Photographs of San Francisco and other California locations [graphic]. ca. 1930-1963.

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Photographs of San Francisco and other California locations [graphic]. ca. 1930-1963.

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Contains images of San Francisco, including the Golden Gate Bridge; Treasure Island and the Golden Gate International Exposition; the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; various ships; various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Includes a few photos of Southern California.

75 photographic prints : bb&w ; 17 x 25 cm. or smaller.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8229470

California historical society

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Huggins, Ted.

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Ted Huggins worked in public relations at Standard Oil Company, where he also took photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge. Huggins was also director of the Sound Abatement Center at the San Francisco International Airport, and a member of the San Francisco World's Fair Exploratory Committee. From the description of Ted Huggins scrapbooks on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 1921-1977. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 276949110 ...

Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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History It has been said that with two great bridges in the course of construction, there began in San Francisco, in about 1933, a substantial feeling that a celebration or exposition should be held to commemorate their completion. As the plans for an exposition developed, it seemed fitting that its theme should be man's progress in communication, transportation, trade and industry, since these were the fields symbolized by the bridges. The S...