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Map
A map showing areas also depicted on Tamalpais Land and Water Co Maps 5 and 7, near Marion Ave, Edgewood Ave, Montford Ave, and Ridgewood Ave, originally purchased by F. T. Brazil, E.C.B. Fassett, and W.V. Stolte.
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map
A map showing subdivisions of Old Mill Valley in the Eastland, Millwood area, otherwise known as the downtown area
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map
A map showing the subdivision of Lot 63 of the Schlingman Tract near Ethel Avenue in the area that was known at the time as Millwood.
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"Aint no Bread in the Bread Box" - Jeanie Patterson Sweetwater Collection
Grammy Nominees Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo. Track from " R & B" (Blind Pig Records/San Francisco) Song Title: "Aint no Bread in the Bread Box" Director Johnny Reid
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"Albino" - Postcards
Postcard shows a rare white specimen of the White Redwood. The photo is in black and white, with the leafs of the specimen being bright white.
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"Alpine Lakes" - Postcards
Postcard shows photo of "Alpine Lakes" in Marin County California.
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"Egrets in the Nest" - Postcards
Water color painting of two egrets in their nest.
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"In the Clouds" - Postcards
Postcard shows a photo of a train chugging along the side of Mount Tamalpais. The carriages are open air, showing a large group of passengers abroad.
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"Little Journeys over the Northwestern Pacific Railroad" brochure - Ephemera
Brochure titled "Little Journeys over the Northwestern Pacific Railroad", circa 1911, describing short trips, one hour to one day's time, from San Francisco over the Northwestern Pacific Railroad's lines. Brochure describes the Railroad's all-day "Triangle Trip" as "one of the most delightful scenic one-day jaunts in America". Brochure is comprised of six panels.
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"Mickey" - Postcards
Woman feeding a raccoon a treat. "'Mickey' at the Mountain Home Mill Valley, Calif." at the bottom left corner
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"Our Lady of Mount Carmel" - Postcards
Postcard shows photo of the "Our Lady of Mount Carmel" Catholic Chuirch in Mill Valley. The building is modern in deisgn, with a 18 feet tall cross atop its spire.
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"The Lagoon" - Postcards
Postcard shows photo of "The Lagoon" in Muir Beach Marin Co, Cal: 1969.
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"Trails" by the California Alpine Club about Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway - Ephemera
Excerpt of an article from "Trails" by the California Alpine Club about Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway, 1921. Attached photograph of a view of San Francisco Bay from the summit of Mt. Tamalpais, with the Double Bow-Knot in the foreground. Both the excerpt and photograph are attached to a piece of paper.
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1. Remembering 1936 - Postcards
Postcard shows a photo of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the midst of its construction. It was made to commemorate the 50 year anniversiary of the bridge, started in 1933 and finished in 1936. Number 1 of a 10 postcard limited edition set.
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10. The Bridge is Dedicated! - Postcards
Postcard shows a photo of November 12, 1936 as the toll plaza officially opened. Pedestrians were not allowed to walk on the bridge, but 5000 San Franciscans walked onto the bridge, creating a massive traffic jam. While it was open, the bridge was not yet finished, as tracks for interurban electric tracks still had to be installed on the lower deck. This postcard was made to commemorate the 50 year anniversiary of the bridge, started in 1933 ...
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1933 advertising map for Mill Valley population 5000 - Maps
Copy of a map. Printed on both sides, which are identical exept for a stamp on one side reading "William Feeney Electric 164 East Blithedale Ave. Mill Valley CA 94941 LIC # 665786 115/383-7454." Shows streets in Mill Valley. Under the title: "Business District & Directory see over. Scale - this map is intended to show existing streets and is not for technical purposes. - revised Nov. 10, 1933. Price - 10c - Made by George M. Klein, Registered C...
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1978 brochure from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Brochure from the 1978 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a dark brown background with a centered print of Mill Valley. The silhouette of Mt. Tamalpais rises in the background of the print, framing town buildings. Text at the top reads, "Mill Valley Film Festival - 1978." The left side bears evidence of age.
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1979 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1979 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring text over a light pink background. At the top is a logo with a cutout of Mt. Tamalpais, and a road emerging with holes on either side to resemble 35mm film. Below, text reads, "Mill Valley Film Festival - August 7-14 - 1979." Additional text details the festival's locations, ticket information, and program.
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1980 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1980 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a large abstract design with a triangle of yellow, a block of gray, a block of red, and small rectangles of black and green. Between the gray and red blocks, in the center of the poster, is an inverted screenprinted image of a strip of 35mm film in bright blue. Text on the top reads, "1980 Mill Valley Film Festival," and at the bottom, "August 7-12."
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1981 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival. The poster has a bright red background with a small black logo in the center, featuring a smiling face and a frowing face in the theatrical tradition. The edges of the logo have holes, resembling 35mm film. White block text at the top reads, "1981 Mill Valley Film Festival." Text at the bottom indicates the dates, location, and ticket information for the festival.
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1982 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1982 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a large illustration of a smiling face and a frowning face, both with large stylized mouths in the theatrical tradition. The illustration is in grayscale with intricate shading, as well as circular designs in light pink. The right edge of the poster is designed to look like 35mm film. Text on the left states the title of the festival.
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1983 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1983 Mill Valley Film Festival. The title at the top, reading "1983 Mill Valley Film Festival," overlays a bright yellow background, and a black and white patterned strip of camera film fills the rest of the poster.
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1984 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1984 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a rectangular purple patch over a white background. A triangular piece of camera film with a shadow behind it sits on top of the purple region. A smaller piece of film comes out from behind the purple region. Text at the top reads, "1984 Mill Valley Film Festival - September 20-29 - Sequoia Theatre," and also includes information about purchasing tickets.
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1985 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1985 Mill Valley Film Festival, with a dark gray background and scattered text at different angles with lines above them. A bright pink strip of camera film emerges from one of the lines, branching from "dog bites clown" to "hero dies." The title, dates, and location of the festival are at the top of the poster.
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1986 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1986 Mill Valley Film Festival. A large, grayscale illustration of striated, stylized 35mm film stands out against a white background. Text at the top reads, "1986 Mill Valley Film Festival." On the left side, "25 September - October 2." On the right side, "Sequoia Theatre."
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1986 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1986 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a painting of blue sky, the San Francisco skyline in the distance, the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, fog, a mountain, and sequoia trees. Suspended in the sky is a partially unfurled rainbow-colored roll of film.
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1987 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1987 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a white background with a large, centered illustration of a face. The face is made up of a stylized inverted triangle with wide lips and jagged lines extending to the right. Text at the top and bottom indicates the title, location, and dates of the festival.
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1987 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1987 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring scattered, multicolored camera film behind the text, "10th Anniversary." An indigo sillouette of Mt. Tamalpais stands out from a black background. Text on the bottom reads, "October 8-15, 1987 - Presented by la bamba, a newer mexican restaurant."
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1988 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1988 Mill Valley Film Festival, with additional text below the date that reads, "Celebrate at the Big Bash. Oct. 1." The poster also has additional ticket and location information.
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1988 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1988 Mill Valley Film Festival. A black background with holes on either side resembles 35mm film, but toward the bottom of the poster, the holes become scattered multicolored rectangles. The logo of the festival, a frowning face and a smiling face, is in the bottom center of the poster. Text above reads, "Fireman's Fund Foundation Presents the 11th Annual Mill Valley Film Festival - Oct. 6-13, 1988."
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1989 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1989 Mill Valley Film Festival. A black border surrounds a photograph of a collage of old movie ticket stubs spelling out "Mill Valley Film Festival, 12th Annual, 1989, October 5-12." Popcorn and licorice dot the display that has holes on the side of the collage, resembling 35mm film.
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1990 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1990 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a dark rectangle in the center with letters spelling MVFF at the top. Below the letters, 3 rows of figures (a cameraman and a camera, an actor, a director, and a producer) morph from letters into clearly defined characters. Text at the bottom reads, "13th Annual Mill Valley Film Festival," as well as the dates and location of the festival.
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1991 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1991 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a large multicolored painting with an antique film camera in the center, surrounded by a white border. Text on the bottom reads, "1991 Mill Valley Film Festival - Sequoia Theatre - October 3-10."
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1992 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1992 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a collage depicting two black figures with one white eye looking at each other. One figure has pink breasts standing out against the black body, and both have pink hands holding pieces of camera film to their bodies, resembling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
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1992 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival selections in Russia - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1992 event held in Russia featuring selections from the Mill Valley Film Festival. The poster centers a large illustration of a reel of red film being unrolled across the page. Text reads, "The Russian Kino Centre Proudly Announces - the Best of the Mill Valley film festival" along with the logo of the festival of that year. Text on the bottom is arranged along red horizontal lines.
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1993 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1993 Mill Valley Film Festival. Text at the top describes the title of the festival as well as the dates and location of the festival with text, "Oct. 7-17, 1993 Sequoia Theatre." An illustration of a black easel is over a bright yellow background. The easel features a drawing of a nose and mouth over two stylized eyes, with holes on either side resembling 35mm film. The easel also has a bird on top and a snake wrapped around one ...
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1994 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1994 Mill Valley Film Festival, with large black and white font at the top listing the title of the festival. Below the text lies a red rectangle surrounded by a black border running the length of the poster. Within the red rectangle is an array of stylized shapes such as a hat, goggles, a feather, two faces, a sunflower, and a yellow spiral expanding to the outer edges of the poster. Dates and ticket information are included at t...
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1995 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1995 Mill Valley Film Festival. Black and white striped text at the top describes the title and dates of the festival, and below are illustrated shapes of lips, hearts, stars, a human, a green hand with red fingernails, a reptilian monster with the text "who is the monster, you or me?" as well as a human head with a bird sitting on top, all surrounded by a black and white striped border.
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1996 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1996 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a red background with a circular collage of two photographs overlaid. The larger photo depicts the neon sign for Mill Valley's 2AM Club, and alternates stripes with a photo of wrenches to resemble a target. Text on the right side reads, "Mill Valley Film Festival," as well as the dates and locations of the festival.
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1997 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1997 Mill Valley Film Festival, printed on green cardstock in the shape of a tree (a registered trademark of the CAR-FRESHNER Corporation). Text in the middle of the tree on the back reads, "20 years as the perfect environment for film," referencing the 20th anniversary of the festival, and Mill Valley's forested landscape.
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1998 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1998 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring large white text reading, "Mill Valley Film Festival: October 1-11, 1998." Above the text is an illustration in green of people sitting in a movie theater wearing 3D glasses. Below the text is a similar illustration in purple of the same people laughing at the movie.
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1999 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 1999 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a photograph of a 1938 mural by Henry Martins depicting three stylized women and two deer with antlers. Above the mural, text reads, "XXII - MVFF - XCIX."
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2. Ground Breaking, Yerba Buena Island - Postcards
Postcard shows a photo of Govenor James Rolph Jr., and former President Herbert Hoover, along with Miss Bay Bridge, Miss Prosperity and a collection of ladies representing Bay Area communties at the ground breaking of Yerba Buena Island on July 9, 1933. The postcard was made to commemorate the 50 year anniversiary of the bridge, started in 1933 and finished in 1936. Number 2 of a 10 postcard limited edition set.
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2000 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 2000 Mill Valley Film Festival, all in black and white. Large white block lettering at the top reads, "Mill Valley Film Festival No. 23," and the dates and locations of the festival. A large photograph below the text shows a woman kissing a man in a movie theater, yet looking away from the man, presumably to watch the film.
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2001 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 2001 Mill Valley Film Festival, all in black and white. The poster centers a large photograph of two people, one holding a hand-held video camera and the other holding a piece of cardboard with the text, "please: Mill Valley Calif.," a peace sign, and a flower, as if they were hitchhiking to the film festival. Overlaid text on the photograph reads, "Be there."
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2002 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 2002 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring many namecards labeled "Hello my name is" with a variety of phrases, simulating a class reunion. The tagline on the bottom of the poster reads, "See Who Makes It This Year," followed by information about dates and locations for the 25th anniversary of the festival.
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2003 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 2003 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring white text over a photograph of a café with a large open door onto the plaza. Text includes "Mill Valley Film Festival" and the number "26" to represent the 26th year of the Mill Valley Film Festival.
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2004 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Posters
Poster from the 2004 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring black text on a white background and a multicolored graphic design with the letters "MVFF" and number "27" to represent the 27th year of the Mill Valley Film Festival.
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2005 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 2005 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a closeup photograph of a face with light skin and one light blue eye. Text below the eye reads, "PULL BACK SLOWLY: from the face of a YOUNG WOMAN who has awakened from the remnants of a dream," resembling stage directions from a screenplay. Text below reads, "mill valley film festival no.28 - october 6-16, 2005 - mvff.com."
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2005 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection
Poster from the 2005 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a photograph with a red shoe, broken glass, pearls, and other items on a wooden floor. Text is overlaid over the photo, reading "INT: It's 6am. THE SUN shines through a BAY WINDOW the morning after they parted forever." ... "PULL BACK SLOWLY: from the face of a YOUNG WOMAN who has awakened frm the remnants of a dream." ... "PAN DOWN: from her blue eyes as she reaches for her necklace..."
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