Virtual Exhibits

Enjoy our virtual galleries below; click any of the videos or images below.

Golden Gate Park in the Gilded Age

Wish You Were Here - Golden Gate Park in the Gilded Age

Old Pioneer Hall – San Francisco, 1895

Subject Unknown – Portraits Without Provenance

An Escape to Wine Country –
Images of Napa and Sonoma in 1906

Vernacular Photography – Images from the Lengeman Family Photograph Album

William Shew's Panorama of San Francisco, Bay, 1853

April 18, 1906 - Before The Smoke Had Cleared

Necessary Documentation: photographs of immigrants

Imperial - Four Portraits of Joshua Norton

The Society of California Pioneers provides researchers and the public access to California's unique early history.