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[International Hotel eviction protest photographs].
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[International Hotel eviction protest photographs]Abstract:
Photographs pertaining to the years-long effort to prevent the eviction of tenants of the single-room occupancy International
Hotel. Views show activists and tenants demonstrating outside the hotel, an interior view of the hotel, and a courtroom scene.
Date:
1968 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caInternational Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Demonstrations -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Single-room occupancy hotels -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Urban renewal -- California -- San Francisco
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International Hotel eviction protest photographs, BANC PIC 2014.117, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase ; from Bolerium Books ; 2014.
International Hotel: often referred to as I-Hotel; located at 848 Kearny Street in San Francisco's Manilatown; slated for
demolition in 1968 during a surge of city-wide urban renewal; last tenants to occupy the building were forcibly evicted on
August 4, 1977; demolished in 1981.
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graphicPhysical Description:
photoprint
7 photographs in 2 folders : gelatin silver prints, some mounted ; most sheets 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 format)
Language:
English