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The 6th Floor Test Kitchen: Summer of Love Edition or, Take Another Little...
It's the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the San Francisco Public Library is celebrating it with exhibitions at the Main and Park Branch libraries. The Summer of Love and Haight exhibit in...
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The Eragny Press: Selections from the Robert Grabhorn Collection
Robert Browning, Some Poems [cover detail] Eragny Press, 1904; press mark, 1900-1914; Charles Perrault, Histoire de Peau d'Ane [cover detail] Eragny Press1902.The Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book...
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San Francisco's First Archives Crawl: Counterculture and Social Protest
Demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War, Oak Street, San Francisco, 1965October is American Archives Month and we want you to explore the archives in San Francisco on Saturday, October 28, 12-5 pm....
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San Francisco Thanksgivings: Menus, Turkeys and Recipes
Hotel Arlington Thanksgiving Menu, 1911. San Francisco Ephemera Collection.One way to take a quick peek into the archives of the San Francisco History Center is based on theme. We took a dip into a few...
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'Tis the Season: Holiday Trees in San Francisco Residences
Christmas on Divisadero Street, 1953. Shades of Western Addition, Shades of San FranciscoChristmas on Ulloa Avenue, 1950. Shades of Western Addition, Shades of San FranciscoIt's that time of the year...
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Popularity Contest: Most Requested and Researched Archival Collections in 2017
Librarians and archivists like data. There's something gratifying about closing out the year with statistics that document our work in providing access to archival collections - and the history of San...
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Greatest Hits of 2017: Most Popular Digital Content from the Archives
Last week (and last year already), we shared our most popular archival collections in 2017. We're switching from analog to digital this week. To be on the upside for the highlights of 2017, we ran a...
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Valentine Broadside Printing
The Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center presents the 7th Annual Valentine Broadside Printing Event on Saturday, February 3rd, 2 - 4 p.m. in the San Francisco...
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7th Annual Valentine Broadside Printing Event
This is our 2018 Valentine Broadside with text and image by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. The text of the poem, set in Koch Antiqua by Li Jiang of Lemoncheese Press, was pre-printed. The day...
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It Must Have Been Something I Ate: Gastronomic Adventures with the...
Foodie alert! This year's wit & humor exhibition features a banquet of book covers, cartoons, and ephemera drawn from the collection (and the San Francisco History Center). Gourmet merry-making is...
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Guest Blogger: Cynthia Culver Prescott -- What I Learned by Studying San...
The San Francisco History Center is pleased to present Cynthia Culver Prescott's talk Depicting Race in San Francisco’s Pioneer Monuments. Prescott will discuss her pioneer monument project on...
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Quarantine & Eradication: Bubonic Plague in San Francisco
From now through September 15, the San Francisco History Center is hosting an exhibition documenting the bubonic plague in San Francisco. The exhibit, Quarantine & Eradication: Plague in San...
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Guest Blogger: Jason Ryan -- Race to Hawaii
The San Francisco History Center is pleased to present Jason Ryan's author talk and book signing for Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific....
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Hysterical? Yes. Comic? Yes. Funny? No.
The Works: Drugs, Sex & AIDS(Randy Shilts Papers (GLC 43), Box 129Folder: IV (intravenous) Drug Abuse)The San Francisco History Center is presenting the exhibition Quarantine and Eradication:...
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Guest Blogger: Amy Lippert -- Look Closer: Reexamining the Visual Primary...
The San Francisco History Center is pleased to present author and historian Amy Lippert speaking about her new book, Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in 19th Century San Francisco, on Thursday,...
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Eradication: Second Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in San Francisco
Eradicating Plague from San FranciscoUntil September 15, the San Francisco History Center is hosting an exhibition documenting the bubonic plague in San Francisco. The exhibit, Quarantine &...
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Today, We Remember….
The SFPL Staff would like to acknowledge the November 22nd passing of Mr. Charley Brown, artist, husband and business partner of Mark Evans. While Evans & Brown are known internationally for their...
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VISUAL POETRY: A LYRICAL TWIST
The Book Arts & Special Collections Center is pleased to present Visual Poetry: a Lyrical Twist, featuring Thomas Ingmire’s unique modern and expressive calligraphy in the creation of collaborative...
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It Came From the (Photo) Morgue: Where Neptune Struck and Failed
April 4, 1928Karl Bersnak, Seaman and mascot aboard storm battered lumber schooner, Nettleton.The Jane Nettleton, a steamer loaded with lumber entered the San Francisco Bay on April 4, 1928. It had...
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Seasons Greetings!
If anything puts us in the mood for the holidays, it's Edward Bawden's glorious artwork for Fortnum & Mason, purveyors of tea, biscuits, chocolate, gifts, and hampers full of goodies since 1707. A...
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