California History Image Collections
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Ranging from oil-on-canvas paintings to video tape, virtually every medium is represented in the California History Section's rich collection of historic images.
Digitized photographs and documents from the collections of the Department of Archives and Special Collections. Currently, collections relating to local history include: the South Bay Photograph Collection, the Del Amo Estate Company Collection, the 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet Research Collection, and the Rancho San Pedro Collection. Subjects in the collection include the city of Compton; houses; agriculture and farming; education; transportation; religious life; oil; early planes; and aviation cartoons.
The California State University Northridge has created a variety of online collections, to include one devoted to the history of the San Fernando Valley. This collection is also known as the "Urban Archive".
The Los Angeles Public Library has an extensive online collection of historical images.
The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, located in the San Francisco History Center on the 6th floor, contains photographs and works on paper of San Francisco and California views from 1850 to the present.
The Library's Santa Monica Collection contains historical photographs and slides (Imagine Santa Monica).
This is a collection of portrait images taken during the California Gold Rush (1849 through the 1850s)