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No Vacancy photograph archiveCreator/Contributor:
Nowinski, Ira., creatorAbstract:
Includes photographs taken by Nowinski and research files compiled by the photographer. Material documents the impact of urban
renewal efforts on the low-income elderly population of the South of Market district of San Francisco during the San Francisco
Redevelopment Agency's campaign to acquire property which would eventually become redeveloped into Yerba Buena Center -- i.e.
Yerba Buena Gardens, the Moscone Center and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Many of the photographs were used in the
production of Nowinski's book No Vacancy : urban renewal and the elderly (1979). Photographs include portraits of elderly
residents, interiors and exteriors of various single room occupancy hotels and other low-income housing projects, restaurants
and storefronts, street scenes, demolition scenes, housing rights activism, and the everyday life of neighborhood residents.
Individuals depicted include resident activists George Woolf and Peter Mendelsohn. Other particular subjects include Third
Street, Sixth Street, and the organizations Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (TOOR) and Tenants and Owners
Development Corporation (TODCO). Among the hotels and other housing units depicted are Milner Hotel, Jessie Hotel, West Hotel,
Westchester Hotel, Rex Hotel, Mars Hotel, Alta Hotel, Knox Hotel, Rock Hotel, International Hotel, Woolf House, Mendelsohn
House, Centrice Polite and the Filipino Senior Center. Includes all photographs appearing in No Vacancy as well as numerous
other images. Also includes copy photographs of this neighborhood from the 1960s collected by Nowinski and follow-up photographs
taken by Nowinski in the 1990s. Accompanying research files include text drafts, meeting minutes, oral histories, flyers,
clippings and other ephemera pertaining to the book and to various South of Market neighborhood topics from the 1970s through
the 1990s. Includes 4 copies of No Vacancy: original edition; the photographer's mock-up of the book; and 2 different unpublished
expanded photocopy editions (all in PIC box 3). Also includes extensive photocopy files of Nowinski's images, possibly made
for the production of the expanded edition and/or other self-published works.
Date:
ca. 1960-ca. 2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caUrban renewal -- California -- San Francisco
Urban renewal -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Relocation (Housing) -- California -- San Francisco
Poor older people -- California -- San Francisco -- Portraits
Poor older people -- Civil rights -- California -- San Francisco
Urban older people -- California -- San Francisco -- Portraits
Low-income housing -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Right to housing -- California -- San Francisco
Single-room occupancy hotels -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Rénovation urbaine -- Californie -- San Francisco
Rénovation urbaine -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Relogement -- Californie -- San Francisco
Personnes âgées pauvres -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Portraits
Personnes âgées pauvres -- Droits -- Californie -- San Francisco
Personnes âgées en milieu urbain -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Portraits
Pauvres -- Logement -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Droit au logement -- Californie -- San Francisco
Maisons de chambres -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Poor older people
Low-income housing
Manners and customs
Relocation (Housing)
Right to housing
Single-room occupancy hotels
Urban older people
Urban renewal
South of Market (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
South of Market (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Yerba Buena Center (San Francisco, Calif.)
California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco -- South of Market
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (San Francisco, Calif.)
Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment (Association)
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (San Francisco, Calif.)
Nowinski, Ira -- Archives
Nowinski, Ira
Note:
Many photographs signed, captioned and/or dated on versos by photographer: Ira Nowinski.
Includes research files, photocopy files of images, and other papers.
Title devised by cataloger.
Simultaneous use of PIC box 3 (No Vacancy books) with other containers permitted.
Photographer's 35mm camera shelved in Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:195--OBJ.
EXHIBITION PRINTS (B box 1), CAMERA and NEGATIVES RESTRICTED. Use of these materials only by permission of the appropriate
curator. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft
Library.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Folder list available in library.
Purchase; From Ira Nowinski ; 2002 and 2004.
Related collection: Ira Nowinski photograph books of San Francisco and Baja California (BANC PIC 2005.192).
Preferred citation: No Vacancy photograph archive, BANC PIC 2003.082, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicResearch (document genres)
Minutes.
Archives
Photographs
Pictorial works
Portraits
Oral histories.
Ephemera.
Physical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
8 boxes (ca. 500 photographic prints), 1 box (camera) and 19 negatives : chiefly b&w ; 41 x 50 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Simultaneous use of PIC box 3 (No Vacancy books) with other containers permitted.
Photographer's 35mm camera shelved in Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:195--OBJ.
EXHIBITION PRINTS (B box 1), CAMERA and NEGATIVES RESTRICTED. Use of these materials only by permission of the appropriate
curator. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft
Library.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.