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  2. Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Selected historical image ...

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    Promotional postcard for duckhunting in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1915. caption reads: "Hundreds of thousands of wild duck haunt the marshy shoreline of some parts of San Francisco Bay, affording the finest sport during the season."

  3. Emeryville mudflat sculptures - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, the city of Emeryville had adopted a General Plan in 1966, calling for a significant expansion of Emeryville west of I-80 into San Francisco Bay on the Emeryville Peninsula, to be constructed on 400 acres (160 ha) of new fill along an extension of Powell Street; the "Tidelands" area created in western Emeryville would include ...

  4. List of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

  5. Aquatic Park Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Aquatic Park Historic District is a National Historic Landmark and building complex on the San Francisco Bay waterfront within San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. The district includes a beach, bathhouse, municipal pier, restrooms, concessions stand, stadia, and two speaker towers. [4]

  6. Pier 24 Photography - Wikipedia

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    Pier 24 Photography is a non-profit art museum located on the Port of San Francisco directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The organization houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation, which collects, preserves and exhibits photography. [1] [2] It produces exhibitions, publications, and public programs. [3]

  7. Fort Point National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    In 1769 Spain occupied the San Francisco area and by 1776 had established the area's first European settlement, with a mission and a presidio.To protect against encroachment by the British and Russians, Spain selected Punta del Cantil Blanco, a promontory with a high white cliff (cantil blanco) located at the narrowest part of the bay's entrance, [4] to construct a fortification.

  8. Nicknames of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    Golden Gate City – in reference to the Golden Gate Bridge [11] SF; SFC (San Francisco City) Sunset City; The City – used by native San Franciscans and people in the Bay Area [1] The City by the Bay – refers to San Francisco Bay [12] The City of Love – as seen in Cool, Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya [13] and in the lyrics of "San ...

  9. Bay Area Figurative Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...