San Francisco Streets Photography Collection,
Scope and Contents Note
Contains photographs and picture postcards with images of San Francisco street scenes depicting buildings, people, and events. Each listing represents a file containing from one to more than fifty images. Some files may include a small number of non-photographic reproductions and prints; these are found in files with a date range beginning with 1830.
Includes views of entire blocks and intersections that are identified, as well as images that focus on particular structures, businesses or homes. Named and numbered streets are followed by a section devoted to general views of San Francisco that contains some of the well known panoramas of the city. Images included in the San Francisco Streets files complement those found under "districts," types of locations or establishments, and named buildings or structures in the San Francisco Subjects Photography Collection.
Dates
- 1830s-1980s
- Majority of material found in ( 1870s-1970s)
Language of Materials
English.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to California Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Extent
39 boxes, 24 oversize boxes (ca. 10,500 items)
Abstract
Contains photographs and picture postcards with images of San Francisco street scenes depicting buildings, people, and events, as well as views of entire blocks and intersections that are identified, and general views of the city from the 1830s to the 1980s.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically by name of street, and then numerically by block, as appropriate. General views of San Francisco are arranged chronogically, and followed by oversize images.
Physical Location
Please consult repository.
Acquisition Information
Consult repository
General
Contact Information:
- California Historical Society
- North Baker Research Library
- 678 Mission Street
- San Francisco, California 94105-4014
- Phone: (415) 357-1848, ext. 20
- Fax: (415) 357-1850
- Email: reference@calhist.org
- URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
General
- Processed by:
- Trina Lopez, Wendy Welker, Brenda Baldwin, and Mary Morganti
- Date Completed:
- August 2003
- Encoded by:
- UCSC OAC Unit
- Architecture, Domestic -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
- Business enterprises -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
- Cityscape photographs -- California -- San Francisco
- Photographic postcards -- California -- San Francisco
- Photographic prints -- California -- San Francisco
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- Pictorial works
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Streets -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Guide to the San Francisco Streets Photography Collection
- Status
- Unverified Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by Trina Lopez, Wendy Welker, Brenda Baldwin, and Mary Morganti.
- Date
- © 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the California Historical Society Repository