Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The San Francisco News-Call Bulletin photograph archive was given jointly to The Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley and to the San Francisco Public Library.
A gift of approximately 50,000 negatives was made by The News-Call Bulletin to The Bancroft Library in 1959-1960. These negatives, dating from about 1915-1939 were given at the time that The News and The Call Bulletin merged to form The News-Call Bulletin. (See Historical Note in finding aid for entire dispersed collection.)
With the merging of The News-Call Bulletin with The San Francisco Examiner in September of 1965, the Hearst Corporation made a gift of all subsequent files of The News-Call Bulletin. Negative files of The Call Bulletin and News-Call Bulletin (from 1939-1965) and about 30,000 photographic prints were donated to The Bancroft Library in 1966. The bulk of the photographic print files and newsclipping files were donated to the San Francisco Public Library in installments between 1966 and 1969.
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