Here’s a story I almost missed in my never ending Internet search.
Apparently city archivist Susan Goldstein and her 15 staffers at the San Francisco Public Library’s history center have been busy preserving and cataloging the history of the city.
The library has just won a grant from the Mellon Foundation to preserve historical items originally intended to be thrown away, but for whatever reason weren’t – old menus, theater programs, wine labels, political flyers and other tidbits. They will become a part of the California Ephemera Project.
The diary of Lillie Coit. Photographs of Joe DiMaggio. Impassioned love letters written by Harvey Milk. Reams of papers from the San Francisco’s mayors. Artifacts from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the Indian occupation of Alcatraz and the first pot clubs… all and more are part of the collection.
You can read the San Francisco Chronicle article here .
Tom
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