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California Historical Society: Online Catalog

Description: CHS' most comprehensive catalog, containing basic descriptive records for manuscript and photography collections; books and pamphlets; periodicals, posters, broadsides, maps, and newspapers; and other materials. Digital images of select items will be available soon.

Records: 23,000 and growing

Digitized items: 40 and growing

Record types: Catalog records; digital images

Online Archive of California

Description: An online archive of collection guides and digitized primary sources contributed by libraries and other cultural heritage institutions throughout the state, maintained by the University of California.

Records: 140 and growing

Digitized items: 211 and growing

Record types: Detailed guides to manuscript and photography collections; digital images; digitized oral histories

Calisphere

Description: An online collection of digitized primary sources contributed by libraries and other cultural heritage institutions throughout the state, maintained by the University of California. CHS images and texts documenting the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, the Chinese in California, and Peoples Temple can be accessed here. For CHS items, click on "Browse by institution" and then "California Historical Society."

Records: Over 4,000 and growing

Digitized items: Over 4,000 and growing

Record types: Digital images; digital texts

California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California

Description: An online archive of digitized images from CHS' Title Insurance and Trust (TICOR) and Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce photograph collections, maintained by the University of Southern California. For CHS items, click on browse, and then click on California Historical Society.

Records: 25,014

Digitized items: 25,014

Record types: Digital images

Bridgeman Art Library

Description: An online collection of digitized art works contributed by museums, libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions throughout the world. For CHS items, enter "California Historical Society" in the search box.

Records: 230 and growing

Digitized items: 230 and growing

Record types: Digitized art works

California Ephemera Project

Description: An online catalog linking the ephemera collections of California Historical Society; the GLBT Historical Society; the San Francisco Public Library; and the Society of California Pioneers.

Records: 13 and growing

Digitized items: 0

Record types: Detailed guides to ephemera collections.

California Newspaper Project

Description: An online archive of California newspapers, maintained by the University of California, Riverside. For CHS items, enter "California Historical Soc." in the Institution box.

Records: 779

Digitized items: 0

Record types: Catalog records

California Sheet Music Project

Description: An online library of California sheet music, maintained by Mary Kay Duggan, Professor Emerita, Department of Music and School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. For CHS items, click on Search the Collection, then click on Search 1, and enter "California Historical Society" in the Any Word field.

Records: 1,249

Digitized items: 1,249

Record types: Catalog records; digitized sheet music

Internet Archive

Description: An online archive of digitized and born-digital primary sources, including texts, audio, moving images, and web pages.

Records: 16 and growing

Digitized items: 16 and growing

Record types: Digitized oral histories; digitized moving images