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Tea plate decorated with photograph of a boy

Tea plate decorated with photograph of a boy

circa 1890

Worm character puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach

Worm character puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach

1996

Grasshopper character puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

Grasshopper character puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

1996

Centipede character puppet from the 1996 Disney animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

Centipede character puppet from the 1996 Disney animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

1996

Witch character puppet, The Nightmare Before Christmas

Witch character puppet, The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993

Ladybug character puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

Ladybug character puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

1996

Picture and easel prop used on a set from 'The Nightmare before Christmas

Picture and easel prop used on a set from 'The Nightmare before Christmas

1993

Head from James and the Giant Peach character puppet

Head from James and the Giant Peach character puppet

1996

Seagull puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

Seagull puppet from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film 'James and the Giant Peach'

1996

Sequential Circuits PRO-One monophonic synthesizer. Designed by former West Coast computer scientist

Sequential Circuits PRO-One monophonic synthesizer. Designed by former West Coast computer scientist

1982

'The Nightmare before Christmas' Crocodile prop

'The Nightmare before Christmas' Crocodile prop

1993

Puppet faces for the Spider character puppet

Puppet faces for the Spider character puppet

1996

Crayons made from captured carbon

Crayons made from captured carbon

c. 2020

Model cupboard used as a prop on the Santa interior set from the Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas

Model cupboard used as a prop on the Santa interior set from the Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993

Mouthpieces for the Grasshopper character puppet

Mouthpieces for the Grasshopper character puppet

1996

Mouthpieces for the Grasshopper character puppet

Mouthpieces for the Grasshopper character puppet

1996

Mouthpieces for the Ladybug character puppet

Mouthpieces for the Ladybug character puppet

1996

Two autoradiographs, San Francisco, United States, 1984

Two autoradiographs, San Francisco, United States, 1984

1984

Moorhead thermionic triode valve

Moorhead thermionic triode valve

1922

Prototype mask by Danielle Baskin for Maskalike

Prototype mask by Danielle Baskin for Maskalike

2021

Prototype mask by Danielle Baskin for Maskalike

Prototype mask by Danielle Baskin for Maskalike

2020

Trade card: John Roach

Trade card: John Roach

1870

Trade card: John Roach

Trade card: John Roach

1891

90mm diameter plates with perforated edges, decorated with cherub heads. Blue-black carbon transfer images of two children and boy. Blue ribbon hangers. Produced by Wilton, Marine Artist, San Francisco, California.

Two teaplates with photographs

circa 1890

Postcard sent in February 1972. On the front is publicity for Tony Ray-Jones's exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art, on the reverse is a personal message from Tony Ray-Jones to Barry Lane.

Postcard from Tony Ray-Jones to Barry Lane

1972

Moorhead valve 8874

Moorhead valve

circa 1910s-1920s

Wallet designed by Mandana Macpherson, made from reclaimed automobile and bicycle inner tube.

Wallet made from reclaimed automobile and bicycle inner tube

1996

Starship Technologies Self-Driving Delivery Robot with battery removed

Starship Technologies Self-Driving Delivery Robot

2017

Milner extinction calculator, made by G. M. Milner, San Francisco. Extinction type meter, disc shaped. Reflected light seen through filter is compared with density of rotating step wedge. (M4463)

Milner extinction calculator

Gammatron high frequency transmitting valve by Heintz and Kaufman

Transmitting valve

circa 1940

silver gelatin print mounted on card, by Laura Adams Armer, titled "Portrait", 1904. Entered into the Kodak Competition of 1904.

Portrait of a woman

1904

Postcard from 1972. The front is publicity for Tony Ray-Jones's exhibition 'Photographs of the English' at the San Francisco Museum of Art from 8 February to 12 March 1972. The front shows Ray-Jones's photograph 'Derby Day, Epson' from 1967. The reverse is blank.

Postcard advertising Tony Ray-Jones exhibition in San Francisco

1972

A single panoramic print on thick paper, matted and framed. 'The Burning City, San Francisco, 10am, 18 April 1906' by R J Waters & Co. 41 x 172cm. Depicting the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

The Burning City, San Francisco, 10am, 18 April 1906

1906-04-18

Tray of mouthpieces for the Ladybug character from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film James and the Giant Peach produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick.

Mouthpieces for the Ladybug character puppet

1996

90mm diameter plate with perforated edges, decorated with cherub heads. Blue-black carbon transfer image of two children. Blue ribbon hanger. Produced by Wilton, Marine Artist, San Francisco, California.

Tea plate decorated with a photograph of two children

Photograph of view over buildings to harbour area at night and land in background. Taken by an unknown photographer. From page 25 of an untitled album.

2506 Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill San Francisco California

Early 20th Century

A single panoramic print on thick paper, matted and framed. 'The Desolate City, San Francisco, 1906' by R J Waters & Co. 41 x 178cm. Depicting the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

The Desolate City, San Francisco, 1906

1906

Tray of mouthpieces for the Ladybug character from the 1996 Disney stop-motion animation film James and the Giant Peach produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick.

Mouthpieces for the Ladybug character puppet

1996

90mm diameter plate with perforated edges, decorated with cherub heads. Blue-black carbon transfer image of a boy. Blue ribbon hanger. Produced by Wilton, Marine Artist, San Francisco, California.

Tea plate decorated with photograph of a boy

1890 - 1940

Laminated card with a black and white silver gelatin print entitled 'San Francisco in ruins' taken by George R Lawrence with a kite camera. From the exhibition 'A Distant Prospect', at Impressions Gallery 8th April - 7th May 1983

San Francisco in Ruins

1906

Handbill, paper, Steam on the Western Pacific - Sunday, August 13, 1972. Advertising a trip behind the Flying Scotsman from Oakland to Stockton, California, organised by the Pacific Locomotive Association. Notes that following the trip Flying Scotsman will be "going into storage for an indefinite time."

Steam on the Western Pacific - Sunday, August 13, 1972

1972-08

Notice, paper, The Flying Scotsman - Movies and Lecture by Alan Pegler, 17 May 1972. Advertising event at the San Francisco Public Library. Lilac with maroon stylised image of Flying Scotsman.

The Flying Scotsman - Movies and Lecture by Alan Pegler

1972-05