Historic News Photographs from the San Francisco Examiner: The 1934 San Francisco Longshoremen’s Strike

Exhibit - Photography | October 6 – December 22, 2009 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Bancroft Library, Bancroft Library Corridor, Ground Floor

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

This exhibit profiles the Bancroft Library's efforts to preserve the 3.6 million negatives of the Fang Family San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive. It highlights forty-nine of the newspaper's dramatic images of the 1934 Longshoremen's Strike that closed down San Francisco’s waterfront seventy-five years ago. It also offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of archival work funded by the Save America’s Treasures grant program and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Attendance restrictions: Open during operating hours of Bancroft Library. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/hours.html

Event Contact: 510-642-3781

(No event on these dates: November 11, 26, 27, 2009)