CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND HISTORYPIN LAUNCH ONLINE EXHIBIT INVITING THE PUBLIC TO SHOWCASE RARE, NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS THAT CELEBRATE THE MEMORIES AND PERSONAL STORIES FROM THE 1915 WORLD’s FAIR ... Read More >
By Rose Marie Cleese,
I’m a third-generation San Franciscan with more than one Gold Rush ancestor on my family tree. I grew up on Union Street near Scott in Cow Hollow and our view out the back was the Marina district anchored by the Palace of Fine Arts. My mother, Rosamond Rossi (Cleese), grew up in that very same house and, in 1915 when she was 6 years old, she would walk down Scott Street every day with her maternal grandmother to spend hours in “the Zone” at the PPIE. ... Read More >
On this day in 1915 the Liberty Bell Arrived in San Francisco following a cross-country trip from Philadelphia. The following essay is excerpted with permission from Laura Ackley’s San Francisco’s Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. ... Read More >
The California Historical Society is proud to announce a new project with Historypin: MAPPING SAN FRANCISCO’S 1915 WORLD’S FAIR. The innovative Historypin platform enables a global community of people, groups and institutions to gather and share the history of the places that matter to them, using collections of photographs, documents, sounds and moving images to start conversations and trigger memories. ... Read More >
