California Historical Society
California Historical Society
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Phone: 415-357-1848
- Email: reference@calhist.org
- Website: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
The CHS Collection represents the environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural heritage of the entire state, including materials from outside California that contribute to a greater understanding of the state and its people.
On September 30, 2023, the North Baker Research Library closed for staff to focus on long-overdue collections management maintenance. The Library is no longer taking appointments at this time. Please check the Library's website updates: https://californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/north-baker-research-library/
Collections at this institution
Chadwick & Sykes photograph albums of contract engineering projects
Consists of photographs of contract engineering projects in California and the West, including roads, railway lines, and the Parkside Realty Company development in San Francisco. Includes images of Colfax (Placer County), Automobile Boulevard (San Francisco), Western Pacific Railroad (Altamont), Union Oil Company (Oleum, Contra Costa County), and Parkside Transit Co. Many photos contain images of workers, machinery and equipment.
Institution: California Historical Society
67 Items
Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the California Historical Society
The materials selected are drawn from a variety of archival collections, compiled by institutions and libraries with varying missions. Many of the collections have distinctive histories of their own. In some cases entire collections have been included; more often a selection of materials relating to the Chinese in California has been selected from a collection with broader scope. It is our hope that The Chinese in California presents a balanced perspective on a tumultuous and changing history of this community in California. Major issues explored in these records include the Chinese contribution to California and the American West in the …
Institution: California Historical Society
634 Items
Crate, can, and bottle label collection
Comprises crate, can, and bottle labels, the bulk of which were designed and created between the 1920s and 1940s by San Francisco and Los Angeles lithography companies. The core of the collection consists of labels designed by Lehmann Printing and Lithography Company in San Francisco for a wide variety of food, beverage, and household products grown, manufactured, canned, or packed in California and throughout the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Other major California lithographers represented in the collection include Schmidt Litho. Co. (San Francisco) and Western Litho. Co. (Los Angeles).
Institution: California Historical Society
50 Items
Gay and lesbian rights movement ephemera collection
Collection of flyers, brochures, announcements and newsletters from lesbian and gay rights activist groups working in Northern California in the 1970s.
Institution: California Historical Society
50 Items
Group of Miners
One whole-plate daguerreotype measuring 15.5 x 20.5 cm. Plate has been enclosed in a contemporary mount. Group portrait of nine miners, all men. Four men stand at back, five men sit at front. Man at front right holds a book; two men sitting at front hold mining equipment, including a shovel. Portrait was probably taken between 1849 and 1860.
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2 Items
James B. Case slides of highway construction in California
Collection comprises 102 35 mm color Kodachrome transparency slides documenting construction of highways in Los Angeles, Orick, and San Francisco, California; training at Fort Ord army base; and a Case family vacation and recreation in Orick, California taken by James B. Case between 1949 and 1953. Case worked for the California Department of Transportation when taking many of these photographs. The bulk of the collection shows the construction and completion of the Hollywood Freeway and the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles and the Bayshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. A selection of images depict the final stages of …
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102 Items
Joe Altman Photographs of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parades
Collection contains 77 black and white, gelatin silver print photographs of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade (1979-1980) and the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Parade (1981-1985) taken by Joe Altman between 1979 and 1985. Collection also contains 69 contact sheets; 12 photocopies of contact sheets. Contact sheets were printed for every year between 1979 and 1985, but not all photographs represented in the contact sheets were included in this collection. Bulk of the photographic prints cover the 1979 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. The photographs of the 1979 parade show gay organizations participating in …
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77 Items
John R. Putnam and Carlton O. Valentine views of Los Angeles
John R. Putnam and Carlton Valentine documented the growth and development of Southern California over a fifty year period with John R. Putnam primarily handling the photography and C. O. Valentine the business end of the company. (Putnam's son, Arion Putnam, was also one of this collection's photographers.)
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9 Items
Lawrence and Houseworth photograph collection
Lawrence and Houseworth were one of the main publishers of stereoviews on the West coast around the 1860s. They sold views primarily of California and Nevada, and the majority of their photographs are of nature scenes, and the wonders of California's redwoods, geysers, lakes and mountains. The collection consists of stereographs and cartes de visite published by opticians Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco between 1860 and 1870, with the bulk of images produced between 1863 and 1866. Most of the photographs were likely taken by Charles Leander Weed. The images primarily document California and Nevada, and include photographs of …
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80 Items
Los Angeles Fire Department photographs, 1912-1915
Consists of photographs and photographic postcards primarily documenting the Los Angeles Fire Department Engine Company Number 28, Truck Company Number 7, located at 7th and Figueroa streets. Photographs depict fire fighters battling fires, fire equipment and damage to buildings from fire. Images also depict fire fighters inside and outside of their fire house, fire truck prepared for the Rose Parade, and a parade on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. Includes four portraits of Engine Company 28 Captain, one including his family. Three photographs, signed by Durston, show fire fighters responding to call. One photograph depicts Engine Company Number 27 fighting …
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41 Items
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