San Francisco Architectural
Heritage
San Francisco Architectural Heritage encourages
appreciation of the built environment and understanding of
the value of preserving significant San Francisco
architecture
San Francisco Museum & Historical
Society
The San Francisco Museum and Historical Society serves as
the focal point for discovering the history of the Bay Area
The Virtual Museum of the City of San
Francisco
This organization functions as a general multi-media
website utilizing text, graphics, and sounds. Features the
interesting, the amusing, and the unusual in San Francisco
history
San Francisco Public Library Historical
Photograph Collection
Located in the San Francisco History Center, contains
photographs and works on paper of San Francisco views
from 1850 to the present
Shaping San Francisco
An ongoing multimedia project - recovering history and
sharing the story of daily life in San Francisco
Gold Rush Trail
An outdoor museum of San Francisco's Heritage
California Preservation Foundation
California's only statewide non-profit organization
promoting historic preservation
California State Parks - Office of
Historic Preservation
This heritage is embodied in the cultural and historical
landscapes of California as evidenced by archaeological
remains, historic buildings, traditional customs, tangible
artifacts, historical documents, and public records extant
in California.
California Historical Society
Founded in 1871. A nonprofit, privately funded, membership
organization. Its mission is to engage the public's
interest and participation in collecting preserving,and
presenting art, artifacts, and written materials relevant
to the history of California.
Library of Congress Film Clips of SF
1897-1916
This collection consists of twenty-six films of San
Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and
Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San
Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster. Seven
films describe the great earthquake and fire The two later
films include a 1915 travelogue that shows scenes of the
rebuilt city and a tour of the Panama Pacific Exposition
and a 1916 propaganda film