The Historical California Book Collection is a collection of 48 volumes relating to the history of California and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures. All the titles contained on this DVD are listed below.

California life illustrated (1858) - Taylor, William - 348 pages
History of California Volume 1 (1915) - Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner - 486 pages
History of California Volume 2 (1915) - Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner - 488 pages
California; an intimate history (1914) - Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn - 330 pages
The history of California (1866) - Tuthill, Franklin - 657 pages
Lessons in California history (1922) - Wagner, Harr; Keppel, Mark - 328 pages
California : its history and romance (1911) - McGroarty, John Steven - 393 pages
History of Sacramento County, California (1913) - Willis, William Ladd - 1056 pages
Illustrated history of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra counties, with California from 1513 to 1850 (1882) - Fariss & Smith, San Francisco - 507 pages
Reminiscences of California and the Civil War (1894) - Fletcher, Daniel Cooledge - 196 pages
A history of California: the Spanish period (1923) - Chapman, Charles E. (Charles Edward) - 527 pages
A popular history of California : from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time (1883) - Preston, Laura - 216 pages
History of Washington Township, Alameda County, California (1904) - Country Club of Washington Township - 133 pages
History of the College of California (1887) - Willey, Samuel H. (Samuel Hopkins) - 432 pages
History of Santa Clara County California (1922) - Sawyer, Eugene T - 1692 pages
History of Tulare and Kings counties, California (1913) - Menefee, Eugene L; Dodge, Fred A., - 890 pages
The history of Imperial County, California (1918) - Farr, Finis C., editor - 526 pages
A History of Tuolumme County, California (1882) - Alley, B. F., San Francisco, publisher; Lang, Herbert O. - 509 pages
History of Amador County, California, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (1881) - Mason, Jesse D - 344 pages
California pastoral, 1769-1848 (1888) - Bancroft, Hubert Howe - 808 pages
California '46 to '88; (1888) - Harlan, Jacob Wright - 242 pages
Three years in California (1852) - Colton, Walter - 456 pages
California the golden (1911) - Hunt, Rockwell Dennis - 362 pages
History of the state of California. From the period of the conquest by Spain to her occupation by the United States of America. Containing an account of the discovery of the immense gold mines and placers .. (1852) - Frost, John - 508 pages
History of the Public School System of California (January 1, 1876) - John Swett - 246 pages
A history of the medical profession of southern California (1910) - Kress, George H - 209 pages
The architectural history of Mission San Carlos Borromeo, California (1921) - Smith, Frances Rand - 90 pages
A history of the new California, its resources and people; Volume 1 (1905) - Irvine, Leigh H. (Leigh Hadley) - 544 pages
A history of the new California, its resources and people; Volume 2 (1905) - Irvine, Leigh H. (Leigh Hadley) - to page 1047
An illustrated history of Los Angeles County, California (1889) - Lewis publishing company, Chicago - 835 pages
History of the diocese of California from 1849 to 1914 (1915) - Kelley, Douglas Ottinger - 471 pages
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present (1921) - Armor, Samuel; Pleasants, J. E., Mrs - 1669 pages
Sixty years in California, a history of events and life in California; personal, political and military, under the Mexican regime; (1889) - Davis, William Heath - 639 pages
The early days and men of California; (1891) - Swasey, William F. - 406 pages
California : a guide to the Golden state (1939) - Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California - 713 pages
Past and present of Alameda County, California Volume 1 (1914) - Baker, Joseph Eugene - 463 pages
Past and present of Alameda County, California Volume 2 (1914) - Baker, Joseph Eugene - 594 pages
Millionaires of a day: an inside history of the great southern California "boom." (1890) - Van Dyke, Theodore S. (Theodore Strong) - 298 pages
A history of the city of San Francisco; and incidentally of the state of California (1878) - Hittell, John Shertzer - 496 pages
The history of the first pastorate of the Howard Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, California. 1850-1862 (1900) - Willey, Samuel Hopkins - 171 pages
A history of California labor legislation, with an introductory sketch of the San Francisco labor movement (1910) - Eaves, Lucile - 461 pages
A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of central California (1893) - Barrows, Henry D.; Ingersoll, Luther A. - 446 pages
History of political conventions in California. 1849-1892. By Winfield J. Davis.. (1893) - Davis, Winfield J. - 711 pages
Anaheim, southern California, its history, climate, soil and advantages for home seekers and settlers (1885) - Anaheim immigration association - 30 pages
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber (1880) - Palmer, Lyman L - 676 pages
History of Santa Clara County, California : including its geography, geology, topography, climatography and description .. (1881) - Munro-Fraser, J. P - 798 pages
The gold hunters : a first-hand picture of life in California mining camps in the early fifties (c1917) - Borthwick, J. D; Kephart, Horace - 361 pages
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California : comprising their geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber, together with a full and particular record of the Mexican Grants, also separate histories of all the townships and biographical sketches (1881) - Palmer, Lyman L; Wallace, W. F; Wells, Harry Laurenz; Kanaga, Tillie - 524 pages

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