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The San Fernando Valley History Digital Library is the first effort to assemble, digitize and make globally available historically significant documents, manuscripts, photographs and related graphic materials from public and private collections in the San Fernando Valley. It provides full, open and equal access to materials demonstrating the socio-economic changes and cultural evolution of the San Fernando Valley from the early 19th century through the end of the 20th century. The digital library database brings together significant historical photographs, illustrations, maps, manuscripts, documents and related graphic materials from a variety of collections located on the CSUN campus, including the Center …

Institution: California State University, Northridge

The San Fernando Valley Tourism Literature collection consists of promotional material aimed at attracting visitors, settlers, and real estate investment in the San Fernando Valley. Located twenty-three miles north of Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley was founded in 1874, It's namesake, San Fernando gained the nickname the “Mission City” due to its close proximity to the San Fernando Mission, founded in 1797. The San Fernando Valley ’s climate and deep wells provided water for irrigation allowing for the abundant growth of vegetables and fruit, attracting people to move and settle there. The material from this collection includes tour booklets, …

Institution: California State University, Northridge

The Magnet is a health and wellness program located in the SFAF’s Strut Center in the heart of the Castro District of San Francisco, offering community events, sexual health services, substance use counseling, PrEP, HIV and STI testing, learning events and rotating art displays from queer artists. Call Number: MSS 2019-20

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Selections from the records of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, an organization founded in 1982 to help end the HIV/AIDS epidemic through education, advocacy and direct services for prevention and care. Call number: MSS 94-60

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

This collection of earthquake and fire views from 1906 consists of 39 photographic prints in stereograph form. Several of the images have duplicate copies, bringing the total number of images to 43. Some photomechanical prints are included. The photographers are unknown. The publisher is Clinton Johnson of Los Angeles. Includes views of the effects of the 1906 earthquake on streets, street car tracks and buildings (San Francisco City Hall, hotels, theaters, police station, etc.), as well as relief lines in Oakland and refugee quarters in Fort Mason in San Francisco. Printed captions on or below the images are reprinted in …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 collection contains eleven cartes de visite and two stereographs taken in 1868 by various photographers. The collection documents the damage exacted by the Hayward earthquake of October 21, 1868, estimated to have had a Richter scale magnitude of seven. Hayward structures pictured in the collection include the Edminton Grain Warehouse, the Morse and Heslep Flour Mill, and the San Leandro Courthouse. Also pictured is the Estudillo residence of San Leandro, and three San Francisco street scenes....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The San Francisco Chinese Community and Earthquake Damage album contains 223 photographic prints taken circa 1906. A large percentage of the collection features the students of the Chinese Methodist Episcopal Mission, a girls' home in San Francisco's Chinatown. Included are many individual and group portraits, as well as interior and exterior views of the Mission and Church. Also featured throughout the album are several street and alley scenes taken in and around Chinatown; views of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, and a Chinese cemetery; and scenes of the destruction caused by the earthquake and fire of 1906. Identified landmarks in …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

This book is illustrated with stencils and acrylic paint. Edition limited to 10 copies. Library copy is number 5 0f 10. Library copy is signed by both the author and the artist.

Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives

Records documenting the formation and activity of the AIDS Office, including files of Directors of Public Health, Mervyn Silverman and David Werdegar, prior to the Office's creation in 1985, followed by successive directors of the Office itself; records from four of the five branches of the AIDS Office, including Fiscal Services, Health Services, Prevention, and Surveillance; and records documenting the contracts process, including grant requests, Request for Proposals (RFPs) from and contracts with community-based organizations, working folders, contract processing and development files, reports, and other materials. Includes substantial material on programs and organizations funded by the Ryan White CARE Act, …

Institution: San Francisco Public Library

The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs collection contains 37 stereographic prints, mostly published by Tom M. Phillips in 1906. The collection documents the devastation caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Pictured are scenes along Market, Mission, California, and Sutter Streets, and Golden Gate and Van Ness Avenues. Among the notable buildings pictured are City Hall, the St. Francis Hotel, the Emporium Building, the Wells-Fargo Building, Claus Spreckel's residence, St. Dominic's Church, and the Hibernia Bank. Also pictured are refugee camps, as well as the Ferry Building prior to the disaster....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library