Monday, August 22, 2011

Picasso at the Library

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Currently on display through October 10 at the Main Library is "The Making of a Masterpiece: Picasso and Guernica." This smal...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900

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Many costume books show the fashions of royalty and the upper classes, but few show the fashion of people of more modest means. Joan Severa...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

An Afternoon with Silent Film Star 'Baby Peggy'

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(image source: Niles Essanay Silent Movie Museum ) In the 1920s, Diana Serra Cary was known as "Baby Peggy." Signed to a million d...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Large Screen Videos: Opera Series 2011

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“Ritratto di giovene unomo” by Dosso Dossi, said to be a portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (image source: National Gallery of ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

It Sounds So Sweet! The Wonderful World of Jug Band Music

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The Dixieland Jug Blowers (source: The Red Hot Jazz Archive ) On Saturday, July 30, 2011 from 2:30 to 5:30 the Art, Music and Recreation Cen...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Traces of Mary Pickford's "The Library" Found in The Library

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source: San Francisco History Room - San Francisco Historical Photograph Collec tion While researching in the San Francisco History Room’s H...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Film Screening: Son of the Sheik

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Sunday, July 10th 2:00 pm Koret Auditorium Main Library, Lower Level image courtesy of Donna L. Hill The 1926 film, Son of the Sheik , is ba...