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  • Percy Gray, 1869-1952, by Donald C. Whitton and Robert E. Johnson. Pref. by Joseph A. Baird, Jr. With an introd. by Thomas Albright and a concluding essay by Lewis Ferbraché.

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    • San Francisco, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MCX G778.W6Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The West remembered; artists and images 1837-1973. Selections from the Collection of Earl C. Adams. Compiled by Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Photos. by Armando Solis.

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    • San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text MAMY 73-2078Offsite
  • California history.

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    • [San Francisco] California Historical Society.
    • 1978-present
    • 32 Items
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    Text JFM 84-98 v. 92, no. 2 (Summer 2015)Offsite
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    Text JFM 84-98 v. 92, no. 3 (Fall 2015)Offsite
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    Text JFM 84-98 v. 92, no. 4 (Winter 2015)Offsite
  • To the promised land : photographs / by Ken Light ; introduction by Richard Rodriguez ; essay by Mary Jo McConahay ; oral histories by Samuel Orozco.

    • Text
    • [New York] : Aperture, in association with the California Historical Society, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text MFX (Light) 89-20242SASB - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • California historical quarterly [microform].

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    • San Francisco, California Historical Society.
    • 1922-1978
    • 12 Items
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    Text *ZAN-7670 v. 41 - 45 (Mar - Dec, 1962 - 1966)Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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    Text *ZAN-7670 v. 46 - 50 (Mar - Dec, 1967 - 1971)Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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    Text *ZAN-7670 v. 51 - 56 (Spr - Win, 1972 - 1977)Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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  • William Alexander Leidesdorff portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <195-?>
    • 1950-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Leidesdorff, William AlexanderSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Los Angeles from the days of the pueblo; together with a guide to the historic old Plaza area including the Pueblo de Los Angeles, State historical monument.

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    • [San Francisco] California Historical Society [1959]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXH (Los Angeles) (Robinson, W. W. Los Angeles from the days of the pueblo)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • African Americans in California / Richard J. Orsi, editor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, consulting editor.

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Ser.-M .C26698 fall 1996Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Contested Eden : California before the Gold Rush / edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi ; illustrations editor Anthony Kirk ; associate editor Marlene Smith-Baranzini.

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    • Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXG 98-4188Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Donner Pass and those who crossed it; the story of the country made notable by the Stevens Party, the Donner Party, the gold-hunters, and the railroad builders. With old and new illus. showing the pass in summer and winter.

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    • San Francisco, California Historical Society [1960]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
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    Text HAE p.v. 697 no. 1-8Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Noticias de la Nueva California, escritas por el rev. padre fr. Francisco Paloú ...

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    • San Francisco, Impr. de E. Bosqui y cia, 1874.
    • 1874
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF 1874 (Palou, F. Noticias de la Nueva California)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • James Clyman, American frontiersman, 1792-1881; the adventures of a trapper and covered wagon emigrant as told in his own reminiscences and diaries; edited by Charles L. Camp.

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    • San Francisco, California Historical Soc., 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KF 1928 (Clyman, J. James Clyman, American frontiersman)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Navidad, a Christmas day with the early Californians, by Arturo Bandini. Pastorela, a shepherds' play, translated, with a note, by Gwladys Louise Williams.

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    • San Francisco, Published by the California Historical Society [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KP (Kennedy) (Bandini, A. Navidad)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Christmas at Rancho Los Alamitos, by Kathaarine Bixby Hotchkis. Illustrated by Clement Hurd.

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    • [San Francisco] California Historical Society, 1957.
    • 1957
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KP (Kennedy) (Hotchkis, K. B. Christmas at Rancho Los Alamitos)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Christmas in the gold fields, 1849. The reminiscences of Joseph J. McCloskey & Hermann J. Sharmann, with illustrations taken from contemporary letter sheets.

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    • San Francisco : Published by the California Historical Society, [1959]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KP (Kennedy) (McCloskey, J. J. Christmas in the gold fields)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The Peraltas and their houses, by J.N. Bowman.

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    • San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1951.
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KP (Westgate) (Bowman, J. N. Peraltas and their houses)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The Burrell letters, including excerpts from Birney Burrell's diary, and "Reminiscences of an octogenarian." A contribution to Santa Clara county history. From the original manuscripts, edited and with an introduction and notes by Reginald R. Stuart.

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    • Oakland, Calif., 1950.
    • 1950
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KP (Westgate) (Burrell, C. W. Burrell letters)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Adventures on the plains [microform] by Charles Cardinell.

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    • Cleveland, The A.H. Clark Co., 1922.
    • 1922-1922
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZH IAG p.v. 382-389Offsite
  • Rooted in barbarous soil : people, culture, and community in Gold Rush California / editors, Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi ; illustrations editor, Anthony Kirk ; associate editor, Marlene Smith-Baranzini.

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    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXG 01-3257Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Notes from the California Historical Society.

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, 1949-1957.
    • 1949-1957
    • 4 Items
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    Text IAA (California Historical Society. Notes) v. 10-15 (1958-63)Offsite
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    Text IAA (California Historical Society. Notes) v. 16-20 (1964-68)Offsite
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    Text IAA (California Historical Society. Notes) v. 21 (1969)Offsite
  • Papers of the California Historical Society / California Historical Society.

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    • San Francisco : The Society, 1887-
    • 1887-
    • 2 Items

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    Text IAA (California Historical Society. Papers) v. 1Offsite
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    Text IAA (California Historical Society. Papers) v. 2-3Offsite
  • Courthouses of California : an illustrated history / edited with an introduction by Ray McDevitt ; foreword by Chief Justice Ronald M. George.

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    • San Francisco, Calif : California Historical Society ; v Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text JQG 02-622Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Theodore Wores in the southwest / edited by Stephen Becker.

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society ; Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
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    Text JGG 08-25Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Noticias de la Nueva California [electronic resource] / escritas por el Francisco Paloú.

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    • San Francisco : Impr. de E. Bosqui y cia, 1874.
    • 1874
    • 1 Resource

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  • California historical quarterly [electronic resource].

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, 1971-1978.
    • 1971-1978
    • 1 Resource

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  • California Historical Society quarterly [electronic resource].

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, 1922-1970.
    • 1922-1970
    • 1 Resource

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  • California history [electronic resource].

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, 1978-
    • 1978-present
    • 2 Resources

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  • The oldest and the newest empire [electronic resource] : China and the United States / by William Speer.

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    • Hartford, Conn. : S.S. Scranton and Co., 1870.
    • 1870
    • 1 Resource

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  • Los Angeles, 1781-1981 / presented by the California Historical Society ; [Larry L. Meyer, guest editor].

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, ©1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 22-14Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Only what we could carry : the Japanese American internment experience / edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri.

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    • Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books ; San Francisco, Calif. : California Historical Society, [2000], ©2000.
    • 2000-2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text D769.8.A6 O55 2000Off-site
  • The Harry Whitfield Harnish collection : a checklist of glass negatives, slide plates, film negatives, and prints depicting sceneries, people, and edifices from Northern Luzon to Zamboanga (1898-1907) donated by the California Historical Society to the University of the Philippines Library.

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    • Diliman, Quezon City : The Library, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Text AA1527 H249 FOff-site
  • To the promised land / photographs by Ken Light ; introduction by Richard Rodriguez ; essays by Mary Jo McConahay ; oral histories by Samuel Orozco.

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    • [New York, N.Y.] : Aperture in association with the California Historical Society, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F870.M5 L54 1988Off-site
  • Adventures on the plains ...

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    • San Francisco, California historical society, 1922.
    • 1922
    • 2 Items
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    Text Off-site
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    Text US 38098.49.385Off-site
  • Across the Sierras in winter / [photographs by Howard Clinton Tibbitts ; introduction by Janet R. Fireman].

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    • San Francisco, Calif. : California Historical Society, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text F868.S5 T52 2001Off-site
  • When the French came to California / by Gilbert Chinard. California unveiled : a translation of Treny's La Californie dévoilée / by Désiré Fricot.

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, 1944.
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
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    Text 1108.252Off-site
  • Drake's plate of brass authenticated : the report on the plate of brass / by Colin G. Fink and E.P. Polushkin ; with a foreword by Allen L. Chickering and a biographical note on Professor Fink by Joel H. Hildebrand.

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    • San Francisco : California Historical Society, 1938.
    • 1938
    • 1 Item
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    Text E129.D7 F565 1938Off-site
  • Only what we could carry : the Japanese American internment experience / edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri.

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    • Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books ; San Francisco, Calif. : California Historical Society, [2000]
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text D769.8.A6 O55 2000Off-site
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