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The Society of California Pioneers maintains a rotating schedule of stimulating, cross-disciplinary exhibitions focused on California art, history, and culture. Highlights of recent seasons include Points of Interest: The Lawrence and Houseworth Albums featuring over seventy rare stereoviews from The Society’s permanent collection and California: This Golden Land of Promise, an exhibition of landscape paintings on loan from the Irvine Museum. Other notable exhibitions include From Ore to Opulence: California Silver in the Gilded Age, Territorial Ambitions: Mapping the Far West, 1772-1872, and The King’s Orphan: Drawings of an Early Swedish Visitor to California, all of which drew upon the museum’s collections that were amassed over the last century and a half.

 
  Current Exhibitions
>> Good Prospects: Life in the California Gold Fields
May 9, 2007 – Summer, 2009
>> Incompletely Visible: The Legacy of the Bay Area Missions
February 6 - December 18, 2009
 
  Historical Photo Database
>> The Lawrence & Houseworth Database
A database of 1,495 historical photographs of California and Nevada reproduced from three catalog albums created during the 1860s by the renowned stereoview publishing firm of Lawrence & Houseworth.
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