The New City Hall, San Francisco, California, 1915

Summary

Creators:

John Channing

Extent:

1 album (62 photographic prints: b & w); 20 x 27 cm. 62 digital objects

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], The New City Hall, San Francisco, California, 1915, BANC PIC 1905.12274--ALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

The New City Hall, San Francisco, California album contains 62 photographic prints taken in 1915 by John Channing. The album features the newly-constructed San Francisco City Hall, built to replace the previous structure which was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Designed by architects John Bakewell, Jr. and Arthur Brown, Jr. (of Bakewell and Brown), and begun in 1913, the nearly complete City Hall as shown in the album was fully occupied by city officials in 1916. The album affords a comprehensive survey of both exterior and interior features of the building. Views include the west and east facades, several doorways, the dome, the rotunda, the grand staircase, officials' chambers, galleries, windows, and various sculptural and other architectural details. Also pictured in several views is the Civic Center Plaza, situated to the east of City Hall. One print (No. 10) includes what is likely a portion of the Exposition Auditorium, also then under construction as part of the greater Civic Center.

The album prints are stamped and embossed with the name and logo of Channing, and are bound in the album by a cloth backing. The front cover of the album bears the title, "The New City Hall, San Francisco, California."

Acquisition information:

The New City Hall, San Francisco, California album was purchased in 1957.

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Alternative form available:

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

Indexed terms

Names:

Bakewell & Brown, Architects (San Francisco, Calif.)

Restrictions:

Collection stored off-site. Advance notice required for use.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], The New City Hall, San Francisco, California, 1915, BANC PIC 1905.12274--ALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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