The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, as well as the Potrero Hill Branch, extend an invitation to the book reading for Potrero Hill, part of the new series Then & Now for Arcadia Publishing. Authors Peter Linenthal and Abigail Johnston will be at Book Bay in the Main Library tonight at 6:00pm. Mr. Linenthal and Ms. Johnston also published San Francisco's Potrero Hill.
Mr. Linenthal and Ms. Johnston spent hours working with the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection Photo Desk staff finding the "then" photographs for their new book. Many of the photographs used in the book came from one of many San Francisco Historical Photograph Collections that have not been digitized - the San Francisco Department of Public Works (DPW) Albums. The collection consists of 95 albums from 1907 to the 1930s depicting DPW projects including street repair, civic buildings and infrastructure construction. As a team, Mr. Linenthal and Ms. Johnston, pored through the DPW's card index. The card index is organized alphabetically by project; the best way to search the index is by street name or civic building name. They created lists of photographs that they wanted to view, and many albums were pulled for them. Mr. Linenthal chose to reproduce the photographs by photographing the photos himself.
Arcadia Publishing, the publisher of Potrero Hill, is well-known for the series Images of America. In this series, the books consist mostly of sepia-toned photographs with captions for every photograph. In the books published about San Francisco neighborhoods, ethnic groups and significant landmarks and events, a reader can find many photographs from the San Francisco History Center collections. In the following selected Images of America books, one can discover many photographs credited to the San Francisco Public Library -
Camp Mather by Michael Buck (2008)
French San Francisco by Claudine Chalmers (2007)
Irish in San Francisco by John Garvey and Karen Hanning (2008)
San Francisco Fire Department (2003) and San Francisco Police Department (2004) by John Garvey
San Francisco's Bernal Heights by Bernal History Project (2007)
Arcadia Publishing, the publisher of Potrero Hill, is well-known for the series Images of America. In this series, the books consist mostly of sepia-toned photographs with captions for every photograph. In the books published about San Francisco neighborhoods, ethnic groups and significant landmarks and events, a reader can find many photographs from the San Francisco History Center collections. In the following selected Images of America books, one can discover many photographs credited to the San Francisco Public Library -
Camp Mather by Michael Buck (2008)
French San Francisco by Claudine Chalmers (2007)
Irish in San Francisco by John Garvey and Karen Hanning (2008)
San Francisco Fire Department (2003) and San Francisco Police Department (2004) by John Garvey
San Francisco's Bernal Heights by Bernal History Project (2007)
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