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American Memory - Library of Congress

Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

CaGenWeb (California USGenWeb Project)

California Digital Library (CDL) University of California Libraries

California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS) (Calif. Office of Historic Preservation)

California History (www.ca.gov)

California History Online

California Historical Society

California Museum for History, Women and the Arts

California Office of Historic Preservation

California Pioneer Project

California Shipwrecks

California State Archives

California State Assembly Chief Clerk: Legislative Document Archives
---contains Assembly Journals (1849-1997), Histories and Indexes (1881-2001), and Statutes (1850-1995).

California State Capitol Museum

California State Historical Landmarks(Donald Laird) (listed by county)

California State Historical Landmarks listed by County (CERES: California Environmental Resources Evaluation System)

California State Library

California State Military Museum

California Stories

California Tombstone Transcription Project (USGenWeb Project)

California Views: The Pat Hathaway Collection of Historical Photos (Mr. Pat Hathaway, Photo Archivist)

Counting California

Early California Population Project (ECPP) [The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens]

Historical Census Browser: 1790-1960 (University of Virginia)
---census data for the state of California and California counties

Historical Census Populations of California State, Counties, Cities, Places, and Towns, 1850-2000 (California. Dept. of Finance)
---lists places listed by the U.S. Census Bureau (not all existing places)

Historical Data : California Agricultural Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture / National Agricultural Statistical Service)

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)

Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade 1848-1858 (Huntington Library)

Meriam Library, Special Collections (CSU, Chico)

Native American Documents Project (CSU, San Marcos)

Newspaper Archives [California]:

California Digital Newspaper Collection (U.C. Riverside) has digitized the San Francisco Call (1900-1910) and the Daily Alta California (1880-1890) with more to follow

California Newspapers : Meriam Library Microfilm Collelction

California Newspaper Project (U.C. Riverside) search CNP [index to title & holdings]

Northwestern California Newspapers (Humboldt State University Library)

see also: Newspaper Archives [Meriam Library -- Historical Docs & Information]

Oakland Museum of California

Online Archive of California (California Digital Library) 

  • Images (photographs, paintings, graphical materials, etc)
  • Texts (transcripts of oral histories, personal narratives, letters, press releases, newspaper articles, etc.)

Sacramento History Online (Historic Sacramento Photograph and Document Archive)

USC Libraries Archives

 

 

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