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GES55Q — California Gold Rush
Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections
Stanford
University Libraries/Information Resources
Library Catalogs
Use SEARCHWORKS —
Stanford's Web-based Catalogs to find the location of needed books,
journals, and maps. It offers many new features such as the ability
to search full records to find works by publisher, place of publication,
contents notes information, etc.
Some possibly helpful subjects might include:
- California gold discoveries
- California history 1850
- Gold dredging (environmental aspects)
- Gold mines and mining
- Mines and mineral resources (environmental aspects)
- Hydraulic mining
- Frontier and pioneer life
If you have science or environment questions, send them to
the Branner Reference staff: brannerlibrary@stanford.edu. Refer
social, economic, history or policy questions to Ask
a Librarian or go to the Information
Center, Green Library East Wing, First Floor.
Indexes
Indexes will lead you to articles in journals and series,
to papers in conference proceedings, and technical reports.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, Bibliographies
Listed here are a just a few of these resources,
designed to give you a flavor of the types of information available.
Either come in and browse the shelves or browse Socrates
if you can't find the information you need in one of these.
- AccessScience: The Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (Stanford
only).
- Britannica Online (Stanford
only)
- Glossary of Geology: Branner Library Reference,
QE5 .B38 1997
- Kurutz, Gary F. The California Gold Rush: A Descriptive bibliography of books and pamphlets covering the years 1848-1853. San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1997. Green Library, Special Collections: XX (3450297.1)
- Santos, Robert L. The Gold Rush of California: A bibliography of periodical articles. Denair, CA: Alley-Cass Publishers, 1998. Green Library: Z1261.S35 1998
- Wheat, Carl I. The maps of the California gold region, 1848-1857: A biblio-cartography of an important decade. Storrs-Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino Publisher, 1995. Green Library, Lane Room (HASRC): Z6027.C15 W5 1995
Full Text Materials
- ACLS History E-Book
Project (Stanford only) American
Council of Learned Societies presentation of history books published
by various University Presses and Learned Societies, with over
1000 titles included as of Spring 2005.
- ebrary
(Stanford only) Full text searching
of over 10,000 titles in various disciplines. Plug-in required.
- David Rumsey Map Collection
The collection contains to date over 11,000 maps
online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps, including
maps of California at the time of the Gold Rush.
- E-Journals Link
to electronic journals.
- JSTOR
Search Full text, back files of journals
(Stanford only)
- National Academy Press Full
text searching and viewing of 2,500 book titles in various
disciplines.
- Project Muse
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature
and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural
studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics,
and many others (1993 - ). (Stanford only).
- ARTSTOR Search 2Digital library of nearly 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and the social sciences. (Stanford only)
- Google Books
- Reid Dennis Collection of California Lithographs Many lithographs of San Francisco from 1850-1906.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Maps of California cities from 1867 - 1970.
For more complete listings: search SEARCHWORKS— Stanford's Web-based Catalog for the availability
of journals, maps or other items. Display the
full record to obtain the URL, determine number of accessible
volumes, or confirm access restrictions, if any.
Newspapers
Digital:
- Newspapers Online (The New York Times Historical link is especially useful for articles about the Gold Rush, immigration, and historical events.)
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) historical periodicals collection
- spanning period 1691-1877
- Other U.S. Newspapers from America's Newspapers
- California Digital Newspaper Collection by UC Riverside
Includes: Placer Times, Sacramento Daily Union, Daily Alta California, California Star
- Early issues from 1846 through 1851.
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale)
- Covers San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey and Los Angeles.
- Earliest issue: 1846; Latest issue: 1897; Number of issues: 14,123
- Daily Democratic State Journal, Sacramento, California.
- Earliest issue: 8-26-1853; Latest issue: 4-30-1858; Number of issues: 929
- San Francisco Bulletin, San Francisco, California.
Includes: Daily Evening Bulletin
- Earliest issue: 10-8-1855; Latest issue: 6-30-1891; Number of issues: 6355
- San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California.
- San Joaquin Republican, Stockton, California.
Includes: Weekly San Joaquin Republican
- Earliest issue:
10-27-1855; Latest issue:
12-8-1860; Number of issues: 240
Microfilm (located in Media-Microtext, lower level Green Library):
- Sacramento Union, Sacramento, CA (1851-1870): MFILM N.S. 12529
- The Alta California, San Francisco, CA [Steamer ed.] (1849-1869): UNCLACK9496
Anthologies:
- Swindle, Lewis J., compiler and editor. The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Northern Mines of California’s Mother Lode Gold Belt, as told by the newspapers and miners, 1848-1875. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2000. Green Library: F865.S98 2000
- Swindle, Lewis J., compiler and editor. The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Southern Mines of California’s Mother Lode Gold Belt, as told by the newspapers and miners, 1848-1860. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2001. Green Library: F865.S982 2001
Government Documents
Web Resources
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Compiler: Charlotte Derksen
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February 14, 2012
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