Thursday, May 09, 2013

Earthquake!: The Documents Left Behind: #NGS2013 Links


Libraries/Archives


NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections:  http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/


Online Archive of California:  http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

Libraries in  the United States: http://www.librarysites.info/

Digitized Books

Google Books: http://books.google.com/

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/

Internet Archive: http://archive.org/index.php






Newspapers
Finding Newspapers

  • Public and Academic  Libraries
  • State Archives and Libraries (Don’t forget about Interlibrary Loan).
  • Historical Societies
  • Clipping Files found through libraries, archives, genealogy and historical societies.
  • Family History Library includes books that are indexes are various records from newspapers.
  • Websites
  • Kansas State Historical Society: http://www.kshs.org/



Online Newspaper Collections

Godfrey Memorial Library:  http://www.godfrey.org/
Ancestry.com:  http://www.ancestry.com
Newspapers.com:  http://www.newspapers.com/
WorldVitalRecords:  http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/
New England Historical and Genealogical Society:  http://www.americanancestors.org/
Newspaper Archive:  http://www.newspaperarchive.com/
California State Newspaper Project:  http://cnp.ucr.edu/
Chronicling of America:  http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
Google News (list of newspapers):  http://news.google.com/newspapers




Historical Earthquake Resources

California Historical Earthquake Online Database  http://redirect.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/rghm/quakes/historical/index.htm

San Diego History Center. Facts about California Earthquakes http://www.sandiegohistory.org/links/earthquakes.htm

USGS. Historic Earthquakes in the United States and its Territories http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/historical_state.php

Images of Historical Earthquakes. The Jan T. Kozak Collection     http://nisee.berkeley.edu/kozak/

California Repositories

California Genealogical Society and Library:  http://www.californiaancestors.org/
California Historical Society:  http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
California State Library:  http://www.library.ca.gov/
California State Archives:  http://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/
Eastern California Museum:  http://www.inyocounty.us/ecmsite/
Los Angeles Public Library:  http://www.lapl.org/
USC Digital Library:  http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/
UC Berkley Bancroft Library:  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/






1872 Lone Pine Earthquake

Earthquake! Newspapers Record Destruction in California History http://blog.genealogybank.com/earthquake-newspapers-record-destruction-in-california-history.html

Rinehart, C D, Ward Smith, and Genny Smith. Earthquakes and Young Volcanoes Along the Eastern Sierra Nevada at Mammoth Lakes 1980, Lone Pine 1872, Inyo and Mono Craters. Palo Alto, Calif: Genny Smith Books, 1982.

Philibert-Ortega, Gena. Cemeteries of the Eastern Sierra. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2007.

1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Gilbert, Grove K, J A. Holmes, Richard L. Humphrey, John S. Sewell, and Frank Soulé. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906: And Their Effects on Structures and Structural Materials. Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1907. 

Klett, Mark, Michael Lundgren, Philip L. Fradkin, Rebecca Solnit, and Karin Breuer. After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Kurzman, Dan. Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. New York: W. Morrow, 2001.

O'Connor, Charles J, Francis H. McLean, Helen S. Artieda, James M. Motley, Jessica B. Peixotto, and Mary R. Coolidge. San Francisco Relief Survey: The Organization and Methods of Relief Used After the Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906. New York: Survey Associates, 1913.

Winchester, Simon. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

1 comment:

Mariann Regan said...

Thank you, Gena! Wow, earthquake databases--makes me want to have California ancestors.