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July 28, 2015View this email in your browserExhibitions, Programs and Events atthe California Historical Society.
PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Historic Techniques: The Photo as Object and Object as PhotoThursday, August 6, 6:30 PMGet Tickets
Tim Pinault uses historical photography techniques to change the context ofobjects fraught with personal and cultural meaning. Drawing from his interest inhow photographs become cultural objects, Pinault will focus on how photographsare not only representations, but objects themselves. The medium itself can alterthe meaning of the photograph.
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History for Half Pints Summer ofMotion: Flight!Saturday, August 8, 11:30 2:00Attend
Come by every second Saturday of themonth this summer and experience ourseries, Summer of Motion! How didguests get to the PanamaPacificInternational Exposition (PPIE), theytook cars, trains, and planes, and we arecelebrating that with a new theme eachmonth this summer. For August, wecelebrate aviation and its’ role at thePPIE!
The Coney Island of the West:Alameda's Neptune BeachThursday, August 13, 6:00 PMAttend
Learn about Alameda’s Neptune Beach the "Coney Island of the West" and itshistory as a pivotal attraction after theclose of the PanamaPacificInternational Exposition. Authors DennisEvanosky and Eric Kos will take guestson a tour of west Alameda’s bathing andbeach resorts that established the IslandCity’s recreational character beginning inthe 1870s.
Stucco Fantasy: How the PPIE Influenced Roadside Architecture inCalifornia
Thursday, August 27, 6:00 PMGet Tickets
Los Angeles historian Jim Heimann, author of Crazy California and Beyond:Roadside Vernacular Architecture, will trace the 1915 PanamaPacificInternational Exposition’s fanciful, yet littleknown, legacy of stucco constructionfrom the “Joy Zone” at the PPIE to Hollywood set design and roadsidearchitecture. Presented in partnership with San Francisco Heritage.
Historic Techniques History throughTinTypesThursday, September 3, 6:30 PMAttend
Ed Drew's first body of work involvedphotographing his military unit inAfghanistan in the photographictechnique of wet plate tintype. Created inbetween the combat missions he flew onas a combat search and rescue gunneron helicopters, this collection ofphotographs were the first made ofAmerican soldiers in war since the CivilWar. Learn More.
History Speaks: Junípero Serra:California, Indians, and theTransformation of a MissionaryThursday, September 10, 6:00 PMAttend
Join us for a stirring conversation withHistorians Rose Marie Beebe andRobert Senkewicz, authors of Junípero Serra: California, Indians, andthe Transformation of a Missionary. Intheir newest book, Beebe andSenkewicz focus on Serra’s religiousidentity and his relations with Nativepeoples. Combining history, culture, andlinguistics, this new study conveys thepower and nuance of Serra’s voice and,ultimately, his impact on history. LearnMore
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Subframe Season 1
Subframe is a new podcast by Tony Gannon. This first season explores thePanamaPacific International Exposition and its place in history. According toGannon, "Subframe is cinematicallydriven storytelling, drawing on elements andthemes from history, literature, science, technology, as well as the world aroundus. We like to think of ourselves as time traveling documentarians bringing storiesfrom afar, packaged with a stylish bow. At our best, we’re both entertainingaudiences while also giving them something to think about."
In Episode 1, Gannon talks with Laura Ackley, author of San Francisco’s JewelCity: The Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, who takes us on astroll through the fair. Her detailed descriptions start to paint a vivid portrait of thefair, and we begin to get a sense of the scale of it.
In Episode 2, Kip Reinsmith explores genders roles at the Panama PacificInternational Exposition, and specifically the shifting role of women around thetime of the fair in 1915. Sarah J. Moore, author of Empire on Display: SanFrancisco’s PanamaPacific International Exposition of 1915, walks us throughsome iconic and gendered imagery of the fair. She also delves into howtechnology was shaping perceptions of gender.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the PanamaPacific InternationalExposition, the California Historical Society presents two related exhibitionsexploring the PPIE as a critical event that shaped the San Francisco we knowtoday—a city undaunted by tragedy, audaciously innovative, rising to meet thechallenges of the day.
At the California Historical Society through January 3, 2016City Rising at our headquarters on Mission Street is an indepth account of thefair—its planning, construction, and extraordinary components—from how SanFrancisco became host of the exhibition, to the fair's remarkable innovations, toits attractions and concessions. Through vintage photographs, souvenirs, andother artifacts, visitors will journey inside the exposition to see what fairgoersencountered 100 years ago.
At the Palace of Fine Arts through January 10, 2016What better place to explore the exposition's legacy than the only fair building stillstanding at its original location? City Rising at the Palace of Fine Arts provides anoverview of the fair and how it captured the attention of the city, state, nation, andworld during an era of international conflict and America's cando spirit. Why didso many people visit the fair and what did they see? How did the fair transformthe city's geographic, social, economic, and cultural landscapes? What did thePalace of Fine Arts represent, and why was it saved from destruction? Anillustrated map and an animated video complements images and artifacts in tellingthe story of this captivating world's fair.
History Keepers: Storied Objects from Los Angeles CollectionsAugust 6, 2015 – August 31, 2015
The Pico House424 North Main Street, Los AngelesTuesday Sunday, 10:00 AM 4:00 PM
Photographs, documents, scrapbooks, and ephemera are some of the materialobjects that help us to tell and understand our history. What are the objects thattell the story of Los Angeles? Who collects them? What stories do they tell? Inthis exhibition celebrating Los Angeles’s remarkable history, curious objects fromcollections housed across the Los Angeles region are displayed together at thehistoric Pico House in downtown El Pueblo de Los Ángeles to illuminate thehistory of this multifaceted city.
An exhibition by the California Historical Society and L.A. as Subject, presentedin partnership with El Pueblo Historical Monument and the El Pueblo ParkAssociation
COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
#TypeTuesday AD, An IntimateJournal for Production Managers, ArtDirectors, and their Associates
A few weeks back #TypeTuesdayfeatured covers of PM Magazine,promising a followup showcasing thecovers of AD, An Intimate Journal forProduction Managers, Art Directors, andtheir Associates. PM Magazine'sevolution to AD in June, 1940 markedthe periodical's increased focus ongraphic design, as demonstrated in thissample of the publication's covers fromthe early 1940s. Read More.
Turk Island Salt Works
It was not just gold that Bay Areaentrepreneurs and fortuneseekersrecognized as a profitable commodity inthe midnineteenth century. Within a fewdecades of the Gold Rush, theproduction of sugar, flour, and salt in theregion was well underway.
For millennia, indigenous peoples hadharvested salt from evaporated tidepools along the bay, using it for cookingand trading. Following the discovery ofgold, a seemingly endless demand forsalt—particularly its use in silver refining—led to controlled operations: saltgatherers began enclosing the naturalsalt ponds with levees made of mud.Now separated from the bay, the pondsbecame more like salt lakes, altering and
denigrating the bayestuary ecosystem.Read More.
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