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The James Rolph, Jr. Papers.(Brief article)
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California History
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March 1, 2008
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The lames Rolph, Jr. Papers are the product of Rolph's unprecedented twenty-two-year term as San Francisco's mayor from 1911 to 1931. Their contents reveal the process of growth and change over two extremely eventful decades, during which Rolph oversaw an ambitious program of civic reconstruction following the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
The postcard pictured here may be campaign ephemera from Rolph's first election in 1911 or a mail piece celebrating his landslide victory against what was seen as an entrenched and corrupt city government. His campaign offered the promise of a new city, free of corruption, symbolized by the ...