Digital Collections

SF Digital Collections: Over 50,000 digitized images from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection and archives of the San Francisco History Center and James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center.

Internet Archive: Search our digitized books, journals, magazines, government documents, and archives.

FamilySearch.org: Coroner’s reports, funeral home records, Alcalde records, probate records, and more. For full access, sign up for a free account.

California Revealed: A selection of San Francisco History Center's unique historical moving images, audio and community newspapers.

Calisphere: Images from San Francisco Public Library and digitized documents from archival collections on the subject of AIDS (supported by a major grant from National Endowment for Humanities).

Analog to Digital: A selection of San Francisco Public Library's audiovisual heritage digitized and preserved through a California State Library's LSTA grant.

COVID-19 Community Time Capsule: Archive of all types of materials, in multiple formats, to build a collection that documents and preserves the collective experiences of San Francisco residents during the COVID-19 public health emergency.