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Title Author
Year Published
Subject
Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific Frederick William Beechey 1831 Diary
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant 1848 Personal Recollections
Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers W. H. Emory 1848 Autobiography
Report of the Debates in the Convention of California John Ross Browne 1850 History
Deck and Port; Incidents of a Cruise in the U.S. Frigate Congress to California Walter Colton 1850 ?
El Dorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey Bayard Taylow 1850 Biography
Los Gringos; or, an inside view of Mexico and California Wise, Lt. U.S.N. 1850 ?
Life, Adventures, and Travels in California T. J. Farnham 1851 ?
History of California from its Discovery to the Present Time Elisha S. Capron 1854 History
The Annals of San Francisco Frank Soule 1855 SF History
A True and Minute History of the Assassination of James King of William at San Francisco California Frank Fargo 1856 Committee of Vigilance
California, In-doors and Out; or How we Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State Eliza W. Farnham 1856 ?
Trial of David S. Terry by the Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco Davis S. Terry 1856 Committee of Vigilance
Life, Explrations and Public Services of John Charles Fremont Charles Wentworth Upham 1856 Biography
Three Years in California J. D. Borthwith 1857 Biography
McGowan vs. California Vigilantes Edward McGowan 1857 Committee of Vigilance
An Overland Journey, From New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 Horace Greeley 1860 ?
Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California Including the Mammoth Trees of Calaveras; the Natural Caves and Bridges of Calaveras and El Dorado; the Yo-Semite Valley; the Mammoth Trees of Mariposa and Frezno; Mount Shasta; the Quicksilver Mines of New Almaden and Henriqueta; the Farallone Islands; the Geyser Springs, etc. James Mason Hutchings 1861 Travel in California
The Colonial History of San Francisco John W. Dwinelle 1866 SF History
Bancroft's GuideBook of the City and County of San Francisco A. L.Bancroft & Co. 1873 Guide Book
Men and Memories of San Francisco in the Spring of '50 T. A. Barry & B. A. Patten 1873 SF History
The Resources of California John S. Hittel 1874 History
The California of the Padres; or, Footprints of Ancient Communism Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes 1875 Mission History
History of the Public School System of California John Swett 1876 Education
California Sketches Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald 1879 Stories about Californians
To San Francisco and Back. By a London Parson Harry Jones 1879 Travel
Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer Peter Hardeman Burnett 1880 Personal Recollections
The Last Days of the Republic P. W. Dooner 1880 History
The Chinese in America, A National Question. An Address Delivered in Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, December 21, 1879, and in the State Capitol at Sacramento, January 16, 1880. O. C. Wheeler 1880 ?
Reminiscences of a Ranger Horace Bell 1881 Personal Recollections
My First Holiday; or Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California Caroline H. Dall 1881 Travel Stories
Occidental Sketches Benjamin Cummings Truman 1881 Travel
A Popular California Flora, or, Manual of Botany for Beginners Volney Rattan 1882 Botany
California Sketches - Second Series (also called "New Series") Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald 1883 Stories about Californians
San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56, with some Interesting Sketches of Events Succeeding 1846 Frank M. Smith 1883 SF History
Life of Venerable Padre Juniperro Serra Francisco Palou 1884 Mission History
Indian Wars of the Northwest Anthony Bledsoe 1885 History
Glimpses of Three Coasts Helen Hunt Jackson 1886 Travel
California: American Commonwealths Josiah Royce 1886 History
Reminiscences and Incidents John Henry Brown 1886 Personal Recollections
To and Fro in Southern California Emma H. Adams 1887 ?
Life and Adventures (Pacific Press, Oakland) Col. L. A. Norton 1887 Autobiography
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the City and County of San Francisco for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1887 ? 1887 SF Government
Annals of the California Gold Era Hubert Howe Bancroft 1888? History
Underground Opium Den in San Francisco H. F. Farny 1888 SF Chinatown
The Experiences of a Forty-Niner During Thirty-Four Years Residence in california and Australia Charles D. Ferguson 1888 Autobiography
California of the South. Its Physical Geography, Climate, Resources, Route of Travel, and Health-Resorts. being a Complete Guide-Book to Southern California Walter Lindley and J. P. Widney 1888 ?
A California Tramp and Later Footprints; or, Life on the Plains and in the Golden State Thirty Years Ago, with Miscellaneous Sketches in Prose and Verse T. S. Kenderdine 1888 ?
The Every Day Cookbook Miss E. Neill 1889 SF Examiner Press
Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes. Unpublished Letters of General W. T. Sherman General W. T. Sherman 1891 ?
In Remembrance of the Midwinter International Exposition, San Francisco, CA Zum, Andenken 1894 ?
The Mountains of California John Muir 1894 Nature
The Tariff Speech of Hon. George C. Perkins, of California in the Senate of the United States George C. Perkins 1894 Political Speech
The Gas and Petroleum Yielding Formations of the Central Valley of California W. L. Watts 1894 Geology
Adolph Sutro: A Brief Story of a Brilliant Life Eugenia Kellogg Holmes 1895 Biography
Pioneers of Prosperity David H. Walker 1895 ?
Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers - Santa Clara County California The San Jose Mercury 1896 County History
The Valley Road. A History of the Traffic Association of California, the League of Progress, the North American Navigation Company, the Merchant's Shipping Association and the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Arthur Wheeler 1896 Transportation
Two Health Seekers in Southern California Wiiliam A. Edwards and Beatrice Harraden 1897 ?
Ti: A Story of San Francisco's Chinatown Mary E. Bamford 1899 SF Chinatown
McTeague, A Story of San Francisco Frank Norris 1899 Novel
Why a Rich Yankee did not Settle in California Addison Awes, Jr. 1900 ?
The Transformation of Job Frederick Vining Fisher 1900 High Sierras Stories
Famous Missions of California William Henry Hudson 1901 Mission History
The Splendid Idle Forties Gertrude Atherton 1902 Novel
By the Golden Gate or San Francisco with Scenes and Incidents, Characters Joseph Carey 1902 ?
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1903 ?
The Denby Children at the Fair Mary E. Bamford 1904 Midwinter Exposition Story
The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mt. Vesuvius Horror Charles E. Banks & Opie Read 1906 SF History
The Diary of a Forty-Niner Chauncey L. Canfield editor 1906 Fiction
A Merry Crusade to the Golden State Edmund Frederick Erk 1906 ?
Entomology in Outline: Compiled for the use of County Horticultural Commissioners and Fruit-Growers John Isaac 1906 California Agriculture
The City That Was Will Irwin 1906 SF Travelogue
Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco John Castillo Kennedy 1906 SF Earthquake
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire Charles Morris 1906 SF Earthquake
San Franciso During the Eventful Days of April, 1906 James B. Stetson 1906 SF Earthquake
San Francisco's Great Disaster: A Full Account of the Recent Terrible Destruction of Life and Property by Earthquake, Fire and Volcano in California and at Vesuvius Sydney Tyler 1906 SF Earthquake
Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam Hubert Howe Bancroft 1907 SF Earthquake
The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Rediscovery of the Port of Monterey; The Establishment of the Presidio, and the Founding of the Mission of San Francisco George Davidson 1907 History
Annual Reports of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company 1905-1908 ? 1908 Rail History
History of California Helen Elliot Bandini 1908 History
Autumn Leaves Ardelia M. Barton 1908 ?
Eradicating Plague From San Francisco Frank Morton Todd 1909 SF History
The Story of Romona's Marriage Place in San Diego Thomas P. Getz 1910 ?
Heroes of California George Wharton James 1910 ?
History of the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board Joseph L. King 1910 History
Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 William C. Lobenstine 1910 Gold Rush Diary
The Men Who Made San Francisco ? 1910 ?
The Regenerators - A study of the Graft Prosecution of San Francisco Theodore Bonnet 1911 History
California the Golden Rockwell D. Hunt 1911 ?
The Life of David C. Broderick - A Senator of the Fifties Jereniah Lynch 1911 Biography
California - Its History and Romance John S. McGroatry 1911 History
Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco 1915 ? 1911 Panama Pacific Exposition
The Beginnings of San Francisco - 2 Volumes Zoeth Skinner Eldredge 1912 History
Report on the Improvement & Development of the Transportation Facilities of San Francisco Bion J. Arnold 1913 SF History
The Story of the Pony Express Glenn D. Bradley 1913 American History
California 1849-1913 or The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State Lell Hawley Woolley 1913 SF History & Committee of Vigilance of 1856
California - An Intimate History Gertrude Atherton 1914 History
Junipero Serra; The Man and His Work A. H. Fitch 1914 Biography
The Rainfall of California Alexander G. McAdie 1914 Weather
Circular of Information - Panama-Pacific International Exposition Department of Fine Arts 1914 Panama Pacific Exposition
Information for Visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco - 1915 Rainier Beer 1914 Panama Pacific Exposition
Yosemite and Its High Sierra John H. Williams 1914 Yosemite
Condensed Facts Concerning the Panama-Pacific Universal Exposition - San Francisco 1915 - Celebrating the Opening of the Panama Canal. ? 1914 Panama Pacific Exposition
San Diego - Panama California Exposition San Diego County Board of Supervisors 1914 Panama California Exposition
Argentine Trade with the World - Panama Pacific International Exposition ? 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Mining Week ? 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
The Panama Canal at San Francisco 1915 Panama Canal Exposition Co. 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Popular Information ? 1915? Panama Pacific Exposition
The Peoples Easy Guide to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition ? 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Salmon Cook Book - How to Eat Canned Salmon ? 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Tour of the Governor of Pennsylvania Members of His Staff and the Pennsylvania Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission ? 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
The Story of a Great Achievement American Telephone and Telegraph Co. 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Before the Gringo Came Gertude Atherton 1915 History
The Department of Commerce - Panama-Pacific International Exposition Edition 1913 U.S. Deptartment of Commerce 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Catalog of the Exhibit of the Department of State at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco, Calfornia 1915 U. S. State Dept. 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Guide to San Francisco and the Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915 Baldwin Piano Company 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Storied Walls of the Exposition Katherine Delmar Burke 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J Smeaton Chase 1915 Fictional Mission Stories
Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Sheldon Cheney 1915 Art of Panama Pacific Exposition
The Inscriptions at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco 1915 Porter Garnett 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
The General Electric Company at the Panama-Pacific Exposition General Electric Company 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Byways Around San Francisco Bay W. E. Hutchinson 1915 Nature
Japan and her Exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition Kyokwai Hakurankwai 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Panama-Pacific - Panama-California Souvenir 1915 International Harvester Company 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Palaces and Courts of the Exposition Juliet Helena Lumbard James 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
From San Francisco to the Orient. [Voyage to Japan: Yokohamakamakura, Kobe Nagasaki, Formosa, Hong Kong, Canton, Manila & Formosa: A Very Small Guide Book.] Toyo Kisen Kaisha 1915 Travel
Los Angeles Today Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1915 Facts about Los Angeles
San Francisco and the Panama-Pacific Universal Exposition James Henry MacLafferty 1915? Panama Pacific Exposition
San Francisco, The Queen City ? 1915 San Francisco
San Francisco and Vicinity - When the Golden Gate ... is Golden ? 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco - 1915 ? 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
Southern Pacific Building Southern Pacific Railroad 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
California and the Expositions - Yellowstone National Park - How to Go and What to See Enroute Union Pacific System 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition
A Brief Guide to the Palace of Fine Arts - Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Post Exposition Period Michael Williams 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition
Impressions of the Art at the Panama-Pacific Exposition Christian Brinton 1916 Panama Pacific Exposition
Journal of the Sufferings and Hardships of Captain Parker H. French's Overland Expedition to California Which Left New York City, May 13th, 1850, and Arrived at San Francisco, December 14th Captain Parker H. French 1916 ?
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Katharine Berry Judson 1916 Folklore
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 Harris Newmark 1916 Biography
San Francisco: The City of the Golden Gate Joseph Pennell 1916 ?
From a Window on Russian Hill ... San Francisco Edward Robeson Taylor 1916 ?
Law & Order in San Francisco. A Beginning ? 1916 ?
Exposition Memories. Panama-California Exposition, San Diego 1916 George Wharton James 1917 ?
Pasadena, California, Historical and Personal. J. W. Wood 1917 Pasadena history
Legends of San Francisco George W. Caldwell 1919 ?
The House of Berenndsen. Thirty Years of history of an Enthusiastic Youth an Energetic Man & A leading Wholesale Firm of San Francisco Anton B. C. Kalkhorst 1919 ?
Building the Pacific Railway Edwin L. Sabin 1919 Railroad History
The Adolfo Stahl Lectures in Astronomy. Delivered in San Francisco, California in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronimical Society of the Pacific ? 1919 Astronomy
Santa Barbara and Montecito, Past and Present John R. Southworth 1920 Santa Barbara History
Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey 1921 SF Stories
The Spirit of 1906 George W. Brooks 1921 San Francisco Earthquake
The Story of the Exposition (5 Volumes) Frank Morton Todd 1921 Panama-Pacific Exposition
History of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1851 - a study of social control on the Californiacs Mary Floyd Williams 1921 History
The City of the Golden Gate a Description of San Francisco Samuel Williams 1921 ?
Facts About the Port of San Francisco ? 1921 SF History
A History of California: The American Period Robert Glass Cleveland, Ph.D.
1922
History
Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hempill 1922 Gold Country Stories
History of Santa Clara County Eugene Sawyer 1922 County History
Log of the Empire State Geneve L. A. Shaffer 1922 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Trade Mission Travelogue
California History Wagner & Keppel 1922 History
Diary of Dr. Thomas Flint Thomas Flint 1923 Gold Rush Diary
The Journal of Lieutenant John McHenry Hollingsworth of the First New York John McHenry Hollingsworth 1923 Diary
Fascinating San Francisco Fred Brandt & Andrew Y. Wood 1924 General Information about San Francisco
San Francisco or Mission Dolores Zephyrin Engelhardt 1924 SF Mission
[The Heathen Chinee] Plain Language from truthful James Bret Harte 1924 Poetry
Historical Memiors of New California. Translated into English from the Manuscript in the Archives of Mexico Francisco Palou 1926 History
The Harbor of St. Francis J. W. Robertson 1926 ?
Pacific Steamers Will Lawson 1927 Naval History
The Old Spanish Missions of California & San Gabriel Mission and the Mission Play Anne Jennings Nolan and Mildred MacLean 1927 California Missions
John Henry Nash the Aldus of San Francisco Edward F. O'Day 1928 ?
Thirty Years in Pasadena. With an Historical Sketch of Previous Eras Lon F. Chapin 1929 Pasadena History
Anza's California Expositions Herbert Eugene Bolton 1930 History
Up and Down in California in 1860-1864 William H. Brewer 1930 Personal Recollections
The Prophet of San Francisco. Personal Memories & Interpretations of Henry George Louis F. Post 1930 ?
Font's Complete Diary. A Chronicle of the Founding of San Francisco Herbert Eugene Bolton 1931 SF History
My San Francisco Kathleen Norris 1932 ?
Portsmouth Plaza, The Cradle of San Francisco Catherine Coffin Phillips 1932 ?
The Barbery Coast: An Informal History of the San Francsico Underworld Herbert Asbury 1933 SF History
San Francisco: A Pageant Charles C. Dobie 1933 ?
Presses of Northern California 1900-1933 Louise Farrow Barr 1934 Publishing History
The Great San Francisco General Strike. The Story of the West Coast Strike - The Bay Counties' General Strike and the Maritime Workers' Strike William F. Dunne 1934 SF History
Paul Bunyan and His Big Blue Ox W. B. Laughead 1935 Logging History & Stories
San Francisco, Past and Present Edward O'Day 1935 ?
The Builders of San Francisco and Some of Their Early homes Eleanor Preston Watkins 1935 ?
The Man Who Built San Francisco: A Study of Ralston's Journey With Banners Julian Dana 1936 Biography
San Francisco Tales Charles C. Dobie 1936 ?
San Francisco's Chinatown Charles C. Dobie 1936 ?
Abaham Lincoln and the New Alamden Mine Milton H. Shutes 1936 Mining History
A Sojourn at San Francisco Bay, 1816 Adelbert Von Chamisso 1936 Travel
San Francisco's Cisterns Charles R. Boden 1937 SF Water System
Clark's Point: A Narrative of the Conquest of California and the Beginning of San Francisco Ann Hart Clark 1937 History
Stanford University. The First Twenty-Five Years Orrin L. Elliottt 1937 Stanford University
The Adventures of James Collier, First Collector of the Port of San Francisco Grant Foreman 1937 Gold Rush SF
Eating Around San Francisco Ruth Thompson & Louis Hanges 1937 SF Restaurants
Through the Golden Gate: San Francisco Catherine Coffin Phillips 1938 ?
San Francisco in the Seventies. The City as Viewed by a Mexican Political Exile Guillermo Prieto 1938 ?
The Washoe Giant in San Francisco Mark Twain [Samuel Clements] 1938 ?
San Francisco: West Coast Metropolis Edwin Saroyan Rosskam 1939 ?
"The Lion of the Vigilantes" William T. Coleman and the Life of Old San Francisco James A. B. Scherer 1939 ?
San Francisco's Literary Frontier Franklin Walter 1939 ?
Golden Gate: The Story of San Francisco Harbor Felix Riesenberg Jr. 1940 ?
Where to Sin in San Francisco Jack Lord & Jenn Shaw 1940 ?
Hilltops Russians in San Francisco William Saroyan 1941 ?
Ambrose Pierce: The Wickedest Man in San Francisco Franklin Walter 1941 ?
San Francisco Public Schools
War Production Training Program
SF Public Schools 1942? SF World War II History
Champagne Days of San Francisco Evelyn Wells 1943 SF History
This is San Francisco Robert O'Brien 1948 ?
A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance in 1856 Stephen Palfrey Webb 1948 Vigilance Committee
SF History
The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine. With an Account of the Land Claims Involved in the Mine and its Role in California History Kenneth M. Johnson 1963 Mining History
California: Land of New Beginnings David Lavender 1972 History
Monterey County - The Dramatic Story of Its Past - Monterey Bay, Big Sur, Carmel, Salinas Valley Augusta Fink 1972 County History
Monterey's Mother Load - A Pictorial History of Gold in the Santa Lucias Randall A. Reinstedt 1973 Mining History
The Carmel Mission Sydney Temple 1980 Mission History
Passing Farms: Ebduring Values - California's Santa Clara Valley Yvonne Jacobson 1984 County History
Inventing the Dream - California Through the Progressive Era Kevin Starr 1985 History
Milpitas - The Century of 'Little Cornfields' - 1852-1952 Patricia Loomis 1986 City History
California - A Place, A People, A Dream Edited by Claudia K. Jurmain and James J, Rawls 1986 History
Samfow: The San Joaquin Chinese Legacy Slyvia Sun Minnick 1988 History
Gabriel Moulin's San Francisco Peninsula - Town and Country Homes 1910-1930 Edited by Wayne Bonnett 1990 Photo's of Mansions
Historic San Francico - A Concise History and Guide Rand Richards 1991 City History
Quicksilver - The Complete History of Santa Clara County's New Almaden Mine Jimmie Schneider 1992 Mining History
A Postcard History of San Jose Leonard McKay and Nestor "Wally" Wahlberg 1992 City History
Pioneers of California Donovan Lewis
1993
History
Historical Footnotes of Santa Clara County Jack Douglas 1993 County History
Chinatown, San Jose, USA Connie Young Yu 1993 City History
San Francisco Memior - 1835-1851 - Eyewitness accounts of the birth of a city Edited by Malcom E. Barker 1994 City History
Hometown San Francisco - Sunny Jim, Phat Willie, and Dave Jerry Flamm 1994 City History
San Francisco, You're History J. Kingston Pierce 1995 City History
Old Mok: The Story of a Gold Camp Richard F. Epstein 1995 Mining History
Summer of Love Joel Selvin 1995 Music History
More San Francisco Memiors - 1852-1899 - The ripening years Edited by Malcom E. Barker 1996 City History
Shanghaied in San Francisco Bill Pickelhaupt 1996 City History
No Rooms of Their Own - Women Writers of Early California Edited by Ida Rae Egli 1997 Diaries
Silver and Gold - Cased Images of the California Gold Rush Edited by Drew Heath Johnson and Marcia Eymann 1998 Photo's of Gold Rush
Chopstick Childhood In a Town of Silver Spoons Nona Mock Wyman 1999 Personal Recollections
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