San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal records, [ca.1911-1969]
Collection Number: 3199
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal records, [ca.1911-1969]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3199
Abstract:
Includes records related to housing planning and redevelopment; recreation; land use;
organizational materials; social policy; and transportation.
Creator:
San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
The San Francisco Housing Association became the San Francisco Planning and Housing
Association, and then the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association (SPUR).
It is now the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.
Includes records related to housing planning and redevelopment; recreation; land use;
organizational materials; social policy; and transportation. Includes paper of Don
Emmons as president; reports on housing by Catherine Bauer Wurster; and records of
the Pacific Southwest Council of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal records, #3199. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Emmons, Don.
Wurster, Catherine Bauer.
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. Pacific Southwest Council
San Francisco Housing Association
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association
Places:
San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects:
City planning -- California -- San Francisco.
Transportation.
Land use.
Urban renewal.
Housing.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence, Memos, and News Clippings regarding Public Housing
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1949-1950, 1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1951-1955 |
Scope and Contents
Some dealing with minority occupancy and redevelopment
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Copies of News clippings on Slums and Slum Clearance
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1952-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence and other materials related to Congressional and State Assembly Bills
dealing with Public Housing and Slum Clearance
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1952-1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Booklets on Building Standards
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1946-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Booklets on Building Standards; "Opening Statement for the Conference on "Neighborhoods
for Family Living" by Oskar Stonorov
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1939, 1948-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Real Property Surveys
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1939, undated |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Property Surveys and Suggestions for Report in San Francisco, California
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Housing Market Analysis (Part I and II)
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1945, 1947 |
Scope and Contents
Memos, revised documents, "The Forum Study of the House Market"
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Federal Low Cost Housing and Minority Groups in San Francisco
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1946, undated |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Citizen Surveys of Public Housing, "Homemaking and Family Adjustment
Services in Public Housing"
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Farm Housing -A case study
|
1945 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association
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1951-1952 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Memo, Minutes, News Article "Slum Clearance Plans in the Western Addition",
"A Brief Legal Analysis of the Rise and Decline of the Restrictive Covenant Relating
to Real Property Discriminating Against Persons on Account of Race and Color", Ping
Yuen
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Wartime Housing-Japanese Section
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1943-1944 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Reports, Recommendations, San Francisco Planning and Housing Association,
National Housing Agency, Federal Public Housing Authority, "Japtown"
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Plans; "Housing Problem"; "1947 Bay Area Housing Survey"; "Survey of Housing Conditions
in San Francisco"
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1946-1947, 1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
"Public Attitude Towards Housing in San Francisco with Particular Emphasis on the
Activities of the San Francisco Housing Association"
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1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence Regarding the Reconstruction and Development of the Bay Area Post WWII
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1944-1947 |
Scope and Contents
"California Construction Rises to New High" (Report on Construction Contracts); "The
People Design the City" Pamphlet
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Regulations Applicable to the Operation of the Allocations and Export Priorities System
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1947 |
Scope and Contents
Department of Commerce: Office of Materials Distribution
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Veterans Emergency Housing Program; President Truman's Statement of December 14, 1946
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1946-1947 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, News Articles, Bulletins, Statements and plans regarding The Veterans
Emergency Housing Program.
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
News Clippings and Reports Relating to Unfair Treatment of Minorities in Housing
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1951-1953 |
Scope and Contents
"Progress Against Prejudice"; "Open Occupancy in Public Housing"; Selected References
on Housing of Minorities"; "Non-Discrimination Clauses in Regard to Public Housing
and Urban Redevelopment Undertakings"
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Co-Op Housing in Chicago and Sweden
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1946, 1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
"Housing as an Outlet for Private Capital" and "Effect of the Corporate Income Tax
on Investment in Rental Housing"
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1940, 1946 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence, Documentation, Guide, Legislation and News of Federal Rent Control
(Act)
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1947-1948, undated |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence and Booklets Relating to Minimum Requirements for Building Rental Housing
Projects
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1938, 1942-1943, 1947 |
Scope and Contents
"Minimum Requirements for Rental Housing Projects", "Minimum Construction Requirements
for New Dwellings Located in the Northern California District", "Your Building Code",
Federal Housing Administration
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence, Guide and News Clippings Relating to (Updating) Building Codes in
California
|
1945-1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Plans, Releases and Statements Related to Community Development in Yardville, Philadelphia
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1949, undated |
Scope and Contents
"Yardville, USA Action Program", "The Philadelphia Story", "How not to Build Cities",
"Yardville, USA Supplementary Program: McCall's Guide to Creating a Yardville in Your
own Community"
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
"Neighborhood Design and Control"; "A Checklist for the Review of Local Subdivision
Controls"
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1944, 1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Correspondence and Purchases Related to the Street Tree Program in California
|
1945-1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Financial Transactions Between Howard G. Hanvey Advertising Firm and Citizens Committee
for Sewer Bonds
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1944 |
Scope and Contents
The San Francisco Bank. Special Savings Account Booklet
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence, Donations and (Master) Planning for "Sewers Come First" Campaign
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1944, 1948 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Firehouses in San Francisco
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1940, 1950, 1952 |
Scope and Contents
Firehouse Bond, Firehouse tours and plans for Firehouses.
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Citizens' Postwar Planning Committee's Priorities and Correspondence
|
1945-1946 |
Scope and Contents
Public Works, Airlines, Construction, etc.
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Bay Area Regional Planning
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1952-1955 |
Scope and Contents
Senate Bill, Minutes, Correspondence, etc.
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Donation to SPUR
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1964 |
Scope and Contents
San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Attitudes, Proposals Reports and Studies Regarding the Redevelopment of San Francisco
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1949-1950 |
Scope and Contents
Draft of "Group Attitudes and Urban Redevelopment"; "Community Revelopment Act of
California"; "Memorandum for Redevelopment Committee"
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Resources for Buying and Building Houses
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1940-1945, 1950 |
Scope and Contents
"The Local Housing Authority and the Architect" and "Construction, Pacemaker of Progress"
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
National Public Housing Conference, Inc
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Architect's Committee, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc.
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1944-1945 |
Scope and Contents
"Britain Faces its Housing Emergency"; "American-Soviet Building Conference"; "Soviet
Cities Rebuild"; "International Labor Review"
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Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Pan American Housing and Planning (Multiple Languages)
|
1946-1947 |
Scope and Contents
"Provisional Directory of Housing and Planing Agencies"; "Bulletin de Documentation"
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Nob Hill Rezoning
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1950, 1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
"Zoning and Civic Development"; "American Society of Planning Officials" Newsletter
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1950, undated |
Scope and Contents
To promote efficiency of public administration in land and community planning
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
"Outline of a Street Tree Program" and Correspondence
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1945, 1955-1956 |
Scope and Contents
"Street Trees for Citie"
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence, Information, Report and Questionnaires Relating to "Presido Idle Acres"
Campaign
|
1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Quarrying Regulation Ordinance and "An Interior Greenbelt for San Francisco"
|
1939, 1951-1952 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Requests, Ordinances, News Releases, Agendas and More.
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence and Proposed Amendments to Building Code Relating to Quarrying, Excavation
and Grading
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence and News Clippings Relating to Dumping in the Alemany-Junipero Serra
Boulevard Area/ Stanley Drive
|
1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Municipal Railway Bond Issue, Rapid Traffic and Transportation Planning in San Francisco
|
1939, 1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Documents Relating to Proposed 1953 Municipal Railway Reconstruction and Replacement
Bond Issue
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Cable Cars, Rapid Traffic, Downtown San Francisco Parking and "A Study of the Effect
of Land Acquisition for the Bayshore Freeway on San Francisco Industry"
|
1954-1955 |
Scope and Contents
Citizens Committee to Save Cable Cars, Subcommittee Reports, Correspondence, Media
Correction,
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Proposed Mayor's Program, "Master Plan of San Francisco: Studies for the Location
of a Central Airline Bus Terminal"; Transit Modernization and Related Traffic Control
Measures" and Proposed Mayors Program
|
1946, 1948 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Mass Transit, Urban Transportation, Parking and Highways.
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Proposals and Plans for Rapid Transit in San Francisco
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1931, 1936, 1946-1947 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
San Francisco Transportation Committee Minutes, Proposals and Correspondence
|
1950-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Documents Relating to Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission and Bill
|
1952-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Bills and Documents Relating to Bay Crossings/Bridges
|
1949-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Key Systems Transit Lines
|
1952-1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Plans and Reports for Local California Transportation Systems
|
1947, 1953, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Hall of Flowers Exhibit Building in Golden Gate Park
|
1949, 1952-1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Aquatic Park Preservation Interior Greenbelt, Surface Freeways in Golden Gate Park
Controversy and Small Boat Harbor
|
1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence Relating to Various Properties Under San Francisco's Parks, Playground
and Public Buildings Committee
|
1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Angel Island, Aquatic Park, John McLaren Park, Palace of Fine Arts and Steam Boat
Fort Sutter
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence and Notes Relating to Automobile Races, Civic Center, de Young Museum
Public Library, Map of Proposed Extension of Palo Alto Avenue and the Preservation
of Golden Gate Park
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Correspondence and Minutes Relating to Road Races in Golden Gate Park Proposal
|
1953-1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Relationship of Baltimore Plan to the Public Low-Rent Housing and Slum Clearance and
Urban Redevelopment Programs; Community Night at Girls High School
|
1950-1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
"The Mayor of Baltimore Reports for 1948-1949" and Documents Relating to the Story
of Yardsville, USA
|
1948-1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Correspondence, Documents and News Clippings Relating to Playspace Planning in Baltimore
|
1950, 1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Planning Material for Open Space Development and the Baltimore Plan
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undated |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Materials and Documents Relating to San Francisco's Chinatown Recreational Plans and
Housing Projects
|
1950, 1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Booklets and Reports Relating to Recreational Facilities in American Cities
|
1936, 1939-1941, 1946, 1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
"John McLaren Park Area Proposed General Plan" and Documents in Opposition
|
1950, 1952-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence, News Clippings, and Documents Relating to the Butano Forest Bond Issue
|
1948, 1950-1952 |
Scope and Contents
Includes School Bond Issue
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Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Correspondence, Documents and News Clippings Relating to Land Uses For Angel Island
|
1949-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
San Francisco Recreation Department
|
1940-1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Correspondence, Documents and Maps Relating to the Preservation of The Sunset Community
Center
|
1946-1947 |
Scope and Contents
"The Sunset Community Center: An Achievement in Cooperative Planning 1946-1947"
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Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Correspondence and Articles Relating to Nursery Schools in the Bay Area
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1940, 1942-1943 |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
1929 Map Marked With San Francisco's Hills and Relating Documents
|
1929, 1944, 1949 |
Scope and Contents
Normal School
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Box 2 | Folder 38 |
City Planning in Public Elementary Schools
|
1946-1947 |
Box 2 | Folder 39 |
"City Planning as Studied in San Francisco Public Schools", Teaching Material and
Correspondence
|
1948-1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Materials for City Planning in San Francisco's Public Schools and "San Francisco Social
Studies Series"
|
1946, 1948-1949 |
Scope and Contents
Teacher's Materials. Six Booklets in the "San Francisco Social Studies Series"
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
"Better Housing for the Family"; Housing for Family Living" and Planning Booklets
Relating to Family Living.
|
1945, 1947-1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Reports, Maps and Information Relating to Public Health and Civic Unity in San Francisco
|
1938, 1940, 1945, 1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Adult Probation in San Francisco and "The Cost of Slums in Newark"; Surveys Included
|
1945-1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
The Price of Slums in San Francisco; "Blight and Taxes"
|
1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Documents, Photographs and Maps Relating to "Blight and Taxes" of San Francisco
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undated |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence and Articles Relating to "Blight and Taxes"; "Your Dollars ---Your
Slums"
|
1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Youth Welfare and Juvenile Delinquency of California
|
1941, 1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
"Report on Housing and Juvenile Delinquency"; Probation Office of Los Angeles' Monthly
Reports"; "These Came Back" and News Clippings Relating to Juvenile Delinquency
|
1937-1939, 1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Reports Relating to the Connection of Health, Housing and Sanitation in U.S. Cities.
|
1936-1937, 1941, 1946-1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence, Surveys and Documents Relating to the Housing Needs of Black, Chinese
and Japanese Communities
|
1930, 1944 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence, Survey, Documents and Reports Relating to African Americans Living
and Working in San Francisco
|
1941-1944 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Documents and Promotional Material Relating to the Fight to Secure Property Rights
for Minorities and Women
|
1946-1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
"First Report of the San Francisco Housing Association"
|
1911 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence Relating to Proposal to Conduct Survey of Slum Area
|
1933-1938 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
No Folder 16
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
"Now is the Time to Plan", San Francisco's Comprehensive Plan; Slum Clearance and
Urban Redevelopment
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1943-1944, 1947-1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association's Role in Urban Redevelopment
|
1944, 1947, 1952, undated |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association's Board of Directors Meetings and Planning
Suggestions
|
1944-1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 20 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association Board of Directors Membership Invitations,
Minutes and Responsibilities
|
1948-1951 |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association Board of Directors Business
|
1950-1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence, Amendments, Minutes and Support of San Francisco Planning and Housing
Association Relating to Southern Crossing
|
1953-1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association Board of Directors Executive Committee
Meetings
|
1944-1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 24 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association Board of Directors Executive Committee
Meetings II
|
1948-1951 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association Board of Directors Executive Committee
Meetings; Data and Dues of Members
|
1952-1953 |
Box 3 | Folder 26 |
San Francisco Planning and Housing Association Application for a Rosenberg Foundation
Grant
|
1939-1940 |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Correspondence and Reports Between the San Francisco Planning and Housing Association
and the Rosenberg Foundation Relating to Grant
|
1941-1942, 1944-1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence and Information Relating to the Columbia Foundation Grant
|
1943-1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Financial Information Relating to San Francisco Planning and Housing Association
|
1940, 1943-1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Financial Information Relating to San Francisco Planning and Housing Association II
|
1947-1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Financial Information Relating to San Francisco Planning and Housing Association III
|
1950-1955 |
Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Expenses
|
1945-1953 |
Box 3 | Folder 33 |
"Record of Cash Received"
|
1944-1954 |
Box 3 | Folder 34 |
"Records of Checks Drawn"
|
1944-1954 |
Box 3 | Folder 35 |
"Record of Cash Received", "Distribution of Checks Drawn", "General Ledger", "Record
of Journal Entries", and Expenses
|
1944-1957 |
Box 4 |
Glass Slides
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