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  1. Air Cargo Operations at San Francisco International Airport,1965 - Negative

    Air Cargo Operations at San Francisco International Airport,1965. Black and white aerial photo negative of cargo storage and loading operations at San Francisco Int'l Airport. Part of series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

    Record Type: Photo

    Air Cargo Operations at San Francisco International Airport,1965
  2. Annual Report '72, Molded Parts - Photograph

    Annual Report '72, Molded Parts, May 26, 1972. Raychem Corporation black and white photograph shows a man working at a large piece of machinery. He wears a short sleeve checkered shirt and has a watch on his left hand. His arms reach above to control the equipment.

    Record Type: Photo

    Annual Report '72, Molded Parts, May 26, 1972
  3. Annual Report '72, Molded Parts, Thermofit - Photograph

    Annual Report '72, Molded Parts, Thermofit, May 26, 1972. Raychem Corporation black and white photograph shows a man wearing a white striped longsleeve shirt working on a large piece of machinery. The machine fills the background while a series of linked tubes appears in the foreground slightly out of focus.

    Record Type: Photo

    Annual Report '72, Molded Parts, Thermofit, May 26, 1972
  4. Bentley-Harris - Photograph

    Bentley-Harris, c. 1960s-1970s. Raychem Corporation black and white photograph shows a manufacturing facility. Multiple spools with cables or wires are stacked in a large pile in the foreground. In the background, 12 men and women stand at equipment stations working with the material on the spools.

    Record Type: Photo

    Raychem Operations Photograph, Bentley-Harris, c. 1960s-1970s
  5. Bentley-Harris - Photograph

    Bentley-Harris, c. 1960s-1970s. Raychem Corporation black and white photograph shows a large manufacturing facility with an open floor plan. Nine women stand at work stations with wire or cable on large spools. Piles of empty boxes rest on the floor nearby.

    Record Type: Photo

    Bentley-Harris, c. 1960s-1970s
  6. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940. This is a black and white photograph of a delivery truck with three workers posed standing on the truck. The truck is stacked high with large flower boxes ready to go to the airport and is parked in front of the long white California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. Alfred Decia is standing on the far right.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  7. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940. This is a black and white photograph with ruffled edges of a delivery truck driving down El Camino Real on the way to the airport. The truck is facing away from the camera, and the road is on the left side of the photograph. The truck is stacked high with large flower boxes. Lining the left side of the road is a row of trees. On the right side of the road are telephone poles and a neon s...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  8. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph with Bart, a packer from the Phillipines who worked for the California Floral Co., holding a very large bunch of chrysanthemums horizontally under his left arm. He is standing and looking at the camera, outside of a white building with a broken wooden shipping pallet in the background.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  9. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a faded black and white photograph. It shows six people posing in front of the doors of the California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. Above themsign reads, "Wholesale Shipper" and "California's Best". There are three men and three women. Alfred and Virginia Decia are on the far right and the other four individuals are visitors from t...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  10. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph with ruffled edges of a large field of gladiola flowers off of Woodside Road in Redwood City that California Floral Co. purchased flowers from. In the distance surrounded by the field that looks to be a warehouse. There is a white car parked in front of the building.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  11. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph of a Homer, a driver and packer, standing in the cab of a delivery truck. He is holding a large packing box and behind him stacked in the bed of the truck are more of the packing boxes. The truck is facing the camera and partly underneath a wooden loading dock in the sideyard of the Floral Co.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  12. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph of a Homer, a driver and packer, standing in the cab of a delivery truck. He is holding a large packing box and behind him stacked in the bed of the truck are more of the packing boxes. The truck is facing the camera and partly underneath a wooden loading dock in the sideyard of the Floral Co.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  13. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph taken across the street from the front of the California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. The building is a long white building. There are six cars parked in front of the building. There are three people in front of the building, one is standing and the other two are leaning or sitting on one of the cars nea...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  14. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph that shows workers in three rows, sitting, kneeling and standing on the cab of a delivery truck. Most of the workers are holding large bunches of accacias. There are three women and nine men. The truck is parked on a gravel driveway between two buildings. The building on the left is a large unpainted wooden structure and the building on the le...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  15. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph. It shows a California Floral Co. delivery truck with the bed stacked high with large packing boxes ready to go to the airport. Alfred Decia is standing on the middle axle and the driver is sitting in the driver's seat. The truck is parked in front of the California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City and to the...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  16. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph with Bart, a packer from the Phillipines who worked for the California Floral Co., holding a large bunch of chrysanthemums in the crooks of each of his arms. The flowers have very large stems (almost half the height of the man). He is facing the camera, standing outside in front of a white building with a broken wooden shipping pallet in the ba...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  17. Crystal Springs Watershed Keeper Archie Akers at Work, December 9, 1963 - Negative

    Crystal Springs Watershed Keeper Archie Akers at Work, December 9, 1963. Black and white negative of Archie Akers, "Keeper" of Crystal Springs Watershed working in watershed. Part of a series.

    Record Type: Photo

    Crystal Springs Watershed Keeper Archie Akers at Work, December 9, 1963
  18. Laying the Track of the Electric Railway in San Mateo - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Laying the Track of the Electric Railway in San Mateo, c. December 1902. Black and white photograph shows a group of men laying the track for the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway. About a dozen men stand along a curved railway track holding shovels. The track is visible in the distance at center left and moves into the foreground at lower right. Several businesses are visible in the background including San Mateo French Laundry, Del M...

    Record Type: Photo

    Laying the Track of the Electric Railway in San Mateo, c. December 1902
  19. Packing house of California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This shows the owners and workers posed in front of the entrance to the California Floral Co building at El Camino and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. From left to right sitting on chairs in the front row are: Alma Dalpogetto (secretary), Virginia Decia and Edna Rosetto (Arcongeli) (secretary); standing in the back row, from left to right are: Alfred Decia, Fritz, the unnamed accountant...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  20. Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a sepia photograph of the interior of the packing shed. It is a long open-structure with a wooden floor and wooden support beams in the center. Along the sides of the building are supplies and boxes. On the left wall is a sliding loading door and on the right wall is a white room that looks like it is cold storage for flowers. There are ten workers in the packing sh...

    Record Type: Photo

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., c. 1935-1945
  21. Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a sepia photograph pasted on black cardboard. There are nine workers busy packing flowers into flower boxes. There are calla lillies in white buckets to the left of the photograph and piles of foliage and cellophane bags. From left to right are: Virginia Decia, unidentified worker, Edna Rosetto, unidentified worker, Gerald Brown, Alfred Decia, Fritz, Osc...

    Record Type: Photo

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 193
  22. Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a sepia photograph. It shows the interior of the packing house. There are nine workers busy packing flowers into flower boxes. There are calla lillies in white buckets to the left of the photograph and piles of foliage and cellophane bags. From left to right are: Virginia Decia, unidentified worker, Edna Rosetto, unidentified worker, Gerald Brown, Alfr...

    Record Type: Photo

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 193
  23. Parking Meter Repair Department in San Mateo, December 1962 - Negative

    Parking Meter Repair Department in San Mateo, December 1962. Black and white negative of a man repairing parking meters for the City of San Mateo, California. The man appears at left in the image sitting in front of a wooden desk. He holds a small metal part from the inside of a parking meter that says "VIOLATION." On the desk are various hardware and tools, including: a table clamp, a paintbrush, and an oil nozzle. Two parking meter heads sit on...

    Record Type: Photo

    Parking Meter Repair Department in San Mateo, December 1962
  24. San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Construction, 1967 - Negative

    San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Construction, 1967. Black and white negative shows construction of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge highrise. A crane lifts up a large segment of the bridge at left in the image. Text on the bridge segment reads, "MURPHY PACFIC." Near the bridge segment on the right, three construction workers stand on an unfinished portion of the bridge. Part of a series. See also 2015.001.10073.

    Record Type: Photo

    San Mateo Hayward Bridge Construction, 1967
  25. Trimming Eucalyptus Trees in Burlingame, 1963 - Negative

    Black and white photo negatives of Eucalyptus Trees being trimmed in Burlingame on El Camino Real. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs

    Record Type: Photo

    Trimming Eucalyptus Trees in Burlingame, 1963

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