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SF History Live: Curtain Going Up
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SF History Live: San Francisco’s Cable Car
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Art and Architecture of the Victorian Summer Art Workshop/Camp (Age 11 – 14, Free)
A FREE Summer Arts Workshop for Middle School Students.
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SF History Live: Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSF History Live: 50 Years of Collecting San Francisco’s History
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
How Dry I Ain’t—The Story of How San Francisco Outwitted National Prohibition Rules and Prospered
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Between 1920 and 1933, the United States tried the “Noble Experiment” of banning alcoholic beverages. But the Volstead Act legislation never prohibited consumption!
Vanished San Francisco
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Lorri Ungaretti will lead a visual journey of more than 50 places and items that were once found in San Francisco but are gone now.
The Van Ness Temples of Culture
Celebrate 90 Years
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum
608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Building a municipal opera house was the goal of many San Francisco leaders. It took twenty years, was proposed at several locations, had funding problems, morphed into a War Memorial and a Veterans Building.
San Francisco and the Civil War
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Californians have little idea of what role the state played in the Civil War, and the importance of San Francisco during that time.
Unspeakable Vice: Queer North Beach Before the Castro
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Join us for a lecture on San Francisco’s original “gayborhood,” North Beach. Before the Castro, Pride, or the Rainbow Flag, the beginnings of modern queer identity and activism was formed in the old Barbary Coast.
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Program: Yerba Buena Cove: A History of Smuggling
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
During Spanish-California and Mexican-California, Yerba Buena Cove was a well-known secret for smugglers. Before the town of Yerba Buena was established, smugglers knew to anchor their ships in San Francisco Bay...
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Program: The Long and Twisted Road of How San Francisco Became San Francisco
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
The settlement and development of the San Francisco Bay area has a long and complicated history, featuring numerous conflicting claims...
Living Colors – The Art and Architecture of San Francisco’s Victorians
A FREE Summer Arts Workshop for Middle School Students.
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Program: Early American Defenses of San Francisco
San Francisco Historical Society and Museum 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
In this illustrated talk, local historian John Martini will discuss the early harbor defenses erected by the U.S. Army between 1846 and the start of the Civil War in 1861.