Once Upon a Time 1960-1979 -- October 28, 2011

The San Francisco Arts Commission (http://www.sfartscommission.org/) has set up a series of posters by artist Elisheva Biernoff representing important moments in San Francisco history. I took this photo on 19-May-2011, showing a poster that depicts the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, with the anti war movement and the Alcatraz occupation.

Once Upon a Time 1941-1959 -- September 27, 2011

The San Francisco Arts Commission (http://www.sfartscommission.org/) has set up a series of posters by artist Elisheva Biernoff representing important moments in San Francisco history. I took this photo on 19-May-2011, showing a poster that depicts events from the World War II era and beyond.  It includes an African American shipyard worker at Hunters Point, jazz clubs on Fillmore, Japanese Americans being sent to internment camps, and Victory Gardens.  


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Once Upon a Time 1906-1930 -- August 30, 2011

The San Francisco Arts Commission (http://www.sfartscommission.org/) has set up a series of posters by artist Elisheva Biernoff representing important moments in San Francisco history and geographic features that lie beneath the developed city. I took this photo on 19-May-2011, showing a poster that depicts San Francisco after the 18-April-1906 Earthquake and Fire, and a scene from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The lower figures represent a suffragette and John Muir, who opposed the city's Hetch Hetchy water project. The upper vignette, almost hidden in the glare, shows a Hetch Hetchy project dam and two farmworkers in the Delta.

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Once Upon a Time 1863-1892 -- July 21, 2011

The San Francisco Arts Commission (http://www.sfartscommission.org/) has set up a series of posters by artist Elisheva Biernoff representing important moments in San Francisco history and geographic features that lie beneath the developed city. I took this photo on 25-June-2011, showing a poster that depicts the Big Four, the robber barons who profited from the Central Pacific Railroad, and the Chinese laborers who built much of it. It also shows Woodward's Gardens, an early pleasure resort. Click on the image to see an enormously large version.

Once Upon a Time Long Ago-1800 -- June 23, 2011

The San Francisco Arts Commission (http://www.sfartscommission.org/) has set up a series of posters by artist Elisheva Biernoff representing important moments in San Francisco history and geographic features that lie beneath the developed city. I took this photo on 25-June-2011, showing a poster that depicts San Francisco before the Spanish arrived and founded the Mission and the Presidio in 1776. It shows quail, elk and a bear. Click on the image to see an enormously large version.

Once Upon a Time 1821-1848 -- May 18, 2011

The San Francisco Arts Commission (http://www.sfartscommission.org/) has set up a series of posters by artist Elisheva Biernoff representing important moments in San Francisco history and geographic features that lie beneath the developed city. I took this photo today of a poster that depicts the rancho of Juana Briones and the first Gold Rush ships abandoned in Yerba Buena cove. The small map shows the locations of five buried ships, provided by eminent historian Ron Filion. Click on the image to see an enormously large version.