Sat June 17, 2017
Presidio Book Club: Barbara Berglund’s, Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906
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Presidio Trust historian Barbara Berglund leads a discussion of her own book, Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906 (University Press of Kansas, 2007). Explore San Francisco's rapid evolution from Mexican outpost to crown jewel of America's western empire through its cultural frontiers where contests over race, class, and gender shaped a new social order: restaurants, hotels, and boardinghouses; the Barbary Coast, Woodward’s Gardens, and the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Science; Chinatown's tourist terrain; the Mechanics' Institute's annual fairs; and the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition.
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Presidio Trust historian Barbara Berglund leads a discussion of her own book, Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906 (University Press of Kansas, 2007). Explore San Francisco's rapid evolution from Mexican outpost to crown jewel of America's western empire through its cultural frontiers where contests over race, class, and gender shaped a new social order: restaurants, hotels, and boardinghouses; the Barbary Coast, Woodward’s Gardens, and the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Science; Chinatown's tourist terrain; the Mechanics' Institute's annual fairs; and the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition.
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Arguello
50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129
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