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Photographs
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Alcatraz: The Warden Johnston Years, 1933-1948 
 Contains a chronology of the major events in Alcatraz from 1933 through 1948, a list of prisoners, statistics, reports, photographs, and more. http://www.notfrisco2.com/alcatraz/ Topics: California: Arts and Humanities, California: History, California: Law, Crime, Notable People Last updated Sep 12, 2005 Artcyclopedia Search: Dorothea Lange [American Photographer, 1895-1965]
Links to online exhibits picturing the artwork of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs documented conditions in California during the Great Depression and World War II. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lange_dorothea.html Topics: California: History, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated Mar 6, 2004 Breaking Through: A Century of Physics at Berkeley
This exhibit "tells the story of physics at [the University of California] Berkeley, 1868-1968. ... [C]onsider the results — scientists who made a machine to smash the atom, built a bomb that ended World War II, fought to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and won 7 Nobel Prizes in 19 years." Features annotated photographs, lecture notes, letters, video clips, and more. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/ Topics: California: Education, California: History, California: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Physics, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Jul 6, 2006 California Explores the Ocean: San Diego Historical Society - Photographs
A searchable collection of photographs from the 1870 to the 1970s, including images of "the ocean and coastline around San Diego ... its boat and ship industry, the U.S. Navy's early presence in the area, marine life, kelp harvesting and processing, sea salt production, sport fishing, commercial fishing, the tuna industry, canneries, fish trade, and oceanographic research." A collaboration of the San Diego Historical Society and the University of California, San Diego. http://ceo.ucsd.edu/photographs/sdhs/photographs/ Topics: California Regions, California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife Last updated Aug 4, 2003 California Heritage Collection
"An online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture." Primarily a collection of photographs; also features stereoviews, stereographs, panoramic views, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, lettersheets, sketches, drawings, and other ephemera. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. A part of the Online Archive of California (OAC). http://content.cdlib.org/search?style=oac-img&facet-type-tab-join=or&facet-type-tab=image+cartographic+mixed&fieldList=text+keywords+title+description&keyword=calheritage Topics: California: History, California: Photograph Collections Last updated Dec 21, 2006 California Missions Foundation
Website for an organization "dedicated to the long-term preservation and restoration needs of all California missions and their associated historic and cultural resources for public benefit." Find brief information about each mission (with links to sites where available) and a timeline showing "the progress of mission development and how it fits into the context of California and United States history." Also learn about mission restoration needs and challenges of historic preservation. http://www.californiamissionsfoundation.org/home.html Topics: California: History Last updated May 24, 2009 CalPhotos
A collection of over 100,000 "images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes." Coverage is worldwide, with a special emphasis on California. Searchable by subject, scientific and common name, location, and photographer. Many of the photographs derive from the California Academy of Sciences. Includes information about the photographers. From the University of California, Berkeley. http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/ Topics: California: Environment & Energy, California: History, California: Science, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife Last updated Dec 29, 2005 The Castro
This online companion to a KQED documentary contains a historical overview of the San Francisco neighborhood and Supervisor Harvey Milk, photographs, a map, and a timeline (1941-1995). Also includes lists of related sites, books, videos, and San Francisco-based community organizations; lesson plans for teachers; and brief profiles of on-screen participants. http://www.kqed.org/w/hood/castro/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: History, California: History by Place, California: People, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered People, Notable People, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Feb 6, 2008 Chinatown
This online companion to the KQED documentary contains a brief history of the San Francisco neighborhood, a bibliography, a list of Chinatown community organizations, photographs, lesson plans for teachers, and related links. http://www.kqed.org/w/hood/chinatown/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: Education, California: History, California: History by Place, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Mar 23, 2005 The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
A collection of about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials illustrating "nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California." Includes original illustrations, cartoons, letters, diary excerpts, speeches, sheet music, and other images and printed matter. Search or browse the material by subject, name, title, group, or theme. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Social Issues Last updated Jul 15, 2006 Cliff House
A brief, illustrated history of this San Francisco landmark and the "various edifices that have carried the name Cliff House." Includes information on Adolph Sutro, the Camera Obscura, and the Musée Mécanique. From the Western Neighborhoods Project. http://www.outsidelands.org/cliffhouse.html Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: History, California: History by Place, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography Last updated Jul 6, 2005 Days of Cal: A Virtual Tour through UC Berkeley's History
Includes a brief history of UC Berkeley; a profile of Berkeley in the 1960s; a timeline (1849-2000); photographs; information on student traditions at Cal; UC Berkeley president inaugural addresses; the text of the 1868 charter that founded the University; profiles of chancellors; and lists of presidents, alumnus of the year, Nobel Prize laureates, notable faculty, and regents. Searchable. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHistory/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: Education, California: History, California: Photograph Collections, History, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Aug 22, 2006 Digital Anaheim
This site presents historic photos of Anaheim, California. Photos are browsable by subject area, such as American Indians, explorers, and the rancho period, or by decade. From the Anaheim Public Library. http://www2.anaheim.net/article.cfm?id=407 Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 11, 2004 Ericson Photograph Collection
Online images depicting "a wide variety of everyday northwest California scenes and activities from the 1880s through the 1920s. Lumber industry, Native Americans, city and village street scenes (primarily Arcata), schools, portraits, and scenic views ...," mostly by A.W. Ericson and his son, Edgar. The site also has a biography of A.W. Ericson, a regional map, and other resources to help put the collection in context. From the Special Collections of the Humboldt State University Library. http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/holdings/ericson.htm Topics: California Regions, California: History, California: People, California: Photograph Collections, Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photography Last updated Jul 26, 2005 The Fillmore
This online companion to a KQED documentary about the Fillmore, a "premier Black community" in San Francisco, includes an illustrated timeline (1860-2001); photos, maps, and video clips of locations and people; and information about and audio of local musicians. Emphasizes the effect of urban renewal on the neighborhood. Also includes lesson plans. http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: Education, California: History, California: History by Place, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Mar 30, 2005 Gay Bears: The Hidden History of the Berkeley Campus
Devoted to "the history of sexual minorities at [UC Berkeley] -- students, faculty, staff and visitors." Includes information on Douglas Tilden, Witter Bynner, Annie Alexander, Louise Kellogg, Rupert Brooke, Marlon Riggs, the White Horse Inn, and many other people, places, and events. From the University Archives, University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/gaybears/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: Education, California: History, California: People, California: Photograph Collections, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered People, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Aug 22, 2006 Guide to the Cased Photographs and Related Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collections, Bulk ca. 1845-ca. 1870
"Approximately 440 cased photographs and related images from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Included are daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes dating from the 1840s through 1860s. Also present are some painted miniature portraits as well as other photographic processes such as opalotypes, pannotypes, and crystoleum prints." Features portraits, mining scenes, California gold rush towns, and views of San Francisco and Sacramento. Also contains a glossary of photographic terms, and bibliography. From the California Digital Library. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf7p3006fv&query=cased&query-join=and&brand=oac Topics: California: History, California: Libraries, California: Photograph Collections, Geology, Photograph Collections, Photography Last updated Sep 5, 2006 Images of Lake Tahoe
Dozens of high-quality images of Lake Tahoe that "represent a wide range of topics, activities, geographical regions, and time periods." Searchable and browsable. From the Special Collections Department, University Library, University of Nevada, Reno. http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/specoll/photoweb/tahoe/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: History, Geography, Water Last updated Oct 6, 2009 The Lawrence & Houseworth Albums: Online Photographic Database
This collection of nearly 1,500 pictures from a photographic publishing company, "used for the selection of prints by its customers, is ... 'without doubt the finest single pictorial record of the maturation of Northern California and the Pacific Coast following the rambunctious days of the Gold Rush and statehood.'" Includes images of the states of California and Nevada, San Francisco and Sacramento, mining, buildings, landscapes, and Native Americans. From the Society of California Pioneers. http://www.californiapioneers.org/lh/ Topics: California: History Last updated Nov 8, 2005 LearnCalifornia.org
Homework and curriculum resources for students and teachers of California history. The site features documents and photographs contained in the California State Archives presented alongside thematically arranged collections of Internet links. Sample topics include the California Gold Rush, hydraulic mining, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Progressive era, and the Great Depression. Also includes lesson plans. Searchable and browsable by topic. From the California Secretary of State. http://www.learncalifornia.org Topics: California: Education, California: History, California: Photograph Collections, History, Lesson Plans, Photograph Collections: History Last updated May 25, 2005 Legacies of the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles
About 20 annotated photographs from the 10th Olympic Games. From a collection of some 600 official images held at the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL). http://www.lapl.org/virgal/laoly_32/ Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, Los Angeles & Environs, Photograph Collections, The Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future Last updated Oct 4, 2004 Magic Lantern Slides: The Berkeley Geography Collection
A collection of glass "magic" lantern slides of California, dating from about 1900 through 1915. Browsable by geographic area (North Coast and Coast Ranges, Klamath and Cascade Mountains, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Sierra Foothills, Central Coast and Coast Ranges, Southern California, and deserts). A "Geo-Images" site from the University of California, Berkeley. http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/LanternSlides/LanternSlides_TOC.html Topics: California: History, California: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections Last updated Aug 11, 2003 The Mission
This online companion to a KQED documentary contains a brief history, timeline, and photographs of the San Francisco neighborhood. Includes a bibliography, lesson plans for teachers, and a list of organizations located in the Mission. http://www.kqed.org/w/hood/mission/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: History, California: History by Place, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Religion Last updated Apr 7, 2005 Photographs and Historical Documents Relating to the South Asian Diaspora
A small collection of photographs (including Sikhs of the Sacramento Valley), images of Gadar publications from California (1916 through 1929), and other ephemera. From the South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/photos.html Topics: California: History, California: Photograph Collections, History, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 15, 2003 Photographs of Agricultural Laborers in California, ca. 1906-1911
Ethnic groups in this collection include Japanese farm laborers; urban Chinese; and Mexican, Italian, and East Indian workers and communities. The rural and urban locations include Fresno, Gilroy, Los Angeles, Merced, Palo Alto, Ryde, San Francisco, the San Joaquin River area, San Jose, the Stockton area, Visalia, and Woodland. Searchable and browsable. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. A part of the Online Archive of California (OAC). http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf200007qw Topics: Agriculture, California: Environment & Energy, California: History, California: Photograph Collections, History, Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Nov 6, 2009 Picturing California's Migrant Children: Orville Goldner's Photographic Trek of 1940
An online photography exhibit with an accompanying essay about the "children, their schools, and the living conditions [of] the 350,000 impoverished migrant workers who came to California during the mid to late 1930's." From Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. http://www.csuchico.edu/lspr/migrant/splash.html Topics: Agriculture, California: History, California: Photograph Collections, Emigration & Immigration, Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Nov 17, 2004 San Francisco After the '06 Earthquake
"Images from the days after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, including stereographs and anaglyphic (3-dimensional) views" of these topics: Destruction, People, Amidst the Rubble, The Hungry, The Homeless, and Recovery. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/SF1906/ Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, California: Science, Geography, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Jun 10, 2006 San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
This searchable database provides access to nearly 30,000 photographs covering San Francisco history from the 1850s to the present. The collection is strongest for the years leading up to 1965. The photos are digitized reproductions from the more than 250,000 photos in the San Francisco Public Library's Historical Photograph Collection. Besides searching the database, users can browse photos by subject. Information is also included on copyright, ordering, and using the images. http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/ Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Dec 9, 2003 San Joaquin Valley & Sierra Foothills Photo Heritage
This growing collection of thousands of historic photographs from the nine libraries of the San Joaquin Valley Library System (SJVLS) in California is browsable by subject or participating library, or searchable by keyword. Some images are annotated with information such as photographer, date, and description. Site includes contact information for questions about particular images. http://www.sjvls.org/photoheritage/ Topics: California Regions, California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections Last updated Jul 23, 2003 Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library: Collections
Thousands of "still images (prints, slides, negatives, digital images) of people, ships, oceanographic instruments, buildings, meetings, events, expeditions, marine environments & specimens collected by or associated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. These collections include works of individual photographers, ... collections of official photographs, ... & individual photo albums & single prints donated to the SIO Archives." From the SIO Archives, University of California, San Diego. http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sio/scripps-archives/resources/collections/ Topics: California Regions, California: History, California: History by Place, California: Photograph Collections, History, Photograph Collections Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Special Collections: Historic Photograph Collection
This site presents thousands of historic images of these northeastern California counties: Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, and Yuba. Explanatory and technical information is provided. Browse or search by keyword, name, place, photographer, county, or donor. Presented by the Meriam Library at California State University, Chico. http://cricket.csuchico.edu/spcfotos/photos2.html Topics: California Regions, California: History, California: Photograph Collections Last updated Apr 20, 2004 Suburbia: Photographs by Bill Owens
Images from "Suburbia" (1973), Bill Owens' "classic photographic description of the American suburban dream" (taken in Livermore, California, over the course of a year in the early 1970s). Includes essay. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/suburbia/home.html Topics: California: History, California: Photograph Collections, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photography, Society & Social Science, United States History Last updated Jun 12, 2006 A Timeline of San Francisco History
An illustrated timeline of San Francisco history (1579-1996). Includes links to external sites. From zpub.com. http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/sfh2.html Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Mar 30, 2005 The University of California at the Turn of the Century, 1899-1900
An exhibit about the University of California, Berkeley, during 1899-1900. Chronicles events, people, academic and student life, sports ("the axe"), places, and buildings. Features information on President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Competition, and architect John Galen Howard. Contains photographs, ephemera, and transcriptions of newspaper articles. Searchable; images browsable in the catalog. From the University of California History Digital Archives (UCHDA), University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/online_exhibits/1899/ Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: Education, California: History, California: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Aug 23, 2003 An 'Unvanished' Story: 5,500 Years of History in the Vicinity of Seventh & Mission Streets, San Francisco
Provides a history of the area around San Francisco's Seventh and Mission Streets, including information on the Costanoans, the Ohlone, and the building and restoration of the 1905 U.S. Court of Appeals Building, "described as one of the most ornate public buildings in America." Contains photographs, maps, and other ephemera. Includes a bibliography and related links. Prepared by the National Park Service, Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC). http://www.nps.gov/history/seac/sfprehis.htm Topics: Architecture, California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: History, California: History by Place, California: People, California: Photograph Collections, History, Maps of California, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Jun 20, 2007 |
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