June 2018
Community Historian Program Presentation: San Diego City’s Favorite Park
On the second Tuesday of each month, watch a Community Historian presentation at 1 pm in our Thornton Theater. This week's topic: San Diego City’s Favorite Park.
Find out more »The Research Archive and Photo Department will be CLOSED on Friday June 15, 2018
The Research Archive and Photo Department will be closed on Friday June 15, 2018 for staff professional development and project curation. We will return to regular hours next week.
Find out more »July 2018
San Diego Drag Racing and the Bean Bandits
Join us for a lecture and book-signing with local authors Emmanuel Burgin, Colleen O'Connor and Susan Wachowiak, whose book San Diego Drag Racing and the Bean Bandits, relays this story through photographs garnered from private, personal, and historical collections, the 1950s pioneering exploits of Bean Bandits’ leader, Joaquin Arnett, and his contributions to that racing history come to life.
Find out more »August 2018
Gregory Hinton: Out West with Buffalo Bill
Many rural western born gay men and women leave the communities which raised
them behind for the coastal cities of the Golden State seeking community, companionship and
security. Gregory Hinton, California-based author, historian and lecturer, offers an overview of
Out West, his acclaimed national museum program series, inspired by his longing to come home
to the rural mountain West of his youth as who he is, and how William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody led
the way.
May 2019
We Are All Part Of San Diego History: Public Scanning Sessions
We are excited to invite you, our readers, to participate in this unique opportunity to submit historic photos for our upcoming "San Diego Memories II: War and Peace — The 1940s and 1950s" book project.
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