California Historical Society

Arts, Science, Museum

North Baker Research Library, museum galleries, and museum store. Thanks to generous funding provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the California State Library, the North Baker Research Library has begun the second year of their project to catalog a large part of our Photography Collections. Expanded library hours, instituted in February 2002, will continue: the library is open and free to the public from noon to 4:30pm, Wednesday through Saturday. see: Doing Research Beginning September 3, 2003 the Library is open Wednesday though Friday, from noon to 4:30pm. Serving over 4,500 people a year, the North Baker Research Library provides an extensive collection of manuscripts, maps, posters, printed ephemera, books, and pamphlets. The CHS Photography Collection contains over 500,000 images including works by Eadweard Muybridge and Ansel Adams. The Education Department offers regular lectures, family programs, booksignings, and school programs. The CHS Fine Arts Collections encompass roughly 5,000 works of art reflecting all aspects of California History. Over 4,500 dedicated members belong to the Society. CHS keeps an active exhibition schedule, and publishes California History, a quarterly journal.

Museum

CA

San Francisco

678 Mission Street

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San Francisco Attractions Map

View a map of the San Francisco's top attractions. Find out more about the any attraction.

MAP INSTRUCTIONS

If you move your mouse over a marker, the name of the attractions will appear. If you click on the marker, an information window will appear that contains the address, a description and a picture of the attraction. Click on the name and you will land on our individual attraction page. From there you can navigate to the attraction's official web site.

The colored map markers indicate the different types of attractions. Red are Sights, Blue markers are Arts, Science & Museum locations, and Green markers are for parks & Gardens.

If you click on the Legend option, you can choose which type of attractions will appear on the map by area. Choose just one type or chose all for a complete viewing of San Francisco attractions.

If you click on the Attractions by Type tab, you will find a list of all the map's attractions by type with descriptions, a thumbnail picture and a link will highlight the attraction on the map with the information window open.

As with all Google maps, you can zoom the map in and out; you can reposition it by dragging it with your mouse; and you can also change the map type from a normal Street view to a Satelite view, or to a Hybrid view that combines the other two views.