California Historical Society Exhibit of Emptied San Francisco Streets

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Sketch Aquarium - Interactive Exhibit at the Asian Art Museum

Based in California, The Putney Financial Group carefully integrates all three capital development stages to help clients achieve their financial and wealth goals. Active in its community, The Putney Financial Group supports local organizations such as the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

In an effort to introduce everyone to Asian culture and art, the Asian Art Museum maintains several exhibits that showcase its collection of over 18,000 Asian artworks. These exhibits include the institution’s two ongoing exhibits, Liu Jianhua: Collected Letters and teamLab: Sketch Aquarium.

An interactive digital experience, Sketch Aquarium was designed by teamLab, an art collective founded in 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. The collective consists of architects, engineers, artists, programmers, and mathematicians who seek to find the connection between the natural world, art, and design. The collective’s other major exhibition, Continuity, is scheduled to open at the museum’s Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion in May 2020.

Sketch Aquarium is available at the Shriram Experiential Learning Center. Participants have the opportunity to color their own sea creatures. Using teamLab’s technology, each drawing is animated and projected onto the room’s walls. This creates a collaborative art piece that increases in size over time. The display is also interactive, and lets museum guests touch a virtual bag of food to “feed” the fish in the aquarium and interact with them as they swim.

OMCA’s Snuff Bottle Collection Showcases Unique Artisan History

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A Tour of Adoph Sutro's Amusement Park

Based in Northern California, the Putney Financial Group is a Registered Broker-Dealer that provides client-centered wealth management solutions. Active in its community, the Putney Financial Group sponsors high school and college internships and supports organizations such as the San Francisco Historical Society.

While the museum has been closed in early 2020, the San Francisco Historical Society has continued to hold its monthly program online. The April event features John Martini, a local historian, taking viewers on a tour of the city’s “glass palace.”

Envisioned by Adolph Sutro, who had engineered Nevada mining tunnels during the Gold Rush, this amusement park and play-land was situated near Ocean Beach along the Pacific.

Set among rugged cliffs known as Land’s End, it encompassed Sutro Baths swimming pools, museum, ice-skating rink, and aerial gondola. As Martini describes it, this was the “most magnificent example of 19th century Comstock exuberance” along the West Coast. It was also a health spa destination at a time when soaking in saltwater was widely prescribed by physicians.

Becoming a popular tourist destination beloved by generations of San Franciscans as a getaway from the city, the glass structure encompassed seven baths of various temperatures, as well as springboards, slides, and high dive. More than 10,000 people could be accommodated and the destination was well well-trafficked until the Great Depression.

Subsequent owners placed an ice skating rink in the location but this failed financially as well. After burning down in 1966, the remains of Sutro Baths, next to the iconic Cliff House, became a popular destination in their own right, within the scenic Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

For the Love of Money Exhibit at the Museum of American Finance

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A Financial Revolution: An Introduction by Ray Lent

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Museum of American Finance Opens Exhibit on New York's Water System

An investment advisory firm located in San Rafael, California, The Putney Financial Group faithfully serves the needs of more than 250 client families. Also committed to historical preservation projects and museums, The Putney Financial Group supports the Museum of American Finance (MOAF) in New York, New York.

Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the MOAF is an independent institution that seeks to preserve American financial history and educate the public on financial topics. In 2020, the MOAF unveiled an exhibit scheduled to run through September 1 called Ebb & Flow. Located at 31 Chambers Street in New York City, the new exhibit presents a history of the city’s water systems.

The Ebb & Flow exhibit covers the history of the city and how it built approximately 7,000 miles of water mains, tunnels, and aqueducts that run through the five boroughs. The exhibit also details how the city’s water needs are met by a watershed that extends more than 125 miles and includes 19 reservoirs and three lakes. Addressing a connection to financial history, the MOAF exhibit also details how the private water company Aaron Burr founded more than 200 years ago transformed itself into The Manhattan Company, which became part of one of the largest banks in the United States today.

Oakland Museum of California Features History of California Exhibit

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