View source for UCSF's Depression-Era Medical History Murals

'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''

In 2015, the University of California San Francisco opened its Toland Hall to the public for a rare 2-week opportunity to see the remarkable murals painted by Bernard Zakheim and his colleagues in the 1930s. The series of panels depicts a complicated social history of medicine in California. As of June 2020, UCSF is threatening to destroy these murals as part of a plan to tear down Toland Hall and build a large new medical office building on its site.

[[Image:Toland-Hall all P1020596.jpg]]

'''Inside Toland Hall during the brief period in 2015 when the murals were open to public viewing.'''

''Photos: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:Toland-Hall plaque-explanation P1020571.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall herbs P1020608.jpg]]

'''Local first peoples bringing medicinal herbs to a Franciscan friar.'''

[[Image:Toland-Hall 19th-century P1020623.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall smallpox-etc P1020615.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall wall-w-bubonic P1020580.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall bubonic-declaration P1020587.jpg]]

'''Authorities making their declaration about [[Chinese as Medical Scapegoats, 1870-1905|bubonic plague in San Francisco]], c. 1900.'''

[[Image:Toland-Hall P1020591.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall lively-flea-and-declarations-on-James-King-of-William P1020590.jpg]]

'''Conflicting declarations on the [[Vigilante Committees|death of James King of William] that gave rise to the second Vigilante Committee hangings in San Francisco.'''

[[Image:Toland-Hall plaque-explanation P1020595.jpg]]

'''Credits panel'''

[[Image:Toland-Hall Medical-research P1020616.jpg]]

'''This panel's wood framing is remarkable in its own right.'''

[[Image:Toland-Hall wood-panel-w-animals P1020636.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall P1020637.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall Doctors-and-history P1020628.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall doctors P1020631.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall P1020566.jpg]]

[[Image:Toland-Hall fruits P1020633.jpg]]


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