In-Person Walking Tours

Starting on March 5th

Also Virtual Tours and Student-led Tours

2021 Fracchia Essay Award Poster

In-Person Walking Tours

Starting on March 5th

Also Virtual Tours and Student-led Tours

Come take a Virtual Tour of our Museum

Virtual SFHS Museum Tour

SFHS ONLINE HISTORY ADVENTURES

* Watch over eleven hours of SFHS Presentations *

New Digital History Resources

Don't Stay Home Without Them!

2020 Fracchia Prize winners!

2020 Fracchia Prize Winners - 1st Place Winner: Winnie Quock; 2nd Place Winner: Indigo Mudbhary; 3rd Place Winner: Luke Zepponi

In celebration of Women's History Month!

Donaldina Cameron Tribute

In celebration of Women's History Month!

San Francisco Suffragette March

Watch SFHS Zoom presentation on YouTube

African American History in the First Century of California - with Jesse Warr and Len Holmes

In celebration of Black History Month!

Harlem of the West - Clubs of Fillmore; SFHS Presentation

In celebration of Black History Month!

Black History in Early San Francisco

In celebration of Black History Month!

Revealing SF Black History

Watch the January SFHS Monthly Program online

SFHS Presentation - The Trial of Tokyo-Rose

Author and SFHS Board President John Briscoe

In Conversation with former Mechanics' Institute

Executive Director Ralph Lewin, Recorded December 17

Event held in partnership with Mechanics' Institute

A Child's Christmas in San-Francisco, John Briscoe - SFHS
SFGS Program - Crystal Palace Lorri Ungaretti

Watch December's Program on YouTube

Watch the latest SFHS Online History Adventure!

Jim Schein - SFHS Presentation on Topography of Early SF

SFHS Monthly Program!

Woodward's Gardens - SFHS Program

Watch the SFHS October Program on YouTube!

SFHS - Bernard Zakheim Program

San Francisco Music and Culture - 1965-1969

Psychedelic Daze - Don Robertson

Welcome! The San Francisco Historical Society exists to uncover, preserve, and present,
in engaging ways, the colorful and diverse history of our city from its earliest days to the present.

We plan to re-open our museum at 608 Commercial Street on July 1st.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

We plan to re-open our museum at 608 Commercial Street on July 1st.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Press Release – 10/28/20:  San Francisco Historical Society Opposes Renaming Schools
In a letter to the Board of Education, dated October 29, 2020, the San Francisco Historical Society has
stated its opposition to the renaming of the city’s schools as proposed by the Names Advisory Committee
of the Board of Education as authorized in Board Resolution No. 184-10A1. More…

FEATURED AT SFHS

Early airplane test SF

SFHS DONATION DRIVE!

Saturday, May 1 - Tuesday, August 31

Program – San Francisco’s Lost Department Stores
ONLINE!

Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Bret Harte's Gold Rush

Program – Bret Harte’s Gold Rush
ONLINE!

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 - Tuesday, March 1, 2022

City-Explorer SF - Barbary Coast

SFHS APP: Virtual Tour of the Barbary Coast

Friday, May 8, 2020 - Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Sutro's Glass House - by John Martini. Presented by SFHS

Program – Sutro’s Glass Palace
ONLINE!

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - Friday, December 31, 2021

SF Harbor

A Romp Into Gold Rush History
ONLINE!

Thursday, March 26, 2020 - Friday, December 31, 2021