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William Ford Nichols, Earthquake & Fire Days of 1906 (Berkeley: Wild Pig Press, 1998)
Video originally from Unbound, the 2013 Museum Studies exhibition. Link to the original post: http://unboundusfca.tumblr.com/post/49842362543/william-ford-nichols-earthquake-fire-days-of
Rufus Steele, The City That Is: The Story of the Rebuilding of San Francisco in Three Years (San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909)
The City That Is discusses San Francisco’s dramatic rebuilding within just three years of being destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. The devastation that occurred allowed for the rebirth of a new city. Neighborhoods such as Chinatown and Pacific Heights were either renovated and modernized or newly developed, helping to make San Francisco into the diverse city that we know today.
California Midwinter International Exposition: San Francisco, CAL. January 1st - June 30th 1894 (Portland, Maine: Leighton & Frey Souvenir View Co., 1894)
Isaiah West Taber was appointed to be the official photographer of the Midwinter International Exposition held in Golden Gate Park in 1894. He compiled about 130 images into this souvenir book, which provides an intriguing window into the past. The Midwinter Exposition stimulated tourism and attracted many different kinds of visitors. Without any words, the images convey the anticipation and excitement experienced by those who attended the Midwinter International Exposition.
Harold Mallette Dean, Ferry Building SF, ca. 1950, color linocut
This relief print depicts one of the most famous landmarks of San Francisco, the Ferry Building, currently a destination for both locals and tourists looking for fresh food or a nice place to sit, relax, and look at the Bay. The golden sky, blue water, and distant green hills vividly capture the stellar views and beautiful weather for which the city is known.
Eadweard Muybridge, Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill, 1877, original photograph
This panorama of San Francisco showcases a historic view of San Francisco in the late 1800s, one of the most realistic depictions highlighted in this exhibition. Taken from the highest point in the city in Nob Hill, Muybridge used an 18 x 22-inch camera to produce a series of 13 prints. The two sections shown here form the middle of the panorama.
Elizabeth Gray Potter and Mabel Thayer Gray, The Lure of San Francisco: A Romance Amid Old Landmarks (illustrated by Audley B. Wells) (San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1915)
The Lure of San Francisco takes us on a narrative journey through San Francisco. With the opening pages describing how San Francisco came to be known to many Californians as simply “The City,” this narrative perfectly describes the sentiments of many today, despite being written 100 years ago. It demonstrates how many ideas about the city can change, but some still stay the same.
Edgar M. Kahn, Cable Car Days In San Francisco (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1940)
Cable Car Days In San Francisco gives a general history of the cable car and how it came to epitomize the city as one of its most iconic symbols. The story is told through narratives of those instrumental to its development and adaptation.
Ansel Adams, The Pageant of History and the Panorama of Today in Northern California: A Photographic Interpretation by Ansel Adams, with text by Nancy Newhall (San Francisco: American Trust Company, 1954)
The Pageant of History in Northern California is a collection of images by the San Francisco-born photographer Ansel Adams. His photographs capture landscapes and key historical elements that make up Northern California, with several visually compelling compositions focusing specifically on the city. Nancy Newhall’s commentary gives context to each image. Together they portray the past through a natural landscape, and the future through an industrial one.
Allen Cohen, ed., The San Francisco Oracle: The Psychedelic Newspaper of the Haight-Ashbury, 1966-68 (facsimile edition) (Berkeley: Regent Press, 1991)
The San Francisco Oracle is a reproduction of Haight Ashbury’s iconic underground newspaper that explored the hippie and psychedelic culture of the city in the late 1960s. With insight from poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, the book captures the essence and experiences of life during “The Summer of Love.” Artists of San Francisco’s Beatnik era also designed the vivid graphic images that brighten up the book.
Rowena Mees Abdy, Old California: Being Ten Reproductions of Original Watercolors Painted by Rowena Meeks Abdy (San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1924)
This watercolor painting titled From a Hilltop in San Francisco displays an idealized day in San Francisco. It depicts a quiet picturesque street that looks towards downtown, inviting perspective visitors to further explore the path ahead. The soft color palette is used to draw the viewer into this romanticized version of the city.
Victoria Dailey, California Travel Posters (reproduction) (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2007)
The use of tourist advertisements for the airline industry romanticizes the wonder of San Francisco. These travel posters display a tantalizing vision of what visitors might experience on their travels to the city by the bay. This example from the 1950s referencing Chinatown, designed by Joseph Binder, shows vibrant playful colors that highlight the exotic architecture of one of San Francisco’s best known ethnic neighborhoods.
M. Koendler, “Panoramic View of San Francisco” from 1855, reprint of an original lithograph published in Coast and Valley Towns of Early California (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1938)
Relying on lively colors and the inclusion of diverse figures in the foreground, this reproduction of a panoramic lithograph depicts an idealized version of San Francisco as a land of abundance and opportunity. Though the artist never saw the city, this idea was likely pushed on him by wealthy patron, Eugene Delassart, a man that saw the city as a bountiful resource after having found his fortune there in the early gold rush. This view of San Francisco thrives even today as entrepreneurs flock to the city in search of success.
James Marrion, Le Petit Journal des Refusées, Summer 1896 (facsimile edition) (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1975)
Though San Francisco was a bustling city by the time this literary journal was originally published in 1896, the city’s arts were still not taken seriously. Upset by this, a trend of quirky and even ridiculous publications came into being, with Le Petit Journal de Refusées (“The Little Journal of Rejects”) amongst the most extreme. The aim of the journal was to be as contrary as possible, setting the stage for a long history of alternative cultures that would make San Francisco their home in the decades to come.
Claudine Chalmers, Paul Frenzeny’s Chinatown Sketches: An Artist’s Fascination with San Francisco’s Chinese Quarter, 1874-1882 (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2012)
Paul Frenzeny’s rich and detailed illustration of Chinese San Franciscans attending the burial celebrations of a community member on top of Lone Mountain Cemetery strikes a strange balance between realism and exoticism. A succulent roast pig lies dead center of the image, while other mourners play gong-like instruments and burn incense, with some white westerners look on at the seemingly-strange scene.
Alec Stern, Etchings of San Francisco Through The Years (San Mateo, 1965)
As the title of this image suggests, artist Alec Stern has created a “San Francisco Fantasy” of the city that features an amalgam of some of its most famous tourist-friendly sites, commemorating the city’s world-renowned destinations. The etching includes the Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, the Bay Bridge, the Dragon’s Gate, the Palace of Fine Arts, and more.
Leonard Austin, Around The World in San Francisco (illustrations by Pauline Vinson) (Stanford University: J.L.Delkin, 1940)
Around The World in San Francisco is a fancifully and enthusiastically written account of immigrant life from more than 40 countries represented in the Bay area in the early- and mid- 20th century. Detailing food, dance, and social events, it highlights the more aesthetically pleasing aspects of each culture and their experiences in the Bay.
Arnold Genthe, Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures (with text by Will Irwin) (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913 )
Old Chinatown is a collection of photographs of street life in Chinatown at the turn of the 20th century. Combined with captions from the photographer and short, researched excerpts from the author, it gives the viewer a glimpse into both a more candid view of Chinese culture in San Francisco and the exotified perceptions projected upon it. Though the images are infused with a sense of realism, the photographer’s own unfamiliarity and excitement at being in a place so unlike anything he had previously seen bleeds through his work.