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California History Online

The California Historical Society's Website presents accessible, interesting, and well-designed scholarly and educational materials relating to California history. One interesting section, The California History Online Timeline, allows users to click on a timeline of images to access material on key events and time periods in California history. These include European exploration, the Spanish...

https://californiahistoricalsociety.org/
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Calisphere: Disasters

The talented archivists at Calisphere have curated a range of subjects on California history as part of their Local History Mapped series. This particular feature takes on Disasters in the Golden State by looking into the way disasters have affected buildings during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It's a great subject and visitors can use the View Map feature to explore the state from San...

https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/82/disasters-california-h...
Collections in Calisphere: Themed Collections

The University of California has worked diligently to create themed collections for teachers and others interested in California history. The Calisphere gateway provides access to 200,000 digitized items, so it's great to see that those involved have created these smaller and more manageable collections as part of this fantastic effort. The collections are organized chronologically into sections...

https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/
Historic Stockton Photographs

Founded in 1849 in the Central Valley of California, Stockton's prime location on the edge of the San Joaquin Delta has made it a major shipping port. This particular collection from the University of Pacific's Holt-Atherton Special Collections brings together approximately 500 photographs that document the history of this unique city. Most of the items here document the waterfront and city...

https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-ather...
Images of Lake Tahoe

When Grace Greenwood encountered Lake Tahoe in the 1870s, she remarked that "Tahoe is the most beautiful lake I have ever beheld. It is an emerald on the brow of the mountain. Marvellously clear and sparkling, it is surrounded by the most enchanting scenery, and is altogether a surprise, a wonder, a delight." Generations of tourists and locals have enjoyed its charms since. And this remarkable...

https://unr.dgicloud.com/
Los Angeles at Work: 1920-1939

An online photo gallery from the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles at Work is a collection of captioned photographs documenting different jobs held by the men and women of LA from 1920 to 1939. The photographs were chosen from an archive of thousands of pictures taken by the staff of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The pithy captions describe the circumstances of the photos, highlight...

https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/exhibits/los-angeles-work-1920...
Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection

The Los Angeles Public Library has thousands of photographs in its archives. Taken as a whole, the archives represent a thoroughly wonderful portrait of the Southland during the past century or so. First-time visitors should click on the Photo Collection Overview area to learn about the holdings here. One particularly noteworthy addition to the collection occurred back in 1981 when Security...

https://tessa.lapl.org/
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OldSF

What did the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco look like in 1904? Now you can find out with this wonderful geotagged map of San Francisco. Through geocoding, photos from the San Francisco Public Library's Historical Photograph Collection were associated with latitudes and longitudes to link up photos to their various locales within the city. Visitors can zoom in and out of the map to explore...

https://www.oldsf.org/
Sacramento History Online

From the first river vessels built by Native Americans in the Sacramento Valley to the vast networks of irrigated croplands created in the early 20th century, transportation and agriculture have had a long and storied past in the area in and around Sacramento. This online digital archive is a wonderful repository of items related to these two thematic areas created by a partnership of California...

http://www.sacramentohistory.org/
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The Chinese in California, 1850-1925

This well-developed collection tells the story of Chinese immigration to California in the late 19th and early 20th century through approximately 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. This fine brocade of ephemera includes letters, business records, legal documents, cartoons, photographs, and original art. These materials cover everything from family life to inter-ethnic tensions....

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5p3019m2/
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