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In August 2003 to
January 2004, a solo exhibition titled "Alfred Henry Jacobs" at the Judah L. Magnes Museum (now known as the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at U.C. Berkeley) was held featuring his architectural drawings and related documents, his fine artwork, and photographs.
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California in 1853. In 1898 he was appointed Assistant U.S. Treasurer, in charge of the Sub-Treasury in San Francisco. He was Jewish. He graduated high school from the
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Alfred Henry Jacobs was born in 1882 in San
Francisco, California to Julius and Sarah Adler Jacobs. His father Julius Jacobs was born in
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where he received a B.S. degree in architecture in 1904 and an M.S. degree in architecture in 1905. He did further studies at the
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and helped design the
Berkeley Tennis Club (1908) in Berkeley, California. In 1909, he joined San Francisco's
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Pacific Hebrew
Orphanage, North Ocean Boulevard, San Francisco, California; a Jewish orphanage now demolished
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Terrace (1920–1921) Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society, San Francisco, California
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Berkeley Tennis Club (1908), 2624 Hillegass Avenue, Berkeley, California; now a private home
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Berkeley
Landmarks: An Illustrated Guide to Berkeley, California's Architectural Heritage
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Cosmopolitans: A Social and
Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
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Jacobs family's residence (1915), 80-21st Avenue, San
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Butterfield and Butterfield Auctioneer building, San Francisco, California
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childhood home (1929), 129-24th Avenue, San Francisco, California
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has a collection of his papers, drawings, and photographs.
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1244–1268 Sutter Street (1911), commercial building in
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Memorial for the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum at the
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