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Peninsula Innovators Changing the World

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These Hands Have 2023 photograph by Keith Uyeda

Reflections of the Great Migration: A Journey Through Art

Cars and trucks on El Camino in Millbrae in 1947

El Camino Real in 1947

View of the entryway of Peninsula Innovators Changing the World

Peninsula Innovators Changing the World

Loggers in the 1860s pose by a tree that they are cutting

A Look at Local Logging

Students build a wall with faux stones

San Mateo County Parks Celebrate

Two women in masks standing in front of an early ambulance

Essential Workers of the Past

Exterior view of the Cow Palace with many cars parked in front circa 1950s

The Extraordinary Cow Palace

San Mateo County Through the Eyes of Grafton Tyler Brown

Four men participate in physical exercise with wood weights in the 1950s

Menlo Park VA

Overview of the College of San Mateo exhibit showing pictures and exhibit cases

College of San Mateo: 100 Years of Making Dreams Come Through

Five participants in the College Readiness Program

College of San Mateo: The Photographs of Isago Isao Tanaka

Artist rendering of the proposed Sequoia Hospital in the 1940s

Sequoia Healthcare District: Then and Now

Japanese American Internment at Tanforan

Foster Family with map of Foster City in 1961

Foster City Through the Years

Group photo of Gladys Norton Daycare on Humboldt Street in the 1950s

San Mateo County’s African American History

Detail of mural from Land of Opportunity exhibit at the San Mateo County History Museum

Land of Opportunity

A display of a El Dorado and vintage auto memorabilia at the Journey to Work exhibit at the San Mateo County History Museum

Journey to Work

Mural of native Ohlone village

Nature’s Bounty

Detail of the San Carlos model ship at the Ships of the World exhibit at San Mateo County History Museum

Charles Parsons’ Ships of the World

Walter Moore police badge collection at the San Mateo County History Museum

Politics, Crime and Law Enforcement in San Mateo County

Courtroom A at the San Mateo County History Museum

Courtroom A

Herber Boyer and Robert Swanson of Genentech

San Mateo County Entrepreneurs

Stereoscope display for Living the California Dream at the San Mateo County History Museum

Living the California Dream

Grant Washburn surfing a huge wave at Mavericks in California

Maverick’s

Exhibit wall of photographs from Sports Hall of Fame at the San Mateo County History Museum

Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame

Archival photo of Central Pacific Railroad

After Promontory

Women gathered in front of club building in 1911

Women Changed America and Won the Vote

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