- Adams, Ansel@
Best known for his images of Yosemite Valley and America's National Parks, Ansel Adams was also the author of several instructional books on photography. Along with Fred Archer he developed the Zone System, a systematic method for translating the tonalities of a scene into specific densities on negatives and paper.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Masters/Adams__Ansel__1902_1984_
- Cable Cars@ - San Francisco
Travel by the Cable Cars, or the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI), the world's last manually operated cable car system. Sites feature history, route maps, photographs, interactive demos, mailing list, and preservation and operation of historic street cars in San Francisco.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Mass_Transit/San_Francisco_Municipal_Railway__MUNI_
- Milk, Harvey@
Learn about Harvey Milk (1930-1978), the city supervisor of San Francisco and a gay rights activist. Sites offer biography, timeline, and commemoration for one of the first publicly homosexual person to be elected to the San Francisco Borad of Supervisors. Also find sites for his assassin, Daniel White.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Milk__Harvey__1930_1978_
- 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire@ - San Francisco
Learn about the 1906 Sanfrancisco earthquake and fire, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. Sites include earthquake details, death toll, photographs, eyewitness accounts, virtual tour, commemoration, and reenactment of the historic seismic catastrophe and resulting fires which changed the entire economic and cultural face of San Francisco.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Historic_Earthquakes/San_Francisco__California___April_18__1906
- Zodiac Killer, The@
Learn more about The Zodiac Killer, the unconvicted serial killer who terrorized California during the 1960s and 1970s through sites featuring police reports, victims, crime scenes, and media coverage. Also includes profiles of suspects and popular beliefs.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Individuals/Zodiac_Killer__The
- Heart of the City
- San Francisco
Includes city history, lore, architectural highlights, guides to local joints, and more. By Hank Donat, AKA Mister SF.
www.mistersf.com
- Vacaville Museum
- Vacaville
Center for Solano County history. Features hours, exhibit info, guild, and membership information.
www.vacavillemuseum.org
- Shaping San Francisco
- San Francisco
Interactive multimedia excavation of the lost history of the city.
www.shapingsf.org
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
- San Francisco
Images and history.
www.sanfranciscomemories.com/ppie/panamapacific.html
- Haunted Bay
A guide to Halloween happenings in the San Francisco Bay Area, plus history and stories about local hauntings and all sorts of Halloween goodies.
www.hauntedbay.com
- San Francisco Public Library: Historical Photograph Collection
- San Francisco
View over 30,000 digitized images of San Francisco, sorted by subject.
sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfphoto.htm
- Frontier Village Amusement Park@ - San Jose
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Frontier_Village_Amusement_Park
- WHAT IM SEEING dot com
- San Francisco
San Francisco photo blog focusing on history, current events, and day-to-day life thru the lens of their cameras.
whatimseeing.com
- Centerville Depot, The
- Fremont
Online home of the restored Centerville transportation depot in Fremont, California. Includes bus and train schedules, as well as photos of historic passenger trains, railroads, and horsecars.
centervilledepot.railfan.net
- San Francisco General Strike of 1934@ - San Francisco
Find sites for San Francisco General Strike of 1934 which triggered a unified strike of sailors along all the West Coast ports of the United States. Sites background information, magazine articles, virtual tour, and bibliography for the strike also known as West Coast Longshire Strike which lasted eighty three days.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/San_Francisco_General_Strike_of_1934
- Fort Ross@ - Sonoma County
dir.yahoo.com/.../Community/History
- Oakland Hills Firestorm
- Oakland
San Francisco Fire Department's report on the 1991 fires.
www.sfmuseum.org/oakfire/contents.html
- Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-40@
dir.yahoo.com/.../1939_40_Golden_Gate_International_Exposition__San_Francisco
- Sutro Baths@ - San Francisco
Learn about Sutro Baths, the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment built by Adolph Sutro, on the west of San Francisco in 1896. Sites include historical background, magazine article, and photographs of the bath whose remains are still the landmarks of San Francisco's history.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Sutro_Baths
- Flight of the Resolution
- San Mateo County
Tells the story of the British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines flight that crashed near Kings Mountain in San Mateo County, CA, on October 29, 1953.
www.flightoftheresolution.org
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