Learn How to Research Your Building at Park & Visitacion Valley Branches

San Francisco History Center's staff will be presenting Research the History of Your Building at the Park Branch Library on Wednesday, July 10. The program starts at 7 pm, with plenty of time for questions and answers.  The presentation will include online tips for the research steps in finding out who owned a particular building and who lived in it.  Print-only resources such as Index to Papers on File will be discussed.  There will also be pointers on how to find a photograph of a building, including how to use the recently digitized San Francisco Aerial Views, 1938 and the San Francisco Assessor's Office Negative Collection. But there's no need to wait for the program in order to get started with your research: begin with the San Francisco History Center's online guide How to Research a San Francisco Building.

Sanborn Map Company Fire Insurance Maps

Sanborn Map Company Fire Insurance Maps

Sanborn Map Company Fire Insurance Maps, Volume 4, Sheet 380, 1913

San Francisco History Center staff will also be presenting Research the History of Your Building at the Visitacion Valley Branch Library on Saturday, July 13, 4-5pm.  If you'd like us to come to your local San Francisco Public Library branch to do a program, talk to your branch librarian!

Rodeo (now San Bruno) Avenue north of Arleta and Bayshore showing outbound MSR #16 line, 1941

Because researching San Francisco buildings is one of the more popular subjects researched in the San Francisco History Center, What's on the 6th Floor? adds blog entries about research building tips frequently - including what has been recently digitized.