November 1953 . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38-39, [110053-113053] . 1000 negatives (estimate)
I. Magnin's Christmas tree made of mink [11-00-53, 2 negatives]
Political rally in Chinatown with dancing dragon and cable cars [11-03-53, 7 negatives]
Political Rally -- Chinatown (November 03, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-03-53.00] . 7 negatives
Crowds watch as Chinese dragon marches on parade route. Spectators crowd around cable car decorated with balloons. Earl Warren speaks to spectators in front of church [with one "Ike" sign visible, referring to President Dwight D. Eisenhower]. Earl Warren and Senator William F. Knowland speak to crowd; shown by cable car and with dragon. Taken at California and Grant Streets (neighborhood).
City election activities with supervisors and city attorney, etc. [11-03-53 - 11-04-53, 11 negatives]
Election Winners -- City Hall (November 03, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-03-53.02] . 4 negatives
Supervisor McCarty gets a kiss and congratulations from his wife. City Auditor Dion Holm shakes hands with City Treasurer John J. Goodwin. John J. Goodwin with his family members and Jean Weaver.
Election -- First Voter (November 03, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-03-53.03] . 2 negatives
Jean O'Neil prepares to vote at 1301 Sacramento Street.
Election Winners -- City Hall (November 03, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-03-53.04] . 4 negatives
Mr. and Mrs. Gene McAteer and Mr. and Mrs. George Christopher exchange handshakes in congratulation of one another. Other photographs of same persons.
New Douglas Elementary School at Nineteenth and Collingwood Streets opens (education) [11-09-53, 4 negatives]
Opening -- Douglas Elementary School (November 09, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-09-53.09] . 4 negatives
Jerry Allen Jones and Margie Ann Parks of kindergarten class look at new name plate on outside of the new Douglas Elementary School. At recess, children play games on "spacious new playground" (education).
Radiation meter (civil defense) [11-09-53, 2 negatives]
Radiation Meter -- Mayor's Office (November 09, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-09-53.03] . 2 negatives
Harry Stoops, Chief Mike Gaffey of Police Department, Chief Frank Kelly of Fire Department, and Mayor Elmer Robinson display new radiation meters to be used in the defense of civilians [in eventuality of nuclear attack?]. Admiral A.G. Woods also shown (civil defense).
Troops return from the Far East [11-10-53, 11-27-30 - 11-30-53, 37 negatives]
Return of Korean War Veterans -- General J.C. Breckinridge (ship) -- Fort Mason (November 10, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-10-53.01] . 9 negatives
Transport ship sails in harbor. Views of servicemen standing on deck of ship [two showing Golden Gate Bridge in background] (cityscapes). Crowd on dock awaits disembarkation of servicemen.
Return of Korean War Veterans -- Singer Carmen Molina -- Fort Mason (November 27, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-27-53.16] . 6 negatives
Singer Carmen Molina, employed to greet veterans returning from the Korean War, shown sitting at desk, and standing on dock singing to ship of returning servicemen.
Return of Korean War Veterans -- General Will Black (ship) -- Fort Mason (November 28, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-28-53.01] . 10 negatives
Corporal Roy Bellesen kisses mother Gladys Bellesen while others look on. Corporal Earl Lucas holds daughter Denice, with Mrs. Earl Lucas also shown. Views of returning veterans standing on deck of ship and crowd on dock awaiting ship. Red Cross members hand out coffee to servicemen awaiting transport.
Return of Korean War Veterans -- Fort Mason (November 30, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-30-53.01] . 12 negatives
Photographs of returning veterans standing on decks of the General Patrick (ship) and the General Mann (ship). Long view of ship sailing in bay [no name given]. Servicemen leave ship for shore; stand inside transport dock, drinking coffee and awaiting transport.
Two painters fall from scaffold on Golden Gate Bridge [11-06-53, 11-10-53, 5 negatives]
Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed at the Press Club [11-12-53, 6 negatives]
Interview -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Press Club (November 12, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 38, [11-12-53.14] . 6 negatives
Eleanor Roosevelt sits behind table while speaking to reporters during interview. Sits and speaks with Lemuel Mathews, Northern California's representative to the United Nations.
Youth Guidance Center (juvenile delinquency) [11-17-53, 2 negatives]
Press Conference -- Youth Guidance Center (November 17, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-17-53.03] . 2 negatives
Roy Buehl of the probation committee and chief juvenile probation officer Phillip Green hold up pieces of old security screen used at juvenile facility, and a new, tougher screen to be used in the future. The Reverend James M. Murray also shown.
Fun Villa on Market and Seventh Streets selling fake identification cards to kids (street scenes) [11-18-53, 11-24-53, 8 negatives]
Fake Identification Cards (November 18, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-18-53.03] . 5 negatives
Copy boy for the "Call Bulletin" shown walking into Fun Villa (arcade?), seeking the purchase of a fake identification card (neighborhood). Portraits of copy boy. Photographs of fake identification obtained by copy boy.
Vice president of Japan Air Lines (Nihon Koku) arrives on the first trans-Pacific crossing [11-24-53 - 11-25-53, 13 negatives]
Trans-Pacific Flight -- Japan Air Lines -- Airport (November 24, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-24-53.02] . 3 negatives
Consul General Yasasuke Katsuno of Japan, Mrs. Katsuno, Yoshioto Kojima of Japan Air Lines' North American operations, Louis Fox of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and W.R. Thigpen of United Air Lines [which had maintenance contract for Japan Air Lines airplanes in the US], greet Vice President Tetsuo Oba of Japan Air Lines as he descends from airplane after making first flight from Tokyo, Japan [first Trans-Pacific flight?]. Japanese stewardesses also shown (transportation).
Japan Air Lines (November 25, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-25-53.01] . 10 negatives
Nobuko Ishii, Masako Itami, and Reiko Dai shown shopping for flowers, toys, perfume, and other items around San Francisco; walking in kimonos underneath the Golden Gate Bridge (cityscapes), eating hamburgers, and assisting woman with luggage [promotional photographs for Japan Air Lines].
New apparatus for premature babies (health) [11-25-53, 7 negatives]
Premature Baby Care -- Isolette -- St. Francis Hospital (November 25, 1953) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 39, [11-25-53.13-14] . 7 negatives
Hand of student nurse Alice Ueda reaches for baby through special opening in isolette. Photograph of premature baby Robin Mark Alarde housed inside an isolette [an infant incubator]. Other views of baby housed in isolette, with attending nurses (health).
Senator William F. Knowland presented petitions to get a fence put up around canal in the Pittsburg area
Heavy traffic on Geary Boulevard and Powell Street (cityscapes) [11-27-53, 3 negatives]
San Francisco Boys' Club at Playland at the Beach [11-27-53, 4 negatives]
Congressman Cliff Doyle here for "commie" (communism) hearings [11-30-53, 2 negatives]