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Outside Lands Podcast Episode 430: Jesse B. Cook
The Jesse B. Cook collection at the Bancroft Library is an amazing assortment of photos and ephemera spanning early 20th century San Francisco. Jesse Cook himself also has a fascinating, but complicated history. Learn how he compiled this cherished collection as one of San Francisco's earliest and prolific scrapbookers.
- May 15, 2021
(above) Jesse B. Cook,
circa 1920
Jesse Brown Cook, SF Chief of Police and noted scrapbooker
Beginning in 1883, steam trains rumbled down Lincoln Way, cut through Golden Gate Park, and delivered hundreds of Sunday visitors to Ocean Beach. (Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast Sep 27, 2014)