Digital Collection

Soapbox derby, 1948

The Brisbane Library has digitized some historical images from the History Collection. They can be accessed through Calisphere or through the Online Archive of California.

The San Mateo County Library has digitized the History Collection’s microfilm of the Brisbane Bee and Brisbane Bee Democrat. You can browse by publication title, year, and issue date and do keyword searches of the full collection or individual titles.

We have partnered with California Revealed, a California State Library initiative to digitize and preserve parts of our collection that highlight California history. Highlights include newspapers, recreation videos, oral histories, and scrapbooks. You can view the collection through California Revealed or on the Internet Archive.

Our digitized collection can be accessed on Preservica.

The City of Brisbane has organized photos from city events since 2010 on Flickr. The City’s YouTube page also features videos of archived city council meetings, commission meetings, and city events dating back to 2011.