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- America Hurrah - Images and text on the history of San Francisco and California.
www.americahurrah.com
- Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916 - Topics in this collection of twenty-six films include the 1906 earthquake, the Panama Pacific Exposition (1915), and a 1903 Chinese funeral.
rs6.loc.gov/ammem/papr/sfhome.html
- Crimes of the San Francisco Committees of Vigilance of 1851 and 1856 - List of criminal actions taken by the two appearances of local vigilante events of the 1850s.
home.talkcity.com/VolunteerSt/lifesaviors/A_Vigilante_Story.html
- Images of San Francisco 1875 to 1906 - Photographs of San Francisco including the complete Muybridge Panorama of 1878. Thumbnails enlarge to full images.
americahurrah.com/SFmenu.htm
- San Francisco Fire Department Museum - Sponsored by the St. Francis Hook and Ladder Society, a society for the preservation and restoration of fire apparatus and fire artifacts relating to the history of San Francisco.
www.sffiremuseum.org
- San Francisco Genealogy - Genealogy in San Francisco, California.
www.sfo.com/~timandpamwolf/sfrancty.htm
- San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection - Collection from the San Francisco Public Library, covering San Francisco history from the 1850s to the present.
sfpl4.sfpl.org/sfhistory/photograph1a.htm
- San Francisco History - A collection of historical and genealogical resources for the City and County of San Francisco, California.
www.zpub.com/sf50/sf
- San Francisco History Association - Organization dedicated to preserving the City's past hosts monthly events and provides a quarterly newsletter.
www.sanfranciscohistory.org
- San Francisco History Index - From prehistory to the present. Includes historical maps, neighborhoods, ethnic groups, an email list and forum.
www.zpub.com/sf/history
- San Francisco Memoirs - The history of San Francisco in the words of people who were in the city between 1835 and the devasting earthquake of 1906.
www.sanfranciscomemoirs.com
- Story of an Eyewitness - Jack London's May 1906 article for Collier's describes his first-hand experiences witnessing the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake.
sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/Journalism/sfearthquake.html
- Western Neighborhoods Project - Nonprofit organization formed to preserve and document the history and culture of the neighborhoods in western San Francisco.
www.outsidelands.org
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