California Past & Present(ly) Processed
The land use and development items in the CHS Collection—including maps, business records, and photographs of logging and mining activities—document water use, agriculture, conservation, and the state's changing landscape. Architect M.G. Bugbee's 1921 notebook, A Tube across the Golden Gate, is a wonderful example of such splendid matter, with graceful sketches accompanied by handwritten technical notes.
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california history
California is known as the land of promise and opportunity, and even a 90-year-old academic journal can live that Californian dream. Last month, the California Historical Society and the University of California Press co-published CHS's final issue of California History (volume 90, number 2). UC Press will continue to publish the journal under its own masthead beginning with its first issue this fall. The online version of the current issue is available now to flip through at your leisure.
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Digitizing History: city structures
In anticipation of the Unbuilt San Francisco and Never Built Los Angeles exhibitions premiering in California this year, take a peek at this 8mm film footage—shot sometime between 1925 and 1935—of structures up and down the Golden State. From San Francisco’s Bay Bridge and Coit Tower, to southern California’s Colorado Street Bridge and Hotel Riverside, and through highway tunnels, this fascinating reel includes city and government buildings as yet unidentified. There is sure to be a structure you recognize as it stands now or as it once was.
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