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   Marin History Museum Bulletin   

The Bulletin is published annually. Printed current & back issues of Bulletins are available for
purchase online and in our Museum Bookstore at The Boyd Gate House.

Current Issue

From the Archives of MHM...

Published in the Fall of 2023, this issue includes articles from the Marin History Museum archives on the following:

Our first President (Belle Brown), The San Rafael Jungles, The Sugar Line, Marin's Courthouses, Charles A. Ellis, The Coming of the Automobile to Marin, 1893 Public Hanging, The Civilian Conservation Corp, Gladys Kathleen Parkin - Early Radio Operator, Why Christmas Tree Hill?, The Healing Hills of Fairfax

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Available at our Bookstore : From the Desk of Florence Donnelly, 2024

Archived Issues

Marin Loves To Have Fun! (2022)
Contents: Let's Play Ball 1913 style, May Madness, Swimming in the San Rafael Canal, Opening Day on the Bay, San Rafael Municipal Baths, July 4th 1899 - Goddess of Liberty, The San Rafael Wheelman, Camp Taylor, Marin Golf and Country Club, The Marin Grape Festival, Marinites love to hike

All Things Water! (Fall 2021)
Contents: Marin Water Company, Timeline, Alpine Dam, The CCC, Jack Gibson: The Man Who Wrote the Book on the MMWD, Where Flavored Fizz Began, MMWD and the Military, North Marin Water District, The Sugar Line, The Great Two-Year Drought 

Celebrating Marin's Hotels and Resorts (Winter/Spring 2021)
Contents: Ancha Vista, Liberty Ranch, Tocaloma Hotel, Bon Air Hotel, Blithedale Hotel, Pastori's, Hotel Rafael (cover), Nicasio Hotel, The Inns of Mt. Tamalpais, Marshall Hotel, and Black Point Inn.

Women Making a Difference (Summer 2020)
Contents: Melba Pattillo Beals, Rose Shapira, Elizabeth Terwilliger, Ethel Tompkins, Jean Starkweather, Mimi Farina, Vera Schultz, Alice Yarish, Gladys Kathleen Parkin, Cornelia Ripley Sherman, Ellen Straus, Louise Arner Boyd, Dr. Millicent Cosgrave, and Dr. Agnes Walker.

Marin's Athletes (Winter 2020)
Contents: Eleanor Garatti, Matt Hazeltine, Ann Curtis, Sam Chapman, A Short History of Baseball, Jonny Moseley, Juli McKinstry, Steve Lavin, and Joe Breeze.

Marin On Fire! (Summer 2019)
Contents: The Great Fire of 1891, Marin’s Fire Equipment, American Distillery Fire, San Rafael Firemen and Fires, Corte Madera’s First Firehouse, Tiburon's Fires of 1921, A “Rendezvous for San Francisco Club Men” Burned, and Charles Russell Reilley, Jr.

Marin's Parks (Winter 2018)
Contents: Angel Island, Tomalas Bay, Ring Mountain, China Camp, McNear's Beach, The Welches, plus two additional articles - "Steps, Lanes & Paths" and "San Anselmo Parks."

Let's Go to the Movies (Summer 2018)
Contents: California Motion Picture Corporation, San Rafael's 4th Street theaters, Leon Forrest Douglass, when Marin starred in major motion pictures, the San Rafael Orpheus Theater, Eve Arden, Marin's original theaters and an article titled, "Inky Makes the FInal Cut."​

Marin Watering Holes (Winter 2017)
Contents: 2AM Club, Smitty's Nave's, Silver Peso, De Borbas, Pier 15, and two additional articles - "Can I Buy You a Drink" and "From Ferries to Fine Dining."


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