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!
Feb 07, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2011
San Diego, Calif.—San Diego History Center (SDHC) has discovered a document signed by Abraham Lincoln in its unprocessed archival collections. The document appoints San Diego resident, Lewis C. Gunn, to the federal post of Assessor of Internal Revenue for the First Collection Division of California.
President Lincoln signed the appointment on March 23, 1865, only twenty-three days before his assassination by John Wilkes Booth.
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Jan 29, 2011
Norman Baynard, also known as Mansour Abdullah, was a well-known photographer in San Diego for many decades. He photographed social, political and religious events, as well as the everyday life of the largely African American community of Logan Heights from 1940-1980.
This collection of over 28,000 images was donated to the San Diego History Center by Mr. Baynard’s son, Arnold, and has proven to be a unique and invaluable historical record, garnering national attention.
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Jan 25, 2011
San Diego Family Magazine
by Cynthia Winters
San Diego History Center makes it fun and easy for families to learn about our local region through its museum displays, educational programs, special events and research library, and it couldn’t be more conveniently located.
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Jan 24, 2011
by Kelly Bennett
In 1991, a commercial photographer’s son gave the San Diego History Center more than 28,000 photographs and negatives his dad had taken over 40 years in Logan Heights. For almost two decades, the photographs have been largely un-catalogued and unseen, their subjects mostly unidentified.
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Jan 24, 2011
BY MICHAEL STETZ
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011 AT 9:41 A.M.
The San Diego History Center has been awarded a grant of $162,024 from the Council on Library & Information Resources, which will ultimately help scholars and the general public gain better access to much of the center’s wide-ranging collection.
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