Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Hotels and apartment buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Date: 1910
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1980.020--PIC
Creator:
Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept.
Extent:
471 photographic prints (in three boxes) and two descriptive sheets
8 digital objects (8 images)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Photographs show exteriors and surrounding street scenes of hotels (and apartment buildings) in San Francisco, Oakland, and
Berkeley. All addresses are identified. Some views include motor vehicles, pedestrians, and businesses. Album was probably
compiled for promotional purposes, illustrating reconstruction after the earthquake and fire of 1906.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hotels and Apartment Buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area., BANC PIC 1980.020--PIC, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley
Alternate Forms Available
Digital reproductions of selected images are available.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Hotels and Apartment Buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area collection was purchased in 1979.
Funding
Finding aid and digital representations of archival material funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Scope and Content
The San Francisco's Hotels collection contains 471 photographs of hotels and apartment buildings located in the San Francisco
Bay area, taken circa 1910-1920. The collection originally formed an album entitled "San Francisco's Hotels." Noticeable throughout
the prints of the collection is evidence --rubble, vacant lots, construction sites, etc. --of the earthquake and fire of 1906.
Although the majority of the photographs are of buildings located in San Francisco, there are many of buildings in Berkeley
and Oakland as well.
Accompanying the collection are photographs of the original album and a page of the album containing a brief description of
its contents. Also included is a listing of other hotels and apartment buildings standing at the time of the album's creation
though not photograhed for the album.
Affixed to the verso of several prints are caption labels which read, "Hotels and Apartment Houses. San Francisco --California.
Photograph by General Passenger Department Southern Pacific Company."
Additional Note
[Also included are two xerox copies of of a listing of other hotels and apartment buildings standing at the time of the creation
of the original album. The list's title reads, "Hotels and Apartment Houses, the Photographs of Which It Is Not Possible to
Include Within the Covers of This Book Without Making It Unwieldy."]