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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 6(479 clicks)
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 6 (2011) is the latest in a series of historical urban explorations, made from home movies, industrial and promotional films and outtakes, and other cinematic ephemera. It sold out the Castro Theatre in December, and this will be its second screening. YOU are the soundtrack. Please come prepared to shout out your identifications, ask questions about what’s on the screen, and share your thoughts with fellow audience members. Most of the footage in this program has not been shown before. It includes footage of San Francisco’s cemeteries just before their removal, unique drive-thru footage of the Old Produce Market (now Golden Gateway) in the late 1940s, cruising the newly-built Embarcadero Freeway, grungy back streets in North Beach, the sandswept Sunset District in the 1930s, and newly-rediscovered Cinemascope footage of Playland, the Sky Tram and San Francisco scenes, all in Kodachrome.

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900(2014 clicks)

A Description of the Recently Discovered Petroleum Region in California: With a Report on the Same(434 clicks)
1865

A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s(500 clicks)
Background process plate produced for an unidentified feature film, shot from an automobile driving through Bunker Hill and downtown Los Angeles.

A People's Guide to Los Angeles(484 clicks)

A Visit to Old Los Angeles and Environs(478 clicks)
by Brent C. Dickerson

After Earthquake and Fire(469 clicks)
San Francisco, 1906

Annotated Links to Website Related to Califorina Missions(444 clicks)
A very large list worth pursuing.

Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970(780 clicks)
Ruben Salazar essays

Bridging San Francisco Bay (ca. 1937)(496 clicks)

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties(531 clicks)
The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.

California Heritage Collection(462 clicks)
"The California Heritage 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 Society(463 clicks)

California History Guide(472 clicks)
Educational guide

California Military Museum(486 clicks)
California has a long military history as this museum shows.

California Military Museum(511 clicks)
"California has a rich, but relatively unknown military history, below are several topics dealing with the military history of the Golden State. We would like to encourage professional and amateur historians to submit written histories for inclusion on our site."

California Missions(461 clicks)

California Missions Slide Show(464 clicks)
Professor Robert Jackson's PowerPoint presentation on California missions, Part II.

California Missions Studies Association(508 clicks)
For the Study and Preservation of the California Missions, Presidios, Pueblos, and Ranchos and Their Native American, Hispanic, and Early American Past.

California Missions, 1769-1840(478 clicks)
Professor Robert Jackson's PowerPoint presentation on California missions, Part I.

California of the Past(484 clicks)
Digital stories

California Rails(501 clicks)

California State Archives(624 clicks)

California Views(900 clicks)
Pat Hathaway Collection

California's Spiritual Frontiers: Religious Alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910(2924 clicks)
Scholarly book by Sandra Sizer Frankiel.

Civil Rights Suite(458 clicks)
Chinese of California

Crossing the Frontier(442 clicks)
More than 50 images of the American West dating from 1849 to the present.

Drowning of José Maria Sánchez & conspiracy(442 clicks)
The Probate Proceedings on the drowning of José Maria Sánchez at the Pájaro River, Christmas Eve, 1852 and the Conspiracy to plunder the estate of his widow Encarnación Ortega.

Early California Population Projec(532 clicks)
Welcome to the site of The Huntington's Early California Population Project The Early California Population Project (ECPP) provides public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers, records that are of unique and vital importance to the study of California, the American Southwest, and colonial America.

Fact and Fiction in the Mother Lode: Joaquin Murieta(494 clicks)

Five Views(497 clicks)
An ethnic historic survey site of California.

Gold Rush(2982 clicks)

Gold Rush(494 clicks)

Gold Rush(445 clicks)

Gold Rush of California: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles(460 clicks)

Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories(614 clicks)
From the Oakland Museum of California.

Great Fire and Earthquake of 1906(471 clicks)
The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection contains over 1,700 digitized images of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.

H-California(474 clicks)
The study of California. H-Net site.

Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California(484 clicks)
William B. Friedricks book.

History of Belmont, California(484 clicks)
This project was created to educate both the citizens of Belmont and the citizens of the world about the history of Belmont, CA. This project is under the joint control of the City of Belmont, and the Belmont Historical society.

History of Hollywood(459 clicks)

History of Orange County(444 clicks)
History of the county by a student.

History of Venice, California(463 clicks)
This interactive educational site covers the history of Venice Beach, Californa. It features timelines, historic articles and photographs, interactive maps that when clicked on show historic views, and a list of movies filmed on Venice's streets , amusement piers and canals.

Hollywood Bowl The(490 clicks)
Launched in the Spring of 2004, the Holiday Bowl History Project began as a series of conversations about Los Angeles history, bowling, preservation, and the Holiday Bowl in discussion with John Guzman and Sojin Kim of the Japanese American National Museum; Alexis Moreno of the Southern California Library; Arthur Hansen and Stephanie George of the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University Fullerton, La'Tonya Rease Miles of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Dace Taube of the Regional History Collection at the University of Southern California. The Holiday Bowl features significantly in the memories of those who frequented the place and there were many who were touched by it enough to share their memories here. In addition to one-on-one interviews, this Project included many shared experiences. In consultation with the amazing and inspiring La'Tonya Rease Miles, the project was launched with a Lecture Series and Walking Tour where John Arroyo, John English, Matthew Haskins, Etta Hollins, Christopher Jimenez y West, Nina Revoyr (who read from her novel Southland), Josh Sides & Michael Steiner all gave generously of their time, expertise, and support in guiding these place-based forums and exercises. This site is an invitation to explore the history of the Holiday Bowl communities through specific subjects and issues: the history of postwar Los Angeles, the building and continuing evolution of the Crenshaw, the role of sports in negotiating culture and politics, as well as looking at different models of history and community.

How California Became a State(481 clicks)
The material presented at this site on California History is divided into five files, each summarized by a paragraph below. If the reader is interested in a particular aspect, click on the title of whichever paragraph covers the topic

In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945(452 clicks)
"This exhibit relates the story of the threat in Southern California in the 1930's and 40's, and serves as a warning that such dangers still exist in American life."

In Our Path(527 clicks)
The Century Freeway in California

Indian Tax Rebellion of 1851(447 clicks)
"When San Diego County officials slapped a property tax on the dirt-poor Indians of the area, the natives complied in 1850, but then trouble came a year later when Major General Joshua Bean instructed them not to pay."

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)(448 clicks)

Julia Morgan: Blueprint for Social Change(344 clicks)
By Pia Lindstrom Luedtke in the Concord Review. Morgan was a pioneering woman in architecture

Kings County History(317 clicks)
Located in the Great Central Valley of California

LA History Archive(338 clicks)
The LA History Archive is currently under construction. Upon its public launch in August 2009, the LA History Archive will be a catalog of downloadable historical documents and a repository for educator resources. The Archive serves educators, students and the general public both in Southern California and across the globe. The LA History Archive disseminates & collects local history using a three-pronged strategy.

Lake County Historical Society(340 clicks)

Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives(299 clicks)

Los Angeles at Work 1920 - 1939(311 clicks)
The rich assortment of images in this exhibit “Los Angeles At Work: 1920 -1939,” was chosen from an archive of thousands of negatives made by Chamber of Commerce photographers for its publication during those years. In the upswing economic heyday of the 1920's the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce spread the word of opportunity in the Southland. An unequaled climate, inexpensive “open shop” labor, raw materials, the Harbor - these all contribute to a successful campaign to lure Eastern manufacturers to Los Angeles. During the Depression the Chamber of Commerce sought out the persevering and the creative business people who turned misfortune into possibilities. Chamber literature encouraged local buying, improved business skills and patience through the trying times.

Los Angeles in the 1900s(327 clicks)
A collection of contemporary articles, advertisements and illustrations about the City of the Angels at the turn of the last century. by George Garrigues

Los Angeles Time Machines(326 clicks)

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco(315 clicks)

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 7(369 clicks)

New Light on the Donner Party(311 clicks)

One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland(592 clicks)
Scholarly book by Gayle B. Montgomery and James W. Johnson

Online Archive of California(312 clicks)
Digital library

Palo Alto Historical Association(418 clicks)
The Palo Alto Historical Association is a nonprofit association dedicated to collecting, organizing, and preserving materials pertaining to the history and heritage of Palo Alto, and to spread information about Palo Alto's history by means of programs, displays, and its official publication, The Tall Tree.

Panama-California Exposition ~ San Diego ~ 1915-1916(309 clicks)

Photo Exhibits, Los Angeles Public Library(307 clicks)

Photographs(328 clicks)
By Robert H. Jackson

Remnants of a Dream(302 clicks)
Remnants of a Dream traces the journeys some of the relics from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) have taken since it ended more than 86 years ago. It chronicles the magnificent, slightly mad, achievements of what others have christened the “Best of the Great Expositions”.

San Diego History(315 clicks)
By the San Diego Historical Society

San Fernando Valley History(322 clicks)

San Francisco After the '06 Earthquake(416 clicks)

San Francisco Earthquake(315 clicks)
A Hundred Years After the Fall: Recollections of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906(338 clicks)

Santa Barbara Earthquake History(370 clicks)

Santa Barbara Historic Inns(310 clicks)
History and Points of Interest

Slavery and the Admission of California as a State(395 clicks)

Slavery and the Admission of California as a State(459 clicks)

Sleepy Lagoon Case(300 clicks)
Zoot Suit. The Sleepy Lagoon Case, Constitutional Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy

The Chilenos in the California Gold Rush(317 clicks)
Short article by Carlos Lopez U. on Chileans in the California Gold Rush of 1849. Chlieans played an important role. Has illustrations.

The Gold Rush of California: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles(321 clicks)
by Robert L. Santos, California State University, Stanislaus, Librarian/Archivist

The James Capen Adams Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California(332 clicks)
1911

The Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson(295 clicks)

The Museum of San Francisco(357 clicks)
Rich resource

The Passenger Train in the Motor Age(348 clicks)
California’s Rail and Bus Industries, 1910–1941 by Gregory Lee Thompson

Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire, A(350 clicks)
San Francisco

Tulare County History(651 clicks)

Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive(329 clicks)
The CSULB oral history collections have been assembled from a number of sources and cover topics ranging from women's social history and ethnic studies to Long Beach Area history and the Arts in Southern California. Some of the interviews in the Asian-American, Mexican-American and women's history collections date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s.

What I Saw in California(307 clicks)
Edwin Bryant. Includes the Donner Party

Willie Brown: A Biography(338 clicks)
Scholarly book by James Richardson

World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area(297 clicks)