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In honor of our 40th anniversary, every week this year we are highlighting one of our past exhibitions. In 2013, we presented, “From Ship to Shore: Nautical Arts from the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park” featuring nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sea-inspired artifacts. Masthead ornaments, scrimshaw, fancy ropework, ships-in-bottles, shadowbox half models, a hand-painted sea chest, and a whalebone chair were all borrowed from the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (@sfmaritimenps), part of the National Parks Service. See “From Ship to Shore: Nautical Arts from the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park” online: https://bit.ly/3doFuEe
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