Prospecting on Feather River, California Lettersheet Collection, Kemble Spec Col 09, courtesy, California Historical Society, Kemble Spec ...

Ever find yourself facing off your computer screen, staring at the stark, white, virtual paper of your preferred word processing software, ...

Like many East Coast transplants to Gold Rush era San Francisco, Charles Proctor Kimball's earliest attempts at success in California...

The Bay Area has long provided experimental filmmakers with an embracing enclave in which to share their films with eager, appreciative aud...

At the end of the nineteenth century, there were dozens of typefoundries in America, selling metal type to printers who took care of al...

This sheet music for Charles W. Kremer's piece  San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge March  commemorated the 1936 opening of bridge and was ...

On September 9, 1850, California became the thirty-first entry into the Union. Admission Day has been observed on both the state and n...

Welcome to Type Tuesdays! Each Tuesday we will feature materials from the California Historical Society’s Kemble Collections on Western Pri...

While many voices are heard about the future of Eucalyptus trees in urban California, I looked at a book from the time these trees were firs...

Warm September days beg for evenings on the porch. And what better way to slide from summer into fall than with a porch swing.  If ...