San Francisco Photographs by Minor White
California Historical Society will reopen to the public on November 18, 2020 with a new exhibition entitled San Francisco Photographs by Minor White. The show presents a selection of sixty gelatin silver prints from 1948 to 1953 picturing San Francisco amid a post-World War II boom. The exhibition is drawn exclusively from the more than 400 photographs White gave to the California Historical Society in 1957.
Ongoing Exhibitions
From the Gold Rush to the Earthquake: Selections from the Collection
From the Gold Rush to the Earthquake: Selections from the Collection presents highlights from the California Historical Society’s holdings of paintings, photographs, manuscripts and ephemera. Focusing on key topics in California’s late-nineteenth-century history, the exhibition features selected works from the Gold Rush, the exploration of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and coastal regions, the rise of agriculture and industry in the state, San Francisco’s Chinatown, and the city’s devastating 1906 earthquake and fires.
Selections from the Tell Your Story Project
Tell Your Story—California in the Time of COVID-19 is an online project to document the personal experiences of people across the state as they face a historic crisis. A selection of these stories and pictures follows. View the online gallery.
