State Spotlight: California
California primary source set with teacher’s guide
Curated collections
- California maps
- Pictorial Americana: selected images of California
- California images
- California books & articles
- California correspondence, reports, printed ephemera & other texts
- California historic newspapers
- California sheet music
- California songs and oral histories
- California legislation
- California Guide to Law Online
Library collections
- California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849-1900
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
- Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
More California primary source collections
- California Folk Music Project
- Gold Discovered in California
- Rock Springs Massacre
- Missions of Old California
- John C. Frémont
- Los Angeles
- San Diego
- San Francisco
Teaching resources related to California
- Featured Source: The Way They Go to California guided primary source analysis
- Learning from the Source: Zooming into Documentary Photography
- Learning from the Source: Media & Migrant Laborer Perspectives
California stories from America’s Library