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Bugbee and Flanigan, San Diego's Historic Gaslamp Quarter: Then and Now, Tecolote, 2003; Gaslamp Quarter Association, Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation, San Diego Historical Society, Images of America: San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, Arcadia, 2003
In 1982, the San Diego Historical Society moved its collections and research library to the Casa de Balboa building [5] in Balboa Park (maintaining the Serra Museum as an auxiliary museum and education center), and the Society changed its name to the San Diego History Center in 2010.
Veterans Museum and Memorial Center: San Diego: Military: Located in historic Balboa Park, San Diego and U.S. military history of the Armed Forces Vista Historical Society Museum: Vista: Local history: website: Wells Fargo History Museum: San Diego: History: Located in Colorado House in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, 1850s stage stop ...
The Casa de Balboa in 2004. The Casa de Balboa is a building in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. [1] The building was originally known as the Commerce and Industries Building, and later called the Canadian Building, the Palace of Better Housing, and the Electric Building.
George Marston was a department store owner and a prominent civic leader in San Diego. He was a founder of the San Diego Historical Society (now the San Diego History Center). [3] He may be best known for preserving the site of the San Diego Presidio, the first European settlement in present-day California, which had fallen into ruins. He ...
In 1910 San Diego had a population of 39,578, San Diego County 61,665, Los Angeles 319,198, and San Francisco 416,912. San Diego's scant population made it the smallest city ever to attempt holding an international exposition. However, the Exposition was a huge success and was extended for a second year. [1]
The 13-acre (5.3 ha) complex includes 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. Most of the structures were built for San Diego's Panama–California Exposition of 1915–16 and were refurbished and re-used for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935–36.
In 2011, the San Diego History Center presented the exhibition, Portrait of a Proud Community: Norman Baynard's Logan Heights 1939–1985, which showcased 120 photographs from the collection. [4] A National Endowment for the Arts grant and other funding enabled the museum to digitize and catalog 500 images from the Norman Baynard Collection.