January 1955 . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61-62, [010055-013155] . 1125 negatives (estimate)
Sunrise pictures over San Francisco (cityscapes) [01-07-55, 6 negatives]
Asian refugee arrivals on the Wilson (ship) [01-08-55, 2 negatives]
Troop arrivals on the General E.D. Patrick (ship) [01-10-55, 8 negatives]
Candidates for Chinese New Year Queen [01-11-55, 3 negatives]
Candidates for Queen -- Chinese New Year (January 11, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-11-55.12] . 3 negatives
Katherine Chan, Dorothy Tom, Carolyn Lim, Elaine Yuen, and Helen Yu, candidates for the Chinese New Year Queen competition, pose with a Chinese dragon head and firecrackers. Taken on Stockton Street.
William Wellman and film production of "Blood Alley" at China Camp [01-11-55 - 01-12-55, 11 negatives]
Production of Film "Blood Alley" -- China Camp (January 11, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-11-55.20] . 3 negatives
Sampans (ships) sit at anchor in Bay. Stairway winds up hillside, with a partial replica of the Great Wall of China at top of hill and farm buildings at base of hill. General view of the China Camp [where movie was filmed] and sampans at anchor. Taken in Marin County.
Production of Film "Blood Alley" -- China Camp (January 12, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-12-55.10] . 8 negatives
Director William Wellman speaks to unidentified people on the set of movie. A Chinese ferry boat sails in Bay, with fog making barge in background. William Wellman and his assistant stand on dock, with ferry boat in background [William Wellman is holding megaphone]. Portraits of unidentified men [director and actor?]. Taken on Bay in Marin County.
Actor James Stewart sails on the President Wilson (ship) [01-12-55, 4 negatives]
Actor James Stewart -- President Wilson (ship) -- Mission Rock (January 12, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-12-55.11] . 4 negatives
Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart) stand on deck of the President Wilson (ship) [member of the American President Lines fleet], sailing on their way to Asia. Photographer sits on top of metal support for lifeboat in order to get higher angle on the couple. View of ship sailing in bay.
Ambassador You Chan Yang of Korea [01-15-55, 2 negatives]
Graphic arts exhibit [01-17-55, 6 negatives]
Graphic Arts Exhibit -- Sheraton Palace Hotel (January 17, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-17-55.11] . 6 negatives
Dorothy Crispen points out aspect of graphic art piece to General Manager King Wilkin of Zellerbach Company. Frank Kettlewell and Gilbert Sully look at books on display. Ernest F. Wuthman, Charles F. De Lacy, and Worth Seymour look at display. Marilynn Torrison, "Miss Perfect Type 1955," sits on table while posing with graphic arts materials.
Naturalized immigrants (including Russians) at Post Office building [01-17-55, 01-28-55, 7 negatives]
Naturalization -- US Citizens -- Post Office Building (January 17, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-17-55.12] . 5 negatives
Crowd of immigrants lines up at counter in office after becoming naturalized citizens. [Nicholai?], Natalie, and Nadine Kumanin, Russian born US Citizens, pose for group photos.
Naturalization -- US Citizens -- Post Office Building (January 28, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-28-55.07] . 2 negatives
Airman Third Class Konstantin Von Somoff of the US Air Force, in wheelchair, and Corporal Holst Scheiber of the US Army look at their certificates, which proclaim them US citizens.
John Wayne arrives at China Camp [01-17-55, 2 negatives]
Waiting for bus at Church and Market Streets in the rain [01-18-55, 11 negatives]
Waiting in the Rain -- Bus Stop (January 18, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-18-55.06] . 11 negatives
Betty Solomon, on her way to school, and others wait in rain for bus at stops on Church and Market Streets and Sanchez and Market Streets (neighborhood, transportation). Betty Solomon looks out of bus window after boarding. [Sleeve includes five unidentified negatives showing men gathered around painting of sailor].
Snow on Mount Tamalpais [01-18-55, 8 negatives]
Snow -- Mount Tamalpais (January 18, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 61, [01-18-55.09] . 8 negatives
Gloria Russo, Mr. and Mrs. D. Andrews, Bruce and Barbara Andrews shown standing and playing in the snow. Man scrapes snow from window of automobile. Snow covers road, and men place "Road Closed" sign across road.
Apartment buildings in Hunters Point [01-19-55, 2 negatives]
Chinese New Year Queen Carolyn Lim [01-21-55, 01-27-55, 5 negatives]
Queen -- Chinese New Year (January 21, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-21-55.06] . 3 negatives
Carolyn Lim, to be Queen for Chinese New Year festivities, holds up card with Chinese characters that translate to read "much prosperity." Katherine Chan also shown.
Queen of Chinatown -- City Hall (January 27, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-27-55.07] . 2 negatives
Mayor Elmer Robinson stands with Carolyn Lim and Elaine Yuen, the Queen and Princess of Chinatown respectively. The two women hold scroll written in Chinese characters and translating "the community of Chinatown extends personal greetings to Mayor Elmer Robinson".
Fashions and Studebaker car at Yacht Harbor (Golden Gate Bridge in background) [01-21-55, 4 negatives]
Thomas Edison collection in Atherton (inventions on exhibit) [01-21-55, 8 negatives]
Collection -- Inventor Thomas Edison -- Atherton (January 21, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-21-55.14] . 8 negatives
Photographs showing a phonograph from 1898 and three glass cases filled with electric light bulbs. Ward Harris listens to music on an experimental model phonograph, which used an electric motor for the first time. In the background sits a "multiphone," the first juke box made [circa 1900], and on the floor is a movie projector. Ward Harris stands in the Historical Room. The first manufactured phonograph, dating from 1889, sits in glass case. Ward Harris sits in the seat of an electricly powered automobile, for which Thomas Edison made the battery. Photo of phonograph run by water from the tap, a doll that plays nursery rhymes, and an experimental long playing phonograph with 400 grooves per inch.
Troop ship General C.G. Morton at Fort Mason [01-24-55, 13 negatives]
US Troops Arrive -- General C.G. Morton (ship) -- Fort Mason (January 24, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-24-55.12] . 13 negatives
US Army servicemen stand on deck of ship. Crowd on dock looks up to troops on deck. Servicemen descend gangplank from ship. Red Cross members hand out coffee to servicemen waiting inside dock transport building.
Mickey Rooney and Joy Healey [01-26-55, 3 negatives]
Mickey Rooney with Monkey -- Italian Village (January 26, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-26-55.05] . 3 negatives
Actor Mickey Rooney sits with "Jimmy" the monkey, Glinda Guilfoyle, Joyce Moore, and Elizabeth LaBelle [all three women wearing fishnet stockings and matching tops]. Joy Healey, head of the Joy Healey Dancers, also shown.
Actor Tab Hunter [01-26-55, 2 negatives]
New Winston supermarket [01-26-55, 15 negatives]
Winston Supermarket (January 26, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-26-55.09] . 15 negatives
External views of the new Winston Supermarket El Camino del Mar, showing parking lot, storefront, and tops of houses on hill behind (neighborhood). Internal views of store, showing customers and employees, food aisles, and specialty departments of store.
Sunset Health Center (infant and child check-ups) [01-27-55, 6 negatives]
Child Check-ups -- Sunset Health Center (January 27, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-27-55.02] . 6 negatives
Mrs. Walter Dessauer, Mrs. Harrison S. Robinson, and Mrs. Gaynor Langsdorf sit on brick planter outside of health center. Mrs. Barry Livingston checks the height of eight year old Roger Boris. Volunteer Mrs. Frederick Gock weighs baby David McClellan, while Mrs. Livingston holds baby Gregory Tong. Dr. Margaret Miller checks on the health of the O'Keefe family. Taken at [2579?] Forty-second Avenue.
Junior Achievement companies at work (education and youth training, making ash trays, etc.) [01-27-55, 7 negatives]
Junior Achievement Companies (January 27, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-27-55.05] . 7 negatives
Dan Thal of Washington High School, and Marilyn Asmussen and Madeline Santiago of Balboa High School make ivy planters out of soup ladels. Dorothy DaMatteo of Star of the Sea Academy polishes a stainless steel disk she will make into an ashtray. Margie Sleath of Giannini Junior High School sits with instructor Harvey C. Cranfill at machine that will press silver disk into the shape of an ashtray. Charlie Hayes of Riordan High School polishes finished ash trays. Other students shown making earrings, cufflinks, iron candle holders, and cigarette trays. Executive Director Frank Stegall of the Junior Achievement program and Patrick H. Palmer look over the students' finished products (education).
Troops and families and Breckinridge (ship) in Oakland [01-28-55, 12 negatives]
Return of Korean War Veterans -- General J.C. Breckinridge (ship) -- Oakland Army Base (January 28, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-28-55.02] . 12 negatives
Family of Corporal Frank Peterson stands with him behind sign welcoming him home. Father George S., sister Phyllis, brother First Lieutenant Skip Peterson, and fiancee June Ingels shown. Barbara Peterson greets her husband Corporal Thomas W. Burch as he returns from seventeen months in Korea; with view of crowd in background. Ship sails into dock. Returning troops stand on deck of ship. Troops descend gangplank from ship to shore.
Vigilance Committee proclamation and bell on exhibit [01-29-55, 3 negatives]
Proclamation -- Vigilance Committee (January 29, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-29-55.02] . 3 negatives
A proclamation of the Vigilance Committee exhibited on wall behind bell used to call the committee of vigilantes together in times of emergency. Taken at 456 McAllister Street.
Whale trapped between dock and Boxer (ship) at Hunters Point [01-29-55, 4 negatives]
Whale Trapped Near Dock -- Hunters Point (January 29, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-29-55.03] . 4 negatives
Photographs showing the back of a whale trapped between a barge and the dock, with sailors looking down on whale. General view of the area in which the whale is trapped, and of the whale "sounding" in the water.
Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza (new 30 cents fare signs) [01-29-55, 2 negatives]
Chinese New Year parade [01-30-55, 6 negatives]
Parade -- Chinese New Year -- Chinatown (January 30, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-30-55.01] . 6 negatives
Private First Class Donald R. Bouchard of the Sixth Army Pipe Band catches the eye of four year old Wong Yim So as he marches with band down parade route. Float of Queen Carolyn Lem, sitting with her attendants, goes down route. Men with banners, girls drum corps, and Chinese dragon shown (neighborhood).
National Labor Relations Board election aboard the Cleveland (ship) [01-31-55, 2 negatives]
Election -- National Labor Relations Board -- Cleveland (ship) (January 31, 1955) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 62, [01-31-55.05] . 2 negatives
Non-licensed seamen, on board the Cleveland (ship), line up to cast their ballots for the selection of a single bargaining agent for stewards, sailors, and firemen [election taking place in all West Coast ports] (labor). Taken at Pier Fifty.
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