About This BlogThe Bridging the Past - Golden Gate NRA Museum Program Blog provides opportunities to spotlight individual collections, describe events and programs that involve museum materials, and discuss projects and positions within the Museum Program. What's In the Alcatraz Picture?
February 21, 2024
Using details from historic photography to tell a complete story. How Iowa Became the Champions of the Pacific Coast
January 31, 2024
How the regimental 51st Iowa became the Champion of the Pacific Coast in 1898 The Artist and the Study of History: The Art and a Short History of William H. Schroeder and his Grandson
December 21, 2023
A short history of the Artist William H. Schroeder, some of his sketch's and how the Archives came to be able to share them. A History of the 1st and 2nd Filipino Regiment
November 01, 2023
A short little-known history of the 1st and 2nd Filipino regiments in California following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 Planting with a Purpose: Eucalyptus and The U.S. Army
July 30, 2021
How does a non-native plant finds its place in the Army and become managed in the NPS as both a natural and historic resource? Nisei Linguists in World War II
May 14, 2021
Collections from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area's Museum Program highlight Japanese American Language School soldiers in World War II. Extra! Extra! – Local Military Newspapers Scanned and Searchable
January 15, 2021
The military newspapers are a unique collection to the park and provide a great deal of insight to the military perspective of local and national events as well as supply names to some of the men and women who served or worked at this site. Thanks to the generous support of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy the GGNRA Museum Program is working to digitize these papers and make them more easily available. Point Bonita Light Station Goes Automatic
September 17, 2012
Light stations have helped guide seafarers and ships through both calm and stormy seas for over 2,000 years. The first known lighthouse was built in Alexandria on the island of Pharos in approximately 280 BCE, and since that time, light stations have steadily developed into what is in use today. New ways to search GGNRA’s Army Records
October 16, 2018
Get a jump start on learning what types of Army Records the GGNRA holds. Victorian Hand Grenade Fire Extinguishers
February 03, 2015
Archeology can recover a wide variety of materials in excavations. In the project at Sutro Heights park archeologists and volunteers removed a variety of glass fragments. A distinct set of these glass remnants revealed a major concern (and remedy) of Victorian households. Protection with a Purpose - Stable and Clean
June 15, 2014
The first installment in discussing what it takes to keep a museum collection protected and preserved for generations to come. The Rankin-Nagel Family: A Portrait of Fort Point
May 12, 2014
A deeper look into one of the lighthouse keepers at Fort Point, James Rankin, and his family's papers and photographs. Presidio of San Francisco Transition and Development Records Processing Project is Underway
November 14, 2013
This fairly recent collection (created from 1990-1997) is currently the largest collection at the Park Archives and Records Center, totaling over 500 linear feet. Processing this body of material will be a matter of years before everything is in its final place. Mysterious Statues at Land's End - Part 2
July 08, 2013
In our last Archaeology Behind the Scenes blog post, we talked about the mysterious, vanishing statues at Adolph Sutro’s home and gardens at Land’s End: Where did the statues come from? Why did they disappear? Where are they now? In this post, we’ll explore another exciting archaeological discovery that brought more information to light about these intriguing statues… Mysterious Statues at Land's End - Part 1
April 14, 2011
A look at how GGNRA archaeologists are reconstructing the history of Sutro Heights Park from the pieces left in the ground. Spanish-American War Bugle, GOGA 21984
March 04, 2011
A closer look at one of the items in the Museum Collection and persistent element of military history. The Star Presidian During the Cold War
January 24, 2011
An Army perspective of social and cultural events. This entry was researched from the Presidio Public Affairs Office Records Collection GOGA 35330 which contains a set of the Star Presidian newspapers. |
Last updated: January 31, 2024