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California
Heritage Digital Image Access Project
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/calheritage/
An online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating
California's history and culture
California
Historical Landmarks
http://www.donaldlaird.com/landmarks/
Photographs of 949 historic sites and commemorative plaques
California
History Online
http://www.californiahistory.net/
An overview of the history of California from the California
Historical Society
Chinese
Historical Society of America
http://www.chsa.org/
This site is dedicated to the study, documentation, and dissemination
of Chinese American history.
The
Donner Party
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/donner/
The program transcript. and background materials related to
the PBS documentary "The Donner Party"
The
Gold Rush
http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/
This PBS site takes an in-depth look at the California Gold
Rush.
Gold
Rush!
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/
A virtual tour of exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California
KQED
Public TV
http://www.kqed.org/programs/tv/hood/
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco. Profiles
of four San Francisco neighborhoods: The Fillmore, Castro,
Chinatown, and Mission.
Missions
of California
Missions
eBooks
Missions
of California eBook series.
Museum
of the City of San Francisco
http://www.sfmuseum.org/
Online exhibits include 1849 California Gold Rush, Great Earthquake
and Fire of 1906, Construction of the Golden Gate and Bay
Bridges, Chronology of San Francisco World War II Events,
Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969, 1989 San Francisco
Earthquake, etc. There are also biographies of many prominent
Northern Californians.
Oral
History Online!
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/
U. C. Berkeley's oral history project has two sites related
to California history: The Free Speech Movement and
The Earl Warren Oral History Project:, the latter focusing
on Warren's years as Governor of California.
Orchard
Chronicles
http://home.earthlink.net/~ahickling/orchardindex.html
Oral histories of four Californians (from Santa Clara County,
Modesto, and an internment camp experience).
San
Francisco Historical Photograph Collection - San Francisco
Public Library
http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/browse.htm
Contains photographs and works on paper of San Francisco and
California views from 1850 to the present. Browse the collection
or search the SFPL catalog.
San
Francisco History
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/
A comprehensive site featuring the complete text of articles
and books dealing with the history of San Francisco
Suffering
Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese
American Internment at Manzanar
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/
Ansel Adams' 1943 photographs of Japanese Americans interned
at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California.
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