City Lights Bookstore
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Eisenlord, William J., 1926-1997
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content: William J. Eisenlord photographs
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content: William J. Eisenlord photographs / Series 1: William J. Eisenlord Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1954-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.eisewill, Subseries 1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The subseries has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: City Lights Bookstore was a popular meeting ground for many people associated with the Beat literary movement in San Francisco. The collection includes one exterior window photograph of the bookstore taken the year of its founding in 1953, and fifteen interior photographs of the store taken circa 1959. The interior shots include images of bookstore founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti, bookstore manager Shigeyoshi Murao, and various customers browsing the stacks.