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November 16, 1979. Designated SFDL. 1980 [ 3 ] In 1941, Anton Refregier won the $26,000 commission for the series History of San Francisco, which are a set of 27 murals painted in the lobby of the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco, California. Refregier painted the mural with casein tempera on white gesso over plaster walls, in the ...
Jim Brook took the lead in organizing a companion anthology of contrarian and critical San Francisco histories published by City Lights Books in early 1998, Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Culture, Politics.(5) It coincided with the release of our first edition CD-ROM,(6) which with the inclusion of many excerpts from the Reclaiming collection was a solid and critical contribution to local ...
It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.
A compilation edit featuring KRON-TV's Decades series made in 1999 by Executive Producer Jim Swanson which uses original news footage and contemporary interviews to reflect on Bay Area history from 1848 to 2000. Uses material from all the other Decades series, which examine the history of each San Francisco decade in more detail and can be ...
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Formed in 1964 as the Californiana Collection, the current San Francisco History Center holds a comprehensive, non-circulating research collection covering all aspects of San Francisco history (and, to a lesser extent, California and Western history) from the time of the area's earliest habitation to the present day. The material sheds light on man...
The San Francisco History Center contains a wealth of primary and secondary source materials in print, manuscript, audio-visual, and digital formats. These include books, periodicals, pamphlets, ephemera; newspapers and news clippings; maps; photographs and slides; microfilm and fiche, videos, DVDs, and recordings; posters and broadsides; archives ...
Books, audio-visual materials, some archival collections, and most periodical titles are represented in the SFPL online catalog. Other materials are not fully represented in the catalog, so patrons are encouraged to ask a librarian if they have questions about holdings. Library users are also directed to department card indexes, folder lists and de...
Apr 17, 1994 · Experience San Francisco's rich history throughout the Twentieth Century in KRON-TV's Emmy award winning Bay Area History series. Day of the Gun, Part I. Part I of a documentary special from 2002 narrated by Belva Davis about the life and death of George Lester Jackson,... Aired: 2002. Day of the Gun, Part II.
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Sep 30, 2023 · 3. History of San Francisco 2: 1900-1909, Into the Fire (1999) Into the Fire (1999) sheds light on the tumultuous history of San Francisco between 1900 and 1909. This award-winning documentary delves into a period filled with labor strikes, public health crises and political upheaval.
