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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/amher/
The American Heritage Project at University of California at Berkeley. Database shared with several other institutions with encoded information-finding aids.
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http://www.chsa.org/
The Chinese Historical Society of America's elegantly presented exhibits, articles, links, and events in Chinese-American History.
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http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
The Computer History Museum. Learn the fascinating evolution of the invention that helps define our modern age. You can also visit the "Visible Storage" computer exhibit in person, at the museum, in Mountain View, California.
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http://www.cprr.org/
The Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. A fine Transcontinental Railway exhibit.
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http://www.erha.org/
The Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Listen to the bell-like chimes on the main page.
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http://www.laavenue.com/
This flashy tourism site for Los Angeles includes a live "cam" of various quintessentially Los Angeles scenes, like the all-too-familiar sun-filled parking lot.
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http://www.lahacal.org/
The Lively Arts History Association. LAHA
describes itself as “an organization dedicated
to fostering an understanding of history
through the performing arts. LAHA can be
called upon by historic sites, museums, civic
organizations, educators, and others
interested in making history accessible and
interesting.” This society encourages you to
step back in time with its Jane Austen
evenings, Ragtime Teas, and the very
romantic and bygone-era-sounding Avalon
Ball. In Southern California.
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http://www.latimemachines.com/
Historic Los Angeles bars and restaurants.
See pictures of restaurants and bars, A to Z,
from the thirties through the sixties; read their
histories; learn of the luminaries past and
present who graced these watering holes.
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http://www.nhm.org/
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, with a link to the Page Museum at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits..
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http://www.oerm.org/
The Orange Empire Railway Museum site. “Southern California’s Railway Museum.” Since 1956.
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http://www.parks.ca.gov/
California boasts some of the best and most
popular state parks in the country. The
ecologic diversity of the state is awe inspiring,
from the endless coastline to snow covered
mountains, to dry desert, to fragrant piney
woods studded with ancient towering trees.
There are also many manmade places of
interest, such as William Randolph Hearst’s
castle. Pick a park and start packing.
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http://www.sfmuseum.org/
Here’s the Virtual Museum of the City of San
Francisco. Online exhibits include coverage of
the 1906 earthquake and fire, and a “pictorial
history” of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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http://www.yosemitepark.com/
See Yosemite, the country’s first and
legendary National Park, located in the Sierra
Nevadas, in central California. Abraham
Lincoln protected it and Ansel Adams
famously captured it on film. Still awesome
after all these years.
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