Visiting the Small Press Traffic Archives
Our Print Collection Reading Room is located at Et al. gallery & bookstore (2831A Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110). The holdings are non-circulating and open to the public by appointment only. If you’d like to visit, please review our Visitation Policy below and fill out the Visitor Form. We’ll email you to schedule your visit.
Notes on Accessibility: Street parking is available and the location is approximately 300 feet from the 24th Street Mission BART Station. Et al.'s entrance and bathroom are on the ground floor and wheelchair-accessible, but the Print Collection Reading Room is up a short flight of stairs. We are happy to accommodate visitors who cannot access the space; please let us know on the Visitor Form how we can best make the space accessible.
Visitation Policy
- Materials may not be removed from the Reading Room.
- Please wash hands before handling materials. Gloves are not required.
- Eating and drinking are not permitted.
- Pens are prohibited; please use pencil for note taking.
- Laptops are allowed, laptop bags are not. We will provide a secure place to store your jacket, bags, and belongings.
- Materials must lie flat on the tables; not placed on laps, leaned on, written on, folded, traced from, or handled in any way likely to damage them.
- Researchers may view only one item at a time. Please preserve the existing arrangement of materials. If anything appears to be misfiled, notify staff but do not rearrange it yourself.
- Photographing of materials is allowed; no flash photography.
- Researchers must obtain permission before they publish, quote from, or reproduce images from the collection. Permission to Publish forms are available from the archivist.
- High resolution digital reproductions of materials can be requested through an Image Request Form from the archivist. SPT reserves the right to set restrictions on access to and copying of materials based on preservation concerns or large reproduction requests.
- It is the researcher’s responsibility to request copyright if using images from this archive.
- Researchers who notice damage to archival materials should bring it to the attention of the staff.
