Bay Area faces and places : photograph archive by Abe Aronow, circa 1980-2010.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919-2021

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet and publisher, most closely associated with the Beat movement. Born in New York, Ferlinghetti suffered several family-related tragedies in his youth, and was raised in unusual circumstances. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II, and continued his education at Columbia and The Sorbonne. He moved to San Francisco, where he co-founded City Lights book store and publishing house, which became integral wi...

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860

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Henry Dilworth Gilpin was born and raised in England, emigrated to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, and proceeded to practice law, author numerous publications, and serve as editor for the Atlantic Souvenir. He went on to become director of the Bank of the United States, and ultimately Attorney General under President Martin van Buren. A patron of the arts, Gilpin later served as president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as similar posts. ...

Orland, Ted

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Weber, Alfons, 1927-....

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Vignes, Michelle, 1926-

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California photographer. From the description of Michelle Vignes collection, 1966-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863247 ...

Siebel, Julia.

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Carpenter, Arthur Espenet, 1920-2006

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Arthur Espenet Carpenter (1920-2006) was a wood worker from Bolinas, Calif. Kathleen Hanna (1943-) is a ceramist and teacher at San Francisco State University; Petaluma, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 2001 June 20-2001 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80601967 Woodworker; educator; Bolinas, Calif.; b. 1920, New York, N.Y.; d. Bolinas, Calif., June 4, 2006. From the description of Arthur Espenet Carpente...

Mautz, Carl

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BRANDT, FRISH

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Owens, Bill, 1937-

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Sultan, Larry.

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Hyde, Philip, 1921-2006

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Christopher, George

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Christopher (1907-2000) was San Francisco's 34th mayor, serving two terms beginning January 1956 and ending January 1964. Christopher was San Francisco's 34th mayor, serving two terms beginning Jan. 1956 and ending Jan. 1964. From the description of George Christopher papers, 1950-2000 (bulk 1956-1963). (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48891204 Biographical/Historical note Georg...

Weston, Cole, 1919-2003

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Weston, Cole. (American Photographer, January 30, 1919 - April 20, 2003). From the description of Cole Weston : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 680735275 ...

Holub, Leo, 1916-

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Leo Holub, graphic artist and photographer, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the California School of Fine Arts, most notably under Ansel Adams. He came to Stanford in 1960, working first in the Planning Department and then in 1969 creating the photography program in the department of art, at the invitation of Lorenz Eitner, head of the department. Holub taught for 11 years, retiring as senior lecturer of photography, emeritus, in 1980. From the description of Leo Holub ph...

Davis, Margo Baumgarten

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Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...

Djerassi, Carl.

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University research scientist and industrialist, Djerassi is most famous for synthesizing the first oral contraceptive. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1923, he emigrated to the United States in 1939. He received his B.A. in 1942 from Kenyon College and worked briefly with the Ciba Phamaceutical Company before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught at Wayne State University in Detroit and worked at the pharmaceutical company Syntex in Mexico before joining the Stanfo...

Lavenson, Alma, 1897-1989

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The photographer Alma Lavenson was born in San Francisco. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, her family moved to Oakland where her father opened a dry goods store. By the 1920s, Lavenson had become a professional photographer and was acquainted with other well-known photographers who were experimenting with new camera techniques and subject matter. Her meeting with Edward Weston and friendship with Imogen Cunningham influenced her work to move away from a soft, lyrical quality towards more...

Magnin, Cyril

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Partridge, Roi, 1888-1984

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Roi Patridge (born George Roy Partridge) was a modernist etcher and member of the San Francisco artistic circle that included Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Maynard Dixon and Imogen Cunningham. Born in 1888, he grew up in Seattle, where at the age of ten he was enrolled in his first art class. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and studied etching in Munich, Germany and Paris, France (where he lived for thr...

Folberg, Neil

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Murray, Joan, 1943-....

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Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994

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Born in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 1901. Died on 19 August 1994. Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State College (1922), Ph.D., Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics, California Institute of Technology (1925). Employment: 1925-1926 National Research Council; 1926-1927 Universities of Münich, Zürich, and Copenhagen; 1922-1969 California Institute of Technology; 1969- Stanford University; 1973-1979 Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. From the descr...

Hildebrand, Joel Henry, 1881-

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Professor of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley; president of the American Chemical Society; b. in Camden, N.J.; d. 1983. From the description of Papers, [19--]-[19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976019 Died 1983. From the description of Oral history interview with Joel Henry Hildebrand, 1974 March 11 to 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82391791 From the description of Oral history interview with Joel Henry Hildebrand,, 1962 August 6...

Asawa, Ruth

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Born in Norwalk, California, Asawa is known for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts. In 1945, she attended Black Mountain College, where she was taught by Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, and Merce Cunningham, through whom she met David Tudor. Starting in 1960, she began to make drawings of family and friends, including Tudor. From the description of Portraits of David Tudor [graphic] / Ruth Asawa. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat recor...

Hallinan, Vincent

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Boedeker, Alfred, Father.

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Weatherwax, Seema, 1905-2006

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Emigrating from Tsarist Russia with her parents in 1913 to escape persecution and the conscription act, Seema graduated from high school and began studying science courses in Leeds, England. A few years after her father's death, her mother took the three daughters to Boston to join relatives, and Seema became involved in photography. She moved to Southern California in 1929, lived in Tahiti in 1931, 32 for a year and back to Southern California where she joined the film and photo league in 1934....

Mieth, Hansel, 1909-1998

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Otto Hagel and Johanna Mieth were both born near Stuttgart, Germany, in 1909. They became friends in their youth and traveled together over much of Europe. It was during these travels that Otto gave Johanna the nickname Hansel, which she used for the rest of her life. Otto left Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States. Hansel followed two years later, reuniting in San Francisco, California. In the midst of the Great Depression, work was difficult to find and both of them took whatever ...

Aronow, Abe.

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Abe Aronow lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has focused his work on portraiture of photographers, artists, authors, musicians, scholars, scientists, physicians, and other people he admires. Approximately two-thirds of these 185 prints are of unnamed people in the "street, " interesting to see in their own surroundings. His portraits of well-known personalities usually focus on their face. From the description of Bay Area faces and places : photograph archive by Abe Aronow, ci...

Fraenkel, Jeffrey

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Cameron, Robert C.

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Phillips, Sandra.

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Folberg, Joe.

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St. James, Margo

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Chater, Norman.

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Stackpole, Peter, 1913-

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The Keresan people of Santo Domingo Pueblo are considered descendants of those peoples inhabiting the general region in the 1200s. The actual location of the lands occupied by the people now living in Santo Domingo has changed over time due to flooding. Santo Domingo replaced the pueblo's original name (Gipuy) in 1691 when Catholic missionaries renamed pueblo lands with saints' names. The Spanish land grant designating this Pueblo's land (the land they already recognized as their own -- approxim...

Marshall, Jim, 1936-2010

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Weston, Maggie, -1926

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Hoffer, Eric

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American longshoreman and author. From the description of Eric Hoffer papers, 1934-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123373352 ...

Worth, Don, 1924-....

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Camhi, Morrie, 1928-1999

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Morrie Camhi was born in New York City in 1928, a descendant of Greek Sephardic Jews, and died in 1999 in Petaluma, California, where he lived with his family. He majored in English Literature at UCLA, then went on to a career in commercial photography; in the late 1960s he sold his business and began focusing on documentary work and teaching photography at San Francisco's City College. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in Chicago and New York, as well as ...

Halberstadt, Milton

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Milton Halberstadt (1919-2000) had an illustrious career in fine art and commercial photography that spanned seven decades and left a body of work covering genres from abstract art to commercial photography. Milton Halberstadt, better known as Hal, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his career as a photographer there in 1936. He worked for Creative Photographers (1936-1937), Bachrach's (1938-1939) and Garfield & Newcomb Studio gaining extensive technical expertise. At one point duri...

Altman, Robert, 1925-2006

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McCloskey, Paul N., 1927-

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United States representative from California, 1967-1983. From the description of Paul N. McCloskey papers, 1967-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871978 Biographical Chronology 1927 September 29 Born, Loma Linda, California 1945 1947 Se...