FoundSF

Unfinished History

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.

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

Photos: Chris Carlsson

Local first peoples bringing medicinal herbs to a Franciscan friar.

Authorities making their declaration about bubonic plague in San Francisco, c. 1900.

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

Credits panel

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