EVENING SYMPOSIUM
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 6:00pm
The Private City: The founding oligarchy of San Francisco
Nineteenth-century San Francisco went from a rough-and-tumble boomtown to a Victorian city with cosmopolitan ambitions. Its development was controlled by a small group of oligarchs: miners, industrialists, financiers and real estate speculators who hoped to forge a world-class metropolis in a single generation, enriching themselves in the process. Join panelists
Chris Carlsson, social historian;
Chris VerPlanck, architectural historian;
Jeannene Przyblyski, artist, historian and professor at the San Francisco Art Institute; and exhibition curator
Benjamin Grant.
