Research Guides: History 130

Calisphere
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

University of the Pacific’s Digitized Special Collections
http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu

"The Chinese in California" 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html

The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco
http://www.sfmuseum.org

The San Francisco Call, 1900-1910
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

Sunset Magazine, 1888-1998
http://sunset-magazine.stanford.edu/ -- see “covers” and “themes” for digital images

The California Historical Society
http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/online.html

“California as I saw It:” First Person Narratives of California’s Early Years"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
*not a strong resource for images, but great for full text of first-hand accounts of life in California during this time period.

For more information regarding the difference between primary and secondary sources:
http://library.pacific.edu/subjects/history/calhistory_guidetosources.asp

Reference Books (library-use only):

• California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants REF F865.H92c
• California’s Geographic Names REF  F859,D87 1998
• Dictionary of American History REF E174 .D59 1976
• Dictionary of California Historic Places REF F862.D53 1997
• Encyclopedia of the American West REF  F591 .E485 1996
• Historic Spots in California REF F862.H57 2002
• New Encyclopedia of the American West REF F591.N46
• Reader’s Companion to American History REF E174 .R43 1991 

Circulating Books (can be checked out!)

• Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000  NX 510.C2 B37 2000
• California: The Golden Shore by the Sundown Sea F 866.2. H97 1988
• Land of Golden Dreams: CA in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858  F865.B6523 1999
• California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants (primary source text) F865 H92c 2003
• Calaveras County: Illustrated and Described (primary source text) F868. C16 C14 1976
  

Circulating Books by California historian, Kevin Starr

(See each book’s chapter descriptions – great for helping you choose or investigate potential topics!)

• Americans and the California dream, 1850-1915 F861 .S82 1986 (also available electronically)
• Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era F867.S8 1985
• Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace 1940-1950 F866.S786 2002
• The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s F866.S78 1997

More information about finding books and library databases related to California history:
http://library.pacific.edu/subjects/history/calhistory.asp

All images at top courtesy of Calisphere
left to right:
Crate label for the Orange Fruit Company, Orange, California, ca. 1945
Black Panthers Press Conference, January 21, 1969
“Going to America,” by artist Henry Sugimoto, 1980