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Blonde or Brunette Circa 1942
28Aug08
My newest assignment at the Archives is to catalog bound annual editions of The Fog Horn, the newspaper that was published by the now extinct Letterman General Hospital during its lifetime. So far I’m only up to 1944, and its going far slower than anticipated because I’m so intrigued by every minute detail in the [...]
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Tags: blonde v. brunette, letterman general hospital, misogyny, the fog horn
Building 35 Postcard, 1914 (Cat. # 12426; Acc. # 2204)
I recently cataloged a black and white photographic postcard of Building 35 on the Presidio, which was originally built as cavalry barracks in 1912. Seeing a building that is centered on the main post of the Presidio and completely surrounded by other military buildings serving in [...]
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Tags: 1914, cavalry, correspondence, military, postcard, Presidio of San Francisco
