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The New City Hall, San Francisco, California, 1915
BANC PIC 1905.12274 -- ALB
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Collection Title: The New City Hall, San Francisco, California,
Date: 1915
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.12274 -- ALB
Extent:
1 album (62 photographic prints: b & w); 20 x 27 cm.
62 digital objects
Photographer:
John Channing
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Collection stored off-site. Advance notice required for use.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
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.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item],
The New City Hall, San Francisco, California, BANC PIC 1905.12274 --ALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were
copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and
the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
The New City Hall, San Francisco, California album was purchased in 1957.
The New City Hall, San Francisco, California album contains 62 photographic prints taken in 1915 by John Channing. The album
features the newly-constructed San Francisco City Hall, built to replace the previous structure which was destroyed in the
earthquake and fire of 1906. Designed by architects John Bakewell, Jr. and Arthur Brown, Jr. (of Bakewell and Brown), and
begun in 1913, the nearly complete City Hall as shown in the album was fully occupied by city officials in 1916. The album
affords a comprehensive survey of both exterior and interior features of the building. Views include the west and east facades,
several doorways, the dome, the rotunda, the grand staircase, officials' chambers, galleries, windows, and various sculptural
and other architectural details. Also pictured in several views is the Civic Center Plaza, situated to the east of City Hall.
One print (No. 10) includes what is likely a portion of the Exposition Auditorium, also then under construction as part of
the greater Civic Center.
The album prints are stamped and embossed with the name and logo of Channing, and are bound in the album by a cloth backing.
The front cover of the album bears the title, "The New City Hall, San Francisco, California."