Dozens of efforts are underway to provide access to the history of San Francisco on the web.
Here are some of the more useful sites we've discovered
(thanks to Ron Henggeler for a number of these).
Please write us with your url if you have something that should be on this list.

 

The Photo Archives at the History Center / San Francisco Library History Center

San Francisco Historical Maps / 19th c. rivers & shoreline of S.F.

The Historic Shipyard at Pier 70

Western Neighborhoods

Bill Roddy's America Hurrah!

Islais Creek / Butchertown

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Information

1915 Exposition Fair / Malcolm Barker's San Francisco Memoirs

San Francisco Architectural Heritage

San Francisco Museum & Historical Society

San Francisco Geneology / San Francisco Encyclopedia

California Missions: Mission Dolores

San Francisco Cable Cars

California Landmarks: San Francisco / Online Archive of California

Map of Buried Ships in the Financial District / The Shipwreck Rome

San Francisco Maritime Museum - J. Porter Shaw Library

Maritime Museum National Park--Maritime History

Gladys Hansen's Museum of the City of San Francisco
(particularly the '06 quake and fire dept.)

Hank Donat's Mister SF

Thomas Bachand's 360 degree animation of San Francisco in 1851

Yerba Buena Walk / The Barbary Coast trail

Anchor Steam- Telegraph Hill

Digging in downtown SF c. 1978

Bernal Heights history


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