Community Arts International developed a permanent exhibition about the gold rush history of San Francisco 1846 to 1850 that was based on the artifacts excavated under a new building on Mason Street. The artifacts showed evidence of a grocery store, Chinese medicine and herb shop, a hotel and restaurant housed in a sunken ship as well as personal artifacts from the miners and their families. Community Arts International developed an exhibition and visual history about this time period in San Francisco. The artifacts that were excavated re created the Medical Herb Shop and exhibited the other artifacts in the context of their history.