Submissions are in for the 2020 Fracchia Prize writing competition!

SFHS ONLINE HISTORY ADVENTURES

New Digital History Resources

Don't Stay Home Without Them!

Watch this week's online history adventure on YouTube!

SFHS Presents Jim Schein - Author of Gold Mountain, Big City

San Francisco Music and Culture - 1965-1969

Psychedelic Daze - Don Robertson

See our latest Online History Adventure

Arnold Genthe - Photographer

Our latest Online History Adventure

5 Plate SF Panorama - taken by Sterling C. McIntyre in 1851
History of SF cuisine - John Briscoe

NEW Podcast!

LATEST ISSUE

Now Online!

San Francisco Pride Parade

SFHS Program: "San Francisco's Lost Department Stores" - Presented by Anne Evers Hitz

San Francisco Pride Parade

Photographs by Ron Henggeler

San Francisco Pride Parade - Photographs by Ron Henggeler.

PROGRAM: Bret Harte's Gold Rush

Your Guide: Chris O'Sullivan

Bret Harte's Gold Rush

Introducing: History As It Happens!

Dish Soap with Noah Griffin

San Francisco’s experience during the COVID-19 shutdown

Share your experiences during the pandemic by submitting

photos, videos, letters, and memoirs

Take a virtual tour of this magnificent landmark!

The History of Saint Ignatius Church - Peter Devine

Welcome to our monthly Tuesday Program - Online!

Join us for a virtual tour of this important SF landmark

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

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.

Due to COVID-19 containment measures, The San Francisco Historical Society temporarily closed our Museum at 608 Commercial Street
starting Monday, March 16. The museum will be closed until COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

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 16, 2021

City-Explorer SF - Barbary Coast

SFHS APP: Virtual Tour of the Barbary Coast

Friday, May 8 - Friday, December 25

SFHS Movie Night 5-1-20

SFHS Movie Night
ONLINE!

Friday, May 1, 2020 - Friday, February 5, 2021

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

Program – Sutro’s Glass Palace
ONLINE!

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - Tuesday, January 19, 2021

SFHS FRIDAY FILM NIGHT

SFHS Movie Night
ONLINE!

Friday, April 3, 2020 - Friday, January 8, 2021