James Marshall’s 1848 gold discovery transformed San Francisco almost overnight. By the summer of 1850, more than 500 ships crowded Yerba Buena Cove, only for crews to abandon vessels and rush toward ...

Memory Lane is now a destination available to you via Google Street View (or something like it). The painstaking work of two developers — Dan Vanderkam and Raven Keller — has yielded a time machine; ...

Photographer unknown, “Hollywoodland” (c. 1924–29), gelatin silver print (image courtesy California Historical Society) SAN FRANCISCO — Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped Los Angeles and San Francisco ...

The California Gold Rush was first reported in a US east-coast newspaper on this day in 1848. Thousands of people from around the world descended on California to try their luck at 'striking it rich'.

Los Angeles Should Follow San Francisco’s Path to Recovery — Says Man Who Helped Set Back Both The Right Has Forgotten What Beauty Is For Audio By Carbonatix Californians learned the hard way that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Black and white print of a town on a ...

Introduction: Constructing childhood in early Chinatown : image versus reality -- The immigration of Chinese children and the Chinese question -- Recentering the Chinese family in early Chinese ...