To be on the upside for the highlights of 2016, we ran a popularity contest of the digital content digitized from the archives in the San Francisco History Center and the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection. Currently, the San Francisco Public Library has digitized content spread across a number of platforms (but we'll have a new DAMS in 2017 - fingers crossed!) so we have pulled it all together for you here.
Third place = Mission District, 1974, Super 8mm
If you'd like to keep up on the recently added digitized content, for images, check out What's New Online. In 2016, collections uploaded to the online database included Shades of San Francisco projects for the Mission District and LGBTQI communities. We're almost done with uploading images from the Shades of San Francisco, Western Addition (more in 2017!).
Most watched digitized audiovisual item from our YouTube Playlist Analog to Digital in 2016
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1974 - Super 8mm film shot from the viewpoint of a San Francisco child "James" for a Bicentennial Project. Shots include Chinatown neighborhood, cable car, Saint Mary's Park and San Francisco Public Library's Chinatown Branch.
Second place = Chinatown, 1968, Super 8mmThird place = Mission District, 1974, Super 8mm
Most watched digitized audiovisual item from our content in California Light and Sound in 2016
Giant Trees of California, 1912 - 22mm film. Titles on film: "Giant trees of California, Thomas A. Edison / The Mariposa Grove of Big Trees -- feet high / A fallen monarch, this fell before the building of the Pyramids of Egypt / El Capitan reflected in the water / El Capitan, the largest rock in the world, 3300 feet high."
Second place = Charles Lindebergh in San Francisco, 1927, 16mm film
Most viewed digitized book from the San Francisco History Center in 2016
San Francisco Numerical Directory, 1939-1940. The is the best source for finding who lived in your San Francisco residence in the late 1930s. Want to learn more about who lived in your building? Start here with our online guide "How to Research a San Francisco Building."
Second place = Numerical Telephone Directory, 1935-1936
Third place = Who's Who in California, 1942-1943
Top 5 Requested Digital Scans from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection in 2016
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| Golden Gate Bridge construction, circa 1937 |
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| Twin Peaks tunnel from the West Portal access, circa 1955 |
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| Valencia Street at 16th Street, Mission District, 1958 |
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| Demonstrators protesting HUAC hearings in City Hall, 1960 |
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| Supervisor Harvey Milk in Board of Supervisors Chambers, City Hall, 1978 |
Most Popular Album of Images on Flickr in 2016
D. H. Wulzen Glass Plate Negative Collection, 1900-1906. Dietrich H. Wulzen, Jr. documented early 1900s San Francisco through photography. Born in 1862, D. H. Wulzen became a pharmacist in 1889, studying at the Affiliated Colleges on Parnassus Heights. Wulzen built a pharmacy building on the corner of Castro, Market and 17th streets. In the 1890s he became interested in photography and added a Kodak Agency to his drug store.
If you'd like to keep up on the recently added digitized content, for images, check out What's New Online. In 2016, collections uploaded to the online database included Shades of San Francisco projects for the Mission District and LGBTQI communities. We're almost done with uploading images from the Shades of San Francisco, Western Addition (more in 2017!).
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