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Armer (Laura Adams) photograph collection
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Box 2, Folders 1-5

Chinatown

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Contains photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown depicting residents, merchants, and children. Also shows buildings, storefronts and other architectural features in Chinatown.
Box 2, Folders 6-8

San Francisco Waterfront

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Contains photographs of the San Francisco waterfront, showing fishing boats, sail boats and ships. Also depicts men fishing and working on ships along the waterfront.
Box 2, Folders 9-10

San Francisco Telegraph Hill

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Contains photographs showing children playing outside of buildings located on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco.
Box 2, Folder 11

San Francisco Downtown

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Photographs show general views of downtown San Francisco.
Box 2, Folder 12

San Francisco general views

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Contains photographs showing a man and horse at Golden Gate Park with windmill in background; an ocean view scene with sailboat; and a view from Potrero Hill.
Box 2, Folder 13

Portraits

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Contains portraits taken by Laura Adams Armer of Charles Keeler; Anne Brigman; Sarah Whitney; Arthur Matthews; Oscar V. Lange; Lucy Snow Penfield; and one unidentified couple-an old man and woman. Also includes one Berkeley photograph of a person seated under a tree.
Box 1

Photograph album

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Contains portraits by Laura Adams Armer of family and community members, many of them well known. Included are: Sidney Armer; the Chabot family children; David Farguharson, architect; W.H. Beatty, chief justice of the California supreme court; two members of the Toklas family; Lewis F. Cockroft of the Oceanic Steamship Company; and Austin Lewis, the Socialist party candidate for governor of California in 1906. Includes many photos of artists and writers, such as Arthur Matthews, Anne Bremer, Boardman Robinson, and Royal Cortissoz. There are also portraits of photographers William Dassonville and Oscar Maurer, and sculptor Robert Aitken.
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