September 1954 . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55-56, [090054-093054] . 875 negatives (estimate)
Transfer ceremonies for a Navy minesweeper AMS-125 (ship) to the French Navy with French consul general and US Navy commander [09-02-54, 2 negatives]
Transfer Ceremonies to French Navy -- Navy Minesweeper -- Treasure Island Pier Fifteen (September 02, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-02-54.02] . 2 negatives
Consul General Louis de Guriringaud of France, Captain R.D. King of the US Navy, Commanding Officer Commander Ville Vieelle of the French Navy, and Liaison Officer Commander Gagne of the French Navy shake hands on dock. Overall shot of the minesweeper AMS-125 (ship) during ceremonies with servicemen on deck.
Senator William F. Knowland "blasts Red shooting" (communism) [09-05-54, 6 negatives]
Condemnation of "Red shooting" -- Senator William F. Knowland (September 05, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-05-54.01] . 6 negatives
Senator William F. Knowland sits, reads document, talks on telephone, and puts paperwork in briefcase (communism). Taken at 100 Guilford Road in Piedmont. (Possibly concerning US airplane shot down by Soviets?)
First day of school around the Bay Area (education) [09-07-54, 2 negatives]
First Day of School (education) -- Notre Dame des Victoires (September 07, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-07-54.01] . 2 negatives
Sister Cecile Marie checks children's nametags on school steps while Principal Sister Marie Therese looks on. Sister Cecile Marie checks nametag of Stephanie Reed on school steps while the other children look on.
Battleship Missouri (ship) comes to Hunters Point [09-09-54 - 09-10-54, 19 negatives]
Battleship Missouri (ship) -- Hunters Point (September 09, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-09-54.03] . 4 negatives
Fireman Fred Brogren and [Bosn?] Second Class R.F. Nichols who is holding Bruce Abrams on his shoulders stand on deck of the newly docked Battleship Missouri. Marines stand guard while visitors look at plaque on ship where Japanese peace agreement was signed. Long shot from flying bridge to front of ship.
Battleship Missouri (ship) -- Hunters Point (September 10, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-10-54.01] . 15 negatives
Long shots of ship approaching shore. People on dock watch the Battleship Missouri nearing. Bird's-eye view of ship with cars and people on deck and crane on shore. Visitors walk on ramp to ship. Long line of people waiting to get on board (cityscape). Seven people look at plaque on ship where Japanese peace agreement was signed. Man stands next to plaque.
Mountain Lake Park painted by "religious" vandals [09-10-54, 6 negatives]
Vandals Paint the Park -- Mountain Lake Park (September 10, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-10-54.02] . 6 negatives
Park playground director Albert Zecker stands in front of vandalized men's bathroom door. Shot of vandalized women's bathroom door. Illegally painted tables in card room near Ninth Avenue entrance. Paint on ground and flagpole with house and trees in background near Ninth Avenue. Deleuse Syrs and Roger Levin stand in tennis court [that they sometimes play in] where vandals have painted on ground (neighborhood). "Pray" painted on ground with people on bicycles and on foot in the background.
Governor Goodwin Knight campaigning [09-13-54, 3 negatives]
Campaigning -- Governor Goodwin Knight (September 13, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-13-54.00] . 3 negatives
Governor Goodwin Knight, Mrs. Knight, and Chairman Hartley Peart of the Committee for Knight for Governor stand in front of campaign posters. People converge around desk and podium at campaign headquarters. Knight shakes hands with supporters in the crowd.
First day of classes at new schools (A.P. Giannini Junior High School and Mark Twain Elementary School) [09-13-54, 6 negatives]
New Schools -- A.P. Giannini Jr. High and Mark Twain Elementary (September 13, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-13-54.02] . 6 negatives
Students arrive at A.P. Giannini Junior High School on the ramp that leads to the entrance. Female school principal stands in front of Mark Twain Elementary making announcement in front of mothers and school children [children were grouped outside so they would not get lost inside the new building]. Children and mothers stand in playground in front of building and flag flying at half-mast while waiting for school to open. View of students arriving at A.P. Giannini Junior High School while cars are parked in the lot below. Children at Mark Twain Elementary form semi-circle in playground in front of building.
General Anderson (ship) arrives at Treasure Island with 1,700 Marines [09-14-54, 10 negatives]
US Marines Arrive -- General Anderson (ship) -- Treasure Island (September 14, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-14-54.03] . 10 negatives
Marines arrive at Pier Seventeen on Treasure Island. Marines stand on dock waving to camera. Marines walk down street in file (neighborhood). Marines walk down pier holding luggage, walk off pier on to land. Marines make a turn while walking down street in file. Marines exit ship from door onto plank. Families wait for ship to finish docking while Marines wait on deck of ship. Families wait behind barricade.
Gang fight on Mission Street (juvenile delinquency) [09-15-54, 7 negatives]
Gang Shooting -- Mission Street Police Station (September 15, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-15-54.01-02] . 7 negatives
Sergeant Joseph Donegan and Phillip Kiely talk to shooters Larry Page and Stan Owens. Booking officer Emil Reulein stands at the typewriter with Ted Lopez and William Tayas. Officer Frank Prier talks to Charles White and Joe Carr in a cell. Gun and other pieces of evidence are laid out on a table. Two young men lean on table with eyeglasses in hands. Dr. Herbert Clish talks to Lopez in police station. Donegan pulls up Owens' shirt to look at tattoos on his chest (juvenile delinquency).
Aerial views of Highway 101 in Marin County at Greenbrae [09-15-54, 11 negatives]
Aeriel Views of Highway 101 -- Marin County (September 15, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-15-54.03] . 11 negatives
Bird's-eye views of Highway 101 at the Greenbrae intersection with views of mountains, cars on highway, surrounding buildings and landscape, secondary roads, and a billboard (cityscape) (transportation).
Test run of Air Force crash boat in San Francisco Bay (cityscapes) [09-16-54, 3 negatives]
Test Run -- New Air Force Crash Boat -- Treasure Island (September 16, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 55, [09-16-54.01] . 3 negatives
New boat being tested while Navy helicopter flies above city (cityscape). Boat in San Francisco Bay with city and Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. [Boat also equipped with guns forward and aft. It was built at a shipyard in Stockton for about 450,000 dollars].
San Francisco cityscapes from the top of Hamm's Brewery [09-21-54, 5 negatives]
Evening Views -- Top of Hamm's Brewery (September 21, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 56, [09-21-54.01] . 6 negatives
Night view of Ferry Building and Bay Bridge (cityscape, neighborhood). View looking east with Bay Bridge in center. Looking north from Brewery with views of buildings and street.
Senator Estes Kefauver and Congressman Sam Yorty at press conference [09-23-54, 2 negatives]
Press Conference -- Senator Phillip O'Rourke and Congressman Estes Kefauver -- Fairmont Hotel (September 23, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 56, [09-23-54.01] . 2 negatives
Democrats Senator Phillip O'Rourke, Congressman Estes Kefauver and Congressman Sam Yorty stand inside the Fairmont Hotel. Kefauver, Yorty and others sit with reporters in a room in the hotel.
Emergency delivery of iron lung for infant (health) [09-23-54, 5 negatives]
Emergency Delivery -- Iron Lung for Infant -- Mission Emergency Hospital (September 23, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 56, [09-23-54.03] . 5 negatives
Steward P.E. Spray and ambulance driver Ralph Baker arrive in ambulance (with lung at 10:20 PM at Isolation Ward). Police officer William Fritz stands outside of ambulance while Spray and Baker get ready to move lung. Isolation gate man Godfrey Wilson stands by while Spray and Baker lift lung from ambulance. Spray, Baker, Fritz and Wilson carry lung away from ambulance. Three of the men wheel the lung into the hospital (health).
St. Anthony dining room serves its 2 millionth free meal [09-30-54, 2 negatives]
Two-millionth Free Meal Served -- St. Anthony Dining Room (September 30, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 56, [09-30-54.01] . 2 negatives
Director Father Alfred Boeddeker of the St. Anthony's Dining Room at 121 Golden Gate serves two-millionth meal since place opened October 4, 1950 to part-time mechanic Nick Levko with sea of men in the background and buffet-style containers in the foreground. Levko sits at table eating a turkey leg with potatoes, dressing, corn, string beans, cranberry sauce, fruit cake, coffee, and bread on his plate surrounded by Director of Catholic Service messenger William Flanagan, Father Alan McCoy, and Father Alfred Boeddeker and Chef Bud Gregg representing Oakland Franciscan headquarters. [Levko also received a carton of cigarettes and suit of clothes] (social services).