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California
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 10th Annual 24 Hour Photoshoot at Joshua Tree National Park 
 Exhibit of a 2003 project in which "photographers and filmmakers of all skill levels began simultaneously photographing Joshua Tree National Park for 24-hours." Features selected photographs and videos of this park in Southern California and a brief introduction to the project. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/education/programs/digitalstudio/studio_programs/joshuatree2003/ Topics: National Parks & Forests Last updated Aug 23, 2006 86400 Moments: 24 Hours at Joshua Tree National Park
Collection of photos from a 2004 project in which "19 photographers and filmmakers of all skill levels ... [participated in] a stimulating 24-hour photography session at Joshua Tree National Park." Features selected photos of this park in Southern California and a brief essay about the project. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/joshuatree2004/default.htm Topics: National Parks & Forests Last updated Aug 22, 2006 Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book "Born Free and Equal," a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/ Topics: California: History, History, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Feb 17, 2007 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 Last updated Dec 21, 2006 California Rails
Several dozen railroad photographs taken by Harry Pidgeon and Will Connell between 1913 and the 1940s, including images of wrecks, locomotives, and lumber camps. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/survey/railroad/ Topics: Photograph Collections Last updated Jun 10, 2006 California State Railroad Museum
This museum is the home of twenty-three restored locomotives and cars and this site is an online guidebook to their history. It includes photographs of the exhibits, with detailed information on each one; a brief history of the railroad in America; short biographical information on Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Theodore Judah; and the driving of the gold spike at Promontory Summit in Utah. There are also a calendar of museum events and information on their volunteer program, library, and museum store. Directions, ticket information, and hours of operation are listed. http://www.csrmf.org/ Topics: Museums, Photograph Collections, Transportation Last updated Aug 23, 2002 CalPhotos: People and Culture
A collection of over a thousand photographs of people and their culture. Images are largely of California, but also for other states and other countries. Searchable by location, caption, type, continent, country, U.S. state, and photographer. From the University of California, Berkeley. http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/people/ Topics: Photograph Collections Last updated Jan 16, 2006 Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990
"The UCLA Department of Special Collections is selecting and digitizing approximately 5,000 of the more than 3 million images contained in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives. The photographs chronicle the history and growth of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1990." Photos are searchable, or browsable by subject. From the University of California, Los Angeles, Library. http://unitproj1.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/ Topics: Last updated Oct 18, 2009 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, Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Social Issues Last updated Jul 15, 2006 David Stock: Up for Grabs: California Landscape Today
Gallery of over a dozen "photographs of the California landscape" by David Stock. The photographs "document our subtle but pernicious intrusion into wilderness. These beautiful, large format images owe allegiance to the classic western landscape tradition yet are presented in a radically new way: as digital ink jet prints on paper." From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/stock/ Topics: Last updated Sep 20, 2006 Digger Archives: San Francisco Diggers (1966-68 ... and Beyond)
Devoted to the San Francisco-based "anarchist guerilla street theater group" from the 1960s, The Diggers. Contains a history, chronology, photos, publications, documents, articles, discussion forum, and more. http://www.diggers.org/ Topics: Activism, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections, Society & Social Science Last updated Sep 9, 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, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 11, 2004 Document: LA
A collection of photographs documenting Los Angeles, California. Browsable by theme (transportation, Hollywood, construction and deconstruction, amusement). From the Architecture and Fine Arts Library, University of Southern California. http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/slide/document/ Topics: Last updated Mar 21, 2004 Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience
An exhibit of over 80 annotated archival objects documenting "the resettlement experiences of refugees and immigrants from the former Indochina [in the United States and worldwide], with a special focus on materials pertaining to the large communities established in Orange County and California" during the mid-1970s through the 1990s. Contains photographs, maps, letters, and other items. Includes introduction and background information. From the Southeast Asian Archive, University of California, Irvine. http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/seaexhibit/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Regions of the World, Regions of the World, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 9, 2003 The Dorothy Morehead Hill Collection: California Native American Legacy and Tradition
This "collection consists of over 35 years of field notes, interviews, and still and video images. It contains audio, video, photographic and printed items representing the history, culture, customs, economics and social life of the Native Americans in northeastern California." Selected materials are available online and are searchable or browsable by places, tribes, subjects, and other factors. Also includes information about items only available at the Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. http://eagle.csuchico.edu Topics: California: History, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Jun 21, 2005 Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
An illustrated history of early Indian immigrants to California (primarily Sikhs from Punjab), featuring photographs, documents, and publications. Explores the passage to America, work, prejudice, the Gadar Party, the Stockton Sikh Temple, students, the exclusion of women, the Thind Decision (1923), the Luce-Cellar Act (1946), Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, and the Immigration and Nationality Act (1965). From the South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes.html Topics: California: History, Emigration & Immigration, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Aug 9, 2003 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: History, Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photography Last updated Jul 26, 2005 Ghost Town Gallery
A couple who have visited ghost towns across six western states have posted hundreds of photographs online. The photos include Bodie, California; Virginia City, Nevada; Clarkdale, Arizona; and Silver City, Utah, along with towns in Montana, Idaho, and Colorado. Dozens of towns in each state are listed and there's a collection of links to more information on each town. Users can send an electronic postcard with an image from the gallery. The photos are copyrighted, and give an incredible impression of each unique place. http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/ Topics: California: History, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History Last updated Aug 13, 2002 Ira Nowinski: The Photographer as Witness
Ira Nowinski, a San Francisco photographer, has been documenting the world's Jewish communities for more than 30 years. This online exhibit offers a selection of his work, featuring photographs of Holocaust sites, Soviet Jews in San Francisco, and Karaite communities (followers of "a variant of post-biblical Judaism that follows a literal application of principles laid down in the Hebrew Scriptures, or the Old Testament"). From Stanford University Libraries. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/exhibits/nowinonline.html Topics: Judaism, Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography Last updated Apr 14, 2005 Italian Vineyard Company at Guasti
A collection of early 20th century photographs of the Italian Vineyard Company (located in Southern California), featuring images of field and winery workers, grape processing, winery interiors and exteriors, and vineyards. Photos include descriptive information. From Cal Poly Pomona University Library. http://www.csupomona.edu/~library/specialcollections/guasti/ Topics: Wine Last updated Dec 27, 2005 Jack London and the Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906
Writings and photos by Jack London and his wife from the period following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. "The journeys on foot, horseback, and automobile of Jack and Charmian London through the blackened, twisted debris of earthquake country ... produced both words and images that help define this country's greatest urban disaster." Features more than 200 photos from his albums, pages from Charmian's diary, and a timeline of London's life. From the California Historical Society. http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/ Topics: California: History Last updated Mar 14, 2006 The Jack London Collection
A searchable and browsable collection of full-text writings, correspondence, postcards, telegrams, manuscripts, official documents, and photographs relating to the California author. Includes a brief biography, bibliographies, and research aids. Sponsored by the Sonoma State University Library. http://london.sonoma.edu/ Topics: Correspondence, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People Last updated Feb 1, 2006 Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive
This searchable collection of over 200 photographs from the Los Angeles Examiner "documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during World War II [primarily from 1941-1946]." Most of the photos cover life in the camps at Manzanar, Santa Anita, Tanforan, and Tule Lake, and post-war repatriation to Japan. From the Digital Archive, University of Southern California (USC). http://digarc.usc.edu/search/controller/view/jarda-m4.html?view=1 Topics: California: History, History, Photograph Collections: History, United States History, World War II Last updated Aug 17, 2007 JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
"Documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps," this searchable site provides access to tens of thousands of images and pages of electronic transcriptions. Includes photographs, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, oral histories, and documents. Also features an overview essay about Japanese American relocation. From the California Digital Library. http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/ Topics: Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Mar 26, 2007 John Pitcher Spooner California Stereograph Collection
"This collection consists of stereographs taken by John Pitcher Spooner in California between approximately 1875 and 1905. Most of the photos are of Stockton and include downtown businesses and buildings, private homes, local farms, the Stockton Rural Cemetery, and the California State Hospital and Insane Asylum." Features a searchable and browsable collection of over 280 images, and a brief biography and stereograph definition. From Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific, Stockton. http://library.pacific.edu/ha/digital/spooner/ Topics: Last updated Mar 3, 2009 Journey to Mecca: Works by Max Yavno
A brief exhibit of photographs by Max Yavno representing "two different countries, cultures and decades from a variety of sites in California and Egypt." The California photographs are mainly from the 1940s, and the Egypt photographs are from 1979. Includes biography of the photographer. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/yavno/ Topics: Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography Last updated Jun 10, 2006 Kern County Museum: Historic Photos
Selected photos of Bakersfield and Kern County, California, including images of agriculture, landmarks, "lost treasures," homes, people, hotels and motels, the Kern River, music and musicians, World War II, the Dust Bowl, and the 1952 Kern County earthquake. From the collection of the Kern County Museum. http://www.kcmuseum.org/stories/storyReader$786 Topics: Last updated Mar 23, 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 Lawrence and Houseworth Collection
"More than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. ...The photographs depict major settlements, boom towns, placer and hydraulic mining operations, shipping and transportation routes, and such points of scenic interest throughout northern California and western Nevada as the Yosemite Valley and the Calaveras Redwoods. The collection also includes an extensive pictorial survey of mid-nineteenth-century San Francisco." Searchable and browsable. From the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lawhouhtml/lawhouabt.html Topics: Geology, Parks, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Technology Last updated Mar 2, 2005 The Lehmers at Berkeley
This online exhibit profiles mathematicians Derrick Norman Lehmer, Derrick Henry Lehmer, and Emma Trotskaia Lehmer, known for research in number theory, computational mathematics, and Fermat's Last Theorem. Features photographs, notes, covers of publications, and letters. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Math/ Topics: California: Education, California: History, Correspondence, Mathematics, Notable People, Photograph Collections Last updated Aug 22, 2006 Life as He Knew It: Photographs of Black Los Angeles From the Walter Gordon Collection
Companion to an exhibition that "is part of a collaborative effort between USC [the University of Southern California] and other local organizations to preserve community memory. This display allows the public to interact with the fifty-eight photographs" from the collection of Walter Gordon, "a practicing attorney in Los Angeles for sixty-seven years ... [who] became acquainted with many notable members of the African-American community." Photos are from the mid-20th century. http://www.usc.edu/libraries/about/programs_exhibitions/exhibitions/gordon/blog/ Topics: Black Resources, California: History, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Jan 24, 2007 Los Angeles Aqueduct Photographs
A collection of over 20 photographs compiled by Joseph Barlow Lippincott, dated 1906 through 1914, documenting the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Includes biographical information on Lippincott. From the Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/aqueduct.html Topics: Notable People, Science, Technology, Water Last updated Aug 10, 2003 Los Angeles: Past, Present & Future
A wonderfully diverse collection of resources on the city of Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Although the site includes information on present day LA and glimpses of the future, it is particularly good for historic photographs and images of early Los Angeles. Maintained by the Information Services Division of the University of Southern California and dedicated to its original creator the late Dennis Thomison, a Reference Librarian at USC. http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/la/ Topics: Last updated Dec 19, 2008 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, Photograph Collections Last updated Aug 11, 2003 Migrant Labor Camp Photographs From the Harry Everett Drobish Papers, 1935-1936
"This collection of 63 photographic prints of various sizes documents migrant labor camps in California. ... Included are photographs of groups and buildings at the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp and other camps in Kern County, California. Also included are photographs of Hooverville in Sacramento, some taken by the California State Emergency Relief Administration." 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/tf738nb5fr Topics: Agriculture, Emigration & Immigration, History, Labor, United States History Last updated Sep 5, 2006 Migrant Workers Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Photographs documenting conditions in migrant labor camps in California's Imperial Valley, taken in February and March of 1937 under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html Topics: Agriculture, Labor, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated Dec 19, 2008 Nike Missile Sites of the San Francisco Bay Area
The Nike missile program operated between 1954 and 1974. This site lists information about 24 named Nike locations that ring the San Francisco Bay Area. Each of the Nike sites consists of position information (longitude, latitude, and elevation), a topographic map of the area, a description, photographs of the site, and a list of other nearby Nike sites. Part of the Nike Missile Webring. http://www.acme.com/jef/nike/ Topics: Weapons Last updated Apr 20, 2004 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, 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: History, 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, Emigration & Immigration, Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Nov 17, 2004 Picturing the Century: Portfolio: Dorothea Lange
Several photographs by Dorothea Lange, documenting conditions in California during the Great Depression and World War II. Includes a short biography of Lange. From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/portfolios/port_lange.html Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: History, Photography Last updated Jul 28, 2005 A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble
This 2007 exhibition features photos of Los Angeles by John Humble, whose images "explore the postmodern qualities of America's second largest city" by focusing on "the urban landscape and the Los Angeles River." The website companion provides an essay, several photos from the exhibit (some with accompanying sound clips from the photographer), and two short videos of the artist talking about Los Angeles. From the Getty Center, Los Angeles. http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/humble/ Topics: Last updated Jun 6, 2007 Riverside in Pictures
Collection of historical photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries of Riverside, California. "The exhibit captures changing faces of the Downtown district, Mission Inn, Mount Rubidoux," U.C. Riverside, and other areas. Includes images of neighborhoods, annotated images of selected sites, and historic and contemporary maps. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/riverinpicts/ Topics: Last updated Aug 23, 2006 Sacramento History Online
"A joint project of four Sacramento County [California] institutions to digitize and catalog over 2000 items from their collections. The project's goal has been to document agriculture and transportation in the Sacramento region from the mid 19th to early 20th century." Contains books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and more. Searchable and browsable. http://sacramentohistory.org/ Topics: Last updated Jul 4, 2005 San Diego Historical Society
An overview of the history of San Diego from the time of the missions to the present. There are biographical sketches, a timeline, photos, exhibits on the California Pacific and Panama-California Expositions, and the full text of some articles from the Journal of San Diego History . Searchable. http://www.sandiegohistory.org/index.html Topics: Last updated Jul 29, 2002 San Fernando Valley History Digital Library
A searchable and browsable collection of over 2,000 documents, manuscripts, photographs, and other graphic materials showing the socioeconomic and cultural changes of the San Fernando Valley from the beginning of the 19th century. From the California State University, Northridge Library. http://digital-library.csun.edu/ Topics: Last updated Nov 11, 2002 San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection: Great Fire and Earthquake of 1906
"The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection contains over 1,700 digitized images of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. These images depict scenes taken both during and after the three-day event, and include neighborhoods, buildings, refugee camps, and the process of reconstruction." Photos are browsable by subject. From the San Francisco Public Library. http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/equake-browse.htm Topics: California: History Last updated Mar 14, 2006 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: History Last updated Jul 23, 2003 Santa Cruz County Local History
Hundreds of articles and local newspaper accounts about this California county's history have been put online by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Many of the articles are illustrated with photographs from their Photo Collection , which contains over 1000 described photographs, dating from the 1860s to the 1990s. In addition, this site has extensive facts and statistics, a fun history quiz game (easy, medium, hard), lists of local government officials, and an extensive section on movies filmed in Santa Cruz County. Searchable. http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/ Topics: Last updated Aug 9, 2002 Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Archives: Histories
Essays, biographies, and administrative histories by staff of the Archives of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Includes photographs of and information about the philanthropy of Ellen Browning Scripps and the Scripps family, oral histories, and an essay about Hugh Bradner's invention of the wet suit. From the SIO, University of California, San Diego. http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/archives/histories/ Topics: California: Education, Education, Geology, History, Science Last updated Apr 17, 2007 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: History, History, Photograph Collections Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Silicon Valley History Online
The goal of this site "is to create a gateway to the major historical resources of California's Santa Clara Valley. You will find photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, menus, programs from events, and many other materials from local libraries, archives, and museums." Searchable, or browsable by topic (agriculture, education, people, technology, transportation, and urban life). Also includes lesson plans. http://www.siliconvalleyhistory.org Topics: Correspondence, Lesson Plans Last updated Nov 10, 2004 Southern California's Drive-Ins
"A tribute to the drive-in movie theatre in Southern California." Contains photographs and brief descriptive information on theaters of the past and present. Includes related links. http://www.socaldriveins.com/ Topics: Film, Movies, & Video Last updated Dec 30, 2005 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: History Last updated Apr 20, 2004 Tony Culver: Memorial Retrospective
Collection of photographs by this street photographer "shot over the decade of the mid 80s to the mid 90s [that] speak to his fascination with Southern California culture." Includes an introductory essay and a small collection of photographs of people on the street and beaches of Southern California. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/culver_memorial/ Topics: Photograph Collections Last updated Aug 22, 2006 Turnabout Theatre: Virtual Tour
"Photographs and information on Turnabout Theatre, a Los Angeles revue that was well-known from 1941 to 1956. Consisting of adult marionette comic drama, live music and comedy, it was the culmination of the careers of The Yale Puppeteers: Harry Burnett, Forman Brown, and Richard Brandon." There are many photographs of Elsa Lanchester, Odetta, other performers, and theater props in a searchable archive, plus information about Brown's novel, "Better Angel." From the Los Angeles Public Library. http://dbase1.lapl.org/turnabout/ Topics: Crafts, Hobbies, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections Last updated Jan 5, 2006 UC Berkeley Library Digital Collections
A searchable and browsable guide to the digital collections of the UC Berkeley libraries. Subjects include agriculture, architecture, business and industry, the Gold Rush, Chinese communities, social movements, the 1906 earthquake, and California places such as Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Yosemite. Browsable formats include maps, stereographs, photographs, and oral histories. From the University of California, Berkeley, Library. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/digicoll/ Topics: Last updated Sep 12, 2006 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: Education, California: History, Photograph Collections Last updated Aug 23, 2003 University of Southern California: USC Digital Archive
The archive provides digital resources on Los Angeles and southern California: "digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, as well as audio and video recordings." Includes collections devoted to African Americans, Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese relocation camps, and more. From the University of Southern California (USC). http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/index.htm Topics: Photograph Collections: History Last updated Sep 22, 2009 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: History, History, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Jun 20, 2007 War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945
A searchable and browsable collection of over 7,000 photographs and 300 Kodachrome slides taken by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II, documenting the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans evacuated from California, Oregon, and Washington state. Also includes images of pre-evacuation and resettlement. Includes hundreds of photographs by Dorothea Lange. 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/tf596nb4h0 Topics: History, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, World War II Last updated Jul 3, 2006 |
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