San Francisco Maritime

https://www.nps.gov/safr/index.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Maritime_National_Historical_Park The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is located in San Francisco, California, United States. The park includes a fleet of historic vessels, a visitor center, a maritime museum, and a library/research facility. Located in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park offers visitors the sights, sounds, smells and stories of Pacific Coast maritime history. The Park includes a magnificent fleet of historic ships, a Visitor Center, Maritime Museum, Maritime Research Center, and Aquatic Park Historic District. The park is located within the city limits of San Francisco, in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. Visitor Center Housed in the Park's 1908 historic brick cannery warehouse, visitor center exhibits tell the stories of voyage, discovery and cultural diversity. A First Order Fresnel lighthouse lens, a magnificent brass structure encasing hundreds of precisely polished prisms, guides visitors through the door. Visit “The Waterfront” exhibit and take an interactive walk through six historical waterfront neighborhoods. Once inside, can get a heading from Park Rangers and volunteers staffing the information desk. The visitor center is located at the intersection of Hyde and Jefferson Streets in San Francisco. 1886 Square-Rigger Balclutha The bow and masts of a 19th century sailing ship. The 1886 square-rigged Balclutha is moored at Hyde Street Pier. The Maritime Museum in the Aquatic Park Bathhouse Building A red-roofed building with water and a pier behind it. The Maritime Museum, Aquatic Park cove, and Hyde Street Pier. Hyde Street Pier A group of vessels moored at at pier. A view of Hyde Street Pier, Coit Tower and downtown San Francisco. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center An open double door into a brick building. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center Balclutha's Bowsprit and Figurehead A close up of a spar on the bow of a sailing ship. Balclutha's Bowsprit and Figurehead A Rainbow Adorns Hyde Street Pier A group of vessels moored at a pier with a rainbow. A Rainbow Adorns Hyde Street Pier Find Your Park 2019 ad campaign starts with parks in NYC and San Francisco In the fall of 2019, the National Park Foundation rolled out new ads in San Francisco and New York for the Find Your Park campaign. From September 23 through October 28, a series of digital and static outdoor ads appeared in bus shelters, billboards, and other spaces in the city of New York and San Francisco. display ads featuring John Muir National Historic Site Diamond NN Cannery: A Case Study The Alaska Packers Association started the Diamond NN <NN> Cannery after it absorbed a small saltery that was built in 1890 on the southside of the Naknek River, adjacent to a small creek. The cannery continues to operate over a century later, now owned by Trident Seafoods. In 2015, historian and former fish house slimmer Katherine Ringsmuth launched the <NN> Cannery History Project to collect, share, and preserve the stories of cannery workers here. Aerial view of cannery on a wide shore, with large warehouse buildings and smaller structures 2017 Recipients: George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service Meet the recipients of the 2017 George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service. These award recipients are recognized for their exceptional dedication and service to parks and programs. Boy outside holding a tool onto a wooden post. Pacific Border Province The Pacific Border straddles the boundaries between several of Earth's moving plates on the western margin of North America. This region is one of the most geologically young and tectonically active in North America. The generally rugged, mountainous landscape of this province provides evidence of ongoing mountain-building. Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore. NPS photo/Sarah Codde Series: Canneries of Alaska Canneries were built in response to the environment. This series is a summary of some of Alaska's canneries and the landscape features that defined where and how they developed. The overall period of significance for canneries in Alaska begins in 1878, when the first two canneries opened, and ends in 1936, when salmon production peaked. While some of these canneries no longer exist, the landscapes continue to tell of the history and importance of that period in the commercial fishing industry. Warehouse-type buildings cluster on wooden piers along a shoreline, as seen from the water. Series: Physiographic Provinces Descriptions of the physiographic provinces of the United States, including maps, educational material, and listings of Parks for each. George B. Dorr, founder of Acadia National Park Top 10 Tips for visiting San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Top 10 Tips for visiting San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park 2020 Freeman Tilden Award Recipients The Freeman Tilden Awards for Excellence in Interpretation and Education recognize an individual and a team for excellence, achievement, and innovation in the profession of interpretation, education and visitor engagement. Congratulations to the national 2020 Freeman Tilden Award recipients, Justin Olson of Apostles Island National Lake Shore, and Anne Monk and Sabrina Oliveros of San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park. Photo of Anne Monk and Sabrina Oliveros smiling on top of a ship with a marina in the background. Julia Ann Shelton Shorey According to family memory, Julia Ann Shelton Shorey’s grandfather, Samuel Shelton, was brought west as an enslaved person in the 1840s and ultimately purchased his own freedom and that of his family in the new state of California. Well-to-do Black family of 5 pose for professional photo wearing fine Victorian clothing Series: Women's History in the Pacific West - California-Great Basin Collection Biographies from Northern California, Central Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains and Nevada Map of northern California, Central Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains and Nevada Mysterious Paint Can of San Francisco’s Maritime Museum San Francisco’s Aquatic Park Bathhouse is filled with marvelous sea-themed murals, including memorable blue fish. As a grand California Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, the bathhouse art showcased the New Deal’s emphasis on public art for the community. Painted by Ann Sonia Medalie, Shirley Staschen Triestley and other women artists, they took part in a radical vision of “home” that embraced San Francisco’s bohemian culture. Cylindrical metal can with yellow paint remnants and note that reads “Flat Blue Fish, Panel - #26.” Series: Home and Homelands Exhibition: Resistance How have the expectations of others shaped your life? Ideas about home and gender are intimately connected. This has often meant confining women to a particular space – the home – and solely to domestic roles – a wife, a mother, a homemaker. But women have long pushed against this. Some sought to reclaim their Indigenous ideas of home. These stories of resistance conclude the exhibit precisely because they expand what counts as a home and women’s relationship to it. Thick white paper peeled back to reveal collage of women. "Home and Homelands: Resistance."