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History by Subject Page 1

California – General

1915 Springs of California

“Founding of San Francisco,” by Edward F. O’Day – 1776

Founding of the Mission Dolores – 1776

“Missions of the Spanish Era...,” by F. Gordon O’Neill

Russians Settle at Fort Ross – 1812

“Ranch and Mission Days of Alta California,” by Guadalupe Vallejo

"Life in California Before the Gold Rush," by John Bidwell

Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe–Hidalgo – 1846-1848

California Governors, 1849 – Present

Gen. Frémont and the Bear Flag Revolt – 1846

The California Bear Flag – 1846

Gold Rush Stories of Women Pioneers

William T. Sherman and California Before the Gold Rush – 1847

News of the Donner Party Reaches San Francisco – 1847

California Constitution – 1849

How San Francisco Received Its Name – 1850

Slavery and California Statehood,by Rockwell D. Hunt

Early History of California Schools by Will C. Wood

Early History of California Laws by Jeremiah Sullivan

San Francisco and the Civil War, by Charles B. Turrill – 1861

California and the Civil War Site

The New California Constitution – 1879

Henry George Publishes Progress and Poverty – 1879

Wells, Fargo & Company – 1880

Wells, Fargo & Company's Mail Facilities – 1880

Lower California as a Negro Home – 1891

“Californian Literature,” by Arthur Inkersley – 1897

“Fact Finding about the Stanfords in the California State Library,” by Caroline Wenzel

A Great Express and Banking Company – 1906

Exit the Night Hawk – 1914

The Cliff Dwellers – 1918

Upton Sinclair and the EPIC Plan

Northern California Folk Music from the 1930s

San Francisco – African Americans

From the Diary of Alvin Coffey, African American 49er – 1849

Biography of William Leidesdorff

Biography of Adah Isaacs Menken

African American Rights During the Gold Rush Era

Slavery and California Statehood by Rockwell D. Hunt – 1850

San Francisco and the Civil War, by Charles B. Turrill – 1861

Lower California as a Negro Home – 1891

Zulu Prince with Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Alcatraz – 1899

“Bishop Arnett on the Negro” – 1900

Refugee Revolt at Lafayette Square – 1906

Black-oriented Barbary Coast Resorts, Cabarets, and Saloons – 1908-1910

Henry Starr, Early Radio Entertainer - 1931

Gladys Bentley at Mona's Club 440 – 1942

“Japanese-Negro Fifth Column” – 1942

Autobiography of Thomas Fleming of the Sun-Reporter

San Francisco – Alcatraz

Zulu Prince with Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Alcatraz – 1899

San Francisco – Art NEW ADDITION

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San Francisco – Automotive

Early History of the Auto in San Francisco

Techau Tavern Gives Away Car – 1912

Duesenberg Automobile Advertisement – 1925

New Ford Town Car Advertisement – 1929

Roster of Motor Car Dealers – 1931

New Hupp Skylark Automobile Arrives at the World’s Fair – 1939

49-Mile Scenic Drive in 1938

49-Mile Scenic Drive in 1958

San Francisco – Barbary Coast

Chinatown, Barbary Coast Gambling, Vice and Prostitution – 1871

A Melodeon Artist – 1876

Sailor "Boarding Masters," ETC – 1881

Barbary Coast - An Odd Corner of San Francisco � 1887

Barbary Coast Resorts, Cabarets and Saloons – 1908-1910

Sophie Tucker Visits the Barbary Coast – 1911

The Barbary Coast Must Go! – 1912

Helping Fallen Women of the Barbary Coast – 1917

Out of the Crowd – 1928

Barbary Coast Modernization Drive – 1937

San Francisco – Bridges

Charles Alton Ellis

Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta Program, 1937

Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta Program Day Pass, 1937

Bridging San Francisco Bay – 1872

Golden Gate Bond Issue Goes to the Voters – 1930

Rioting Stops Construction of Bay Bridge – 1934

Construction of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges – 1935

U.S.S. California Passes Under the Golden Gate Bridge – 1936

Bay Bridge Smashups Cause Traffic Troubles – 1940

Bay Bridge Earthquake Damage Photos – 1989

“Symphonies in Steel: Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate,” by John McGloin, S.J.

San Francisco – Broadcasting

Radio – 1927

"S.F. Man's Invention to Revolutionize Television"– 1928

Debut of Carlton E. Morse’s “One Man’s Family ” – 1932

Don Lee Television to Soon Come to San Francisco – 1939

New NBC Studios for San Francisco – 1940

“New Zanies on the Radio” (Coyle and Sharpe), by Dwight Newton – 1963

Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe Skit

KGO-AM Radio Tower Collapse – 1989

KFRC-AM – San Francisco KPO-AM – see: Edna Fischer

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees

RCA Shortwave Station KER – 1945

Ocean Beach Wireless Station – 1912

San Francisco – Business NEW ADDITION

The Sunday Law and the Saloon-Keepers – 1881

A Great Industry – 1886

Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Company – 1887

San Francisco Flower Stands – 1927

San Francisco – Cemeteries

The Removal of the Cemeteries

Map of Yerba Buena Cemetery – 1851

Hurry Up – 1887

Devastation in Cities of Dead – 1906

Laurel Hill Burial Crypt of Samuel T. Woodworth – 1937

BART Sued by Cypress Lawn to Protect California History – 1997

San Francisco – Chinese

The Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred – 1849

Photograph: “Chinese Girl with Bound Feet”

Chinese Miners in the Gold Fields – 1860

Chinatown Gambling and Vice – 1871

View Inside a Chinese Opium Den

Anti-Chinese Sentiments in San Francisco – 1874

Kearneyism in California, by Viscount James Bryce – 1877

Kearneyism, The Chinese, and Labor Unrest – 1877

“You Sabe Him? Kealney Must Go!” – 1877 by Jerome A. Hart – 1877

Remarks by Denis Kearney on Kearneyism in California

“The Kearney-Kalloch Epoch,” by Jerome A. Hart – 1879

The New California Constitution – 1879

“Chinatown Declared a Nuisance!”– 1880

Scene in a Chinese Opium Palace – 1880

Chan Pak Kwai – 1881

“China’s Menace to the World,” By Thomas Magee – 1890

Arrest in Chinatown – 1897

Arnold Genthe Photograph of Chinatown – 1898

Tour of Chinatown – 1900

Chinese Telephone Company – 1901

Why Chinatown has Remained Where it is – 1902

Funeral of Tom Kim Yung – 1903

Chinese Orphans Escape the Great Fire – 1906

“Asiatic Coolie Invasion” – 1906

Mayor Schmitz Bars Coolie Labor from Earthquake Reconstruction – 1906

Treatment of Chinese Refugees Following the 1906 Earthquake

Plans to Relocate Chinatown – 1906

China’s Empress-Dowager Contributes to Chinese Relief – 1906

National Guard Members Loot Chinatown – 1906v

Relief for the Chinese – 1906

Smuggling of Chinese Slave Girls Thwarted – 1912

In Chinatown (Chinese Women Vote) – 1912

Chinatown Tong Wars of the 1920s

Chinese Wedding Mid Scenes of Splendor - 1924

Brief History of Chinatown, by Jesse B. Cook – 1931

English-Language Newspaper for Chinatown – 1940

Ronald Reagan at Charlie Low's Forbidden City – 1942

Paper Sons – 1969

Chinese Clothing

“Celebrating Chinese New Year,” by Audrey Wong – 1995

San Francisco – Churches

Founding of the Mission Dolores – 1776

Mission Dolores Rancho

San Francisco Churches in the 1850s

History of the First Baptist Church of San Francisco

Bishop Arnett on the Negro - 1900

A Misplaced Love Letter - 1912

New Canon Kip House Opens – 1942

San Francisco – Clubs – Fraternal – Social

Turnverein's May Festival – 1856

Schuetzen Verein Club – 1859

Bohemian Club – 1885

Olympic Club Corner-Stone – 1891

New Olympic Club Building to Open – 1912

Sotomayor’s View of the Family Club –1929

San Francisco - Commerce

1852-1937 The Changing Pageant of Golden Gate Commerce

San Francisco – Committees of Vigilance

First Committee of Vigilance – 1851

Second Committee of Vigilance – 1856

The Hanging of Casey and Cora

Committee of Vigilance Proclamation – 1856

Funeral of James King of William – 1856

Judge David S. Terry Stabs a Vigilance Committee Policeman – 1856

Gen. Sherman and the Committee of Vigilance – 1856

Memoirs of an 1856 Committee of Vigilance Member

The Vigilantes – 1906

San Francisco – Crime

Execution of Jose Forner – 1852

Police Chief Patrick Crowley – 1870s

Capture of Black Bart in San Francisco – 1883

Preparedness Day Bombing – 1916

Coroner Leland Urges Gun Control – 1934

San Francisco – Districts

Tour of San Francisco – 1856

San Francisco vs. The Sand-Lot – 1880

San Franciscans at the Ocean Beach – 1880

The Men in the Telegraph Hill Job – 1887

The Utilization of Wave Power – 1887

An Important Sale – 1896

Tour of Chinatown – 1900

Suggestions for City Improvement – 1902

The Duboce Tunnel – 1927

Barbary Coast

San Francisco – Earthquakes

Comparison of Burned Districts of San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore

California Earthquakes 1769 – 1994

Earthquakes of 1800 and 1808

Ft. Tejon Quake Felt in San Francisco – 1857

Great Oct. 8th, 1865 San Francisco Earthquake

Wreck of Popper’s Building – 1865

Mark Twain’s Description of the 1865 Earthquake

Report on Damage to the Custom House – 1865

October 21st, 1868 San Francisco Earthquake

Photographs: 1868 Earthquake Damage

Photograph: 1868 Damage to Railroad House and Rosenbaum’s Tobacco Warehouse

Effect of the 1868 Earthquake on Property Values

Earthquake at Inyo County -1872

“The Earthquake,” by John Muir – 1872

No Earthquake Danger in San Francisco – 1872

Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906

United Railroads' Great Work – 1906

Foreign Assistance to San Francisco During the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

Photographs: 1906 Earthquake Damage

Portals of the Past – 1906

“Early Work for Earthquake Research in California,” by Thomas J. Maher – 1929

Earthquake of March 1957

Earthquake and Fire of 1989

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