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California Historical Society 678 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94105 voice 415.357.1848 | fax 415.357.1850 | webmaster@calhist.org -site viewing guidelines- ...

History of the San Francisco Diggers (1966-1968 and beyond) with Archive of scanned and rare Sixties Ephemera including Digger and Free City Collective broadsides and manifestos ...

National Japanese American Historical Society is a non-profit member supported organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture of the Japanese American experience.

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Located in San Francisco, CA TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF This unique Park, located at the west end of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, includes the fleet of historic vessels at Hyde Street Pier, the Maritime Museum, and the Maritime Museum Library. Board turn-of-the-century ships, ...

Devoted to the study and documentation of Chinese history and culture in America. ...

The Western Neighborhoods Project is dedicated to the history of San Francisco's Richmond, Sunset, OMI and West of Twin Peaks districts.

Images and descriptions of the fabulous 1915 San Francisco worlds fair.

The NCWA was created to educate the public about the people and events of the Civil War. The organization presents its living history for the public in many forms, including military encampments, battles, and lectures. ...

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Shaping San Francisco pioneers an interactive multimedia approach to San Francisco's lost history. It is a model of an alternative, grassroots do-it-yourself urban history, that uses both professional and amateur sources, and features thousands of photographs, both historic and contemporary.

The San Francisco Historical Society preserves, interprets and presents the historical heritage of San Francisco from its variegated natural history to its lively human history.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg at the first public reading of Howl at 3119 Fillmore St. It all happened on Fillmore Street After the Earthquake When the Earthquake and Fire of 1906 destroyed most of San Francisco, the Fillmore was untouched and for several months afterwards served as the commercial and political center of the city. One of the groups displaced by the 1906 Fire, San Francisco's ...

Walk San Francisco's Goldrushtrail, an outdoor museum of San Francisco history ...

A bibilography of Emperor Norton, including books, magazines, newspapers, comics and web sites.

The San Francisco History Association is a group dedicated to remembering our City's colorful past, and to celebrating its rich culture today. Let us lead you through this City's colorful History with talks and slide shows given by guest speakers selected from the Bay Area's diverse arts and literary community. Our newsletter The Quarterly keeps you informed of our schedule and enlightens you ...

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Joshua A. Norton So much has been written about Emperor Norton, and interest in this ninteenth-century character continues into the twenty-first century. Many of the decrees attributed to Norton I were fakes; written in jest by newspaper editors at the time for amusement, or for political purposes. Those decrees listed here were, we ...

Emperor Joshua Norton I The following is an excerpt from the Principia Discordia. I don't think a better explanation of who and what Emperor Norton was is in existence. Our borrowings from Christianity (well, actually, Christianity is a sect of Discordianism, so I guess we just borrowed from ourselves , but that wasn't adequately proven until recently) are so obvious that mention of them is ...

Japanese Town ~*~ Nihonjin-Machi Welcome to the Japanese Town Archives. Before the 1906 earthquake, the majority of San Francisco's Japanese-American citizens lived either south of Market Street or in the Chinatown area. After the quake, Japanese Town, as it was called then, moved to the Fillmore district, occupying an area roughly bounded by California Street to the north, O'Farrell Street to ...

Hunters Point: History The name Hunters Point refers to an area on San Francicso bay just South of the city. The name comes from a pioneer family of that name who were living there, rather than from the good game and duck shooting thereabouts as is commonly supposed. Hunters Point, 1866 First permanent dry-dock on Pacific coast - Hunters Point Dry Dock 1867 Hunters Point drydock, salmon ...

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Pacific Service Supplies the Worlds Largest Baths By J.E. VAN HOOSEAR, Industrial Department Pacific Gas and Electric Co. A very recent piece of business secured by the Industrial Department of Pacific Service is the light and power load of the famous Sutro Baths in San Francisco which, from the time they opened some seventeen years ago, ...

A landmark in San Francisco. Noted for its Romanesque architecture, Irish stained-glass windows, and Ruffatti organ. Help us save ...

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Adolph Sutro (1830-1898) Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was born in Aachen, Prussia, April 29, 1830. He had an excellent education in the field of mining engineering. He arrived in San Francisco aboard the steamship California November 21, 1850, and immediately engaged in trade, first in San Francisco and later in Stockton. In 1859, when the ...

California State Historical Landmarks - San Francisco County #79 Presidio of San Francisco, SF Presidio #80 Montgomery Block, San Francisco #81 Landing Place of Captain J. B. Montgomery, San Francisco #82 Castillo De San Joaquin, San Francisco #83 Shoreline Markers, San Francisco #84 Rincon Hill, San Francisco #85 Office of the Star Newspaper, San Francisco #86 California Theatre, San Francisco ...

Seal Rocks and the Sutro Baths Along north beach, right before point lobos (the point where the coast turns in towards the Golden Gate) there is a fancy restaurant called the Cliff House. The restaurant, located near scenic cliffs, overlooks the Pacific ocean (nice for sunset dinners) as well as a formation of rock outcroppings in the ocean called Seal Rocks. The outcropping gets its name ...