Scrapbook Collection

Location: M43, Ranges 19A, 41A, 44B (oversize)

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 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

  • Adler Sanatorium (San Francisco) 106
  • Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 61
  • Bancroft Library 1
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe 1
  • Bancroft, Paul 1
  • Bar Association of San Francisco 31, 32, 37
  • Baseball – San Francisco 10, 110
  • Bell, George Lewis 65
  • Biography – California 58
  • Boxing - San Francisco 76, 110
  • Boyle, Thomas F. 11
  • Brickley, Adelyn 16
  • Bufano, Beniamino B. 99
  • Building failures - San Francisco 75
  • Building trades – San Francisco 65
  • Buildings - San Francisco 83
  • Cable cars 45, 52, 57
  • Calhoun, Patrick 18, 84
  • California Alpine Club 3
  • California – History 58
  • California Judicial Council 31
  • California – Pioneers 111
  • California State Bar Association 27
  • California - Supreme Court 8, 19, 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, 110
  • Contra Costa Hills Club 3
  • Crabtree, Lotta 110
  • Craven, Nettie 88
  • Crime – San Francisco 95, 97, 98
  • Cunningham, Imogen 85
  • Davis, May Blossom 68
  • Divorce – law and legislation 29
  • Earthquake and Fire, 1906 46, 62, 75, 83, 101, 102, 103, 104
  • 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
  • Girls High School 109
  • Golden Gate Bridge – construction 49
  • Golden Wedding Club No. 1 of California 111
  • Goldstone, Adrian 66
  • Graft prosecution – San Francisco 76, 84
  • Grand Army of the Republic 105
  • Grand jury - San Francisco 27, 28, 39-44
  • Harney, Charles 90
  • Harvard (steamship) 66
  • Hathaway, W. L. 86, 87
  • Havenner, Franck 47
  • Healy, George M. 95
  • Hearst, William Randolph 76
  • Hiking Club of San Francisco 3
  • Hogan, Charles 21
  • Hollboell, Elinar 6
  • Hotel St. Francis 91
  • Indoor Yacht Club 72
  • Industrial Association of San Francisco 65
  • Irish-Americans – San Francisco 29
  • Jacobs, Gabriel 9
  • Japanese-Americans – San Francisco 109
  • Jazz – California 92, 93
  • Jones, Walter R. 16
  • Judicial elections – San Francisco 36, 72
  • Judicial legislation 8, 33, 37
  • Judicial legislation - San Francisco 8
  • Knights Templar 94
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ninety-First Division Association 107
  • O’Connell, Maurice W. 67
  • O’Day, Edward 78, 80, 83
  • Oakland Rotary Club 10
  • Ocean Beach 72
  • Order of De Molay 113
  • Organists 67
  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition 62, 63, 67, 70, 86, 87, 106, 110
  • Parents’ and teachers’ associations - San Francisco 112
  • Parking and parking garages – San Francisco 108
  • Pastorino, 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
  • Royal Arch Masons 94
  • 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 Police Department 95, 96, 97, 98
  • 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, 109
  • 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
  • Theater – San Francisco 113
  • Thompson, Walter J. 54
  • Tuberculosis 6
  • United Nations Conference on International Organization 20
  • United Railroads of San Francisco 18, 84
  • U.S. Army. Division, 91st 107
  • 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 – San Francisco 112
  • Women in journalism 68
  • Women novelists 73
  • World War I 64, 107, 110
  • World War II – San Francisco Bay Area 89, 100
  • Worlds’ Insurance Congress 86, 87
  • Zellerbach family 10
  • Zellerbach, Merla 73, 85

Numerical Listing of Volumes

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 - 1959
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

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

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

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

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 [vacant]

Title
Creator
Contents
Date range
Notes
Volumes
Condition

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.

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

see also: Scrapbook 84

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

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

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

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

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
Clippings No. One (spine) (formerly ‘Grand Jury news clips 1910-19’)
Creator
[Bernard J. Flood]
Contents
newspaper clippings, ephemera, manuscripts,
Date range
1910-1919
Notes
Apparently compiled by Flood, Superior Court judge, the articles concern his court decisions, with an emphasis on divorce cases; the Ancient Order of Hibernians, San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, 1917 and 1918, and political issues and figures in Ireland; campaign ephemera for Flood for Justice of the Peace, 1910. Manuscripts include speeches delivered by Flood.
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

Scrapbook 30

Title
[Newspaper editorials]
Creator
Unknown
Contents
newspaper clippings, pamphlets, cartoons.
Date range
1912-1927
Notes
Newspaper editorials, poems, eulogies. Articles about the presiding judge of the Superior Court, Harold Louderback. Controversial case of bribery charges involving Judge Louderback. (Former spine title: “Grand Jury Newsclippings.”)
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See also: Scrapbook 51.

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

See also: Scrapbook 50

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

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. Watercolors attributed to Washington Butler have been relocated to
Original Art flat files.
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair; paper fragile, discolored; leather binding.

Subject Headings

  • San Francisco - History
  • Thompson, Walter J.

See also: Scrapbook 55

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

See also: Scrapbook 54

Scrapbook

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

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

Scrapbook 59

[Wm. J. Quinn, S.F.P.D. Chief] returned to Wm. J. Quinn, Jr. 11-21-1991

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

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

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

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

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

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; wood covers; stains on pages; some pictures torn/detached.

Subject Headings

  • San Francisco School Board
  • Getchell, Byron

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.

See also: Scrapbook 76

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

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; visit to San Francisco, Sept. 1927; 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.

Scrapbook 76

Title
General : Nov. 1905 to Dec. 1909
Creator
James W. Coffroth
Contents
newspaper clippings, ephemera
Date range
1905 - 1909
Notes
Attorney Coffroth was an 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

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

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 its pioneers. 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

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 disaster; reconstruction progress; future outlook; homes built since the fire. Projected reconstruction, financial prospects and post-fire gains, 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.

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

See also: Scrapbook 76.

Scrapbook 85

Title
[Galerie de Blanche]
Creator
Blanche Pastorino
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

  • Pastorino, Blanche
  • Galerie de Blanche
  • China Basin
  • Cunningham, Imogen
  • Zellerbach, Merla

See also: Scrapbook 73

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.

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

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

Scrapbook 91 OVERSIZE

Title
Hotel St. Francis: Advertising
Creator
Fletcher S. Udall & Associates
Contents
news clippings, photostats
Date range
1938-1939
Notes
Advertisements taken from San Francisco newspapers and other Bay Area and California periodicals, and black-and-white art (proofs?).
Volumes
1
Condition
stained; adhesive tape; some pages cut

Subject Headings

  • Hotel St. Francis

Scrapbook 92

Title
C. H. Garrigues and Ralph Gleason: Jazz Columns
Creator
C. H. Garrigues
Contents
news clippings
Date range
Sept.1957 – March 1961
Notes
Garrigues and Gleason wrote jazz music columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, reviewing concerts and recordings.
Volumes
1 (bound)
Condition
stained; adhesive tape

Subject Headings

  • Jazz – California

Scrapbook 93

Title
C. H. Garrigues: Jazz Columns
Creator
C. H. Garrigues
Contents
news clippings
Date range
March 1959 – May 1961
Notes
Garrigues wrote jazz music columns for the San Francisco Examiner, reviewing concerts and recordings.
Volumes
1 (unbound)
Condition
stained; adhesive tape

Subject Headings

  • Jazz – California

Scrapbook 94

Title
[Claudius Ardis Marckley]
Creator
C. A. Marckley ( -1944)
Contents
news clippings, ephemera, photographs, correspondence
Date range
c. 1918-1940
Notes
Marckley was active in the Knights Templars and Royal Arch Masons in San Francisco, named grand high priest of the R.A.M. in 1933. The bulk of this scrapbook relates to his activities with these associations. Some clippings relating to family members are included.
Volumes
1
Condition
good; some items cut from pages

Subject Headings

  • Knights Templar
  • Royal Arch Masons
  • Marckley, Claudius Ardis

Scrapbook 95

Title
[George M. Healy]
Creator
George M. Healy
Contents
News clippings, documents, ephemera
Date range
c. 1919-1924
Notes
Articles concern Healy’s career in the SFPD, and the department in general; crime; 1922 convention of the International Assoc. of Chiefs of Police. Many clips are from Douglas 20 Police Journal. Healy hand-copied the city Health, Fire, Police, and Jitney ordinances. Included are a few of Healy’s documents from the Civil Service Commission and Selective Service. (This volume was originally used as the minutes book for Court Washington #37, Foresters of America, c. 1911-1915.)
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair; leather-bound ledger

Subject Headings

  • San Francisco Police Department
  • Crime – San Francisco
  • Healy, George M.

Scrapbook 96

Title
[George M. Healy]
Creator
George M. Healy
Contents
News clippings, documents, ephemera
Date range
c. 1920-1921
Notes
Materials relating to the Nov. 2, 1920 election and charter Amendment 23, the campaign for a salary increase for policemen. Includes signed endorsements of the proposed amendment, a 9 p. typescript (copy) of a speech/article, campaign advertisements, a sampling of print material generated by the campaign.
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair

Subject Headings

  • San Francisco Police Department

Scrapbook 97

Title
[George M. Healy]
Creator
George M. Healy
Contents
News clippings
Date range
c. 1923-1926
Notes
Clippings relate to individual crimes and crime waves; youth crime; laws and law enforcement; the death penalty; auto deaths; the San Francisco Police Department. Many clips are taken from out-of-town/out-of-state newspapers.
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair

Subject Headings

  • San Francisco Police Department
  • Crime – San Francisco

Scrapbook 98

Title
[George M. Healy]
Creator
George M. Healy
Contents
News clippings; manuscript
Date range
c. 1941-1946
Notes
Clippings (which are indexed) relate to crime and law enforcement in the San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles area. Several stories deal with wartime black-outs and other emergency measures. Healy’s long-hand notes taken from the vehicle code follow.
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair

Subject Headings

  • San Francisco Police Department
  • Crime – San Francisco

Scrapbook 99

Title
Beniamino B. Bufano
Creator
Jean T. Gregory
Contents
Photographs; news clippings; photocopies; ephemera; correspondence; realia
Date range
1959-1982
Notes
Gift to SFPL from the San Jose Museum of Art. Includes local and national press coverage, and information regarding “Benny” Bufano sculptures throughout the state of California; black and white and color snapshot photographs of sculptures; Gregory correspondence. Photos appear to be taken by Gregory.
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair. Cover and some pages detached; acidic paper.

Subject Headings

  • Bufano, Beniamino B.

Scrapbook 100 OVERSIZE

Title
[California Entertainment, post-WWII]
Creator
Mrs. Richmond A. (Josephine) Day
Contents
Newspaper clippings; postcards; menus; ticket stubs; programs; some government-issued items
Date range
1945-1946
Notes
Donated by Richmond A. Day, LCDR (SC) US Navy (retired). During World War II, Day was stationed in San Francisco with the Navy Oversea Freight Terminal. After the bomb brought an end to the war with Japan, Day was “frozen” to decommission the Fleet Freight section and transfer it to NSD Oakland. Day’s wife kept the scrapbooks of their 18 months in the City, recording their activities here and in California. Included are items from a trip west from their home in Cranston, Rhode Island, and of the drive back to RI using a southern route following Day’s release from active duty.
Volumes
2
Condition
Fair-to-poor. Deteriorating acidic paper. Loose items.

Subject Headings

  • World War II – San Francisco Bay Area

Scrapbook 101

Title
Press Clippings, San Francisco Disaster: New York Times, Vol. I
Creator
Mrs. William H. Crocker
Date range
April 19-26, 1906
Contents
Newspaper clippings; excerpts from periodicals.
Notes
Cover stamped: MRS. WILLIAM H. CROCKER
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair; staining.

Subject Headings

  • Earthquake and Fire, 1906

Scrapbook 102

Title
Press Clippings, San Francisco Disaster: New York Times, Vol. II
Creator
Mrs. William H. Crocker
Date range
April 27 - May 5, 1906
Contents
Newspaper clippings; excerpts from periodicals, incl. Collier’s.
Notes
Cover stamped: MRS. WILLIAM H. CROCKER
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair; staining.

Subject Headings

  • Earthquake and Fire, 1906

Scrapbook 103

Title
Press Clippings, San Francisco Disaster: New York Sun, Vol. I
Creator
Mrs. William H. Crocker
Date range
April 19-23, 1906
Contents
Newspaper clippings; excerpts from periodicals.
Notes
Cover stamped: MRS. WILLIAM H. CROCKER
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair; staining; spine detaching.

Subject Headings

  • Earthquake and Fire, 1906

Scrapbook 104

Title
Press Clippings, San Francisco Disaster: New York Sun, Vol. II
Creator
Mrs. William H. Crocker
Date range
April 24 – June 20, 1906
Contents
Newspaper clippings; excerpts from periodicals.
Notes
Cover stamped: MRS. WILLIAM H. CROCKER
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair; staining.

Subject Headings

  • Earthquake and Fire, 1906

Scrapbook 105

Title
[Grand Army of the Republic calling cards]
Creator
unknown
Date range
c. 1887
Contents
Calling cards, chiefly from California members of G.A.R., but including other fraternal organizations (and women’s auxiliaries); volume includes trade cards for San Francisco businesses.
Notes
Volumes
1
Condition
Poor; pages staining and detached from binding; paper extremely fragile; cards pasted onto pages.

Subject Headings

  • Grand Army of the Republic

Scrapbook 106

Title
Memory Book [Frances Elizabeth Mathieu]
Creator
Frances Elizabeth Mathieu
Date range
c. 1914-1918
Contents
Photographs, correspondence, news clippings, ephemera, realia
Notes
As a teenager, Mathieu lived in Pacific Heights and attended Miss Burke’s School. She also apparently spent some time at Adler Sanatorium. The scrapbook includes invitations to weddings, graduation ceremonies, other social gatherings in Pacific Heights, calling cards.
Volumes
1
Condition
Good; most items pasted onto pages; some loose items.

Subject Headings

  • Adler Sanatorium (San Francisco)
  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Scrapbook 107

Title
Ninety-First Division Reunions, 1919 to 1933
Creator
James C. Tormey
Date range
1919-1933
Contents
news clippings, correspondence, ephemera, realia
Notes
Veterans of the WWI battle of the Argonne, the 91st (“Wild West”) Division, and members of “San Francisco’s Own,” the 363rd Infantry, met for reunions in San Francisco and other West Coast venues following the end of the war. Book includes paper hats from several reunions and a button from the fourth meeting. Tormey was secretary of the 91st Division Association, East Bay Unit, in 1933.
Volumes
1
Condition
Good; spiral bound; most items pasted onto pages; some loose items.

Subject Headings

  • World War I
  • U.S. Army. Division, 91st
  • Ninety-first Division Association

Scrapbook 108 OVERSIZE

Title
[San Francisco Parking and Parking Garages]
Creator
[San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic?]
Date range
Oct. 8, 1949 – June 13, 1951
Contents
newspaper clippings
Volumes
1
Condition
Fair; multiple clippings taped in over others; some loose clips and pages.

Subject Headings

  • Parking and parking garages – San Francisco

Scrapbook 109

Title
[Toshiko Kataoka Scrapbook]
Creator
Toshiko Kataoka
Date range
1930-1935
Contents
ephemera
Volumes
1
Condition
good; some loose items

Subject Headings

  • Girls High School
  • Schools – San Francisco
  • Japanese-Americans – San Francisco

Scrapbook 110

Title
[Peter Paul Vlautin Scrapbook]
Creator
Peter Paul Vlautin
Contents
Newspaper clippings, postcards, ephemera, photographs.
Date range
c.1913-1945
Notes
Born in San Francisco, Vlautin worked in the Assessor-Recorder’s Office. A passionate Democrat, he loved baseball and boxing. Of note: postcard, Christmas eve concert, 1911, Lotta’s Fountain, R. J. Waters; postcards, old Hall of Records; election ephemera, Joseph L. Taafe for Police Judge. Relocated: periodical, The Grapevine, Mare Island, December 11, 1942; ephemera: Dedication of Washington Irving School; St. Agnes Church, December 26, 1915; Federal Theater, Alcazar, WPA at GGIE.
Volumes
1
Condition
Spine detached; fragile clippings.

Subject Headings

  • Baseball – San Francisco
  • Boxing – San Francisco
  • Coffroth, James W.
  • Crabtree, Lotta
  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition
  • World War I

Scrapbook 111

Title
Golden Book of Golden Wedding Club No. 1 of California
Creator
Clara Strohmeier?
Contents
Manuscript / typescript letters; news clippings, ephemera, photograph.
Date range
c.1929-1963
Notes
The Club was founded by Frank Weck and incorporated 1929. The Book is a compilation of stories of couples married for 50 years or more – how they met, events of their married lives, and family history. Accounts describe: 1906 earthquake; 19th c. San Francisco; trips across the Plains; Sierra snowstorms.
Volumes
1
Condition
Pages detached and crumbling.

Subject Headings

  • Golden Wedding Club No. 1 of California
  • California - Pioneers

Scrapbook 112

Title
First Mothers Club of San Francisco Memory Book
Creator
First Mothers Club of San Francisco
Contents
Newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera.
Date range
1894-1928
Notes
The Mothers Club of the San Francisco Boys Club was organized in 1894 and later renamed the First Mothers Club when it split from the Boys Club. As the kindergarten movement gained momentum in the early 20th century, women formed independent Mothers Clubs to collectively address the problems their children faced in the home and in society. These clubs were the genesis of today’s PTA.
See also SFH 21, San Francisco PTA Records.
See also SFH 12, Mrs. Joseph E. Morcombe SF PTA Records.
Provenance
Scrapbook was given by club members to Mrs. Esther I. Cammerer, a PTA President (Marshall School PTA), who passed it on to her daughter, Mrs. Irene Vermillion.
Volumes
1
Condition
good; some loose items.

Subject Headings

  • Parents’ and teachers’ associations - San Francisco
  • Women – San Francisco

Scrapbook 113

Title
[Neita and Fred A. Zweifel Scrapbook]
Creator
Neita and Fred A. Zweifel
Contents
Newspaper clippings, ephemera
Date range
bulk 1928-1932
Notes
Scrapbook includes San Francisco theater programs, Commandery Chapter, Order of DeMolay dance cards and ephemera, and Christmas cards issued by the Zweifels. Fred Zweifel formerly had managed a theater for Charles Hoyt in New York, and worked as a draftsman for the Southern Pacific Company.
Provenance
Gift of Dick Steyer. The donor’s wife was a niece of Neita Zweifel.
Volumes
1
Condition
good; some loose items.

Subject Headings

  • Theater – San Francisco
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