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Alumni directory [Stanford University] and ten-year book    FHB   1901-1910    1891-1920

The Autobiography of Charles Peters, (b1825)  in 1915 the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in...the days   LC

Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences.     by Oscar Tully Shuck.  Goo   1889   1901 

Berkeley culture, University of California highlights, and University extension, 1892-1960   by Leon J. Richardson   1962  OpL

The Women's Faculty Club of the University of California, Berkeley, 1919-1982   1981   OpL

Californica      by William Hathorn Mills,   1848-1923     San Bernardino, Calif : Barnum & Flagg Company, 1919     OpL    

California: An Intimate History     by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton   1914    Goo

California and New Mexico.   United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor) Washington, 1850     MoA   

California '46 to '88   by Jacob Wright Harlan - Overland journeys to the Pacific – 1883   Goo

California, from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in ...    by Josiah Royce – 1886   Goo

California Inter Pocula     by Hubert Howe Bancroft -California Gold discoveries   1888   Goo

California Men and Events: Time 1769-1890    by George Henry Tinkham 1915    Goo

California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines ,     by Leonard Kip    LC  

The California State Land Settlement Act: what has been done & plans for the future [planned rural development   1919  Har

California Under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847: A Contribution Toward the ...     by Irving Berdine Richman   1911    Goo

California volunteers in the "Spanish-American war of 1898". by California. Adjutant General's Office.    1899   Arc   OpL

A century of Mormon activities in California,   FHA  vol 1   vol 2

Chimes of Mission Bells: An Historical Sketch of California and Her Missions   ( Account of SF Chinatown)     by Charles Warren Stoddard.    1911      Cal  

City Directories, Blue & Telephone Books:  

Blue books    The New society blue book; San Francisco, Oakland , Piedmont, Alameda, Berkeley, Hillsborough, Burlingame, San Mateo, Redwood, Woodside, Atherton, Menlo Park, San Rafael, Ross, Belvedere, Sausalito, Mill Valley, etc      by Marguerite M   Pinchard,  1928   Arc

California blue book .    State Printing Office  OpL  1911 

City and County Directory of Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte and Tehama Counties Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley and San Leandro street address telephone directory     Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company   Arc 

Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory      Polk-Husted Directory Co  Arc   1887    1923    1924    1925    1926    1927

Polk's Oakland (California) city directory R.L. Polk & Co      1921  1928   1930   1933   1934   1935   1937   1938   1939   1940  1941   1967   1969

Polk's Chico (Butte Co) City Directory--Chico, Oroville, Biggs, Durham, Gridley, Hamilton City, Palermo, Paradise, Stirling City, and Wyandotte  CSU   1912    1913

Polk's Chico (Butte County, Calif.) City Directory. Includes Oroville.   CSU   1914    1915    1916   1921   1922

Chico City Directory. Includes: Scollard's Oroville Directory. Title on spine: Scollard's Butte County Directory  CSU   1904-05

Polk's Chico (Butte County, Calif.) City Directory. Includes Oroville, Biggs, Durham, Gridley   CSU   1918

Polk's Chico (Butte County, Calif.) City Directory. Includes Chico, Oroville, Biggs, Durham, Gridley, Hamilton City, Paradise, Stirling City   CSU  1911 

          Chico City Directory   CSU  1907   1909   1910 

Directory of San Diego City, Coronado and National City   Arc  1892

Who's who in Berkeley    by George Sutcliffe, comp  1917

City and County Directory of Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte and Tehama Counties  CSU  1881

The city of the saints: and across the Rocky mountains to California.    b y Richard Francis Burton, Sir, 1821-90.    New York: Harper & brothers 1862.   MoA

The civil code of the State of California : as enacted in 1872, amended at subsequent sessions, and adapted to the constitution of 1879, with references to the decisions in which the code was cited, and an appendix of general laws upon the subjects embraced in the code - California. Laws, statutes, etc    Arc

Colusa County: Its History Traced from a State of Nature Through the Early...    by Justus H. Rogers  1891    Goo

The Condition of Affairs in Indian Territory and California ,     by Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter     LC

Coronado Beach, San Diego county , California.  Arc

Cutter Laboratories, 1897-1972     by Cutter Laboratories.   University of California, 1972   OpL

Descriptive List of the Libraries of California: containing the names of all persons who are engaged in library work...     by James Louis Gillis. 1904   Goo

Directory of Palo Alto, Mayfield, Stanford University, Ravenswood and East Palo Alto    W. L. Hall,  1886  Arc    OpL

Palo Alto, California 1926 City Directory   DC  1926  

Register of the alumni of the Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892-1899 ‎   Stanford Alumni Association  1899   Goo

Directory of the Grape Growers and Wine Makers of California.     by California. Board of State Viticultural Commissioners   Goo    1888      1891  

Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851    LC

Early days at the mission San Juan Bautista   LC

The Early Days and Men of California     by William F. Swasey 1891   Goo

Early recollections of the mines, and a description of the great Tulare valley.     LC

Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to ...   by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Butler King - California   –   Goo    1850   vol 1     1870  

Eldorado: Or, California as Seen by a Pioneer, 1850-1900    by David Augustus Shaw 1900    Goo

Emigration by Colony for the Middle Classes "special advantages of Florida";Calif. land settlement    by James   Selwin Tait,   Ednbg, 1885    Har

The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon & California   [Calif. & Oregon trail; promotional]    by Lansford Warren Hastings,   1819-ca 1870     1846    LC BYU     UVa  

The Establishment of State Government in California 1846-1850    by Cardinal Goodwin 1916   Goo

Fairfield 's pioneer history of Lassen County, California; containing everything that can be learned about it from the beginning of the world to the year of Our Lord 1870 ... Also much of the pioneer history of the state of Nevada ... the biographies of Governor Isaac N. Roop and Peter Lassen ... and many stories of Indian warfare never before published   by Fairfield , Asa Merrill, 1854-   Arc   Goo

The Forty-niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado    by Stewart Edward White - California National Historic Trail – 1918   Goo

Fourteenth anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers      by Society of California Pioneers Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882 Honeyman, Robert B     San Francisco : printed at the Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864    OpL   

Fourth annual report of the Alameda County Department of the Oakland Free Library for the fiscal year 1913-1914 - Oakland Free Library. Alameda Co Dept    Arc

A good life : dairy farming in the Olema Valley : a history of the dairy and beef ranches of the Olema Valley and Lagunitas Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California   Arc

Guide to the County Archives of California .    by John Francis Davis. 1919   Goo

Handbook and Directory of Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Mateo Counties:...    by Luther L. Paulson, 1875  Goo

An historical sketch of Los Angeles county, California.   by Juan José Warner     L. Lewin & co., 1876    Goo

Greater Los Angeles & Southern California by Burdette, Robert J.   The Lewis Publishing Company, 1910    OpL 

The Herald's history of Los Angeles City    1901   Arc

The Indians of Los Angeles County:   LC

Los AngeLos Angeles from the mountains to the sea: with selected biography ...   by John Steven McGroarty   1921     Goo   vol 1p;   vol 2 vol 3   

Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles ...    by John Steven McGroarty, 1862-1944.   1914    Goo

Historical souvenir of El Dorado County ,California : with illustrations and biographical setches of its prominent men & pioneers     by Paolo Sioli,   Arc

History and Business Directory of Humboldt County [Calif.]: Descriptive of the Natural Resources...     by Lillie E. Hamm, 1890   Goo

History of Amador County, California, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers    by Jesse D Mason,    Oakland, Cal., Thompson & West, 1881  Arc  OpL

History of California.    by Theodore Henry Hittell.  N.J. Stone & co.   1897      Goo

The conquest of California and New Mexico, by the forces of the United States, in the years 1846 & 1847      by James Madison Cutts   1847    OpL

Early days in California    LC

The early days of California   by Thomas Jefferson, Farnham,   1804-1848.    Philadelphia,: J. E. Potter, 1859.   MoA

The golden state: a history of the region west of the Rocky Mountains; embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington Territory, British Columbia, and Alaska, from the earliest period to the present time ... with a history of Mormonism and the Mormons.    By Rolander Guy McClellan  1872     MoA

The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories of the North ...‎     by Robert Greenhow   1845    Goo

History of California: From Its Discovery to the Present Time...    by Elisha Smith Capron - Gold mines- 1854   Goo

History of California: The American Period    by Robert Glass Cleland 1922   Goo

A History of California: The Spanish Period. by Charles Edward Chapman. 1921    Goo

History of California: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft.    by Hubert Howe Bancroft.   1888    Goo

A History of the New California: Its Resources and People    by Leigh Hadley Irvine   1905   Goo

Illustrated Historical Sketches of California: Together with a More Ample History of Sacramento ...  by John Frederick Morse , Samuel Colville  Arc

Misrepresentations of early California history corrected      by Society of California Pioneers Sterett Printing Company    1894    OpL

Northern California, Oregon, & the Sandwich Islands     by Charles rdhoff,   1830-1901   MoA

Oregon and California in 1848    by Jessy Quinn Thornton 1864    Goo

Recollections of a Newspaperman: A Record of Life and Events in California ,    by Frank Aleamon Leach , 1846-61   1917   Arc    LC

Recollections of California, 1846-186 ,    by William T. Sherman   LC

Seventy-five years in California; a history of events and life in California: personal, political and military; under the Mexican regime; during the quasi-military government of the territory…revised edition of "Sixty years in California"     by William Heath Davis, 1929   LC   text    image

The story of California    1920    Goo

History of Kern County, California   by Wallace Melvin Morgan    Historic record company, 1914    OpL

History of Napa County , comprising an account of its ... topography, geology .. early settlements ..     by  W. F.  Wallace,    Arc

History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892.   by Winfield J. Davis. 1893    Goo

History of San Diego, 1542, 1542-1908: An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Pioneer Settlement ...  by William Ellsworth Smythe 1907 Arc   vol 1bsp;   vol 2

The History of San José and Surroundings: With Biographical Sketches of ...     by Frederic Hall Goo

History of San Mateo County, California: Including Its Geography, Topography ...      1883    Goo

History of Santa Clara County , California      by J. P. Munro-Fraser   1881  Arc   Goo

History of Sebastiani Vineyards, 1955-present    by L. Doug Davis   Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2001    OpL

History of Solano County ...and histories of its cities, towns...etc. ..    by J. P Munro-Fraser,     Arc

History of the Donner Party - A Tragedy of the Sierra.     by   C. F. McGlashan.    1922   Gut

California, In-doors and Out; Or, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in ...     by Eliza Wood Farnham - Donner Party – 1856   Goo

Diary of Patrick Breen, one of the Donner Party, 1846-1847 .      Frederick J. Teggart   1910   Ca

The location of site of Breen Cabin; General C.F. McGlashan, Donner Party historian, declares present pioneer monument covers exact spot where hut stood. Array of interesting facts presented relating to early investigation of sites of various cabins occupied by members of ill-fated pioneer party      Native Sons of the Golden West. Historic Landmarks Committee   Arc

History of Tulare and Kings counties, California    by Eugene L. Menefee   1913  OpL

History of Washington Township, Alameda County, California - Country Club of Washington Township (Calif.)   Arc

Hupa Texts ["Northern California, Humboldt County, on the Trinity River"] (Amer Arch. & Ethnology)    by Pliny Earle Goddard,   NY 1904    ST

Ingersoll's century annals of San Bernadino County, 1769-1904 : prefaced with a brief history of the state of California : supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and embellished with views of historic subjects and portraits of many of its representative people - Ingersoll, Luther A., 1851-   Arc  

Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities : prefaced with a brief history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County, 1542 to 1908 : supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative people   Arc

The Indians of southern California in 1852    LC

IrrigatiIrrigation & religion; religious & social conditions in & California counties    by Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner,    NY, 1922   Cor

The Irish Race in California and on the Pacific Coast: With an Introductory Historical Dissertation on the Principal Races of Mankind, and a Vocabulary of Ancient and Modern Irish Family Names. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., 1878.   Har 

Japanese Immigration & the Japanese in California    by   Farmers Co-op. Assn [Farmers; Alien Land Law Act]   1920?]   DBI

Kaiser Industries, Trefethen Vineyards, the University of California and Mills College, 1926-1994      by Eugene E. Trefethen,   1997    OpL

Lake County, Cal., illustrated and described: showing its advantages for homes    by W.W.  Elliott & Co, 1885   Goo

The Lake of the Sky, Lake Tahoe, in the High Sierras of California and ...   by George Wharton James   1915   Goo

Land titles in California. Report on the subject of land titles in California, made in pursuance of instructions from the secretary of state and the secretary of the interior,    by William Carey Jones,   1814-1867.    Washington,: Gideon & co., printers, 1850.   MoA  

The last of the Mill Creeks, and early life in northern California,    LC

A letter from a gold miner, Placerville, California, October, 1850,    LC

The Life of Bret Harte: With Some Account of the California Pioneers.    by Henry Childs Merwin.  Houghton Miffin Co.  1911   Goo

Location of the Sutter by-pass.    by California. Reclamation Board. 1916   OpL

Memorial records , Society of colonial wars in the state of California. 1903       Society of colonial wars. California Harry Woodville Latham, A.B.--Alfred Lee Brewer, D.D.--Capt. Charles Lee Collins, U.S.A.--Col. Wm. Anthony Elderkin, U.S.A.--Elisha Williams McKinstry, LL.D   Arc

Memories; my seventy-two years in the romantic county of Yuba, California,    by William Turner Ellis b1866; intro by Richard Belcher.    Eugene, University of Oregon,  San Francisco,  J. H. Nash 1939   LC

Men of the Pacific coast: containing portraits and biographies of the ...‎    by Pacific Art Company    1903    Goo

Menlo Park, California 1926 City Directory   DC   1926

Moreno's dictionary of Spanish-named California cities and towns by Henry Manuel Moreno   Holmes, 1916   OpL

The natural wealth of California: ... history, geography… commerce; immigration,a detailed description of each county., Cronise, Titus Fey.   MoA

The Negro trail blazers of California: a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley ; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ...      by Delilah Leontium Beasley,  1871-1934   Arc

A new map of the gold region in California   by Charles Drayton Gibbes. 1851  Har

Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849- 50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California."     By Samuel Curtis Upham, 1819-1885.  Philadelphia, The author, 1878.   LC

An Open Letter; A Protest and a Petition from a Citizen of California to the United States Congress.   by Joseph Hampton Moore.   187?      Gut

The ordinances of the city of Palo Alto: A municipal corporation of the State of California…      Stnfrd   1911  UCa

Oeganizing and reporting on labor in the East Bay, California and the West, 1925-1987 : oral history transcript / 1987  Ward, Estolv Ethan, 1900- ive   Arc

Oriental immigration on the Pacific Coast  [St. Bd. Charities & Correction, Calif. Address at Buffalo NY]    by W. Almont Gates,   1909?    UCa

Past and Present of Alameda County, California    by Joseph Eugene Baker   1914  Arc   vol 1   vol 2       Goo

Catalogue of the Free Public Library of the City of Alameda, California, 1889    Arc

The centennial year book of Alameda County, California : containing a summary of the discovery and settlement of California, a description of the Contra Costa under Spanish, Mexican, and American rule, an account of the organization and settlement of Alameda County ... also, a gazetteer of each township...  biographical sketches of prominent pioneers and public men     by  William Halley  Arc

Past and present of Alameda County , California:    Goo   vol 1   vol 2 

The Patrons of husbandry on the Pacific coast.: Being a complete history of the origin… agriculture... a general and special grange directory, and full list of charter members of the subordinate granges of California.      by   Ezra S. Carr, (Ezra Slocum), 1819-1894.     San Francisco,: A. L. Bancroft and company, 1875.   MoA  

A picture of pioneer times in California, illustrated with anecdotes and stories taken from real life.   by William Grey [pseud. for   William Francis White, 1829-1891?    1881    LC   text

Pleiades - Fullerton Union High School    Arc  1938   1957   1972

Ranch life in California [ Burns Valley , near Lower Lake, Modoc County]   Extracted from the home correspondence of Evelyn M.H.     London, W.H. Allen & co., 1886.   LC   View text

Recollections of Ferry Point , Richmondng, California: oral history transcript / 1985     by Vincent, John Andrew, 1912- Bancroft Library.   Regional Oral History Office Online Archive of California Dunning, Judith Quay, James Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, 1990    OpL

Recollections of Point San Pablo and San Francisco Bay-   [Thomas Crowley, 1875-1970. Afr-Am]    by Alan Howe Clarke   University of California [History- Richmond-San Rafael Ferry and Transportation Co. Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor]      1990    OpL

Recollections of Pioneer Work in California ,     by James Woods     LC

Register of officers of the National Guard of California   by California. Adjutant-General's Office. (By Authority of the Adjutant General, 1896  OpL 

Reminiscences of a ranger, or, Early times in Southern California    by Major Horace Bell 1830-1918. Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, 1881. LC

Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of the State of California     by Henry Jacob Labatt 1858    Goo

Report of the debates in the Convention of California, on the formation of the state constitution, in Sept. and Oct., 1849      by John Ross Browne (1821-75) official reporter    1850   LC     MoA

Report of the Div. of Land Settlement, Dept of Public Works of California to accompany ...    1922   Har

Report of the debates in the Convention of California, on the formation of the state constitution, in... 1849 LC

Reports of Decisions in Probate      by California Superior Court (San Francisco).   Probate Dept, James Vincent Coffey, Peter V. Ross   1909    Goo

San Juan Capistrano Mission    by Zephyrin Engelhardt 1922     Goo

San Diego Yesterdays: Being Sketches Incidents in the Indian, Spanish, Mexican and American History of the City of San Diego...       DAR, Tex.  San Diego Chapter  1921    Goo

Santa Barbara and around there.     by Edwards Roberts. Illus by H.C. Ford.  Boston, Roberts brothers, 1886   LC

School architecture in California.   by California. Dept. of Public Instruction.  California State Printing Office, 1914   OpL

Seeking the Golden Fleece: A Record of Pioneer Life in California: to which   annexed Footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California; with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin     by Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman - Voyages to the Pacific coast   1877     Arc   Goo

The Shasta [Indians of North America — California]   by Roland Burrage Dixon   American Museum of Natural History, 1907    OpL

Silver jubilee memorial     Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Oakland, Cal., 1868-1893.     1893   OpL

Six decades of making wine in Mendocino County, California   by John A. Parducci   1992   OpL

Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913... reminiscences of Harris Newmark, 1834-1916    ed Maurice H. Newmark; Marco R. Newmark ...    2d ed   NY The Knickerbocker press 1926    LC

Society of California Pioneers:     OpL      14th anniversary 1864         12th anniversary   1870  

Sonoma County Coroner's inquests, 1852-1898   FHB

Inventory of records, 1847-1980, office of the Clerk, Sonoma County, California   FHB

Marriage records, 1843-1889   FHB

Sonoma County death records, 1873-1905   FHB

Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles ...    by John Steven McGroarty, 1862-1944.   1914    Goo

A Southern California Paradise (in the Suburbs of Los Angeles)...    by R. W. C. Farnsworth - San Gabriel River Valley  1883    Goo

The Spanish Pioneers And The California Missions     by Charles F. Lummis    A. C. McClurg & Co., 1936   OpL

The Spanish press of California (1833-1844     by Robert Ernest  Cowan, 1862-1942   .1902 HT

Spirit of Patriotism as evidenced by the Revolutionary & Ancestral Records of the Society, Sons of the Revolution.   Sons of the Rev. Calif. Soc.    1915    UCLA

The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature    by Ella Sterling Mighels   1893  Goo

Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 .   by Hichborn.   1909   Gut

A California Supreme Court justice looks at law and society, 1964-1996 : oral history transcript / 1997     by Allen E. Broussard,  1929-1996   Arc

T. Butler King's report on California.: Message from the President … special agent to California ...    by Thomas Butler King,   1800-1864.    1850    MoA

Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers...    1906    cdl

The Times Cook Book, No. 2: 957 Cooking & Other Recipes...   by California Women; Brought Out By The 1905 Series    Los Angeles Times (Ca.)   1905? MSU

Torch (Yearbook  -  Fullerton Junior College)   1950    1957    1969  

The Transition Period of California: From a Province of Mexico in 1846 to a ...    by Samuel Hopkins Willey 1901    Goo

Twentieth anniversary of the Corporate Society of California Pioneers      by Society of California Pioneers Mizner, Lansing Bond, 1825-1892 Spear, Thomas G     San Francisco, 1870   OpL

The United States Consulate in California    by Rayner Wickersham Kelsey 1910   Goo

The University's Class of 1912,  [University of California  1868-1952 ]  investment banking, and the Shurtleff family history    by Roy Lothrop Shurtleff   1981    OpL

The Vigilance Committee of 1856. By a Pioneer California Journalist.    by James O'Meara.    1887    Ca

Welsh People of California, 1849-1906.     by David, Hughes.  San Francisco: [s.n.], c. 1923.  Har 

Who's who in Music in California      by Willey Francis Gates 1920    Goo

Who 's who on the Pacific Coast: A Biographical Compilation of Notable Living ...     by Franklin Harper - California – 1913   Goo

 

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