History Hub

Welcome to the History Hub at the San Diego History Center!

We’ve created the History Hub to keep you up to date on the San Diego History Center and our locations in historic Balboa Park and the Junipero Serra Museum in Presidio Park.

This is the place to find the latest information on our exhibitions, public and educational programming and interactive events.

This is the place where you can find our news releases, TV appearances, newspaper and magazine stories. When we make the News, you’ll find it here!

OP 12550-22

Nov 20, 2012

(Documentary Artifact): Three b/w photographic prints of Antonio Cuevas standing in the desert with one hand on a yucca plant and the other hand on his knee. At his feet are four ollas. He wears a hat, shirt, jacket and pants. According to notes on the verso of two of the prints, the ollas were recovered from a cave or cavern in mountain by Little Piñon [Pinon], named Ick how’.

Notes on verso:
Image 1: #OP 12550-22/ MN# 86:15752-22/ Antonio Cueras and desert ollas/ Jan.

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OP 12550-23

Nov 20, 2012

(Documentary Artifact): Three b/w photographic prints of Francisco Duro singing over an olla. Duro kneels outdoors behind a large olla holding a tin can rattle upright in his right hand. He wears a hat, long-sleeve shirt and pants.

Notes on verso:
Image 1: #OP 12550-23/ MN 86:15752-23
Image 2: FRANCISCO DURO SINGING OVER OLLA/ 1913/ 26/ (IN REF BOOK)/ OP 12550-23/ MN 86:15752-23
Image 3: #OP 12550-23/ #MN 86:15752-23/ IN REF BOOK

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OP 12550-24

Nov 20, 2012

(Documentary Artifact): One b/w photographic print of Francisco Duro kneeling outdoors next to a large olla with one knee propped up. He shakes a tin can rattle in his right hand. He wears a hat, long-sleeve shirt, and pants. His wife is kneeling next to him, behind the olla. She wears a kerchief tied around her head, long-sleeve shirt, skirt with a printed design, and checkered-print apron.

Notes on verso:
#OP 12550-24/ MN 86:15752-24/ FRANCISCO DURO & WIFE

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OP 12550-25

Nov 20, 2012

(Documentary Artifact): Two b/w photographic prints of three unidentified children standing next to each other and holding hands. Two young girls stand on either side of a boy. The girls have two bows in their hair and wear light-colored dresses, dark stockings, and shoes. The boy wears a straw hat, shirt, tie, overalls, and shoes. They stand in front of a stone structure. See also OP 15362-108 for mother and father standing with the children.

Inscription on lower right corner of image 2: 7

Notes on verso:
Image 1: #OP 12550-25/ MN-86:15752-25
Image 2: OP 12550-25/ #86:15752-25

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OP 12550-26

Nov 20, 2012

(Documentary Artifact): Two b/w photographic prints of an unidentified older woman. Her hair is pulled back and she wears wire-rim eyeglasses and a dress with a printed design and buttons down the front. She poses in front of a stone structure.

Inscription on lower right corner of image 1: 7

Notes on verso:
Image 1: OP 12550-26/ MN-86:15752-26
Image 2: OP# 12550-26/ 86:15752-26/ IN REF BOOK

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