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Golden Gate Bridge construction photographs by Charles M. Hiller who was under commission by the Associated Oil Company. Additional photographs showing the “last rivet” ceremony, April 27, 1937, are from the Kent Family collection.

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The illustrated envelopes presented here were hand-colored by Joseph Dennis McNeil, and sent, with a few exceptions, to his fiancée, Ellen Josephine Redding, who was living in Nicasio and San Rafael during their courtship. This collection spans the years 1925 to about 1933. At this time, Joseph was working for Schmidt Lithograph Company in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles. Joe and Ellen had met as youngsters in Nicasio. They were married on August 9, 1928, at St. Mary's Church in Nicasio, the same church where her own parents were married, and in which she was baptized. Joe and …

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Charles H. Bach, born in Erfurt, Germany in 1841, married Emilie Rittmeyer and moved to San Francisco (by way of Amador County) around 1874. He joined the malting business of F. Scherr, which he eventually purchased, and renamed the Charles Bach Company, Incorporated. On July 14, 1892, he bought 5.733 acres of land in Ross Valley for a down payment of $10.00 in gold coins. On this site he built his home, which the San Francisco Call referred to as a "country residence." Bach called this retreat Quisisana, named for a resort on the island of Capri where the family, …

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Photographs include the Kent family home; the annual Grape Festival (c.1921); the Pistol Shoot (c.1930); and miscellaneous views of Kentfield.

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Documents the May Day Festival, held annually at the Tamalpais Centre in Kentfield, in which all of the schools in Southern Marin participated. The celebration included races and baseball games, a Queen of the May and May Pole dances. The children wore white dresses and white shirts with colored ribbons to designate their school. Some of the photographs were collected by Jessie Hanna who was the physical education teacher at the Tamalpais Centre. She taught gym classes and dancing. Also included in this collection is a brochure from the 1909 event at the Tamalpais Centre.

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Images from the Anne T. Kent California Room related to Larkspur.

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A selection of plat maps from the J.C. Oglesby Collection, part of the Anne T. Kent California Room's Schroeder Collection of Marin County Unrecorded Maps.

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A selection of maps from the Anne T. Kent California Room's Schroeder Collection of Marin County Unrecorded Maps.

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Until the 1960s, residents of Marin City resided in housing which had been built for workers at Marinship, a World War II liberty shipyard on Sausalito’s waterfront. The approximately 700 apartments and 800 houses were envisioned as temporary housing, yet post-war residents, most of whom were low and middle-income African-Americans, continued to reside in structures which soon became dilapidated. In 1955, the Marin County Housing Authority purchased the 365-acre Marin City site from the federal government. In 1959, Marin’s recently-formed Redevelopment Agency purchased 121 acres of the site from the Housing Authority. The intent of the Marin City redevelopment project …

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Stark was a scenic postcard photographer who moved to Mill Valley, California in the mid-1920s. From the early 1930s through the mid-1950s, he produced thousands of "real photo" postcards documenting much of California. The Marin County postcards emphasize scenery, particularly on Mt. Tamalpais and in Muir Woods. They also document many of the townships in the area including Sausalito, Mill Valley, Larkspur, San Anselmo, San Rafael, Fairfax, Belvedere, Tiburon, Stinson Beach and Bolina

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