October 1954 . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 56-58, [100054-103154] . 1050 negatives (estimate)
Joe Di Maggio and Marilyn Monroe divorce [10-00-54, 4 negatives]
Divorce -- Marilyn Monroe and Joe Di Maggio (October 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 56, [10-00-54.01] . 4 negatives
Portraits of baseball player Joe Di Maggio and photograph of him speaking with reporters, taken after [the announcement of?] his divorce from actress Marilyn Monroe. Taken at 2150 Beach Street in the home of Joe Di Maggio.
Filthy Mission District apartment interior and children as police investigate (child neglect?, housing, poverty) [10-00-54, 11 negatives]
Marine recruiting drive with Marine band and Chinese drum corp [10-02-54, 2 negatives]
Frozen foods convention [10-03-54, 3 negatives]
Frozen Foods Convention -- Palace Hotel (October 03, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 56, [10-03-54.01] . 3 negatives
"Sally SeaPak" holds up frozen package of Chesapeake oysters for camera as she stands by Harold G. Hacke of the Union Ice Company and Executive Director Harry K. Schauffler of the National Wholesale Frozen Food Distributors Association.
Five Navy ships come through the Golden Gate [10-07-54, 12 negatives]
Centennial of Grace Cathedral [10-08-54, 2 negatives]
Centennial -- Grace Cathedral (October 08, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-08-54.06] . 2 negatives
The Reverend Edward Lamb Parsons [the Third Bishop of California], Reverend Francis De Witt Batty of New Castle, Australia, Reverend Karl Morgan Block [Episcopal Bishop of California], and the Reverend Henry H. Shires [Suffragan Bishop] pose for photographs on the occasion of the Grace Cathedral's one-hundredth anniversary.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon lands at Travis Air Force Base [10-11-54, 4 negatives]
Arrival -- Vice President Richard M. Nixon -- Travis Air Force Base (October 11, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-11-54.21] . 4 negatives
Richard Nixon shakes hands with General Stanley Donavan on the steps of the airplane "GOP Congressional Special;" with John Baldwin also shown. Nixon speaks to reporters during press conference by airplane.
Representative Sam Yorty and Senator Stuart Symington [10-12-54, 3 negatives]
Ground breaking for new Longshoremen's building (labor) [10-12-54, 7 negatives]
Groundbreaking for New Building -- ILWU -- Fisherman's Wharf (October 12, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-12-54.02] . 7 negatives
George Christopher scoops up first shovel of dirt in groundbreaking for building, with President Martin Callaghan of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 10 chapter alongside and crowd in background (labor). Views of crowd and speakers addressing crowd, with factory and natural gas storage facility in background (labor, neighborhood).
Heavy smog over San Francisco as seen from on top of the Hamm's Brewery building (cityscapes) [10-14-54, 2 negatives]
Opera back stage with actress Dorothy McGuire and conductors Pierre Monteux and Kurt Herbert Adler [10-15-54, 3 negatives]
Backstage at Opera House (October 15, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-15-54.01] . 3 negatives
Directors Pierre Monteux and Kurt Herbert Adler, actress Dorothy McGuire, [actor?] Robert Watt Miller, and Consul General Louis de Guiringaud of France speak back stage at the Opera House during staging of the opera "Jean at the Stake."
Veterans of Indian Wars [10-15-54, 2 negatives]
Veterans of Indian Wars -- War Memorial Building (October 15, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-15-54.07] . 2 negatives
Eighty-nine year old Commander John Roberts, eighty-two year old John Gilbert, eighty-three year old Major John H. Fanning, and seventy-five year old Charles F. Beeson, all veterans of US Government wars against American Indian tribes, "talk over old Indian tricks" [used during battle?].
Adlai Stevenson arrives at San Francisco International Airport [10-16-54, 5 negatives]
Arrival -- Adlai Stevenson -- Airport (October 16, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-16-54.03] . 5 negatives
Adlai Stevenson, arriving to give speech in San Francisco, is greeted by Senator Stuart Symington, Representative Sam Yorty, and Mr. Graves on steps of airplane. Same men leave airport in automobile.
Transfer of ownership of the Palace Hotel from Mrs. William B. Johnson to the Sheraton Corporation [10-18-54, 2 negatives]
Movie producer Albert R. Broccoli and wife Nitre here to publicize film "The Black Knight" [10-18-54, 2 negatives]
Canadian carrier The Magnificent (ship) arrives at Treasure Island [10-18-54, 11 negatives]
Canadian Carrier "The Magnificent" (ship) -- Treasure Island (October 18, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-18-54.17-18] . 11 negatives
David Reid stands on wing of airplane, with other airplanes parked around him on deck of ship. Commodore H.S. Rayner, captain of The Magnificent (ship), Commander G.C. Edwards, captain of the frigate Stettler (ship), and Consul Paul Reading of Canada converse on deck of ship. Sailors prepare to take polio victim Edward F. Amos from ship. Views of The Magnificent (ship) and the frigate Stettler (ship) arriving in Bay, with Angel Island in background (cityscapes).
Admiral A.G. Cooke shows new civil defense plans for H-bomb (hydrogen bomb) disaster for San Francisco [10-19-54, 2 negatives]
Disaster Plans for Hydrogen Bomb Attack (October 19, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-19-54.06] . 2 negatives
Admiral A.G. Cooke points to areas ringed by concentric circles on large map of San Francisco, which illustrates plans in the eventuality of a hydrogen bomb attack (atomic age, civil defense).
View of San Francisco with fog on horizon (cityscapes) [10-19-54, 2 negatives]
Olympic Games fund drive parade [10-19-54, 3 negatives]
Edmund G. Brown and wife vote by absentee ballots [10-22-54, 2 negatives]
Governor Goodwin Knight meets with AFL labor leaders [10-25-54, 2 negatives]
Leaders -- American Federation of Labor -- Fairmont Hotel (October 25, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-25-54.05] . 2 negatives
Governor Goodwin J. Knight and "his charming wife" Virginia Knight pose for photos with Secretary Treasurer C.J. Haggerty of the American Federation of Labor [AFL], and Jack Goldenberger of the San Francisco Labor Council.
Dr. Wernher von Braun originator of the V2 rocket visits [10-25-54, 1 negative]
Governor Goodwin Knight tours Richardson Bay [10-26-54, 7 negatives]
Tour -- Governor Goodwin J. Knight -- Richardson Bay (October 26, 1954) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 57, [10-26-54.07] . 7 negatives
Director Frank Durkee of the Department of Public Works, engineer B.W. Booker of the [Department of Water?], Tom Laumann, Goodwin Knight, Ernest Burgstadter... shown looking out on Richardson Bay, touring tunnel, on ferry, and standing on the Richmond side of the new Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (cityscapes).
Transport ship General Simon Buckner arrives at Fort Mason with "heroes" [10-28-54, 6 negatives]
Miss America Lee Meriwether returns home to parade and other activities [10-27-54 - 10-29-54, ca. 50 negatives]