Hotels and apartment buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area., 1910

Summary

Creators:

Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept.

Abstract:

Photographs show exteriors and surrounding street scenes of hotels (and apartment buildings) in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. All addresses are identified. Some views include motor vehicles, pedestrians, and businesses. Album was probably compiled for promotional purposes, illustrating reconstruction after the earthquake and fire of 1906.

Extent:

471 photographic prints (in three boxes) and two descriptive sheets 8 digital objects (8 images)

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Hotels and Apartment Buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area., BANC PIC 1980.020--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

The San Francisco's Hotels collection contains 471 photographs of hotels and apartment buildings located in the San Francisco Bay area, taken circa 1910-1920. The collection originally formed an album entitled "San Francisco's Hotels." Noticeable throughout the prints of the collection is evidence --rubble, vacant lots, construction sites, etc. --of the earthquake and fire of 1906. Although the majority of the photographs are of buildings located in San Francisco, there are many of buildings in Berkeley and Oakland as well.

Accompanying the collection are photographs of the original album and a page of the album containing a brief description of its contents. Also included is a listing of other hotels and apartment buildings standing at the time of the album's creation though not photograhed for the album.

Affixed to the verso of several prints are caption labels which read, "Hotels and Apartment Houses. San Francisco --California. Photograph by General Passenger Department Southern Pacific Company."

Acquisition information:

The Hotels and Apartment Buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area collection was purchased in 1979.

Processing information:

Finding aid and digital representations of archival material funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Alternative form available:

Digital reproductions of selected images are available.

Other descriptive data:

[Also included are two xerox copies of of a listing of other hotels and apartment buildings standing at the time of the creation of the original album. The list's title reads, "Hotels and Apartment Houses, the Photographs of Which It Is Not Possible to Include Within the Covers of This Book Without Making It Unwieldy."]

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Hotels and Apartment Buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area., BANC PIC 1980.020--PIC, 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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