[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the discovery and growth of San A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Walk this way and take a virtual tour of San Francisco's Chinatown. A good way to "see" it without actually being there.

"The Great 1906 Earthquake And Fire" is an extensive site which includes the history of the earthquake and fire, photographs, eyewitness accounts, newspaper stories, information about Charles Richter, and official reports.

A site dedicated to the cable car: history, rider's guide, cable car barn, and related links.

A learning module that begins with "Reports from the Ruins of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...

The 1906 earthquake in San Fransisco nearly wipes out the city. Read and view footage and information of this catastrophic event.

This resource from the United State Geological Survey provides data about San Francisco Bay's water quality. Data is displayed in time series plots, vertical profiles, longitudinal sections, space and time contours, and x-y scatter plots.

This is a very useful site for finding information about San Francisco's rivers and streams, which gives some background information and a map.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...

This resource offers 1942 San Francisco News articles covering the internment of San Francisco's Japanese population.

Homepage for the massive wetlands restoration project in San Francisco Bay. History, objectives, and benefits of the project are described.

Students use geologic fault maps of the San Francisco Bay Area to find relationships between tectonic plate fault lines and landscape features, topographic features, and epicenters of past earthquakes.

This resource features the Pan American Unity Mural located at the City College of San Francisco. Also known as Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and the South, the mural was created to promote diversity and show human...

At this site from the Museum of San Francisco you can check out this biography of Progressive visionary Henry George, taken from an 1889 encyclopedia (so, according to this article, he's not dead yet!). Includes photo.

A nice timeline of events that occurred from 1846 to 1849 in the California Gold Rush. Hyperlinks to additional information. From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.

This site from the Museum of the City of San Francisco provides an article from a prohibition-period newspaper that reports the new attack by prosecutors on policemen who have been bribed by bootleggers.

An article in the April, 1929, San Francisco Magazine by California Senator, James D. Phelan, decrying Prohibition and giving many reasons why it didn't work.

From the Museum of San Francisco, this is an article that appeared in print in 1874. Shows image of political cartoon. Links to lots more articles concerning the Chinese immigrant.

The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco displays the history of the Mexican-American War, including an explanation of border changes in the California and Mexico areas. It also discusses the idea of Manifest Destiny.

Resource is the homepage for the de Young Museum, one of the two Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Includes information about the museum, its collections, and exhibitions, and resources for educators wanting to take their students to...

This is an in-depth site from the Museum of San Francisco covering the adventures of William Walker, including his conquering of Nicaragua.

Website explores the uniqueness of the oldest and largest urban Chinese American enclave, San Francisco's Chinatown.

This page contains information about Steamer Day that took place in San Francisco in the late 1800s.

This outstanding multimedia site documents the earthquake and related events that took place on October 17, 1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area.