives]

Firefighters Fight Blaze -- San Rafael(July 29, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [07-29-57.09-10]

Physical Description: 17 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of firefighters combatting fire including shots of water gushing from a firefighter's hose, brick chimney stack standing amid ruins, men helping hold firefighter's hose, parking meters standing amid burned rubble, etc.

Destruction From Fire -- San Rafael(July 30, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [07-30-57.03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various views of destruction from fire including ruins, fire truck with sign "Keep Back 300 Feet," portion of exterior wall amid rubble, tractor (machinery) pushing rubble, and others.

Dr. Frederico Bigi from San Marino

Countess Irena Tolstoi remarries husband Herbert Hamlet

Man tries to steam off White Russian bonds used as wallpaper

Girls prepare for Japanese Festival of Lanterns

Passengers on board Matsonia (ship)

Mayor George Christopher and others at groundbreaking ceremony for garage at Fifth and Mission Streets.

August 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110-111, [080057-083157]

Physical Description: 1100 negatives (estimate)

Aerial and shore views of US Navy fleet arrival [08-00-57, ca. 20 negatives]

Arrival of New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham

Maiden Lane opens new street

Hold-up at Poodle Dog restaurant

APL (American Presidents Line) press interview on trade with "Red China" (communism)

Chinese arrested in opium raid

New head of San Francisco State College Dr. Glenn Dumke

Released prisoner Father Charles McCarthy returns home on the President Hoover (ship)

Consul General Robert Firth of New Zealand presents wheel of Balclutha (ship) to Maritime Museum [08-06-57, 2 negatives]

Consul General Robert Firth -- Pier Forty Three(August 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-06-57.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Ceremony of presenting the wheel of ship Balclutha to Maritime Museum. Consul General Robert Firth of New Zealand and President of the Maritime Museum R. Stanley Dollar Jr holding the wheel.

Police brutality case with Officer Vincent Sullivan

Chinese author of "Flower Drum Song" C.Y. Lee [08-07-57, 4 negatives]

Chinese Author C.Y. Lee -- Grant Street(August 07, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-07-57.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

C.Y. Lee, author of "Flower Drum Song" standing on Grant Street corner.

Japanese doll makers Hisake Komine and Madame Ozawa at convention

FBI feature with firing range and training shots [08-08-57, ca. 25 negatives]

Ex-President Herbert Hoover [08-08-57 - 8-10-57, 45 negatives]

Ex-President Herbert Hoover -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(August 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-08-57.04]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Hoover sits for portraits and attends birthday party with family aboard the President Hoover ship.

Ex-President Herbert Hoover's Birthday -- President Hoover (ship)(August 10, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-10-57.01-02]

Physical Description: 31 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Hoover cutting a cake in form of ship President Hoover. Hoover and family standing together for a photograph. Hoover talking into a microphone. Hoover accepting a gift (a photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge with ship beneath. Mark Vowles (grandson) standing. A shot of the cake. Hoover sitting at a table with others. Hoover standing with the captain.

Crippled children (disabled persons) leave for camp [08-10-57, 1 negative]

Army Lt. General Robert L. Young with children ("fans") and map of Korea

New FEPC [Fair Employment Practice Commission?] committee at the mayor's office

Maiden Lane (neighborhood)

Palace Hotel chandeliers being cleaned and repaired

Conductor Arthur Fiedler made honorary citizen

Caryl Chessman hearing on new trial [08-14-57, 9 negatives]

Caryl Chessman Hearing on a New Trial -- Federal Court(August 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-14-57.03]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Caryl Chessman escorted by guards. Chessman's attorneys, George Davis and Rosalie Asher, standing. Warden Harley Teets and associate warden Louis Nelson standing. Chessman escorted through the building. Chessman conferring with Asher and Davis.

Children ready for first day at Redding School (education)

Board of Supervisors candidates [08-14-57, 2 negatives]

Japan Day at Japanese Tea Gardens

Bernard Diamond at conference on old age at San Francisco State College

Remodeled dome of Emporium department store

Author Bryna Ball with her book "Womanpower" (feminism)

Sons of Italy convention

United Airlines D-C 7 airplane lands with flat tire [08-17-57, ca. 12 negatives]

Children's locomotive arrives at Fleishhacker Zoo

Plans for new Ferry Building Park [08-19-57, 2 negatives]

Plans for New Ferry Building Park -- City Hall(August 19, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-19-57.03]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Harold Zellerbach (executive chairman of the Citizens Committee for Ferry Building Park) standing with Roger Lapham, Jr. (president of the City Planning Commission) as Lapham shows off a drawing of the proposed park.

Public polled on opinions about Giants baseball team coming to San Francisco

Train locomotive given to Fleishhacker Playground

Interiors of new Muni safety bus

Headlines at news stand about Giants coming to San Francisco

Governor Goodwin Knight announces running for re-election [08-19-57, 8 negatives]

Governor Goodwin Knight Announces a Bid For Re-Election -- State Building(August 19, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-19-57.17]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Various views of Governor Goodwin Knight sitting at his desk and speaking into microphones (there is a television camera visible in one view).

New Cinemiracle movie camera introduced and exhibited at Fox Theatre [08-20-57, 3 negatives]

New Cinemiracle Movie Camera Introduced and Exhibited -- Fox Theatre(August 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-20-57.03]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Elmer C. Rhoden (president of National Theaters), Frank H. Ricketson Jr. (vice-president and general manager of National Theaters), William H. Thedford (north California manager of Fox West Coast) all standing around the new movie camera "Cinemiracle."

New products shown at electronics exhibit with Russian and Japanese scientists attending [08-20-57 - 08-22-57, 21 negatives]

New Products Shown at Electronics Exhibit -- Cow Palace(August 20, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-20-57.04-05]

Physical Description: 15 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Color sorting machine demonstrated by Art Martin to model Barbara Keele. Keele standing next to the color sorting machine. Martin Semans of Hoffman Electronics, Los Angeles, demonstrates infra red detecting device. R.H. Hall of the Maycalex Corporation showing model Dolores Greseke a man-made mica and products made from mica. Russian scientists Dr. Vladimir Kotelnikov and Dr. Vladimir Siforov observing a magnetic optical technique. Japanese scientist Dr. Yasusire Niwa looking at exhibits. Pat McKay standing over the first low cost, mass produced computer. Carol Balladine holding a small light.

New Products at Electronics Exhibit -- Cow Palace.(August 21, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 110, [08-21-57.02]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Albert Strom and his sons, Robert and Stephen, strolling through the electronics convention. Robert and Steven looking at a model of the Hughes "Convair" jet interceptor and the "Falcon," an air-to-air missle. Steven and Robert looking at a Klystren amplifier tube.

Russian Visitors at Electronics Convention -- Fairmont Hotel(August 22, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [08-22-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Russian scientists A.M. Precheverov, V.I. Siferof, V. Krassilnikov, and Vladimir Kotelnikov standing.

Defendant Sidney Klass of the Pill Hill murder case [08-20-57 - 08-22-57, ca. 15 negatives]

Diver with the bends in decompression chamber at Hunters Point drydock

Satsuki Kai women in traditional Japanese dress at demonstration at the M.H. De Young Memorial Museum

Gymnasium construction at University of San Francisco

Trial of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti (censorship) [08-22-57, 3 negatives]

Trial of Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- City Hall(August 22, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [08-22-57.04]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Assistant DA Ralph MacIntosh and attorney J.W. Ehrlich standing in a crowded courtroom during the Ferlinghetti trial over publication of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (censorship).

Mayor George Christopher and Giants owner review new baseball stadium site in Bayview [08-23-57, 18 negatives]

Mayor George Christopher and Giants Owner Stoneham -- Bayview(August 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [08-23-57.05]

Physical Description: 18 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Group of people with Mayor George Christopher, Stoneham, and Aarney. Christopher and Stoneham looking at plans. Christopher and Stoneham standing with a bulldozer behind them.

Panel talk with Dr. Harold Spears and others on juvenile delinquency

Actress Mary Martin rehearses for "Annie Get Your Gun" [08-24-57, 4 negatives]

Mary Martin Rehearsal -- Curran Theater(August 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [08-24-57.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mary Martin rehearses for "Annie Get Your Gun." Martin watches as trainer Ben Johnson puts a horse through paces on a treadmill. Martin riding the horse (named "Prince") while firing her gun. Martin jumping off the horse as the horse loses its footing.

Consul Roeslan Baboe of Indonesia with Ambassador Mukarte Notewidgdg

Fight scenes with boxers Joey Giambra and Rory Calhoun

Actor Joseph Schildkraut and Maria Palmer of play "The Diary of Anne Frank" at train station

Governor Goodwin Knight at groundbreaking for new State Building Annex [08-26-57, 4 negatives]

Groundbreaking for New State Building Annex -- Behind State Building(August 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [08-26-57.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Crowd shots of Governor Goodwin Knight speaking at a podium. Knight digging with shovel (one view has City Hall in the background).

View of the Hotel Empire on Sutter Street (from which a woman jumped)

New street lighting on Geary Street near Mason (neighborhood)

Mayor George Christopher and Consul Pierluigi Alvera of Italy aboard the Paola Toscanelli (ship) view gondola brought for Columbus Day

Opera singer Desire Ligeti and wife

Greek-American banquet with Royal Consul General Christian A. Axelos of Greece

First-nighters attending opening of "Annie Get Your Gun"

Architect John S. Bolles and engineer E. Elmore Hutchinson discuss new Giants' baseball stadium plans

Senator William F. Knowland arrives at airport

Building demolition on Mission Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, for city parking lot

September 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111-112, [090057-093057]

Physical Description: 800 negatives (estimate)

Explosion at Albers Flour Mill in Oakland

New mobile crime lab

Central Freeway construction (cityscapes) [09-00-57, 09-11-57, 12 negatives]

Central Freeway Construction Project(September 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-00-57.04]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of machinery (including a pile driver) at work. Street scenes, from Turk and Gough Streets looking southeast towards the northern end of second section of Central Freeway. Looking northwest from Octavia Street and Oak Street at off ramp. Looking southeast at Laguna Street and Fell Street at off ramp. Looking west up Market Street at location of freeway crossing between Valencia Street and Octavia Street at Market. Looking north from Valencia Street and McCoppin Street towards Market Street crossing with a bulldozer (cityscapes).

Central Freeway Construction Project(September 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-11-57.08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Construction at Octavia and Oak Street (cityscapes).

Fog covering city (cityscapes) [09-02-57, 1 negative]

Carlos P. Romulo speaks at Pacific Coast Gas Association annual meeting

Kids in buses at Silver Avenue Junior High School

Mayor George Christopher with Consul General Nicanor Rexas of the Philippines at World Trade Center [09-05-57, 2 negatives]

Interview with Jim Aschoff about Arctic exploration

Board of Supervisors candidate Charles Marsalli [09-05-57, 09-06-57, 6 negatives]

Senator William F. Knowland returns home [09-05-57, 4 negatives]

Senator William F. Knowland -- Oakland Airport(September 05, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-05-57.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Knowland exiting his plane and standing in front of plane.

Passengers and stewardess on luxury bus

Lafayette Bicentennial Week (with Mayor George Christopher, Consul General Robert Luc of France, and others) [09-06-57, 2 negatives]

New Moore's department store at Post and Kearny Street (neighborhood) [09-06-57, 2 negatives]

Moore's Department Store -- Post and Kearny Street(September 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-06-57.11]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Exterior view of new Moore's Department Store (neighborhood).

Romanoff's Restaurant benefit for Ballet Guild (with Mr. and Mrs. George Crocker, Merla Zellerbach, and others)

Teamsters Union press conference with John Francis Shelley and Harold Lopez (labor) [09-09-57, 4 negatives]

Teamsters Union Press Conference -- Cliff Hotel(September 09, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-09-57.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Sponsor for Western Conference endorsemen John Francis Shelley and Secretary for Local Eighty-five and Harbor Commissioner Harold Lopez (labor).

Sidney Klass trial verdict

California (ship) punch bowl presented to California Historical Society with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Western Airlines cable car dedication with Mayor George Christopher

Polar route inaugural flight [09-10-57, 2 negatives]

Rear Admiral George John Dufek at Alameda Naval Air Station [09-10-57, 3 negatives]

Lick Observatory (picturing N.U. Mayall, Charles David Shane, and D.J. Ludden) [09-11-57, 16 negatives]

Author Alfred M. Lilienthal press conference

Congressman Charles Porter and Rear Admiral H.G. Huber speak at Commonwealth Club of California at Palace Hotel [09-12-57, 1 negative]

Supervisor Francis McCarty files for re-election [09-12-57, 2 negatives]

London Week (with Mayor George Christopher, Consul General Herbert S. Marchant of Great Britain, and others)

Lafayette Dinner (with Mayor George Christopher, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and others)

Malayan Ambassador to the US Ismail Bin Date Abdul Rahman

Consul General Herbert S. Marchant of Great Britain and others with new Vauxhall automobile

Land grab for school (neighborhood) [09-13-57, 10 negatives]

Land Grab For School -- Daly City(September 13, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-13-57.05]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of corner of Hanover and Lowell Street. Vincent Bagela at the corner of Brunswick and Lowell Street, Christina Chirola (person who may be affected by the school building), and Daniel Collins pointing to marks where a cyclone fence will be erected (neighborhood).

Opera ceremonies [09-16-57 - 09-22-57, 113 negatives]

Governor Goodwin Knight speaks at State Federation of Labor convention at Oakland Auditorium [09-16-57, 8 negatives]

State Federation of Labor Convention -- Oakland Auditorium(September 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-16-57.11]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Men at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Relations, including Governor Goodwin Knight.

Dr. Denis Melrose with machine which oxygenates blood (health)

Return of chandeliers to Sheraton Palace Hotel after cleaning

Caryl Chessman leaves San Quentin State Prison for Los Angeles [09-17-57, 4 negatives]

Inmate Caryl Chessman Leaves Prison -- San Quentin State Prison(September 17, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 111, [09-17-57.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Chessman walking out of prison with Lieutenant Felix DeMend. Chessman inside car with Los Angeles Sheriff Sergeant Donald Hartung.

Singer Blanche Thebom birthday celebration at Opera House

Miss Seafood poses with dead whale for National Fish Week

Alfred Zirpoli registers for supervisors' race

Hancock (ship) returns from sea [09-19-57, 2 negatives]

Cable car decoration contest

Dr. Henry Grady funeral with Mayor George Christopher and Admiral Chester Nimitz [09-23-57 - 09-24-57, 6 negatives]

Women in costume for annual Baccaris Vintage Festival (wine industry)

Change of command from Admiral John R. Redman to Admiral George L. Russell at Treasure Island [09-24-57, 3 negatives]

Change of Command -- Treasure Island(September 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [09-24-57.02]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Rear Admiral John R. Redman being replaced as Treasure Island Commander by Rear Admiral George L. Russell.

Opinion poll on Little Rock school integration civil rights case (race relations) [09-24-57, 8 negatives]

Little Rock School Integration Civil Rights Case -- Market Street Greyhound Bus Depot(September 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [09-24-57.07-08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of people giving their opinion on the civil rights situation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Interviewees include Meredith Norcross, teenage program director, Helena Chandler, age seventeen, Poly High Senior, Cal Nelson, age twenty-one, and others, talking to reporter Charles Ayres (civil rights, race relations).

Little Rock School Integration Civil Rights Case -- Market Street Greyhound Bus Depot(September 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [09-24-57.08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

News vendor Angelo Pagano and others pictured giving their opinion on the civil rights situation in Little Rock, Arkansas (civil rights, race relations).

Strike at Tanforan Race Track (labor) [09-24-57, 3 negatives]

Strike -- Tanforan Racetrack(September 24, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [09-24-57.09]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Images of picketers outside the racetrack during labor strike.

Washington Square Arts Festival (includes actor Vincent Price) (neighborhood) [09-25-57 - 09-26-57, 13 negatives]

Arts Festival -- Washington Square(September 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [09-25-57.03]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Children and a nun look at crucifix. Actor Vincent Price, acting as a judge, looks at a sculpted head. Estelle Kalish looks at a sculpture. General views of the square (neighborhood).

Arts Festival -- Washington Square(September 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [09-26-57.04]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Tringali and their daughter Lynn Mary, age two, viewing "Articles of the Past" by Lundy Siegrist, one of the winners. Mickell Jaqugsh poses beside winning mural design by T.H. DeLap, Jr. Views of people milling around and of women in a living room (neighborhood).

Boy ambassadors to Pakistan and Greece with Mayor George Christopher

Dinner honoring Frank V. DeBellis

Portsmouth Square plaque commemorating first public school in California (neighborhood) [09-25-57, 3 negatives]

Air Force Association Banquet at Fairmont Hotel (with generals Hugh Parker, Sory Smith, Donald Darrow, Curtis Lew and Charles Eisenhart) [09-26-57, 2 negatives]

Interview with Mayor George Christopher upon entering Senate race [09-26-57, 25 negatives]

Mayor George Christopher Enters Race for Senate(September 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [09-26-57.05]

Physical Description: 25 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shots of Mayor George Christopher during press conference and standing with unidentified woman

Superior Judge Frank Blum and Municipal Judge Marcel Biscay sworn in

Robbery victim in Hungry i club

Preview of Hector Escobosa art exhibit at M.H. De Young Memorial Museum

October 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112-113, [100057-103157]

Physical Description: 1000 negatives (estimate)

Buffalo at Golden Gate Park [10-00-57, 8 negatives]

Businesses and storefronts at Sixteenth and Mission Streets (neighborhood) [10-00-57, 14 negatives]

Businesses and Storefronts -- Sixteenth and Mission Streets(October 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [10-00-57.04]

Physical Description: 14 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of storefronts on Sixteenth and Mission Streets (neighborhood).

Mock atomic bomb blast at Treasure Island (civil defense) [10-00-57, 4 negatives]

Mock Atomic Bomb Blast -- Treasure Island(October 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [10-00-57.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Small crowd watches explosion (civil defense).

Industrialist champagne party at City Hall with Prentiss Cobb Hale

Vice President Richard M. Nixon at Hotel St. Francis [10-00-57, 13 negatives]

Vice President Richard M. Nixon -- Hotel St. Francis(October 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [10-00-57.15]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Richard M. Nixon speaking into a microphone. Nixon sitting in a chair. Nixon speaking from behind the gathering. Nixon speaking with military men.

Adopted Japanese children [10-01-57, 2 negatives]

Police chief Frank Ahern and criminologist Duayne J. Dillon and other members of San Francisco Police Department [10-01-57 - 10-16-57, 10 negatives]

Demolition of Call warehouse at Fifth and Mission Streets (neighborhood) [10-01-57, 4 negatives]

Edmund G. Brown at "Dollars for Demos" Democratic Party fundraising event

Egan released from San Quentin State Prison

"Turncoats" bride Tatiana Nikolaevna Hawkins arrives aboard President Wilson (ship) (traitor?) (communism)

Interview with child actress Cheryl Callaway

Statue of Christopher Columbus arrives from Italy (with sculptor Vittorio di Colbertaldo)

Equitable Life Assurance building time and weather sign (cityscapes) [10-01-57, 8 negatives]

Equitable Life Assurance Building Time and Weather Sign -- Sutter Building(October 01, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [10-01-57.11]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Night views of the Equitable Life Assurance building's time and weather sign with the Shell building on the left. Views of the building and sign from a distance. Views of the building and sign from St. Mary's Square (cityscapes).

Meeting of Heart Disease Association (with Doctors Vernon C. Harp Jr., A. Rae Gilchrist, and Jesse E. Edwards) (health)

American Cancer Society women assist in arrest of violators of Pure Food Act (health)

Arrival of first London-San Francisco non-stop flight

Fol de Rol ball and other opera events [throughout month, 89 negatives]

San Francisco Heart Association press conference (with Doctors Donald B. Effler, Samuel Preger, and John D. Keith) (health)

Erskine Caldwell interview

Rawson Drug & Sundry Company of Emeryville (staff, executives, warehouse interiors, etc.) [10-03-57, 33 negatives]

George W. Beadle of the American Cancer Society (health)

Homecoming dinner for Senator William F. Knowland [10-04-57, 7 negatives]

Henderson trial (US Navy) (Jim Henderson accused of shooting officers?)

Monitoring Sputnik satellite (space) [10-05-57, 5 negatives]

Monitoring Sputnik Satellite -- News Building(October 05, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [10-05=57.02]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Fred Burbank listening to the beep of the Russian satellite Sputnik (space age).

Interview with Minister of Public Information Chief Kalowele Balegun of Nigeria

Actors James Stewart and Kim Novak at Palace of Fine Arts during filming of "Vertigo" (also called "From Among the Dead") [10-07-57, 10 negatives]

James Stewart and Kim Novak filming "Vertigo" -- Palace of Fine Arts(October 07, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [10-07-57.02]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

James Stewart and Kim Novak standing. Views of cameras filming a scene. Stewart and Novak sitting.

Mrs. J.D. Cuneo hosts opera stars

Hitchhikers (band) on promotional hitchhiking tour for record "Beautiful Love"

Ceremonial inauguration of undersea telephone cable to Hawaii [10-08-57, 3 negatives]

Inauguration of Undersea Telephone Cable to Hawaii -- New Montgomery Street(October 08, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 112, [10-08-57.01]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Governor Goodwin Knight and Mark Sullivan (president of Pacific T & T) sitting together, each speaking into telephone receivers. Knight, Sullivan, and Admiral Russell sitting at press conference table, each speaking into telephone receivers. Knight talking on the phone while Sullivan points to Hawaii on a map.

Conference with author of "Flower Drum Song" C.Y. Lee (with Oscar Hammerstein II, Joseph Fields and George Jue)

Columbus Day ceremonies [10-08-57, 2 negatives]

C.A. Thayer (ship) at Fisherman's Wharf

Actor Jackie Cooper with children (for United Crusade)

Interview with Marianne Moore

Preview party for artist Katherine Frankforter

Interview with General Mills board chairman Harry Bullis

New "Sputnik" cocktail at Mark Hopkins Hotel [10-10-57, 11 negatives]

New "Sputnik" Cocktail -- Mark Hopkins Hotel(October 10, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-10-57.05]

Physical Description: 11 negatives

Scope and Content Note

George Lawson(?), Grace Hawkins, and Marjorie Wardwell sitting at a table trying out the new "Sputnik" drink. Views of the drink on a tray ("Sputnik" is represented as a strawberry with toothpicks sticking out).

US Army Nike missile on display in front of Mechanics Memorial sculpture (neighborhood) [10-10-57, 2 negatives]

US Army Nike Missile -- Bush, Battery, Market Streets(October 10, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-10-57.08]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

US Army Nike missile on display in front of Mechanics Memorial Sculpture (neighborhood).

Russian language class at Abraham Lincoln High School [10-10-57, 4 negatives]

Russian Language Class -- Abraham Lincoln High School(October 10, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-10-57.12]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Student writing in Russian on the blackboard (education).

Sherman Adams press conference [10-11-57, 4 negatives]

Sherman Adams Press Conference -- Airport(October 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-11-57.04]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Sherman Adams walking with Reginald Vaughan, Mrs. Adams, and Arthur J. Delan, Jr. in the airport terminal. Adams sitting on a sofa.

Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton speaks at conferences (with Governor Goodwin J. Knight) [10-11-57, 2 negatives]

Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton -- Civic Auditiorium and Hotel St. Francis(October 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-11-57.07-08]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Fred Seaton standing with Governor Goodwin J. Knight just before speaking during the Young Republicans Conference (photograph taken at the Civic Auditorium). Seaton seated with papers on his lap (photograph taken at the Hotel St. Francis).

California Republican Central Committee [10-12-57, 2 negatives]

California Republican Central Committee -- Hotel St. Francis(October 12, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-12-57.01]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Gathered around Page Gray are Charles J. Conrad, Caspar W. Weinberger, Luther H. Lincoln, Alphonzo E. Bell Jr., and Donald D. Doyle.

Official opening of fringe parking lot under elevated freeway at Seventh and Harrison Streets (neighborhood) [10-14-57, 5 negatives]

New mosaic picture in dome of Emporium department store (with acting Mayor Henry Rolph)

International Industrial Development Conference (with Robert Garner, Edgar Kaiser, Minocheher Rustom Masani, Henry Robinson Luce, Alfred N. Steele, Joan Crawford, Andrew Heiskell, and Madeleine Carroll) [throughout month]

Press conference with Republican Bertha Adkins

Republican Ike Eisenhower birthday dinner at Cow Palace [10-14-57, 13 negatives]

Birthday Dinner for Ike Eisenhower -- Cow Palace(October 12, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-14-57.13]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Overall views of the gathering. Standing or sitting: Mrs. Knight, Governor Goodwin J. Knight, Governer Sherman Adams, Mrs. Adams, Robert H. Steele, Reginald L. Vaughan, Caspar W. Weinberger, Robert C. Kirkwood, Senator Thomas H. Kuechel, Mrs. Herman Phleger, A. Ronald Button, Harold J. Powers, William S. Mailliard, Arthur J. Dolan, Robert Finch, Luther H. Lincoln, and Alphonze E. Bell.

Students and administrator of continuation high school

San Francisco Giants baseball team (includes Willie Mays, Horace Stoneham, Charles Feeney, Gary Schumaker, Jerry Donovan, Peter N. Hoffmann, Bill Rigney) (baseball team) [throughout month]

Benny Yip (involved in confiscation of heroin) (narcotics)

Citation to City of San Francisco for funds for Hungarian refugees (with acting mayor Henry Rolph and Ms. Walton Wickett and Augustus R. Lindt of United Nations) [10-15-57, 2 negatives]

Vice President Richard M. Nixon arrives [10-15-57, 4 negatives]

Vice President Richard M. Nixon Arrives -- Airport(October 15, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-15-57.09]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Richard M. Nixon stepping off the airplane with his daughters, Julie and Tricia. Nixon and family greeting acting Mayor Henry R. Rolph and Charles Rosenthal.

Wyatt Earp tombstone found on Skyline Boulevard in San Bruno

Air pollution board sworn in (Justice Raymond J. Peters, Robert E. Swain, Mark Monroe Friedman, E. Spencer Bodine)

Senator William F. Knowland with Young Republican supporters and detractors [10-16-57, 4 negatives]

Senator William F. Knowland -- California Club(October 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-16-57.14]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Senator William F. Knowland receiving literature from a detractor. Anti-Knowland republicans handing out literature. Harold N. Swain passing out pro-Knowland literature.

Space toys (space age) [throughout month]

Speakers on medical problems during disasters or nuclear war (Crawford F. Sams, Riojun Kinosita, Harold Luoth, Walmer E. Strope, and Charles W. Shilling) (health, civil defense) [10-17-57 - 10-18-57, 4 negatives]

Speakers on Medical Problems During Disasters or Nuclear War -- Hunters Point Naval Shipyard(October 17, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-17-57.04]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. Harold Lueth, Captain Charles W. Shilling, Brigadier General Crawford Sams, and Dr. Riejun(?) Kinesita standing.

Speakers on Medical Problems During Disasters or Nuclear War -- Hunters Point Naval Shipyard(October 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-18-57.05]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Sitting at a table with diagrams is Mr. Walmer E. Strope.

Marin Circle damaged in auto accident (Berkeley)

Workers at Blindcraft Center Thanksgiving Seal Campaign (disabled persons)

First teenagers' dance of the season

New UC President Clark Kerr [10-18-57 - 10-24-57, 5 negatives]

Senator William F. Knowland at Commonwealth Club of California luncheon

Leader of underground Constantin W. Boldyreff of Russia (Soviet Union) (communism) [10-19-57, 2 negatives]

Leader of Underground Constantin W. Boldyreff(October 19, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-19-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Constantin Boldyreff of Russia (of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists) sitting in an office and smoking (communism).

Fishing at beach near Candlestick Cove freeway (neighborhood, environment) [10-19-57, 10 negatives]

Fishing at Beach -- Candlestick Cove Freeway(October 19, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-19-57.07]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of fishermen through a car window. Fishermen crossing the freeway. Fishermen scattered about the shore. Fishermen sitting on a pier and with catch (neighborhood, environment).

Marijuana confiscated from G.I.'s at Hamilton Air Force Base (narcotics)

Proclamation of London Week (with Sir Herbert S. Marchant, Edward Marchant, and acting Mayor Henry Rolph)

Dope raid (narcotics)

Southern Pacific presents last ferry Eureka (ship) to San Francisco Maritime Museum [10-23-57, 4 negatives]

Southern Pacific Presents Last Ferry Eureka (ship) to San Francisco Maritime Museum -- Oakland Mole(October 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-23-57.07]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Vice president of Southern Pacific Claude Peterson giving deed to R. Stanley Dollar, both outside and inside the ferry.

Representative Pat Hilling

State narcotics agent Fred L. Braunmoeller drug case (with Attorney General Edmund G. Brown and others) (narcotics) [throughout month]

Dinner meeting of San Francisco World Health Organization Committee (with Jessie M. Bierman, Rodney R. Beard, and Ernst Wolff) (health)

Pacific Gas and Electric nuclear power plant in Pleasanton (atomic age) [10-24-57, 9 negatives]

Pacific Gas and Electric Nuclear Power Plant -- Pleasanton(October 23, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-24-57.01]

Physical Description: 8 negatives

Scope and Content Note

President of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) N.R. Sutherland and George White (general manager of General Electric Atomic Power Division) standing in the control room. Samuel Untermeyer, Lester Kornblith, and Luther Welsh, involved in the station's installation, standing next to control panels. Small gathering listening to Untermeyer speak and watching people in the control room (atomic age).

San Francisco Youth Association at United Nations Day ceremonies

Rededication of Hearst Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley [10-25-57, 19 negatives]

Rededication of Hearst Greek Theater -- UC Bekeley(October 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-25-57.02]

Physical Description: 19 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Randolph A. Hearst, Robert Sibley, Dr. Clark Kerr, Mrs. Randolph Hearst, Mrs Earnest Born, Robert G. Sproul, Mr. Ernest Born, and Robert Samuelson standing in front of an archway. Overall shot of the crowd and performers on stage. Kerr speaking. Sproul speaking. Eugene Tobin singing in the first act.

Dan O'Connell arrives from China on President Cleveland (ship)

Hungarian freedom fighters (Nicholas Kovacs, Gizella Balazs, and Emilia Zegreen)

Teenagers waiting for Elvis Presley concert tickets at Civic Auditorium [10-26-57, 4 negatives]

Teenagers Waiting for Elvis Presley Concert Tickets -- Civic Auditorium(October 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-26-57.06]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Shot of four teenagers sleeping next to the ticket office.

Roger D. Lapham fiftieth wedding anniversary [10-26-57, 10 negatives]

Press conference with Secretary of the Navy Thomas C. Gates Jr.

Members of French Consulate help to sponsor "Bal de Paris"

Models pose in sack dresses on Grant Avenue (fashion)

Boy with Halloween pumpkin modeled after Sputnik satellite (space age) [10-30-57, 4 negatives]

Boy with Halloween Pumpkin Modeled after Sputnik(October 26, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-30-57.01]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mark "Rusty" Left dressed up in his Seargent Bilko uniform with his pumpkin made to look like "Spootnik."

Arrival of author Paul Henri Spaak

Baseball player Willie Mays [10-31-57, 12 negatives]

Willie Mays -- Seals Stadium(October 31, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 113, [10-31-57.01]

Physical Description: 12 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Willie Mays standing in front of Seals Stadium. Mays catch a fly ball and swinging a bat. Mays with reporters. Mays signing an autograph for fans. Mays looking out at the field from the stands. Mays standing with an unidentified man. Mays and a group of unidentified men pointing at a sign on a car that reads "Welcome to SF Willie Mays".

November 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 114-115, [110057-113057]

Physical Description: 975 negatives (estimate)

Fashions at I. Magnin

Explorer Scout conference at Treasure Island

Highest paid fashion model Suzy Parker and producer of "Kiss Them For Me" Jerry Wald

Grand National Livestock Exposition at Cow Palace (horse show and rodeo) [11-01-57, ca. 20 negatives]

Beaux Arts Ball at School of Fine Arts

Church festival at St. Cecilia's at Eighteenth Avenue and Vicente Street

Mayor Mitsuji Nakai of Osaka, Japan, and acting Mayor James J. Sullivan

Election views [11-01-57 - 11-05-57, ca. 25 negatives]

Russian doctors tour Bay Area (Nikolai N. Blokhin, Semen A. Sarkisov, Ivan L. Bogdanov, Sergei V. Kurashav, and Grigori V. Vygodchikov)

Santa Claus arrives at the Emporium

Advertising photos for shoes and liquor [11-02-57, ca. 15 negatives]

Oregon Band in front of La Salle Hotel

Dr. Edward Teller speaks to elementary school teachers at San Francisco State College Auditorium

American Municipal Association meeting

New Grand Jury (includes Melvin J. Chambers, Alan G. Greyder(?), and others)

American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Doctors S. Milton Dupertuis and Wallace H. Steffensen)

Reading for the circus festival at the Holy Names Church

Guests at Tour de Décor opening (author Merla Zellerbach and others)

General Director of UNESCO Dr. Luther Evans [11-04-57, 2 negatives]

Progress pictures on waterfront freeway (Embarcadero near Ferry Building) (transportation) [11-04-57, 7 negatives]

Progress Pictures -- Waterfront Freeway -- Embarcadero(November 04, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 114, [11-04-57.09]

Physical Description: 7 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Unidentified construction worker reaching for timber shoring. Unidentified construction worker welding. General views of construction near Ferry Building (transportation).

Patron of the arts Harold L. Zellerbach with pictures of Hungarian refugees in Zellerbach Builing at Sansome Street

Soroptimist Club at Women's City Club

Flower bed with UNESCO sign at Golden Gate Park

Genetic expert Dr. Ojvind Winge of Denmark

Cookery authors Helen Evans Brown and James Beard

Society of Western Artists preview at M.H. De Young Memorial Museum

Petrini Market at Fulton Street

Twenty-fifth anniversary of Phoenix Society

Cow milking contest at Cow Palace (includes Modesto Dairy Queen Miss Patti Walker)

UNESCO events (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) [11-06-57 - 11-08-57, ca. 50 negatives]

Series on football player R.C. Owens and his wife Tina [11-06-57, ca. 20 negatives]

Kids books writer Dr. Seuss [11-06-57, 2 negatives]

Childrens' Book Author -- Dr. Seuss -- Fairmont Hotel(November 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 114, [11-06-57.12]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) sitting at a table and smoking.

Madame Pandit at St. Francis Hotel

Re-christening of the Hong Kong (ship) as the Illinois (ship) (includes Captain H.G. Sorenson and Miss Illinois Myrna Hansen)

Senator Robert McCarthy announces candidacy for Attorney General

Luncheon honoring Admiral George L. Russell (also John A. Sutro and President of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce E.D. Maloney)

Advertising man Dennis Day posed at microphone

Annual Northern California Boys' Club Association dinner at Columbia Park Boys' Club

Architectural drawing of proposed $10 million hotel at Fisherman's Wharf

Owl Drugs advertisement photos [11-07-57 - 11-08-57, ca. 20 negatives]

Narcotics story (views taken at George White's office)

Senator Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.

Black Watch: The Royal Highland Regiment and The Massed Pipers (Scottish bagpipes) performing together

Steers auctioned off at Cow Palace [11-08-57, 13 negatives]

Guests at ballet "Emperor Norton" (Director of Museum of Modern Art in New York Rene D'Harnoncourt and others)

Guests at dinner before Black Watch performance (Consul General Mr. H.S. Marchant of Britain, British Ambassador to US Sir Harold Caccia, Major C.M. Moir of the Black Watch, and others)

Financial meeting at Japanese Trade Center (President of Chamber of Commerce E.D. Maloney, President of Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Michisuke Sugi, and acting Mayor James J. Sullivan)

City Hall at night (new lighting on building)

International Film Festival (Harold L. Zellerbach and Irving M. Levin)

Mayor George Christopher at San Francisco International Airport (crowds with banners "Christopher for US Senator", etc.) [11-11-57, 9 negatives]

Mayor George Christopher -- Airport(November 11, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 114, [11-11-57.05]

Physical Description: 9 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mayor George Christopher standing and speaking into a microphone. Christopher and wife standing. Overall views of Christopher speaking into a microphone to a gathering (airplane in the background). Lee F. Demeder, Jacob Shemano, and John Shannon standing with signs (about election campaign for Senate).

Visiting fashion editors (Katherine Harrington, James W. Elliott, and Betty Milburn)

B'nai B'rith Second Golden Harvest Ball

Women's Architectural League

Coast Guard air and sea rescue picture lay out [11-12-57, ca. 20 negatives]

Westlake Catholic Women (Mrs. Scatena)

Press conference with Meade Alcorn and San Francisco Republican Chairman Robert H. Steele

Italian symphony Conductor Franco Mannino

Dinner for evangelist Billy Graham [11-12-57, 8 negatives]

Visiting Japanese mayors: Y. Nagano, Consul General Akira Nishiyama of Japan, John Sullivan, and President of Chamber of Commerce E.D. Maloney

Chief of British Information Service in US John Peck and wife

Press conference with Harvard President on fund raising tour Nathan M. Pusey

Baseball star Willie Mays and house he could not buy because of color (race relations, civil rights) [11-14-57, 15 negatives]

Willie Mays Beef -- Difficulty Buying House (November 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 114, [11-14-57.01-03]

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Physical Description: 15 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Baseball player Willie Mays being interviewed, and view of house he was prevented from buying because of race. (race relations, Afro-Americans, civil rights). Taken at 2251 Moraga Street and 175 Miraloma Drive. Willie Mays signing home sale agreement with wife, attorney Terry A. Francois, and owner Walter A. Gnesdiloff [sic]. Taken at 2251 Moraga Street. Television cameras and interview with Walter A. Genesdiloff [sic], builder of the house in dispute. Also present is Edward Howden (director of Council for Civic Unity). Taken at 266(?) Magellan Ave.

Patient recovering from tuberculosis discovered by mobile chest truck (health)

"Gay Nineties" put on show for old folks at Laguna Honda Home

Ribbon cutting on new Riviera store at 44 Ellis Street

Guests at preview of William S. Jewett paintings at Society of California Pioneers

Testimonial dinner honoring Israel's ambassador to US Abba Eban (also Mayor George Christopher) [11-14-57, 2 negatives]

Testimonial Dinner -- Abba Eban of Israel -- Sheraton Palace Hotel(November 14, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 114, [11-14-57.15]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mayor George Christopher and Israel's ambassador to the US Abba Eban standing.

Police moble crime lab

Tom Gianni at Ford Center

Young Republicans at Commercial Club (Caspar W. Weinberger and President of Young Republicans Alan Nichols)

Club of Chinatown preparing for annual silly hat contest

Interview with Kenneth Hahn of Los Angeles running for US Senate

Ringo game (Call Bulletin promotion with KJBS)

Reverend Kurt Baehr(?) speaking about Middle East

Governor Goodwin J. Knight arrives from vacation (also Mrs. Knight, Superior Judge Aylett Cotton, and Jack McDowell)

Sports cars and fashions at St. Francis Yacht Club

San Francisco tuberculosis ward (patient Don Barlow) (health)

Australian flyers will fly Cessna planes to Australia

Mobil dealer convention (prominent lecturer and wife of Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Mildred Younger)

California 1958 Maid of Cotton Janice Brown and Cyril Magnin

Young Brothers store at Nineteenth and Mission Streets [11-19-57, ca. 16 negatives]

Barry's Surplus store at Mission Street

Fashions for Maison Mendessole on Powell Street

Attorney Benjamin Marlowe booked at jail for "improper conduct"

Ben Garlin around the world in amphibian jeep

City bonds picked up by Bank of America

Mission High School makes Mayor George Christopher an honorary member

Backstage scenes at Royal Ballet

Longshoremen's Memorial building at Beach and Mason Streets during construction (largest arch in the world)

Sister Mary Hyacinth at St. Joseph's Hospital (she has been a nun for 70 years)

Amicus Club (presenting check to Aid of Retarded Children) (developmentally disabled or mentally handicapped?)

UC Class of 1906 at St. Francis Yacht Club

Dedication of main clinic of the College of Physicians and Surgeons

I. Magnin fashions

Stanford and California (UC Berkeley) class reunions [11-22-57, ca. 20 negatives]

YWCA Residence Club 25th anniversary at present location

Party for Roger Lapham Sr. (includes members of Lapham family)

All American Conference to Combat Communism (Senator Thomas J. Cuite, Surpervisor John J. Ferdon, John H. Mullholen, and others) [11-25-57, 3 negatives]

All American Conference to Combat Communism -- City Hall(November 25, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [11-25-57.05]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

William H. Kirkpatrick of Disabled American Veterans, Senator Thomas J. Cuite of New York, Supervisor John J. Ferdon, and John H. Mullholen (chairman of Know Your America Week planning committee) standing with a plaque (communism, patriotism).

Guests at San Francisco Symphony Association reception (John Upton, conductor Enrique Jorda, famous caterer Thomas Thomaser, and others)

Press Officer Moshe Leshem of Israel (Israel brass)

Cutter Lab polio trial (health)

Reverend F.X. Connolly ("for Russia vs. USA educational series")

Science courses at Lincoln High School (education)

Muscular distrophy victim (health)

Council of Jewish Women feed their elders Thanksgiving dinner

First Thanksgiving for Hungarian family

Interview with president of St. Mary's College Brother Albert

Postal workers picket ("not a strike") (labor) [11-27-57, 4 negatives]

Postal Workers Picketing -- Main Post Office(November 27, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [11-27-57.05]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Views of postal workers picketing in front of the main post office (labor).

Mayor George Christopher and conductor Enrique Jorda

Physicist Dr. Harvey White of UC Berkeley with "flying saucer" [11-27-57, 6 negatives]

Night shots of crowds, parking, and traffic in the Mission District (neighborhood) [11-29-57, 10 negatives]

Night Views -- Mission District(November 29, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [11-29-57.01]

Physical Description: 10 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Mission Street scenes including the New Mission Theater, crowds of people walking on the sidewalks, storefronts, and cars in a full parking lot (neighborhood, cityscapes).

Arctic ship Storis

Narcotics suspects

After Thanksgiving shoppers (Market Street, Emporium, Macy's, Mission Miracle Mile)

Reception and dinner for Senator William F. Knowland (also includes Dr. William McKinley Thomas)

Locomotive dedication at San Francisco Fleishhacker Zoo

Opening of auto show at Cow Palace [11-29-57 - 11-30-57, 6 negatives]

Conductor Enrique Jorda and Symphony in rehearsal

Gang members do volunteer work

December 1957 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115-116, [120057-123157]

Physical Description: 725 negatives (estimate)

Hannes Schroll house tour, 944 Chestnut Street

First general session of American Municipal Association (Mayor Ben West of Nashville, Vice President of General Electric Co. Roy W. Johnson, Mayor George Christopher, and others)

Members of the San Francisco Garden Club

Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce opens new office in San Francisco (President J.R. Henderson and four stewardesses)

Women's Overseas Service League (Christmas gifts for Navajo Indians)

Men's Guild, Convent of Good Shepherd (Benjamin Swing, Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe, and others)

Press interview with Administrator of Federal and Civil Defense Leo A. Hoegh

San Francisco Chamber of Commerce election

Series on education shortcomings (Assemblyman Sheridan Hegland of La Mesa)

Girls in costumes for Santa Lucia Day (Swedish Christmas story)

Phony sputnik at Martinez police station [12-03-57, 4 negatives]

Phony Sputnik -- Martinez Police Station(December 03, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-03-57.09]

Physical Description: 4 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Officer Art Marlar with the phony 'Sputnik'.

Speakers at municipal conference Dr. Leonard Duhl, Washington DC; and William L. Rafsky, Philadelphia

Louis DeMartin (DeMartini?) retires from Chinatown (dinner at Kan's Restaurant)

King Muhammad V of Morocco in San Francisco (includes tour of Cyclotron lab at UC Berkeley) [12-04-57 - 12-06-57, ca. 40 negatives]

King Muhammad V of Morocco -- Airport, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Sheraton Palace, Fairmont Hotel(December 04, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-04-57.05-08]

Physical Description: 19 negatives

Scope and Content Note

King Muhammad V of Morocco stepping off an airplane, shaking hands with Mayor George Christopher, escorted by Christopher and other unidentified men, standing with Christopher, and standing with unidentified men in front of soldiers. Christopher and Muhammad V standing (for the anthem?) at the airport. Muhammad V sitting with Prince Abdallah(?) at a dinner. Muhammad V, Prince Abdallah and Mayor Ben West of Nashville, Tennessee standing behind a table. West standing next to Muhammad V as he talks into a microphone at a podium. Muhammad V greeting Mrs. Nion Tucker. Muhammad V greeting Mrs. George Otto. Muhammad V greeting Mrs. James R. Broun. Muhammad V greeting Mrs. Jacob Dana.

King Muhammad V of Morocco -- Cyclotron lab -- UC Berkeley(December 05, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-05-57.11]

Physical Description: 13 negatives

Scope and Content Note

King Muhammad V of Morocco shaking hands, standing, and walking with unidentified people. Muhammad V standing with unidentified men and looking at some mechanical equipment.

King Muhammad V of Morocco -- Airport(December 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-06-57.05]

Physical Description: 6 negatives

Scope and Content Note

View of four police motorcycles. Unidentified men standing around some cars. King Muhammad V of Morocco shaking hands with California highway patrolmen and standing with unidentified men.

Star of "Sayonara" Miko Taka

Christmas decorations at Stonestown and outer Mission Street (cityscapes)

San Francisco Ballet School at Eighteenth Avenue near Geary Street (dancers and committee members)

Christmas party of Italian Society at Laguna Honda Home

Lighting of Christmas candles at Union Square (cityscapes)

Stephen Cochran with Christmas tree

Mayor George Christopher being serenaded in his office by members of the Municipal Band on the occasion of his birthday

California Newspapers Publishers Association (grandson of James King of William Percy King Justus Craemer, and others)

Christmas benefit for Lucinda Weeks School

Atomic reactor at UC Berkeley's Cory Hall (Professor Nathan W. Snyder and students) [12-06-57, 2 negatives]

Atomic Reactor -- UC Berkeley(December 06, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-06-57.11]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Students and professor examining atomic reactor at Cory Hall.

Dutch Santa Claus (Sinterklass) greeted by Dutch colony here

Blind and sighted children playing together at Argonne Playground (disabled persons)

Board staff members of Pollution Board at Islais Creek dumps (Elmer Robinson, Elmer Walker, and Benjamin Linsky)

Steinhart Aquarium deterioration

Patricia Stevens Charm School

Federal Judge Irving Kaufman who sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg [12-09-57, 2 negatives]

Federal Judge Irving Kaufman -- Post Office Building(December 09, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-09-57.10]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Federal Judge Irving Kaufman, who sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sitting in a chair.

Reception line at party honoring Maestro Enrique Jorda

UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Peter Odegard in election race for US Senator

"What are good toys" (sputnik, robot, etc., and Professors Donald C. Biggs and John T. Robinson) [12-10-57, 3 negatives]

"What are Good Toys" -- Presidio Hill Elementary School(December 10, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-10-57.07]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Donald C. Biggs sitting next to robotic toy and toy dashboard modelled after a Firebird. Dorothy Weiler, Rheua Pearce, and John T. Robinson standing around a "launching Sputnik."

Sierra Club annual luncheon: Bishops Hugh A. Donohoe and Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle, and speaker Andrew F. Burke

Interview with Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg

Bay Area teens meet with Edmund G. [Pat] Brown

Notre Dame Music Association luncheon

Sweaters for Christmas (fashion)

Variety Club yearly party for blind children (disabled persons)

APL (American President Lines, Ltd.) "floating hotel" President Cleveland (ship) with kitchen and storage facilities

"Police night" at San Francisco Working Boys' Club (Police Commissioner Paul Bissinger, Chief Frank Ahern, and club Director Father James B. Flynn)

Record shipment of blue blood bulls and heifers (cattle)

Mayor George Christopher tours Noriega Street [12-13-57, 4 negatives]

Painting restorer Paul Prucha working on painting by Dutch artist Nicolaes Molenaer

Consul Pierluigi Alvera of Italy

O.J. Pietsch with his "Saintnik" (sputnik) in US Engineers Office [12-16-57, 3 negatives]

O.J. Pietsch and his "Saintnik" -- US Engineers Office(December 16, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-16-57.06]

Physical Description: 3 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Taken at 180 New Montgomery Street. Views of O.J. Pietsch standing with his model "Saintnik".

Giant Christmas tree being decorated outside entrance to Golden Gate Park (how workmen achieve this)

The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (President of Bank of America S.C. Beise and Consul Pierluigi Alvera of Italy)

Sputnik for Christmas (Xmas decorations) [12-17-57, 2 negatives]

Sputnik for Christmas -- Wilshire Court(December 17, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-17-57.09]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

A model sputnik hung outside a home as a Christmas decoration.

International Film Festival awards at Metro Theater (Director Irving Levin, winner of "Best Actress" Dolores Dorn-Heft, Harold Zellerbach, actress Shirley Temple Black, and S.N. Hussain of Indian Consulate)

Nobel Prize winner and head of virus lab Dr. Wendell Stanley [12-18-57, 2 negatives]

Nobel Prize Winner and Head of Virus Lab Dr. Wendell Stanley(December 18, 1957) BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 115, [12-18-57.06]

Physical Description: 2 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Dr. Wendell Stanley standing over a microscope. Stanley sitting in chair smoking pipe.

Salvation Army Christmas kettle on Powell and Market Streets

Johnny Mathis Day in San Francisco

Signing for new additions for French Hospital (architect [L.?] Allen and hospital President Mr. Andre L. Armand)

Catholic High School convention (Research Director of California State Federation John F. Henning)

Installing tree on mast of ship Balclutha

Wood carver W.H. Fields and his tableau "Last Supper"

"Conant Science Series" Dr. John V.N. Granger with wife Katherine and son David

American Trucking Award to Jane Conant (also Mayor George Christopher and E. Guy Warren)

Astronomy Professor Otto Struve

Grace Cathedral choristers

Dedication of new Recreational Arts Building at Scott and Duboce Streets (Mayor George Christopher, President of Park and Recreation Commission Louis Sutter, and others)

Sculptor Beniamino Bufano home from Europe (four poses of Bufano during conference)

Leader in the French contest "around the world in 90 days" Ronald Hutin

David's Delicatessen at Geary Street (David Apfelbaum at work)

Imperial Potentate Thomas W. Melham of Milwaukee

Polio victim Joan Kelly (portable iron lung and other equipment shown) (health)

Young Brothers advertising pictures

Children celebrate New Year in Shriners Hospital

January 1958 BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 117-118, [010058-013158]

Physical Description: 800 negatives (estimate)

Diagram showing "Tax Dollar" (expenditure and revenue dollar)

Earl Warren visits judges (names not provided) in City Hall

Hearst party at Mark Hopkins Hotel

Director Untermeyer of the Vallecitos Atomic Energy Power House

Christmas crowds on Market Street near Powell (cityscapes)

Dior fashions at Fairmont Hotel

Tower Market at Portola Drive (interior shots)