Inside the Bar Pilots' headquarters at the end of Pier 9, adjacent to the Exploratorium along the Embarcadero, there's a ...
San Francisco celebrated a big birthday on Wednesday, marking a 170 years since its founding. Or did it? It turns out there’s some potential for dispute about when San Francisco truly became San ...
"The Sea Captain's Wife," by Tilar J. Mazzeo, tells a true adventure story about a 1856 race organized by shipping magnates ...
Memory Lane is now a destination available to you via Google Street View (or something like it). The painstaking work of two developers — Dan Vanderkam and Raven Keller — has yielded a time machine; ...
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On a sunny September afternoon, Portsmouth Square was full of life. Chinatown residents filled every bench and shady spot, deep in card games as police officers moved through the plaza, setting up ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Black and white print of a town on a ...
San Francisco Bay Area Biap Survey, 1975. https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!144645~!0#focus ...
Photographer unknown, “Hollywoodland” (c. 1924–29), gelatin silver print (image courtesy California Historical Society) SAN FRANCISCO — Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped Los Angeles and San Francisco ...