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  1. Daly City Box Houses Off Skyline Boulevard, 1964 - Negative

    Daly City Box Houses Off Skyline Boulevard, 1964. Black and white negative shows multiple houses in Daly City off of Skyline Boulevard. A guardrail appears in the foreground in the bottom of the image in front of a hillside filled with rectangular "box" houses. A row of houses can be seen in the background at upper left near an undeveloped area of land. Daly City housing developments such as these inspired Malvinia Reynolds to write the popular s...

    Record Type: Photo

    Daly City Houses Near Skyline Boulevard, 1964
  2. Daly City Houses off Skyline Boulevard, 1964 - Negative

    Daly City Houses off Skyline Boulevard, 1964. Black and white negative shows box houses in Daly City off of Skyline Boulevard. A section of roadway appears in the foreground separated by a grassy median strip. A guardrail on the far side of the Boulevard extends across the image at center. Beyond the guard rail is a hillside with multiple rectangular houses. Similar houses inspired Malvinia Reynolds to write the folk song "Little Boxes".

    Record Type: Photo

    Daly City Houses off Skyline Boulevard, 1964
  3. Daly City Houses off Skyline Boulevard, 1964 - Negative

    Daly City Houses off Skyline Boulevard, 1964. Black and white negative shows box houses in Daly City off of Skyline Boulevard. A row of houses with similar rectangular construction curves along a roadway from the foreground at right into the distance at upper left. Another cluster of buildings appears at left. A guardrail is just visible across the bottom of the image in the foreground, and exit signs appear in the background at upper right. Simi...

    Record Type: Photo

    Daly City Houses off Skyline Boulevard, 1964
  4. House on 3rd Ave in San Mateo by Mildred Shoob - Painting

    House on 3rd Ave in San Mateo by Mildred Shoob. Watercolor on paper mounted under glass beneath an off-white mat inside a gold painted wooden frame with a lightly half-circle textured inner border. Image depicts a gold colored two-story house with a green roof and arched windows. There is a covered porch with stairs and side railing on the right and a tree without foliage on the left in the foreground.

    Record Type: Object

    House on 3rd Ave in San Mateo by Mildred Shoof
  5. Moving of the Miller House on Oak Grove Avenue, August 1948 - Negative

    Moving of the Miller House on Oak Grove Avenue, August 1948. Black and white negative shows the Miller house being moved from Oak Grove Avenue at Linden Avenue in Burlingame, California. The photograph was taken looking down Oak Grove Avenue toward the Miller house, which appears in the distance above center in the image. The house is raised onto a set of wheels and there are ropes leading down the street away from the building. Two men are visib...

    Record Type: Photo

    Moving of the Miller House on Oak Grove Avenue, August 1948
  6. Office of Defense Transportation Poster, 1945 - Poster

    Office of Defense Transportation Poster, 1945. The poster shows a man with his hands on his head, seating on a chair looking relaxed, with his newspaper on his lap with a pitcher and glass of lemonade, and two pipes on the side over a stand on the right, a book stand on the left with a fan and a picture of a man in uniform with his dog at the bottom staring towards the right. Above the man in the chair, there is some painted text in bold and gree...

    Record Type: Archive

    Office of Defense Transportation, 1945

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