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San Francisco Maritime National Park Association

Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library

If you plan to be in the San Francisco Bay Area during March, we hope you will stop by for a visit.

• Events and Activities: please check our list of events and programs for descriptions, dates and times. A .pdf version of the Park Newspaper is available here.
• The current Visitor Center exhibit is Deepwater Steel.
• The current Museum exhibit is Sparks, Waves and Wizards: Communications at Sea.
• Click here for detailed information for educators planning field trips.
• The Park's complete Field Trip Guide is also now available online as an Acrobat (.pdf) file. Warning: if you don't have a fast internet connection, be prepared to wait (the file is almost 4MB). Teachers can also request a copy on CD-ROM by e-mail, or by calling our Interpretive Specialist at 415-561-7171.

Noteworthy

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  The 1895 NHL schooner C.A. Thayer embarked on a two-year "voyage of restoration" on Tuesday, December 2. Learn more about the project by clicking here. Just announced! Public tours are being offered on 2nd and 4th Mondays, from 11am-2pm, through May. Click here for details.

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  Women's History Month is coming in March. Learn more about Women in Maritime History here.
   

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  The Park's new Visitor Center is now open! And while you're there, don't miss the dramatic photographic exhibit Deepwater Steel.
  
  
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  Find out more about the Grace Quan, a full-scale reconstruction of a hard-working San Francisco Bay Shrimp Junk boat by clicking here.

• Park catalogs on the Web! View 19,152 catalog records (and 1,341 digital images) on the NPS Museum Collections page. You can access finding aids to some of the park's archival collections at the Online Archive of California. And the Maritime Library's collections can be searched at the NPS Library site. For more information, visit the park's Research Page.
  

• New Research! Read "A Seaman's Life in Watercolors" by Park Collections Manager Mary Jo Pugh and discover the beautiful, watercolor-illustrated journals of West Coast deepwaterman John Justus Bertonccini.
  
  
• Learn about San Francisco maritime history in "Tides of Change: Fisherman's Wharf, 1870-1930" by Park Associate Curator of Small Craft John C. Muir.
  
  
• Take a "virtual tour" of the Park's current Museum exhibit, "Sparks, Waves and Wizards: Communications at Sea."
  
  
• Comprehensive park-based Fourth Grade Lesson Plans (California State Framework for Social  Studies theme "California: A Changing State") now available.
  
  
• Reflections of the Gold Rush At San Francisco Maritime Park," a survey of the Park's collections.
  
  
• Six Small Boats in the Museum's Collection
  
  
• A Small Craft Odyssey

Last Updated:  February 5, 2004
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Questions and comments to: lynn_cullivan@nps.gov