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 18, 2011
Members of San Diego’s African-American community were notably captured in thousands of photographs taken by photographer and Logan Heights resident, Norman Baynard.
Baynard was a portrait and event photographer who documented African-American life here from the 1940s to the 1970s. His photographs, referred to as the Baynard Collection, include more than 12,000 negatives and over 1,000 prints.
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.
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.
