Lawrence & Houseworth Photographs
Now available through Calisphere, this collection features 1,495 historical photographs produced by the renowned stereoview publishing firm Lawrence & Houseworth.
Association of Pioneer Women of California
Search the transcriptions of over 800 first-person accounts of women who arrived during the early years of statehood.
Manuscripts
Search the Online Archive of California by keyword for manuscripts in our Alice Phelan Sullivan Library.
Books
Search the WorldCat database for books by author, title, keyword and more. If our library owns the title, we will be listed under “Holdings”.
Newspapers
Search the California Newspaper Project database and use the “Institution” field and search with the phrase: Soc. of Calif. Pioneers. This abbreviation must be used exactly to retrieve our 189 records.
Sheet Music
The 19th-Century California Sheet Music database includes 802 items from the Society of California Pioneers collection, viewable through the UC Berkeley Library Digital Collections, with complete digital images of both covers and musical scores. The project, which ran from 1997 to 2000, brought together digitized sheet music from libraries, archives, and museums in California and beyond. The archive of digitized images is maintained by the Museum Informatics Project at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ephemera
Search the California Ephemera database – click on any of our three collections – Biographical Files, General California Files, or County Files – to search within that collection.
Autobiographies & Reminiscences
The database is searchable via the Online Archive of California by name, subject, date, and keywords.
Lone Mountain/Laurel Hill Cemetery Records
The Lone Mountain/Laurel Hill Burial Records were kept chronologically in ledgers. The ledgers are indexed. Unfortunately, you cannot scroll through the ledgers at this time.
The index is arranged alphabetically by last name. The original ledgers and index are bound separately (and, therefore, have been digitized separately). You can access and search either or both:
To search by date, begin with the ledgers
To search by name, begin with the index. The index will direct you to a ledger (by volume and page number) where the detailed burial record is entered.
