UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
A Woman of the Ages: The Story of Juana Briones de Miranda
This bilingual exhibition puts into broader context the life of Juana Briones de Miranda (1802–1889)—business woman, healer, land owner—spanning the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. eras in California's early history. Briones's story is an inspirational one: a frontier woman who navigated the turbulent social, economic, and political waters of nineteenth-century Alta California; who used her skills and knowledge as a curandera to cure the sick; who filed for an ecclesiastical separation from her abusive husband at a time when this was a rarity; who took Native American orphans into her home; who fought successfully over years to protect her land claims in U.S. courts after the Mexican War.
The Trip to Glacier Point - The Excursion Party, 1874 by William Hahn, California Historical Society Collection, Gift of the Cinco Hermanos Fund.
