Interior of the J. Porter Shaw Library located on the third floor of Building E, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.
The Library is the research portal into the Park's collections--reference librarians are available by appointment, phone, email or fax to assist you with your research in the Park's collections--with books, photographs, or even the objects cared for by the departments within the Cultural Resources Division.
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Did You Know?
Once, hundreds of sailing schooners carried lumber to San Francisco from Washington, Oregon, and the California Redwood Coast. Built in 1895, C.A. Thayer, once part of that mighty Pacific Coast fleet, survives at San Francisco Maritime NHP.
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