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This collection consists of scrapbooks the San Francisco History Center has acquired over the years that are not part of larger archival collections. The volumes document the lives of individuals, the activities of organizations, and the events of the day that the creators deemed worthy of remembering.
Scrapbooks are identified and arranged by an assigned number. Occasionally, a scrapbook may consist of more than one volume, but all parts are represented by the one number. Oversize volumes are identified. A subject guide follows. Subject access is also available through the San Francisco History Center's Biography Index and Subject Index cards. For publication, citations for items should read:
[Title], Scrapbook Collection, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Photocopying of scrapbooks is prohibited, due to the fragile nature of the books, as well as to prevent fading resulting from light exposure. Photographic reproductions may be made through arrangements with the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection staff. Some scrapbooks have been microfilmed, and photocopies can be printed from the microfilm.
This collection was inventoried and described with the assistance of Leah Loscutoff, San Francisco State University History Department intern, in Spring 2000.
Subjects
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 61
Alioto, Joseph 15
Bancroft Library 1
Bancroft, Hubert Howe 1
Bancroft, Paul 1
Bar Association of San Francisco 31, 32, 37
Baseball - San Francisco 10
Bell, George Lewis 65
Biography - California 58
Boxing - San Francisco 76
Boyle, Thomas F. 11
Brickley, Adelyn 16
Building failures - San Francisco 75
Building trades - San Francisco 65
Buildings - San Francisco 83
Cable cars 45, 52, 57
Calhoun, Patrick 18, 84
California - History 58
California Judicial Council 31
California - Supreme Court 8, 19, 27
California Alpine Club 3
California State Bar Association 27
Candlestick Park 90
Carmen's strike, 1907 18
China Basin 85
Christmas Seal Association 6
Christopher, George 90
City auditor - San Francisco 11
City planning - San Francisco 48
Civic leaders - San Francisco 34
Coffroth, James W. 72, 76
Contra Costa Hills Club 3
Craven, Nettie 88
Cunningham, Imogen 85
Davis, May Blossom 68
Divorce - law and legislation 29
Earthquake and Fire, 1906 46, 62, 75, 83
Earthquake and Fire, 1906 - Reconstruction , 82, 83
Education - San Francisco 7
Eulogies 34
Fair, Charles L. 88
Fair, James G. 88
Federal Jury 32
Ferry Building - San Francisco 48
Fiesta de Los Angeles 5
Filipino Cultural Week - San Francisco 24
First Presbyterian Church (San Francisco) 81
Flood, Bernard J. 29
Galerie de Blanche 85
Getchell, Byron 71
Golden Gate Bridge - construction 49
Goldstone, Adrian 66
Graft prosecution - San Francisco 76, 84
Grand jury - San Francisco 27, 28, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44
Harney, Charles 90
Harvard (steamship) 66
Hathaway, W. L. 86, 87
Havenner, Franck 47
Hearst, William Randolph 76
Heisterkamp, James 15
Hiking Club of San Francisco 3
Hogan, Charles 6
Indoor Yacht Club 72
Industrial Association of San Francisco 72
Irish-Americans - San Francisco 29
Jacobs, Gabriel 9
Jones, Walter R. 36, 72
Judicial legislation 8, 33, 37
Judicial legislation - San Francisco 8
Kraeger, Frieda 69
Landmarks - San Francisco 56, 77
Levy, Beverly Elizabeth 70
Lindbergh, Charles A. 74
Local elections - San Francisco 35
Los Angeles (Calif.) - History 5
Louderback, Harold 30
Louis Saroni (firm) 10
Lurie, Louis R. 17
Mayoral elections - San Francisco 47
Mayors - San Francisco 15
McSheehy, James B. 47
Mission High School 69
Municipal Court - San Francisco 26, 31, 37
Municipal Railway - San Francisco 52
Murals 77
North, Henry 90
O'Connell, Maurice W. 67
O'Day, Edward 78, 80, 83
Oakland Rotary Club 10
Ocean Beach 72
Organists 67
Panama-Pacific International Exposition 62, 63, 67, 70, 86, 87
Pasterino, Blanche 85
Pawnbroking - San Francisco 9
Philippine Insurrection 21
Poetry - San Francisco 78, 79, 80, 83
Presbyterians 81
Presidio Railroad Co. 45
Refregier, Anton 77
Rincon Annex post office 77
Rossi, Angelo 47
Ruef, Abraham 76, 84
St. Ignatius Church 67
San Francisco - Biography 34
San Francisco Fire Department 21
San Francisco Giants 90
San Francisco - History 53, 54, 55, 56
San Francisco - Politics and government 35
San Francisco Public Library 24
San Francisco School Board 7, 71
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 46, 50, 51
Saroni, Al 10
Scandinavian immigration - San Francisco 61
Scandinavian singing society - San Francisco 61
Schmitz, Eugene 76, 84
Schools - San Francisco 69
Shipwrecks 66
Sierra Club 3
Spanish-American War 21
Spreckels, Rudolph 84
State banking - California 82
Steiger, George J. 28
Street names - San Francisco 56
Superior Court - San Francisco 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36
Superior Court - San Francisco - judges 28
Swedish immigration - San Francisco 60
Swedish Singing Society 60
Thompson, Walter J. 54
Tuberculosis 6
United Nations Conference on International Organization 20
United Railroads of San Francisco 18, 84
U.S. Army. Regiment, California U.S. Volunteer Infantry, 1st 21
United Swedish Singers of the Pacific Coast 62
United Swedish Singing Society 63
War Manpower Commission 89
West - U. S. - History 1
Wheelan, Albertine Randall 70
Women in journalism 68
Women novelists 73
World War I 64
World War II - San Francisco Bay Area 89
Worlds' Insurance Congress 86, 87
Zellerbach family 10
Zellerbach, Merla 73, 85
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Scrapbook 1
Title: Reviews / Paul Bancroft
Creator: Paul Bancroft
Date range: c.1880 -1915
Contents: Newspaper clippings, excerpts from periodicals (including Spanish language), pamphlets, letters, engravings, ephemera.
Notes: Scrapbooks include: one volume of Hubert H. Bancroft's articles, and reviews of his works, ephemera from The History Company and Paul Bancroft; one volume deals with Retrospection, Bancroft's published memoirs; a third, with his Popular History of Mexico.
Volumes: 3
Condition: Fairly poor, binding detaching.
Subject headings:
Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Bancroft, Paul
West - U. S. - History
Bancroft Library
Scrapbook 3
Title: Hiking Clubs
Creator: Amy Deeter
Contents: Newsletters, pamphlets, ephemera, news clippings, correspondence, photographs.
Date range: 1951 - 1956
Notes: Publications and ephemera from the Contra Costa Hills Club, the California Alpine Club, the Sierra Club and other organizations. Letters describe trips, events, and destinations (e.g. state parks and campgrounds.)
Volumes: 2
Condition: Fairly good; some discoloration.
Subject headings:
Contra Costa Hills Club
California Alpine Club
Sierra Club
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Scrapbook 5
Title: [La Fiesta de Los Angeles]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Pamphlets, souvenirs, certificates, invitations, songbooks, memos, newspaper clippings, stamps, stickers, tickets.
Date range: 1931
Notes: A week-long event, La Fiesta de Los Angeles marked L.A.'s sesqui-centennial, celebrating historic California and using Spanish and Mexican themes.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly good.
Subject headings:
Los Angeles (Calif.) - History
La Fiesta de Los Angeles
Scrapbook 6
Title: [ San Francisco Christmas Seal Association]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings.
Date range: 1940 - 1941
Notes: Advertisements and promotional material for Christmas Seals, which were purchased to help fund the fight against tuberculosis. The profits from Christmas Seals would help build hospitals for children suffering from tuberculosis. Elinar Hollboell, a Danish postal clerk, conceived the idea in 1903.
Volumes: 2
Condition: Fairly poor; discoloration and brittle paper.
Subject headings:
Christmas Seal Association
Tuberculosis
Hollboell, Elinar
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Scrapbook 7
Title: [San Francisco School Board]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings, printed pictures.
Date range: 1870 - 1880's
Notes: Clippings deal with school board decisions in San Francisco, and other events that took place in that time.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Poor; discoloration, brittle paper.
Subject headings:
School boards - San Francisco
Education - San Francisco
Scrapbook 8
Title: Supreme Court Decisions
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings.
Date range: 1890 - 1891.
Notes: Articles document appeals from various superior courts of California, describing cases and state Supreme Court decisions. (A label on the inside front cover has the note: "DeYoung Museum.")
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair
Subject headings:
California - Supreme Court
Judicial legislation - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 9
Title: [Uncle Jacob's / I. & G. Jacobs / B. Jacobs and Bro.]
Creator: Unknown [Gabriel Jacobs?]
Date range: 1892 - 1898
Contents: Notarized depositions; newspaper clippings, handbills, trade cards
Notes: Depositions sworn before John Coffee (and other notaries public) regarding lost tickets for B. Jacobs and Bro., Dealers in Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry (1 v.); and, advertisements for Uncle Jacob's, a San Francisco money lender and pawn shop located at 613 Pacific Street, doing business since 1853 (1 v.).
Volumes: 2
Condition: poor
Subject headings:
Pawnbroking - San Francisco
Jacobs, Gabriel
Scrapbook 10
Title: [Alfred B. Saroni] Bk. I
Creator: Alfred B. Saroni?
Contents: Newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera, correspondence
Date range: c. 1906-c. 1930
Notes: Saroni was son of Louis Saroni, founder of Louis Saroni sugar firm of San Francisco. Following the 1906 earthquake, operations were moved to Oakland, though the firm later continued business in San Francisco. Alfred married into the Zellerbach family, and the book includes many family photographs, as well as materials reflecting Alfred's involvement in civic, political, and social activities.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; fragile, paper crumbling, acid stains, materials cut from volume.
Subject headings:
Saroni, Al
Louis Saroni (firm)
Zellerbach family
Baseball - San Francisco
Oakland Rotary Club
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Scrapbook 11
Title: [Thomas F. Boyle]
Creator: Thomas F. Boyle
Contents: newspaper clippings, ephemera.
Date range: 1888 - 1912.
Note: Thomas Boyle worked as San Francisco's city auditor. These clippings document his work history, with some news stories about his father at front, as well as dealings of the tax committee, issues of city employee salaries, bonds, and pension funds. Boyle became ill with pneumonia and died.
Volumes: 1 ("v.6 of 6")
Condition: Fair, binding loose.
Subject headings:
Boyle, Thomas F.
City auditor - San Francisco
Scrapbook 15
Title: [Grassroots for Joseph Alioto]
Creator: James Heisterkamp
Contents: Correspondence, photographs, large sign.
Date range: 1971 - 1972
Notes: This Scrapbook documents an organization founded by James Heisterkamp, encouraging San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto to run in the 1972 presidential race.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Good
Subject headings:
Alioto, Joseph
Heisterkamp, James
Mayors - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 16
Title: [Scrapbook of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Jones]
Creator: Mrs. Walter R. (Adelyn Brickley) Jones
Contents: Greeting cards, notes, letters, photographs, souvenirs, newspaper clippings, wedding memorabilia, postcards.
Date range: 1912 - 1914
Notes: Adelyn Brickley was a wealthy society girl in San Francisco. She married Walter R. Jones.
Volumes: 2
Condition: Fairly good; discoloration.
Subject headings:
Brickley, Adelyn
Jones, Walter R.
Scrapbook 17
Title: Mr. Louis R. Lurie, pere
Creator: unknown
Contents: Reprints of New York Times front pages, autographs, photograph.
Date range: 1962
Notes: A birthday present for Louis R. Lurie. Reprinted front pages from the New York Times showed the world events that took place each decade of his life. The end of the Scrapbook includes a happy birthday wish signed by his friends. A matted photograph of a pencil sketch of Lurie, drawn by James Montgomery Flagg, is inserted in front.
Volumes: 1
Condition: good
Subject headings:
Lurie, Louis R.
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Scrapbook 18 OVERSIZE MICROFILM: S.F. Subjects, Reel 9
Title: [United Railroads Strike]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1906 - 1907
Notes: Richard Cornelius, president of the union for the railroad workers, led the strike against the United Railroad Company, run by president Patrick Calhoun. The car men asked for higher wages. Strikebreakers were brought in. Fierce riots broke out. Thornwell Mullally succeeded Patrick Calhoun as president. Arbitration meetings are documented.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Poor; pages spotted, stained, binding loose.
Subject headings:
United Railroads of San Francisco
Carmen's strike, 1907
Calhoun, Patrick
Scrapbook 19
Title: [California Supreme Court decisions]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings, manuscript index to volume.
Date range: 1865 - 1868
Notes: California Supreme Court decisions published in the Sacramento Daily Union. An alphabetical index of cases precedes clippings.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Poor; very brittle paper, discoloration, some tears.
Subject headings:
California - Supreme Court
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Scrapbook 20
Title: Conference News
Creator: unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: April 25, 1945 - July 3, 1945
Notes: Newspaper stories covering the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco. Many pieces written by Charles Raudebaugh and Earl C. Behrens, Chronicle political editor. Vol. 1 has "Conference News" pasted on cover; second vol. cover reads "Conference News Book 3."
Volumes: 2
Condition: Good, but paper acidic.
Subject headings:
United Nations Conference on International Organization
Scrapbook 21
Title: [Charles Hogan Scrapbook]
Creator: Charles Hogan
Contents: Photographs, stamps, cards, letters, sheet music, miscellaneous souvenirs.
Date range: 1872 - 1934
Notes: Personal Scrapbook of Charles Hogan, son of John and Anna Hogan. He was a member of the First Regiment, California U. S. Volunteer Infantry, in the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection (1898 - 99). He was also a member of the S.F. Fire Dept., and served in the Canadian army in France during World War I.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly good.
Subject headings:
Hogan, Charles
San Francisco - Fire Department
U.S. Army. Regiment, California U.S. Volunteer Infantry, 1st Spanish-American War
Philippine Insurrection
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Scrapbook 24
Title: Cultural Vibration of a Vital Community
Creator: Dalisay Bocobo Balunsat
Contents: Newspaper clippings, photocopied letters, bulletins, photographs.
Date range: 1974
Notes: Filipino cultural week is a San Francisco celebration celebrating its large Filipino community. An exhibit of Filipino writers' work was displayed in the San Francisco Public Library. The Scrapbook was entered in the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Awards Contest in 1975.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Good
Subject headings:
Filipino Cultural Week - San Francisco
San Francisco Public Library
Scrapbook 25
Title: [Superior Court]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Letters, official documents, newspaper clippings.
Date range: 1929 - 1946
Notes: Documents the events of the San Francisco Superior Court. Describes court cases and their outcomes.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Poor. Discoloration and brittle paper because of age.
Subject headings:
Superior Court - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 26
Title: [Municipal Court and City Elections]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings, municipal records, reports, bond propositions.
Date range: 1911 - 1931
Notes: Articles pertain to political candiDates, court decisions, public policy, and city legislation. City statistics (e.g. population) are also included.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Very poor; falling apart from age; paper very fragile.
Subject headings:
Municipal court - San Francisco
Scrapbook 27
Title: [Grand Jury Hearings]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1935-1937
Notes: Articles document court cases, other legal matters, changes made in the Bar Association, jury reform.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair
Subject headings:
Grand jury - San Francisco
California State Bar Association
California Supreme Court
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Scrapbook 28
Title: [Grand Jury Hearings]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: news clippings
Date range: 1937-1948
Notes: Articles deal with court hearings and the dismissal and reappointment of the grand jury, a police graft investigation, and Judge Steiger.
Volumes:
Condition: fair
Subject headings:
Grand jury - San Francisco
Superior court - San Francisco - judges
Steiger, George J.
Scrapbook 29
Title: [Grand Jury Hearings]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: newspaper clippings, pamphlets
Date range: 1910-1919
Notes: Articles concern divorce court decisions; the San Francisco Superior Court; there are some political cartoons from the 1930's; advertisements for Bernard J. Flood campaign for Justice of the Peace, 1910; frequent mention of political issues in Ireland, and clippings documenting San Francisco St. Patrick's Day celebration in 1917.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair
Subject headings:
Superior Court - San Francisco
Grand jury - San Francisco
Divorce - law and legislation
Flood, Bernard J.
Irish-Americans - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 30
Title: [Newspaper editorials]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: newspaper clippings, pamphlets, cartoons.
Date range: 1912-1927
Notes: Poems , editorials from newspapers, eulogies. Articles about the presiding judge of the Superior Court, Harold Louderback. Controversial case of bribery charges involving Judge Louderback.
Volumes: 1
Condition: fair
Subject headings:
Superior Court - San Francisco
Louderback, Harold
Scrapbook 31
Title: [Judicial Council]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: newspaper clippings, pamphlets
Date range: 1928-1930
Notes: Articles pertain to judicial decisions and court structure. Pamphlet includes amendments to Constitution and proposed statutes, with arguments respecting the same. Decisions on judicial elections, and the SF Bar Association. Appointments to city offices. SF Municipal Court decisions.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair
Subject headings:
Municipal Court - San Francisco
Bar Association of San Francisco
California. Judicial Council
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Scrapbook 32
Title: General Book
Creator: Unknown
Contents: newspaper clippings
Date range: 1945 -1952
Notes: Articles on San Francisco Superior Court appointments, judges, and decisions. Federal jury selections.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair
Subject headings:
Superior Court - San Francisco
Federal jury
Bar Association of San Francisco
Scrapbook 33
Title: [Judicial legislation]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: News clippings.
Date range: 1938-1946
Notes: News clippings dealing with judicial decisions, legislation, and court hearings.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; paper discoloration.
Subject headings:
Judicial legislation
Superior Court - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 34
Title: [Tribute to Civic Leaders in San Francisco]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: News clippings
Date range: 1930-1935
Notes: Articles on various deceased civic leaders of San Francisco. Some leaders included are: James Phelan, James Rolph, Oscar Sutro, and various judges from the San Francisco Superior Court.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; discoloration, torn paper.
Subject headings:
Civic leaders - San Francisco
Eulogies
San Francisco - Biography
Scrapbook 35
Title: [San Francisco Elections]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: News clippings
Date range: 1930-1943
Notes: Articles focus on city politics and elections. Many editorials discuss opinions on city charters and other important topics of city legislation. Voting advertisement is included along with political propaganda. Election outcomes documented.
Volumes: 1 ( refer also to vols. 25- 37)
Condition: Fair; discoloration, ripped pages.
Subject headings:
San Francisco - Politics and government
Local elections - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 36
Title: [Election Data]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Election ballots, party tickets, papers with data from elections, newspaper clippings, campaign slogans, letters, voter pamphlets.
Date range: 1918 - 1930
Notes: Information on San Francisco elections and published election results.. Articles discuss various candiDates and outcomes of elections. Judicial elections dominate the volume.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly poor; discoloration, paper stained, tears.
Subject headings:
Judicial elections - San Francisco
Superior Court - San Francisco
Scrapbook 37
Title: [San Francisco Municipal Court System]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1930 - 1935
Notes: Articles concern court decisions and other legal matters; judicial legislation; judicial elections; news of the San Francisco Bar Association.
Volumes: 1 (refer also to the ones above)
Condition: fair; some discoloration.
Subject headings:
Municipal Court - San Francisco
Judicial legislation
Bar Association of San Francisco
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Scrapbook 39 see Range 41a
Title: Grand Jury
Creator:
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1931-1932
Scrapbook 40 see Range 41a
Title: Grand Jury
Creator:
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1923-1925
Scrapbook 41 see Range 41a
Title: Grand Jury - Judicial
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1925-1928
Scrapbook 42 see Range 41a
Title: Grand Jury
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1916-1920
Scrapbook 43 see Range 41a
Title: Grand Jury
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1920-1922
Scrapbook 44 see Range 41a
Title: Grand Jury, Elections - Judicial
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1944-1948
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Scrapbook 45 MICROFILM: S. F. Subjects, Reel 4
Title: Cable Car Days [Presidio Railroad Co.]
Creator: Presidio Railroad Co. (?)
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1880 - 1889
Notes: Articles document the building of new street railways, the installation of safety precautions, and the accidents or deaths connected with the railway system. Ordinance 1694 required a gong to be rung to notify the pedestrians a car was approaching. (Scrapbook gift of Warren Howell?)
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; discoloration, stains.
Subject headings:
Cable cars
Presidio Railroad Co.
Scrapbook 46
Title: [San Francisco News Clippings]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1906 - 1949
Notes: Articles with news of the day, starting with the recovery from the 1906 disaster and ending with the proposal for a new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Included are printed pictures of the City Hall and the Palace Hotel, both destroyed in 1906.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; discoloration, stains.
Subject headings:
Earthquake and Fire, 1906
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
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Scrapbook 47
Title: [Mayoralty Campaign]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: News clippings
Date range: 1939
Notes: Articles deal with the progress of the mayoral race. Incumbent mayor Angelo Rossi ran against candiDates Supervisor James B. McSheehy and Rep. Franck Havenner. Mayor Rossi won the election by a slim margin.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; discoloration, red ink marks.
Subject headings:
Mayoral elections - San Francisco
Rossi, Angelo
McSheehy, James B.
Havenner, Franck
Scrapbook 48 MICROFILM: S.F. Subjects, Reel 6
Title: [San Francisco Ferry Building]
Creator: unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings, monthly newsletters
Date range: 1896 - 1898
Notes: Proposals and plans to build a Ferry Building depot at the end of Market St. Articles include information about the of costs, benefits, and disadvantages of the Ferry Building. Other articles deal with city planning and issues of the waterfront.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; slight discoloration and minor stains.
Subject headings:
Ferry Building - San Francisco
City planning - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 49 MICROFILM: S.F. Subjects, Reel 7
Title: [Golden Gate Bridge]
Creator: Blanche Morse Kenna
Contents: Newspaper clippings, printed Photographs
Date range:1932 - 1958
Notes: Articles document the progress of the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, describe the site where the bridge was to be built, and reproduce architectural plans of the bridge; injuries or deaths occurring during construction were reported; festivities for the opening of the bridge are reported on. Problems and changes in the traffic commute after the bridge opened are described in later articles.
Volumes: 3
Condition: Loose broken spine; binding poor; minor tears in pictures.
Subject headings:
Golden Gate Bridge - construction
Golden Gate Bridge - traffic
Scrapbook 50
Title: [The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]
Creator: Blanche Morse Kenna
Contents: Newspaper clippings, printed pictures
Date range: 1926 - 1941
Notes: Articles document construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, from first proposals and plans to the opening of the bridge, including the development of Treasure Island. Deaths and injuries are documented. Articles report problems, setbacks, and opinions about bridge construction, and progress of laying a railroad across the bridge.
Volumes: 1
Condition: poor (binding falling apart, some picture tears.)
Subject headings:
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - construction
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - traffic
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Scrapbook 51
Title: [ San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge clippings]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings, printed pictures, newsletter
Date range: 1935 - 1936
Notes: Clippings deal with construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, including construction schedule, the railway terminal, blueprint plans for the bridge; opening day reports; editorials about the bridge.
Volumes: 2
Condition: Very poor (pages falling apart, very fragile , binding is completely off)
Subject headings:
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - construction
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge railway terminal
Scrapbook 52
Title: [Cable Car Days] [Edgar Kahn]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: News clippings, brochures, newsletters, printed pictures, schedule.
Date range: 1940 - 1957
Notes: A look back at the early days of the cable car; the debate over restoring the cars or getting rid of them for financial reasons; some lines were to be removed (Washington - Jackson route.) Cable Car Days in San Francisco by Edgar Kahn (1940) is reviewed.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly poor, tears, discoloration.
Subject headings:
Cable cars
Municipal Railway - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 53
Title: [San Francisco Firsts]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings.
Date Range 1946 - 1951
Notes: Articles looking into San Francisco's past and record the "first" time something took place here. Items relate to city structure, organizations, products, and commercial ventures.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly poor; paper fragile.
Subject headings:
San Francisco - History
Scrapbook 54
Title: Romance and Humor of "Old San Francisco"
Creator: Barbara Densmore (granddaughter of Walter Thompson)
Contents: Newspaper and magazine articles, galley proofs, letter
Date range: 1916 - 1932 (compiled 1941)
Notes: Written by Walter J. Thompson (d. 1932), veteran newspaperman and editor, articles focus on the early days of San Francisco and what citizens did for entertainment. Photographs have been relocated to SFHC Photograph Collection.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; paper fragile, discolored; leather binding.
Subject headings:
San Francisco - History
Thompson, Walter J.
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Scrapbook 55 OVERSIZE
Title: [Old San Francisco Clippings]
Creator: Blanche Morse Kenna
Contents: Newspaper clippings, magazine clippings.
Date range: 1934 - 1957
Notes: Nostalgic articles about the old days of San Francisco, covering: the Gold Rush era; cable cars; the 1906 earthquake and fire, and recovery; important, eccentric and humorous figures in San Francisco history; important places and events. Some clippings relate to San Francisco's various expositions. A wide representation of events in San Francisco history.
Volumes: 5
Condition: Fairly good; minor discoloration, tears.
Subject headings:
San Francisco - History
Scrapbook 56
Title: [The Streets of San Francisco]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1928
Notes: E. G. Fitzhamon feature column, "The Streets of San Francisco," published in the San Francisco Chronicle. The column focused on the origins of San Francisco street names, as well as notable people and places of San Francisco.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; discoloration, fragile, some tears.
Subject headings:
San Francisco - History
Street names - San Francisco
Landmarks - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 57
Title: [Cable Cars ]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper clippings, pamphlets, newsletters, printed pictures.
Date range: 1945 - 1962
Notes: Articles on the cable cars of San Francisco; some stories discuss concerns for the transit system in San Francisco.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Pages slightly warped, poor binding.
Subject headings:
Cable cars
Scrapbook 58
Title: [Famous Californians]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Newspaper and magazine clippings.
Date range: 1933 - 1939
Notes: Articles about notable Californians. Some of these figures include Ambrose Bierce, John C. Fremont, Lillie Coit, Charles Crocker. Most articles come from the San Francisco Chronicle feature, "Famous Californians."
Volumes: 1
Condition: Poor, fragile paper.
Subject headings:
California - History
Biography - California
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Scrapbook 60
Title: [Swedish Singing Society]
Creator: Lambert Gisslow
Contents: Newspaper clippings, letters, programs, photographs
Date range: 1905-1916
Notes: Articles focus on the Swedish Singing Society and other Scandinavian musicians. Concerts and accomplishments are documented, and news of Sweden and world figures is included. Most of the text is in Swedish.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly poor; cover tearing; photographs fragile.
Subject headings:
Swedish Singing Society
Swedish immigration - San Francisco
See also: Scrapbooks 61, 62, 63
Scrapbook 61
Title: [United Scandinavian Singers of San Francisco]
Creator: Lambert Gisslow, secretary
Contents: Newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, printed pictures, ephemera.
Date range: 1905 - 1913
Notes: Articles discuss the unification of the Norwegian singers with the Swedish singers and the formation of the United Scandinavian Singers of San Francisco; the establishment of Swedish Day; general news stories concerning Sweden; the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Most articles printed in Swedish.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Poor; cover detached; some pages detached.
Subject headings:
Scandinavian singing society - San Francisco
Scandinavian immigration - San Francisco
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
See also: Scrapbooks 60, 62, 63
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Scrapbook 62
Title: [United Swedish Singers of the Pacific Coast]
Creator: Lambert Gisslow
Contents: Newspaper clippings, programs, letters, printed pictures
Date range: 1906 - 1912
Notes: Most articles are in the Swedish language. The Scrapbook documents the Swedish singing society; the 1906 disaster; ambitious plans of the Women's Auxiliary to build a Swedish building at the Panama Pacific International Exposition.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly poor; pages detached; cover loose.
Subject headings:
United Swedish Singers of the Pacific Coast
Earthquake and Fire, 1906
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
See also: Scrapbooks 60, 61, 63
Scrapbook 63
Title: [United Swedish Singers of the Pacific Coast]
Creator: Lambert Gisslow
Contents: Newspaper clippings, printed pictures, stamps, photographs.
Date range: 1915
Notes: The United Swedish Singers of the Pacific Coast was composed of twelve different singing societies. A Swedish singing festival was planned for the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Many articles (in Swedish) describe the society.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Poor; items detached; fragile pictures should be put aside.
Subject headings:
United Swedish Singing Society
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
See also: Scrapbooks 60, 61, 62
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Scrapbook 64
Title: [World War I Era Press Clippings]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: newspaper / magazine clippings, comic strips, political cartoons
Date range: 1917 - 1918
Notes: Poetry, fiction, humorous articles, and editorials on American conduct in the World War I period; includes Long's Somewhere in San Francisco comic strip; Albert Terhune's column, "Stories of Celebrated Spies;" Annie Laurie columns; Rudyard Kipling poetry. (Pencil notation, back inside cover: "7-2-55 OG.")
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair, discoloration.
Subject headings:
World War I
Scrapbook 65
Title: Clippings and Souvenirs - George Lewis Bell
Creator: George Lewis Bell (1883-1958)
Contents: News clippings, ephemera, correspondence
Date range: 1917 - 1958
Notes: George Lewis Bell was an attorney and consultant in industrial relations and management, representing Western governors in discussions with Pres. Wilson over IWW "troubles" (1917), and arbitrating disputes between San Francisco building trades unions and employers 1920-1927. Bell worked as executive director of the NRA's Men's Clothing Code Authority 1933-1935.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair, discoloration.
Subject headings:
Bell, George Lewis
Building trades - San Francisco
Industrial Association of San Francisco
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Scrapbook 66
Title: [Harvard steamship wreck]
Creator: Adrian H. Goldstone
Contents: News clippings, ticket stubs, letters
Date range: 1931
Notes: Articles on the disaster of the Harvard steamship, and the subsequent rescue effort. Names of passengers on board were listed ( the Creator's name being one of them.) Causes of the wreck, the controversy over drunken crewmembers, and personal accounts of the accident are reported.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Good; slight discoloration.
Subject headings:
Harvard (steamship)
Shipwrecks
Goldstone, Adrian
Scrapbook 67
Title: [Musical Society of San Francisco]
Creator: Maurice W. O'Connell
Contents: News clippings, periodicals, correspondence, ephemera
Date range: 1900 - 1919
Notes: Dr. O'Connell was organist at St. Dominic Church. Scrapbook docu-ments his (and other) musical performances in San Francisco, including his organ recital at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair, loose pages, tears and discoloration.
Subject headings:
O'Connell, Maurice W.
St. Ignatius Church
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Organists
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Scrapbook 68
Title: [Blossom Davis]
Creator: May Blossom Davis
Contents: News clippings, ephemera, manuscript
Date range: 1881-1889
Notes: Davis wrote California travel pieces and poetry published in Pacific Rural Press, San Francisco Call, Ladies Home Journal. San Francisco Chronicle special correspondent, she also contributed to California Philatelist. Signed pieces "May Blossom," "B.D.," "Blossom Davis." Includes 6 p. manuscript from school days (study schedule?).
Volumes: 1
Condition: Spine detached, leather binding loose, loose items.
Subject headings:
Davis, May Blossom
Women in journalism
Scrapbook 69
Title: [Mission High School Graduate]
Creator: Frieda Kraeger
Contents: Photographs, invitations, school souvenirs, news clippings, graduation announcements, ticket stubs, programs, greeting cards.
Date range: 1909 - 1923
Notes: Documentation of the school years of Frieda Kraeger, a graduate of Mission High School, San Francisco in 1919. Autographs from classmates and information on the San Francisco school system are included. This is primarily a photo documentation.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Good.
Subject headings:
Mission High School
Schools - San Francisco
Kraeger, Frieda
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Scrapbook 70
Title: [Beverly Elizabeth Levy baby book]
Creator: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cooper Levy; Beverly Levy
Contents: Photographs, manuscripts, hair, news clippings, ephemera.
Date range: c. 1908 - 1931
Notes: The scrapbook documents important events in Levy's life (PPIE, family outings, football games, dances, recitals), ending with her graduation from high school in 1931. Mother Stork's Baby Book is illustrated by Albertine R. Wheelan.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly good, some discoloration and tears.
Subject headings:
Levy, Beverly Elizabeth
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Wheelan, Albertine Randall
Scrapbook 71
Title: [School Traffic Patrol]
Creator: Byron Getchell
Contents: Letters, tributes, drawings, photographs.
Date range: 1948
Notes: Inspector Byron Getchell, head of the school traffic patrol in San Francisco, celebrated his twenty-five year anniversary. Letters written to him congratulate and thank him for his hard work. Governor Earl Warren added his congratulations.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly good; Scrapbook made of wood; stains on pages; some pictures torn and detached.
Subject headings:
San Francisco School Board
Getchell, Byron
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Scrapbook 72
Title: [Indoor Yacht Club]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: news clippings
Date range: 1914 - 1927
Notes: Articles report news of the Indoor Yacht Club, as well as judicial (and other) elections and generally significant events. One of the Club's big events was Beach Day, a midsummer carnival of sorts. Numerous articles discuss James Coffroth, a well-known boxing promoter and attorney.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Pages fragile, discolored.
Subject headings:
Indoor Yacht Club
Ocean Beach
Judicial elections - San Francisco
Coffroth, James W.
Scrapbook 73
Title: [ Merla Zellerbach]
Creator: Merla Zellerbach
Contents: Letters, announcements, telegrams, news clippings, photographs.
Date range: 1961 - 1962
Notes: The author of "Love in a Dark House" documents her career as a writer. Included are articles and reviews of her writing, letters from June Lockhart Lindsay, Luther Nicholas of Doubleday, Merriam Smith of UPI, and the ambassador of Spain.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair.
Subject headings:
Women novelists
Zellerbach, Merla
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Scrapbook 74
Title: [Charles Lindbergh]
Creator: Blanche Morse Kenna
Contents: News clippings
Date range: 1927 - 1936
Notes: Articles report Lindbergh's flight over the Atlantic to Paris; his visit to San Francisco, Sept. 1927; the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and Hauptmann trial; Lind-bergh's part in air mail scandal of Roosevelt's administration; his experiments.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly poor; pages detached and binding broken.
Subject headings:
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Scrapbook 75
Title: Scenes of the San Francisco Fire and Earthquake, April 18, 1906
Creator: Harry A. Weiss
Contents: Map, printed pictures, clippings (Harper's Weekly, Scientific American and Sunset magazine), news clippings.
Date range: 1906
Notes: Cover: "The Destruction of San Francisco." Mainly a pictorial document-ation of the great disaster, with "before and after" pictures to show the degree of destruction. Many articles analyze the engineering of the buildings to explain why they came down. Some published first-hand experiences are included.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly good, stains.
Subject headings:
Earthquake and Fire, 1906
Building failures - San Francisco.
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Scrapbook 76
Title: General : Nov. 1905 to Dec. 1909
Creator: James W. Coffroth
Contents: newspaper clippings, ephemera
Date range: 1905 - 1909
Notes: Coffroth was an attorney and early boxing promoter; articles discuss the fights that he set up, various boxing personalities, his involvement in the graft scandal surrounding Mayor Eugene Schmitz, Abe Ruef and the "fight trust." Political cartoons from the period are numerous.
Volume : 1
Condition: Fairly good; discoloration, binding slightly torn.
Subject headings:
Coffroth, James W.
Boxing - San Francisco
Schmitz, Eugene
Ruef, Abraham
Hearst, William Randolph
Graft prosecution - San Francisco
See also: Scrapbooks 72, 84
Scrapbook 77
Title: [Refregier Murals]
Creator: Rincon Annex Conservation committee
Contents: Magazine / newspaper clippings, photographs, plans, correspondence.
Date range: 1979.
Notes: The Rincon Annex post office is decorated with murals by artist Anton Refregier; scrapbook documents preservation of the murals. They were in danger of being destroyed until the building was declared a historic landmark. Reports on the Rincon Annex landmark status are included.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Very good
Subject headings:
Rincon Annex post office
Refregier, Anton
Murals
Landmarks - San Francisco
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Scrapbook 78
Title: Poetry Scrapbook #2
Creator: Elizabeth M. O' Day (?)
Contents: News clippings, magazine clippings
Date range: 1915 - 1933
Notes: Poems written about San Francisco by noted poets.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair.
Subject headings:
Poetry - San Francisco
O'Day, Edward
See also: Scrapbooks 79, 80, 83
Scrapbook 79
Title: Poetry Scrapbook #3
Creator: Elizabeth M. O'Day
Contents: Clippings from Town Talk.
Date range: 1915 -1918.
Notes: All poems relate to San Francisco, or to the people of San Francisco; many famous poets are represented in this collection.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; pages are loose.
Subject headings:
Poetry - San Francisco
See also: Scrapbooks 78, 80, 83
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Scrapbook 80
Title: Poetry: San Francisco and California
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Clippings, typescripts, manuscript poems, photographs, postcards
Date range: 1936 - 1973
Notes: Poems about California places, San Francisco and the people that made the city. The work of many well-known San Francisco poets is here. Some pieces were published in The Recorder, and included are poems of its editor, Edward O' Day. Title index at front of volume. SFPL binding, "#1."
Volumes: 1
Condition: good.
Subject headings:
Poetry - San Francisco
The Recorder
O'Day, Edward
See also: Scrapbooks 78, 79, 83
Scrapbook 81
Title: [Presbyterians]
Creator: Unknown (Mrs. Rose B. Goddard?)
Contents: newspaper clippings, ephemera
Date range: 1896 - 1931
Notes: Materials from First Presbyterian Church located on Van Ness Ave. and Sacramento St., and articles and ephemera connected with Presbyterian activities in California and out of state. Other articles deal with generally important individuals and events in San Francisco, including the 1906 earthquake, immigration, World War I, the League of Nations. Some poetry included.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Paper fragile, loose pages, binding loose.
Subject headings:
First Presbyterian Church (San Francisco)
Presbyterians
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Scrapbook 82
Title: Reconstruction: 1. San Francisco After the Fire
Creator: Unknown
Contents: magazine/newspaper clippings, printed pictures, postcards, photographs
Date range: 1906 - 1910
Notes: Documents damage done by the great disaster, the progress of reconstruction, and the outlook for the future. Homes built since the fire are represented. Projected reconstruction, financial prospects and gains after the fire, and a new era in state banking are some topics covered.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly good; discoloration.
Subject headings:
Earthquake and Fire, 1906 - Reconstruction
State banking - California
See also companion volume: 83
Scrapbook 83
Title: [Old San Francisco]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: Printed pictures.
Date range: c. 1906-1949
Notes: An album of pictures of historic buildings and sites in San Francisco. The pictures show what the damage of the 1906 earthquake and fire did to many buildings, and what San Francisco looked like after the reconstruction. A few articles are written by Edward M. O'Day in his column called, "Old San Francisco."
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly good; some tears, loose pages.
Subject headings:
Earthquake and Fire, 1906
O'Day, Edward
Buildings - San Francisco
Earthquake and Fire, 1906 - Reconstruction
See also: Scrapbooks 78, 79, 80 and companion volume 82.
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Scrapbook 84
Title: [Eugene Schmitz and Abe Ruef Trials]
Creator: [Patrick Calhoun?]
Contents: Newspaper clippings
Date range: 1906
Notes: Patrick Calhoun was president of United Railroads of San Francisco. The company was thought to have bribed the Board of Supervisors (through Ruef) to pass an ordinance permitting construction and use of overhead trolley lines. Charges of "trolley graft" were lodged against Patrick Calhoun. Rudolph Spreckels, with his private contributions to the graft prosecutions, was accused of plotting against Calhoun, and blamed for the Company's troubles.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fairly poor; binding coming undone, pages detaching.
Subject headings:
Calhoun, Patrick
United Railroads of San Francisco
Schmitz, Eugene
Ruef, Abraham
Spreckels, Rudolph
Graft prosecution - San Francisco
Scrapbook 85
Title: [Galerie de Blanche]
Creator: Blanche Pasterino
Contents: Photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, paintings, and letters.
Date range: 1972 - 1987
Notes: Blanche's was a popular eatery located on Fourth Street in the China Basin area of San Francisco. Blanche's was a unique place, with art shows and book signings. The book signing of photographer Imogen Cunningham was one important event. George Post had a birthday party at Blanche's. Scrapbook includes a thank-you letter from San Quentin Inmate Film Workshop. The restaurant closed in 1987.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair
Subject headings:
Pasterino, Blanche
Galerie de Blanche
China Basin
Cunningham, Imogen
Zellerbach, Merla
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Scrapbook 86
Title: [Worlds' Insurance Congress]
Creator: unknown
Contents: memoranda, newspaper clippings, correspondence
Date range: 1910 - 1914.
Notes: Local insurance men of San Francisco helped to promote interest in San Francisco as the home for the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Coinciding with the Exposition was a Panama Pacific Worlds' Insurance Congress, also to be held in San Francisco. W.L. Hathaway was the force behind the World's Insurance Congress at San Francisco.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair; discoloration, paper slightly brittle, binding good.
Subject headings:
Worlds' Insurance Congress
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Hathaway, W. L.
Scrapbook 87
Title: [Worlds' Insurance Congress]
Creator: Unknown
Contents: periodical clippings (Underwriter's Review, Weekly Bulletin, S.F. Hotel Journal, Life Insurance Independent), newspaper clippings.
Date range: 1915
Notes: Clippings discuss the successes and the turnout for the P.P.I.E.; what the Worlds' Insurance Congress accomplished; events of the insurance convention.
Volumes: 1
Condition: fairly good.
Subject headings:
Worlds' Insurance Congress
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Hathaway, W.L.
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Scrapbook 88
Title: [James G. Fair]
Creator: unknown
Contents: clippings, photographs
Date range: 1900-1902
Notes: James G. Fair was a Comstock millionaire and Californian senator. This Scrapbook documents the court case centering on the disposition of Fair's estate; the question of whether Mrs. Nettie Craven was his widow; and, whether she had a claim to two parcels of Fair's estate. She was found to not be Fair's widow, and his children received the inheritance. Later on, Fair's son Charles died in an automobile crash, along with his wife, and a dispute arose over their estates.
Volumes: 1
Condition: Fair.
Subject headings:
Fair, Charles L.
Fair, James G.
Craven, Nettie
Scrapbook 89 OVERSIZE
Title: Man the Battle Stations!
Creator: Frank Feliz, War Manpower Commission
Contents: photographic reproduction of a Scrapbook of news clippings, press releases, photographs, posters
Date range: 1945
Notes: Frank E. Feliz was Director of Public Information, War Manpower Commission for San Francisco / Western U.S. This book documents a program to increase public awareness (in the San Francisco Bay Area) of the need for civilian participation in the war effort, as well as a recruitment drive.
Volumes: 1
Condition: good; material is sensitive to light exposure.
Subject headings:
World War II - San Francisco Bay Area
War Manpower Commission
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Scrapbook 90 OVERSIZE
Title: G. J. [Grand Jury] Giants Stadium Inquiry
Creator: unknown
Contents: news clippings
Date range: 1958-1959
Notes: News clippings taken from the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco News, Call-Bulletin, and San Francisco Examiner reporting on the grand jury's probe into the financing of the construction of the new San Francisco Giants' stadium.
Volumes: 1
Condition: good
Subject headings:
Candlestick Park
North, Henry
Christopher, George
Harney, Charles
San Francisco Giants
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