The San Francisco Historical Society operates the City Museum, historic walking tours, youth education programs, and the popular History Live! monthly broadcast. The organization also prints several historical publications about San Francisco’s history, including, The Argonaut, a semiannual ...

Historical Society of South San Francisco records & publicizes the history of South San Francisco & help preserve its historically unique & interesting aspects.

We are devoted to bringing together San Francisco’s past, present and future. SFHS has more than 2,000 members and fulfills its mission of preserving Bay Area history through a broad spectrum of programs and special events, such as monthly presentations, guided history walks, the Barbary Coast Trail and the annual Awards Luncheon. The Society produces two publications: The Argonaut, a beautiful journal featuring photographs and in-depth reviews of our city’s history; and Panorama, a quarterly newsletter for members that features upcoming programs and events of interest to our members.

Buttons from the GLBT Historical Society’s ephemera collection. ... The archives are located on Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets in downtown San Francisco.

SF Digital Collections: Over 50,000 digitized images from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection and archives of the San Francisco History Center and James C.

The Daniel E. Koshland San Francisco History Center contains a research collection of books, newspapers and magazines, photographs, maps, posters, archives and manuscript collections, and ephemera, documenting all aspects of San Francisco life and history. The Center is also the archives for ...

Cable Car Museum California Historical ... Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California Golden Gate Railroad Museum Museum of the City of San Francisco Presidio Army Museum Radio Heritage Foundation San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive San Francisco Fire Department ...

February 25, 2023 - . . . . . #ChineseAmericanHistory #AAPIHistory #ChineseAmerica #ChineseOpera #SanFranciscoBookTalks #CHSAMuseum #CHSAEvents #ChinatownSF #SanFranciscoChinatown ... ... FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dead Man’s Gold and Other Stories (2001) by Paul Yee Award-winning author Paul Yee’s collection of 10 original ghost stories dramatizes the tumultuous history of 140 years of Chinese immigration to North America—from the poor village men who first arrived during the Gold Rush to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake of the Communist victory in China.

The San Francisco Historical Society exists to uncover, preserve, and present, in engaging ways, the colorful and diverse history of our city from its earliest days to the present. Visit the SFHS MUSEUM Open Thurs | Fri | Sat - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 608 Commercial Street San Francisco

OpenSFHistory.org Historical images of San Francisco—50,000 and counting! ... SFSU American Poetry Archives An historic register of the past 50 years of poetry and related writing as it happened in San Francisco

The collection contains local yearbooks, memorabilia, newspaper issues and clippings, journals, government documents, maps, phone books, pamphlets, books, oral history tapes, and magazines. The history collection also contains thousands of photographs. The collection also contains general ...

Every broadcast has hundreds of people registered -and we continue to grow more every week! You can view the film archives of past shows below. ... The Argonaut is the flagship publication of the San Francisco Historical Society. It began publication in 1990, with one issue per year.

Plymire Archives · Membership ... · Gift Shop · Contact · Opened on November 6, 2008, the Historical Society Museum is housed in the former offices of the California Water Service Company....

Streetwise: Dining Around San Francisco - Mar 28, 2025 Read More... More News Stories... These historical images of San Francisco primarily come from one collector who wishes to remain anonymous. The collection may be the greatest in private hands, amounting to over 100,000 negatives and prints.

November 3, 2020 - About Our Archival Holdings The holdings of the National Archives at San Francisco include over 75,000 cubic feet of original records dating from about 1850 to the 1980s, with a limited number of records as recent as the early 2000s.

Containing materials from the early ... of California state and local history. The collection includes original material from significant events such as the gold rush, statehood, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire....

The Daniel E. Koshland San Francisco History Center contains a research collection of books, newspapers and magazines, photographs, maps, posters, archives and manuscript collections, and ephemera, documenting all aspects of San Francisco life and history.

She began researching local history after becoming a docent at Muir Woods National Monument in 2002. After hearing rumors about some of our long-forgotten San Francisco stories, her research led to the launch of her history blog, Tramps of San Francisco, before founding the GPNHP in 2014.

March 19, 2025 - The San Francisco Historical Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and presentation of the history of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. It is a membership-based organization that holds monthly speaking programs, conducts walking tours of San Francisco, provides educational resources for grade schools and publishes original research.

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