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of California as evidenced by archaeological remains, historic buildings, traditional customs, tangible artifacts, historical documents, and public records extant in California.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