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See “Eclectic Taste: Victorian Silver Plate” online at https://t.co/S32Y1mThfT #VictorianSilverPlate #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 04, 2020.

The most elaborate items were found in the dining room and main parlor, where they served a variety of entertainment functions. Decorated beverage services such as this lemonade set were very fashionable. #VictorianSilverPlate #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 04, 2020.

Silver-plated housewares are lustrous and ornate examples of Victorian style. Produced in large quantities in England and the United States, silver plate was a hallmark of eclectic décor during the Victorian era (1837-1901). #VictorianSilverPlate #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 04, 2020.

“Yale Portfolio” by #FrankLobdell is online at: https://t.co/p3Ft1oYtaY #SFAC #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 03, 2020.

The five mono-chromatic intaglio prints that make up the “Yale Portfolio” by #FrankLobdell all contain a fantastical landscape of abstract signs and symbols that are characteristic of the artist’s later work. #SFAC #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 03, 2020.

#FrankLobdell was a significant artist in West Coast Abstract Expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement and a popular instructor at the California School of Fine Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) from 1957 through 1965. #SFAC #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 03, 2020.

#FrankLobdell began what has come to be known as the “Yale Portfolio” during a two-day printmaking workshop at Yale University on February 6 and 7, 1992. #SFAC #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 03, 2020.

#OnThisDay in 1946, #Philippine Airlines became the first Asian Airline to cross the Pacific Ocean. This non-scheduled flight from Manila to Oakland, CA, took 41 hours and stopped at Guam, Kwajalein, and Honolulu, flying a DC-4. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 31, 2020.

Now a staple of airports around the world, the enclosed passenger boarding bridge arrived in the late 1950s. An experimental, passenger loading bridge installed at SFO in 1959 for @AmericanAir, was one of the earliest jet bridges in the world. #SFOHistory #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 30, 2020.

#KleaMcKenna works in total darkness to make “photographic rubbings” – photographic images made through touch. McKenna’s process begins with light-sensitive photographic paper, which she hand embosses into surfaces. Then she exposes light to the imprinted paper. #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 28, 2020.

In “Born in 1717,” McKenna uses four pieces of photographic paper to depict a 300-year-old Incense Cedar tree that grew in Northern California. See “Born in 1717” by #KleaMcKenna online at : https://t.co/6y2g4pBV3u #publicart #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 28, 2020.

In advance of construction work at the Aviation Museum & Library, our team has been busy with the deinstallation of our long-term exhibition on the China Clipper. Stay tuned for more updates! #MuseumMonday #BehindTheScenes #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 27, 2020.