Wednesday, March 30, 2016

¡Murales Rebeldes!: Contested Chicana/o Public Art

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Barbara Carrasco, L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective (1981) Today the J. Paul Getty Foundation announced that 43 museums and cultural...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Type Tuesday - Japan Paper Company

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Today we feature paper samples from the Japan Paper Company of New York and Philadelphia. Each of these samples are printed on paper that mi...
Friday, March 25, 2016

A Mirror of Us: CHS Celebrates the National Park Service Centennial

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Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Monument pamphlet (detail), date unknown California Historical Society This summer, on...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Lawrence Halprin: Landscape Architecture in Israel

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Lawrence Halprin, Self-Portrait before Leaving Israel, 1998 Courtesy of Anna Halprin As a teenager, the land of Israel captivated...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Naming Yosemite

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Camp Curry, date unknown California Historical Society Times change—and names change with them. Today the National Park Service is in ...

Nancy Reagan (1921–2016)

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The California Historical Society joins the nation in celebrating the life of the First Lady of the United States (1981–89) and the First La...

Type Tuesday - General Paper Company, San Francisco

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The South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood of San Francisco was historically home to light industry, including printing, type founding and pape...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Dried Marsh Mud

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Dried Marsh Mud , 1979, California Tomorrow Records, California Historical Society, MS 3641_001 Dried and cracked earth, brown lawns...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Living Lightly on the Land
Lawrence Halprin and The Sea Ranch

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Charles Birnbaum (Photographer), The Sea Ranch, 2008 Courtesy of Charles Birnbaum/The Cultural Landscape Foundation Today The Sea Ran...

CHS Celebrates Women’s History Month
March Fong Eu

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Portrait of March Fong Eu during Her Term as California State Assembly Woman, 15th District, 1967–1974 California Historical Society ...