"Images of full menus are primarily from California restaurants, but the collection also includes menus from other cities, steamships, airlines, and banquets."

"A collection of over 200 vibrantly-colored labels, designed for citrus growers throughout Southern California, mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. Many of the labels illustrate specific locations in the region, and are an excellent example of commercial graphic design from the period, as well as documenting the industry itself."

"The map collection is over one hundred years old, contains more than 100,000 items and represents a wide scope, including local, national and international cartography. The online archive focuses on maps depicting Los Angeles and the West."

"The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection emphasizes the history of Los Angeles, Southern California, and California."

"This fine collection from the USC Digital Library presents over 1,100 images of artifacts excavated from two sites in Southern California. The Chinatown section features 1,040 color images of artifacts from the original Los Angeles Chinatown. These items were recovered during the construction of the Metro Rail Red Line by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The online collection includes photos of wine bowls, ink stone boxes, and other fragments of items from daily household life. The second segment includes items excavated in 1992 from an old adobe structure in Santa Barbara that housed a Chinese laundry from the mid 1880s to 1905." (Internet Scout Report, February 3, 2012)

Learn about the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco through video clips, photographs, articles, and primary source materials.

Covers the complex set of economic and ecological forces that brought migrant workers to California during the Depression.

A collection of images, primary documents, trial reports, maps, and other materials relating to the trial of the LAPD officers accused of using unnecessary force in the arrest of Rodney King.

A collection of images, primary documents, trial reports, maps, and other materials relating to the trial of Dan White, accused of killing Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor.

Includes descriptions of artwork, manuscripts, papers, historic photographs, and other materials held by libraries and archives throughout California. Also contains over 200,000 digitized images and documents from these collections.

Covers news, politics, culture, arts and entertainment, science and technology, and more.

This custom search engine searches only the websites of local government agencies in San Diego County.

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The CCSE website contains information about climate change, energy efficiency, green building, renewable energy, and transportation.

This California State government office enforces the building codes for healthcare facilities. Their website has information about building codes, seismic compliance, permits and construction, inspections, and the review plan for all construction projects.

The SAH Southern California Chapter has information on California architects and upcoming architecture-related events on its website.

This site, from California Polytechnic State University, makes available thousands of architectural plans, drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, correspondence, project files, and other personal and professional papers of Julia Morgan, along with informatio

Special Collections at Cal Poly promotes the preservation and study of architectural records as an integral part of California's cultural heritage. Materials collected include drawings and prints, correspondence, published and unpublished writings, busine

This directory provides links to websites with information about over 6,000 California artists, innovators and arts organizations, with a focus on the non-profit arts sector. It is maintained by California artist Judy Malloy.

Free online source of documents, photographs, diaries, oral histories, newspapers, and other items related to California history and culture.