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[San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society photograph album].
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[San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society photograph album]Creator/Contributor:
San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society, creator, creator.Abstract:
Snapshot photograph album containing scenes and views of activities of the San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society in the
years following the 1924 completion of its new campus in the Sunset district. Images depict group portraits, playground scenes
and other recreational events, main building views, residential cottages and other structures. Also documented are activities
at Camp Swain, the Society's summer residence in Danville; and outings to Stanford University, Grass Valley and Burlingame.
Also includes a series of snapshot views of scenic San Francisco locations such as Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Park, Saints
Peter & Paul Church, Market Street, Union Square and Chinatown. Also includes a few pages from the Eighty-second Annual Report
of the San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society, with illustrations dated 1933.
Date:
1925 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSan Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society -- Photographs
Orphans -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer(s), compiler unknown. Album is likely the product of orphanage staff.
All photographs include descriptive captions, written in a single hand, identifying individuals, locations, activities, etc.
Some captions are dated.
Inscribed on first leaf: "Orphanage and S.F., 1934-1936". Based on dated captions, actual range of years documented in album
is wider.
San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society photograph album, BANC PIC , The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 165 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 12 x 8 cm, album 19 x 30 cm
Language:
English