Description: Glass plate negative of Jack London, ca. 1901, by Laura Adams Armer. It has never been published. Mrs. Laura Adams Armer was a prominent San Francisco photographer at the the turn of the century with her own studio. She went to the San Francisco Art Institute in 1893, and photographed many famous men. Bibliography: The Beginnings of Oakland, California A.U.C. by Peter Conmy; Oakland Public Library, 1961 Jack London, famous writer, was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876 but was raised in Oakland. Here he obtained his grammar and high school education and one year of college at the University of California in Berkeley. Although his writings reflect the background of the sea and the Orient, many of them have Oakland and its waterfront as their setting. He was influenced greatly as a youth by Ina Coolbrith, Librarian of the Oakland Public Library. He died on November 22, 1916.