Historical Sources
- Academic
Info. - The American West, directory of online
resources on the history of the American West.
- Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences
- African American Genealogical
Society of Northern California
- Alcatraz Penitentiary
at Alcatraz Island
- Amador
County Archives Research Center, a part of the Amador
County Archives, Jackson, California.
- Amador
Historical Society, Jackson, California.
- American
Film Institute, Los Angeles, California.
- American Folklife
Center - The Library of Congress' repository
for American folk music and folklore and folklife collections.
- America Hurrah! presented
by Bill Roddy. (San Francisco, California, and the World)
- American
Life Histories - Manuscripts from WPA Writers’ Project
(1936-1940), Library of Congress - American Memory.
- American
Local History Network - California (genealogy
and history resources)
- American Memory,
Library of Congress - “The Library of Congress'
gateway to primary source materials relating to the history
and culture of the United States. “Mission : American
Memory provides free and open access through the Internet
to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving
images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American
experience. It is a digital record of American history and
creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library
of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events,
people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America,
serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong
learning.”
- Angels Island,
California, presented by the Angel Island Association.
- Architecture
of the United States, presented by Glass,
Steel, and Stone.
- Bale
Grist Mill State Historic Park, Located four
miles north of St. Helena on Highway 29. (707) 942-4575.
- Berkeley
Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA)
- Bibliographies
of Early California and Neighboring Territory Through 1846,
presented by Bob Santos, Reference Librarian and University
Archivist at California State University, Stanislaus.
- Biographies
(listed by California counties), presented on
California Genealogy and History Archives.
- "Building
in California" (from The Manufacturer
and Builder, April 1869, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 105-106,
on the Cornell University, Making of America, Library of Congress
web site. This is the main web address if you wish to search
for other subjects: Library of Congress, American Memories, Nineteenth
Century in Print.)
- Butte
County Historical Society, Oroville, California.
- Butte Meadows-Jonesville Community
Association. The History Committee of the Association
is collecting and compiling information about the early history
of the area from people who have been in the area since the
early 1900s. Mailing address: 990 Normal Chico, CA 95928; (530)
345-3838.
- CAGenWeb, a Part
of the USGenWeb Project, presented by Richard
Wilson. This web site includes all of the California county
GenWeb Project web site web addresses. The USGenWeb Project
is not a commercial enterprise, and you will find many historical
resources available on these web sites.
- Calanan Park Monitor and Drill Core Display,
for information contact the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, 132
Main Street, Nevada City, CA 95959-2520; (530) 265-2692. (This
is an outdoor exhibit.)
- California -
American Local History Network
- California
and U.S. Western History, presented by the California
Studies Association. Presents links for the study of California
History and contemporary California politics, economics, and
society.
- "California
As I Saw It" – First Person Narratives of California's
Early Years, 1849-1900, presented by the Library
of Congress.
- California
Bound (1848-1873): Ship Passenger Lists, Wagon Train Lists, & Isthmu
of Panama Passenger Information
- California
Buildings, Structures, & Architects on the
Philadelphia Architects & Buildings Project (PAB) web
site. You can search the database for buildings, structures,
and architects either as a visitor or you can register free.
You cannot search for specific cities, but you can search
for county locations. There are no photographs presented,
but the location and/or address and the name of the architect
are included if known; and the historic registration information
is also included
- California
Cornish Cousins
- California Counties
- California
Cultural Resources, presented by California State
Parks.
- California
Delta History, web site created for the California
Delta Chambers and Visitor Bureau by Hal Schell.
-
California Digital Newspaper
Collection (description from the
web site) “The California Digital Newspaper Collection
offers over 200,000 pages of California newspapers spanning
the years 1849-191l: the Alta California, 1849-1891; the San
Francisco Call, 1893-1910; the Amador
Ledger, 1900-1911; the
Imperial Valley Press, 1901-1911; the Sacramento
Record-Union,
1859-1890; and the Los Angeles Herald, 1905-1907. Additional
years are forthcoming, as are other early California newspapers:
the Californian; the California
Star; the California Star and
Californian; the Sacramento Transcript; the Placer
Times; and
the Pacific Rural Press.”
- California
Electronic Resources, California History and
Recreation.
- California
Federal Land Records - This web site is a part
of the USGenWeb.
- California
- Genealogical Societies, Historical Societies, and some Archives,
presented by Carolyn Feroben.
- California
Heritage Collection (This collection is an "online
archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's
history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft
Library at the University of California, Berkeley.")
- California
Historical Societies and Museums, presented by The
California Historical Quarterly, formerly known as the Dogtown
Territorial Quarterly.
- California
Historical Societies and Museums, presented by
the California Historical Society.
- California
Historical Society, San Francisco, California.
- California
History Articles, presented by Dogtown Territorial
Quarterly now known as The California Historical
Quarterly.
- California
History - Books about California History and Culture. “This
web site is a personal library of public domain e-texts and
pictures about California and the old West.”
- California
History Publications, the Bob Santos Home Page/CSU
Stanislaus Library. This web site "contains California
history publications of Bob Santos, Reference Librarian and
University Archivist at California State University, Stanislaus."
- California Indian Museum
and Cultural Center, Santa Rosa, California.
The following links are only a few of many links
available on the “Links and Maps” section of the
web site.
- California Indian Tribal Groups (Map)
- California Counties (Map)
- California Linguistic Tribal Groups (Map)
- Federally Recognized California Tribes (Map)
- California
Lighthouses, presented by the California Reader.
- California
Maps, presented by Humboldt State University
Library. (“This research guide lists maps and atlases
found in print in the HSU Library and on the Internet that
graphically depict California themes using maps. Listings
include static maps and map servers that dynamically produce
custom maps based on the parameters you specify.”)
- California
Migrations, presented by Martha A. Crosley Graham,
a member of Migrations.org. "The
mission of Migrations.org is to (a) provide genealogical and
historical internet researchers and educators with links to
online migration and genealogical sources; and (b) administer
a searchable public database that collects and analyzes migration
data, providing migration patterns for genealogical, historical
and educational research."
- California
Missions - Virtual Tour, presented by the Civic
Group.
- California
Native American Genealogy, Access Genealogy -
Indian Tribal Records.
- The California Newspaper
Project (CNP) The project is "managed by
the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University
of California, Riverside, under the direction of Dr. Henry
L. Snyder, constitutes a major effort to identify and preserve
the state's history and heritage as reflected in its newspapers.
Offices of the California Newspaper Project are located at
the University of California, Riverside, the University of
California, Berkeley, and the California State Library."
- California
Penny Postcards - This web site is a part of
the USGenWeb Archives.
- California
Pioneers of Santa Clara County
- The
California Reader: Eyewitnesses to History, presented
by Joel GAzis-SAx. The web site is described as "…a
collection of eyewitness accounts, poetry, literature, postcards,
photographs, and other documents telling the story (or tall
tale) of California."
- California
Research Outline, presented by Intellectual Reserve,
Inc.
- California
Resources at RootsWeb
- California Section
of the USGenWeb (genealogy and history resources)
- California
Ship and Wagon Arrivals (links to other web sites),
presented by sfgenealogy.com.
- California
Spanish Genealogy, presented by Ron Filion on
the sfgenealogy.com web site.
- California State
Museum Resource Center
- California Views:
The Pat Hathaway - Collection of Historical Photos (Scope
of the Collection: 1855 to Today), presented
by Pat Hathaway, Photo Archivist.
-
California’s
Living New Deal Project, Berkeley, Alameda County,
California.
(From the web site) “The California’s Living
New Deal Project is a growing collaborative effort to identify,
map, interpret, and commemorate the 75th anniversary of the
vast public works legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
New Deal. The Project documents the cumulative impact of the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration
(PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and other New
Deal programs on the Golden State.”
- Central Pacific
Railroad Photographic History Museum - Links
to Related Railroad, Photography and History Web Sites.
- Chaw-See
Grinding Rock State Historic Park (AKA Indian Grinding
Rock State Historic Park). “ Indian
Grinding Rock State Historic Park is located in the Sierra Nevada
foothills eight miles east of Jackson. The park nestles in a little
valley 2,400 feet above sea level with open meadows and large
valley oaks that once provided the native Americans of this area
with an ample supply of acorns. The 135-acre park was created
in 1968 and preserves a great outcropping of marbleized limestone
with some 1,185 mortar holes -- the largest collection of bedrock
mortars in North America.”
- Chicago Historical
Society, a major museum and research center for
Chicago and American History.
-
Chinese
Historical Society of Southern California
- Chinese
in California, Library of Congress, American
Memory.
- Colma Historical Association, 1198 El Camino
Real, Colma, CA 94014; (650) 757-1676.
- Columbia
State Historic Park, three miles north of Sonora,
off Highway 49; (209) 532-0150.
- Colusi County Historical
Society “The Colusi County Historical Society
is a Non-Profit Organization dedicated to the preservation,
documentation and dissemination of the history of Colusa,
Glenn and Tehama Counties which at one time, were part of
Colusi County, one of twenty-seven original counties of California.”
- Courthouses
Recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey
(HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
- Discovery Museum
History Center - The Sacramento Museum of History, Science,
Space, and Technology, Sacramento, California.
- E
Clampus Vitus (History of), presented by the
Santa Cruz Public Libraries.
- Early
California History: An Overview. This is a part
of "California As I Saw It," presented by the Library
of Congress.
- Emigration
and Immigration, presented by Cimorelli Enterprises.
- Emigration
- Ship Lists and Resources
- Exploring
Northeastern California History, presented
by Tim I. Purdy.
- Folsom,
El Dorado & Sacramento Historical Railroad Association,
Inc. serving the City of Folsom, El Dorado County,
Sacramento County, and connecting areas.
- Folsom
Railroad Museum, Folsom, California.
- Fort
Humboldt State Historic Park, Located on a bluff
overlooking Humboldt Bay; (707) 445-6567 or (707) 445-6547.
- Fort
Ross State Historic Park, Located ten miles north
of Jenner on Highway 1; (707) 847-3286.
- Fort
Tejon State Historic Park – "Fort
Tejon is located in the Grapevine Canyon, the main route between
California's great central valley and Southern California." (661)
248-6692.
- Fraternalism
in America, presented by Phoenixmasonry, Inc.
- Freemasons of
California (Freemasonry)
- Fresno City and
County Historical Society - Archival Collections,
Fresno, California.
- The
Frontier in American Culture. "The Frontier
in American Culture" is a traveling exhibition for libraries
organized by the American Library Association and the Newberry
Library, Chicago." The web site is presented by the University
of Washington Libraries.
- Frontier
Transportation, presented by the American
West web site.
- Geography
at Berkeley, University of California.
- Getty
Research Library, Los Angeles, California. "The
Research Library at the Getty Research Institute focuses on
the history of art, architecture, and archaeology with relevant
materials in the humanities and social sciences."
- Ghost
Towns of California
- Golden
Nugget Library (Searchable California databases),
presented by Nancy Pratt Melton.
- Google Book Search: You
can use Google Book Search to search for specific subjects in
thousands of books available through the Google Book Search -
both books under copyright and in the public domain. Hundreds
of books are added regularly, so check back if you do not find
books on the subject for which you are seeking information. (
Use the “Full view books” search to view the complete
books.)
- Governor's
Mansion State Historic Park, Sacramento, California.
- Griffith
Quarry Park and Museum, Taylor and Rock Spring
Roads, Penryn, CA 95663; (916) 663-1837; Tours:(530) 889-6500.
- H-California:
Study of California History, presented by H
Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
- Halsted N. Gray
- Carew & English, Inc., Funeral Directors,
San Francisco, California.
- This company maintained the case records for
the following San Francisco Funeral Firms: Gantner
- Felder - Kenny; Gantner - Maisson - Domergue; H. F.
Suhr Company; Godeau Funeral Home; Martin & Brown
Funeral Directors; Quock Fook Sang Mortuary; Halsted and
Company; Carew & English; and N. Gray & Company.
(According to their web site, this company announces “...that
in order to make this information more easily accessible,
Halsted N. Gray - Carew & English has transferred
the majority of funeral records to Researchity,
a local internet-based firm and the San Francisco Public
Library History Center Plans are underway
to ultimately have all the records digitized. While
the digitization project is estimated to take approximately
a year or so, www.researchity.com lists the funeral
homes and year groups for which they are maintaining records
along with a means for requesting information from them
manually. You may also visit the San
Francisco Public Library History Center for
information on earlier records (from the 1850s to approximately
1920).”
- Historic
Federal Buildings, by Phineas E. Paist and Harold
D. (View by State or Architect)
- Historical
Society of Long Beach Gallery & Historical Research Center,
Long Beach, California.
- Historical
Text Archives (Contains a wide range of primary
sources and web links. Under “USA,” see special
category entitled, “USA West.”)
- Historical
Topographic Maps of California, presented by
the Regents of the University of California.
- The History
of Central California (This web site offers over
400 articles and biographies in a searchable database. The
counties covered include: Fresno County, Tulare County, Kern
County, and Madera County.)
- History
Online
- History
Resources for California, by James Stevenson,
Publisher.
-
Jewish Historical
Society of Southern California
- Immigration History
Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
- Independence Trail in South Yuba River State Park,
Sequoya Challenge, P. O. Box 1026, Nevada City, CA 95959; (530)
432-3183. (The Independence Trail extends from Smartville to the
Yuba River, and the trail follows the historic 17-mile Excelsior
Mining Ditch, which was built in 1854.)
- Independent Order of
Oddfellows
- Index
of Resources for Historians - the Index is maintained
jointly by the Department of History of the University of
Kansas and the Lehrstuhl für Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft
der Universität Regensburg, and is managed by Eric Marzo
of Regensburg and Lynn H. Nelson of Kansas.
- Index
of Resources for Historians - the Index is maintained
jointly by the Department of History of the University of
Kansas and the Lehrstuhl für Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft
der Universität Regensburg, and is managed by Eric Marzo
of Regensburg and Lynn H. Nelson of Kansas.
- Indian
Grinding Rock State Historic Park (AKA
Chaw-See Grinding Rock State Historic Park). “ Indian
Grinding Rock State Historic Park is located in the Sierra
Nevada foothills eight miles east of Jackson. The park nestles
in a little valley 2,400 feet above sea level with open meadows
and large valley oaks that once provided the native Americans
of this area with an ample supply of acorns. The 135-acre
park was created in 1968 and preserves a great outcropping
of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes -- the
largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America.”
- Industrial Archaeology
in California, presented by Mark Lakata.
- Italian
Legacy in the Mother Lode, courtesy of the Italian
Cultural Society.
- J.
Porter Shaw Library, a part of the San Francisco
Maritime National Historical Park. The library "focuses
on sail and steam on the West Coast and in the Pacific Basin
from 1520 to the present."
- The
John Muir Exhibit, presented by the Sierra
Club.
- The
Journal of San Diego History – San Diego Historical
Society Quarterly, presented by the San Diego
Historical Society.
- Lassen County Historical
Society, PO Box 321, Susanville,
CA 96130.
- Leland
Stanford Mansion State Historic Park, Sacramento,
California.
- Library of Congress, American Memory
Mission
“American Memory provides free and open access through
the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings,
still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that
document the American experience. It is a digital record
of American history and creativity. These materials, from
the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions,
chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that
continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource
for education and lifelong learning.”
- Library of Congress
Digitized American Memory Collection
- Library
of Congress - Special Collections: A Selective Guide
- Linkpendium
- California (genealogy and history resources)
- Los Californos ("Los
Californianos was created for the purpose of preserving the heritage
of the early Hispanic Californians in Alta California by conducting
research on genealogy and civil, religious, military, social and
cultural activities in Alta California in order to provide an
accurate and authentic oral, written, and pictorial interpretation
of the history of Spanish and Mexican Alta California.")
- Madera County Historical Society, Old Court
House, 210 W. Yosemite, Madera, CA, 93639.
- The
Madera County Historian (Index of back
issues) A complete set of the journal is available to
view at the Madera County Museum Journals and may be
purchased at the link (above)..
- Maidu
Interpretive Center and Historic Site, Roseville,
CA
- Making
of America Project at the University of Michigan.
(Books and journal articles in 19 th century American history.
Presents some full-text articles and primary documents.)
-
Map
Collections: Geographic Location Index, American
Memory, Library of Congress.
- Mariposa
History and Genealogy Research, presented by
Carolyn Feroben.
- Maritime
Heritage Project
- Maritime
Timetable Images, presented by Björn Larsson.
- Martinez
Historical Society, Martinez, California.
- Monterey
County Historical Society Local History Website
- Mountain Democrat
Online (El Dorado County)
- Doug Noble, Mountain Democrat Columnist
- Articles on the history of El Dorado County Indian Diggings
stone quarry and other historical subjects. (This “Mountain
Democrat” online version now charges a fee to search
its Archive for past articles. Use the web site search
to access Doug Nobles’ past articles, you would
need to pay a fee, although there are various fee levels.)
- National
Archives (NARA)
- Pacific Region - San Francisco, 1000 Commodore
Drive San Bruno, CA 94066.
- The National Parks
Service - Links to the Past - People - Places - Objects & Events: “Explore
America's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological
sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures
and districts.”
- National
Register - Online Travel Itineraries in the United States
- National Union
Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) (NUCMC) “...is
a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by
the Library of Congress.”
- Nevada County Historical
Society, P.O. Box 1300 Nevada CA 95959; (916) 265-5468.
- The New Perspectives
on the West
- Newspaper
Abstracts
- The
Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America
in Books and Periodicals. A distributed digital library collaboration
at the Cornell University Library - Library of Congress -
American Memories.
- NorCal
Genealogy Resource Center at sfgenealogy.com,
(history and genealogy resources), maintained by Yvonne Bowers.
(A state-wide guide to genealogical information in California.
Formerly known as the NorCal Genealogy Index.)
- North American Indian Annex, located in the
historic Civic Center, formerly the Auburn Grammar School. (By
appointment only: Call (530) 889-6500 or write 1225 Lincoln Way,
Auburn, CA 95603.)
- Oakland
History Room of the Main Library Oakland Library
- Old Sacramento
State Historic Park, Old Sacramento, California.
- Online Archive
of California (OAC), “(The OAC brings
together historical materials from a variety of California
institutions, including museums, historical societies, and
archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents,
letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections
are available.”)
- Oregon-California
Trails Association
- Overland
Monthly, 1868-1900, University of Michigan
in Making of America.
- The
Pacific Tourist - Williams' Illustrated Guide of the Pacific
Railroad to California, 1879, by Henry T. Williams,
Publisher, 46 Beekman St., New York, A Complete Traveler's
Guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, Omaha to
San Francisco, presented on the America Hurrah web site by
Bill Roddy.
-
Panama
Pacific International Exposition (PPI), San
Francisco, California (February 20 to December 4, 1915)
- Panoramic
Photographs (1855-1991) Taking the Long View,
Library of Congress, American Memory.
- Paradise Genealogical
Society & Library, Paradise, California.
- Penny
Postcards of San Francisco County
- Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
- Placer
County Archives and Research Center
- Placer
County Historical Society, Auburn, California.
- Project Gutenberg - “Project
Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks
or etexts) on the Internet. Our collection of more than 15.000
eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project
Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public
domain in the United States.”
- Railtown
1897 State Historic Park, 5th Avenue to Railtown,
Jamestown, California; (209) 984-3953.
- Railway & Locomotive
Historical Society, Southern California Chapter,
Pomona, California.
- Railways - A Summary of the State of Railroads in the
United States, Including the Prospects for a Pacific
Railroad, from the Report of
the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852 - Seventh
Census. Web site presented by the Central
Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum.
- Resources
for Historians, Hanover College, Department of
History, Hanover, Indiana.
- Resources
for Historians on the World Wide Web, A Service
of the History Department, University of Nevada, Reno.
- Resources
for Historians - The History Guide, presented
by Steven Kreis.
- The Rocklin
Historical Society, Rocklin, Placer County, California.
- The
Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (SAMCC)
(regional history) SAMCC is the repository and research center
for the county and city historic collections.
- Sacramento
Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento, California.
- Sacramento History
Online - Transportation (Photographic Archive)
- Sacramento
Valley Rail Road
- San Diego
Historical Society
- San Francisco
Architecture - Vernacular Language North
- San
Francisco Bay Area Cemeteries (Listing)
- San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake (circa 1906) -
Magazine article “Various
Aspects of the San Francisco Disaster” in The
Monumental News Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 8, August, 1906,
pp. 555-558. (This article includes information on the following
subjects during the time period just after the 1906 earthquake:
Stanford University in Palo Alto; the Dewey Monument in Union
Square and the Statue of Agassiz, both in San Francisco; the Odd
Fellows and Laurel Hill cemeteries in San Francisco; and the Fairmont
Hotel, et al.)
- San
Francisco - Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire:
Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916, Library
of Congress, American Memory.
- San
Francisco Biographies - Extractions from Journalism in
California, by John P. Young, Pacific Coast
and Exposition Biographies, Chronicle Publishing Company,
San Francisco, California, 1915, transcribed by Beth Humphrey,
presented on the San Francisco Genealogy web site.
- San
Francisco Biographies, courtesy of: Nancy Pratt
Melton, Golden Nugget Library, Pamela Storm Wolfskill and
Ron Filion, sfgenealogy.com.
- The
San Francisco Call Database, (Index
to available years: 1869-1895), presented by Jim
W. Faulkinbury, CGRS.
- San
Francisco Cemeteries (History), by John W. Blackett.
- San Francisco Cemeteries - Early Cemetery Index (1853)
(1848-1863),
presented on the San Francisco Genealogy web site. These are
transcripts from the D.A.R.'s San Francisco Cemetery Records.
- San
Francisco Cemeteries - Cemetery Information for the Counties
of San Francisco and San Mateo, presented by
San Francisco Genealogy.
- San
Francisco City Directories with Research Tips,
presented by the San Francisco Genealogy web site.
- San Francisco City Directories
and Telephone Directories Available Online
- San Francisco
City Guides - The San Francisco
City Guides is a 27-year-old non-profit organization that
conducts free walking tours relating to San Francisco history,
architecture, legend and lore. It is a program of the San
Francisco Public Library and a project of the Tides Center.
- San
Francisco - Historic Buildings, presented by
dmoz.org.
- San
Francisco History, presented by Ron Filson.
- San
Francisco History (Links), presented on the San
Francisco Genealogy web site.
- San
Francisco - Landmarks, presented by dmoz.org.
- San
Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, Fisherman's
Wharf, Hyde and Jefferson streets, San Francisco;.(415) 556-3002.
- San Francisco
Maritime Park Association
- San Francisco Public
Library, San Francisco, California.
- San
Francisco State University - Labor Archives and Research Center
- San Jose
Historical Museum in Kelley Park, San Jose, California.
- San
Jose Public Libraries and San Jose State University Library
- California Room Collection
- Sanborn
Fire Insurance Maps (historical), presented by
the Regents of the University of California.
- Santa
Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society
- Santa
Clara Valley Historical Buildings Virtual Tour
- Santa
Cruz County, California - Architecture, presented
by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, CA.
- Seaver
Center for Western History Research, a part of
the Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles. "The purpose of the Seaver
Center for Western History Research is to collect, preserve,
and make available to the general public research materials
documenting the history of the trans-Mississippi West with
special emphasis on Southern California and Los Angeles."
- Shasta
State Historic Park, Shasta, California.
- Sierra
Heritage Magazine: Gateway to the Sierra
- Society
of California Pioneers, San Francisco, California.
- Solano
County History, presented by The Reporter.
- Sonoma
County Historical Society, Sonoma, California.
- South San Francisco History Room, located
in the South
San Francisco Library.
- Stanford
University Archives and Collections
- Steamboats,
presented by the California Delta Chambers and Visitor Bureau.
- Toward
a Fraternal History of Marin County: A Survey of Secret Societies
being a General History of Various Fraternities and Their
Specific Impact in Marin.
- Trinity County Historical Society, mailing
address: P.O. Box 333, Weaverville, CA 96093. Email: museum@tcoek12.org;
(530) 623-5211.
- Twentynine Palms Historical Society Museum,
6136 Adobe Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277-2652; (760) 367-3445.
(This museum includes exhibits relating to the local mining industry.)
- The
Union Democrat Online (Tuolumne County)
- United States
Surname Distribution, by Hamrick Software.
- The
Valley of Heart's Delight - Santa Clara Valley Research:
It's Histories, Biographies, Communities, Townships, Transportation,
Newspapers, presented by Carolyn Feroben.
- Vernacular
Language North (San
Francisco Architecture)
-
Victorian Cemetery Photographs Gallery, by Bob
Giles, Art & Music,
San Francisco Bay Area
(Use the “Victorian Cemetery” link
at the bottom of the page to access the Victorian Cemetery
Photographs Gallery.)
- Virtual
Guidebook to The Mother Lode Gold Country (Placer,
El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera
Counties, California)
- The West
- American West PBS special produced by Ken Burns.
Extensive site and links on many western topics.
- West
Cliff - Millionaires' Row - Large Estates Once Lined Water's
Edge, article by Ross Eric Gibson, presented
by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, CA.
- Western
United States Migration Routes & Eastern
United States Migration Routes
- Williams' Illustrated
Guide of the Pacific Railroad to California - The Pacific
Tourist, 1879, by Henry T. Williams, Publisher, 46 Beekman
St., New York, A Complete Traveler's Guide of the Union
and Central Pacific Railroads, Omaha to San Francisco,
presented on the America
Hurrah web site by Bill Roddy.
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