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Los Angeles, California. The Autry National Center, formed in 2003 by the merger of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage with the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and the Women of the West Museum, is an intercultural history center dedicated to exploring and sharing the stories, experiences, and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West.
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Collaboration between libraries, archives, and museums throughout the State of California to provide access to a world class digital collection.
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A component of the California Digital Library, the OAC includes a single, searchable database of finding aids to primary sources and their digital facsimiles. Primary sources include letters, diaries, manuscripts, legal and financial records, photographs and other pictorial items, maps, architectural and engineering records, artwork, scientific logbooks, electronic records, sound recordings, oral histories artifacts and ephemera.
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Santa Paula California. Housed in the original Union Oil Company building the museum offers docent-led tours of the upstairs where restored offices from the 1890s provide visitors with a personal, hands-on experience of the early California oil business. In addition to the permanent petroleum exhibits, the Museum presents new exhibits of science, transportation and history throughout the year.
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Digital collections from a large number of California repositories.
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US Surveyor General for California - Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Maps 1855-1875
Index of early California land grants.
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California Genealogy Resources
Census, city directories, telephone directories, newspapers, specialized indexes and files, and much more.
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California History Collections
The goal of the California History Section is to obtain every book concerning California history, along with a representative selection of newspapers and periodicals. Complementing these printed holdings is an array of other materials, including maps, letters, sheet music, postcards, photographs, posters, pamphlets, programs, and other ephemera.
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The information in the directories is drawn from annual reports submitted by California's public, academic, special, state agency and county law libraries. The public library files are updated monthly.
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California State Library - Research Guides - California Native Americans
A guide to the California Native American history and genealogy resources at the California State Library, California History Section.
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California State Library - Sutro Library (San Francisco)
The Sutro Library (the San Francisco branch of the California State Library) holds the original collection of Adolph Sutro (1830
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California State Military Museum
Official military museum and historical research center of the State of California.
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California State Railroad Museum - Library & Collections
Holds records for: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, Western Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific, Southern Pacific Railroads.
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Calisphere - University of California
Digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums.
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Central California Family History Centers
From the Lodi Family History Center. Includes addresses and phone numbers.
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Digital State Archives - California
Like the state itself, California's online archives are vast, and hard to pin down. Everyone will find something of interest here, and some of the resources -- like the records from the California Youth Authority -- offer family history researchers some unusual insights.
