Her Side of the Story - Tales of California Pioneer Women... at The Society of California Pioneers

Her Side of the Story: Tales of California Pioneer Women

 October 11, 2018   through September 1, 2019

The exhibition is based on a recently donated treasure residing in the archives, the Book of History, compiled by members of The Association of Pioneer Women of California.

Chronicling trips to early California of women by sea, land and isthmus, it includes those of young girls, unmarried young women, mothers and newly wed brides.  

There will be audio readings from the book available on our website and at the exhibition. 

 Eventually, all the accounts will be digitized, and available as well as searchable, on our website.

Our Theme This Year: Im(migration) and Indigenous Voices of California

Certificate of residence for Ju Sing, contractor, age 34 years, of San Jose, California 1894. MS 3642. California Historical Society.

We are excited to announce that our theme this year is Im(migration) and Indigenous Voices of California. Each organization will display collections that focus on that theme. How is San Francisco and the Bay Area's immigration history collected? What can we learn from these collections? How do these histories relate to our lives and current events? These are all questions you can think about as you go from archive to archive.

Save the Date: San Francisco's Second Archives Crawl

In celebration of American Archives Month this October, local repositories in San Francisco will be holding the Second San Francisco Archives Crawl on Saturday, October 13, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Save the date with details to follow here on the blog.

Highlighting the importance of historical records and community archives, participating institutions include:

Host sites --

California Historical Society
San Francisco Public Library
Society of California Pioneers


With these organizations sharing selected archival holdings at host sites --

Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley
National Archives at San Francisco
SFMOMA Archives
Sutro Library, California State Library at San Francisco State University
University of California, San Francisco Archives and Special Collections


The theme will be on immigration and migration to California.