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ASSOCIATIONS, MUSEUMS, PARKS



    The Archival Center

    Archives of SPANBORD@ASU.EDU

    California Central Coast Archaeology

    California History Online

    California Missions Foundation
California State Parks

    California State Historic Parks [Missions of the Californias]

    Los Encinos State Historic Park

    Fort Ross State Historic Park

    Fort Ross State Historic Park

    First Pilgrimage to Fort Ross

    Fort Ross in California was founded by Vologodians

    Fort Ross Chapel Withdrawal of National Historic Landmark Designation

    Fort Ross Quotations

    The Russians at Fort Ross

    Windmill's New Breath of Life

    Monterey State Historic Park

    Old Town San Diego State Historic Park

    Olompali State Historic Park

    Pío Pico State Historic Park El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park

    California State Office of Historic Preservation

    California Studies Association (CSA)

    Coordinación Nacional de Conservación y Restauración del Patrimonio Cultural

    The Franciscans

    Hispanic/Mexican Heritage Sites in California State Parks

    House Museums, Open Air Museums, and Ship Museums in Southern California

    Junipero Serra Museum

    Monterey County Historical Society

    Museum of the City of San Francisco

    Society for California Archaeology

    Society of Architectural Historians, Southern California Chapter

    Ventura County Museum of History and Art

    Welcome to Historic Santa Barbara




BIOGRAPHICAL



    Biographical Sketches

    Juana Briones' Home Threatened

    Our Heritage is Threatened

    Site Of Juana Briones de Miranda Home on Rancho La Purísima Concepción

    California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection

    Dumetz, Francisco.

    Doña María of Two Adobes

    Señan, José Francisco de Paula

    Junípero Serra

    Junípero Serra, The Founder of California

    People in The West - PBS Series

    Site of Junípero Serra's Cross

    SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN SAN FRANCISCO

    The Vallejo Family: A Military History of Early California

SPECIFIC MISSIONS



La Purísima

    La Purísima Mission

    La Purísima Mission State Historic Park

    La Purísima Mission State Historic Park

San Antonio de Padua

    Mission San Antonio de Padua

    Mission San Antonio de Padua - Archaeo-Physics Survey

    Mission San Antonio in Fort Hunter Liggett

San Buenaventura

    San Buenaventura Mission

San Carlos Borromeo

    Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel Mission Basilica)

San Diego

    Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala

    PLANS FOR THE OCCUPATION OF UPPER CALIFORNIA A NEW LOOK AT THE "DARK AGE" FROM 1602 TO 1769 by Donald C. Cutter

    THE OCCUPATION OF THE PORT OF SAN DIEGO DE ALCALA by Iris Wilson Engstrand

    "Sociopolitical Aspects of the 1775 Revolt at Mission San Diego de Alcala: an Ethnohistorical Approach"

San Fernando

    San Fernando Rey de España: A Mission Record of the California Indians (1811)

    San Fernando Mission

    Santa Clarita Valley History in Pictures: Asistencia de San Francisco Javier at Castaic Junction

San Francisco de Asís

    Misión San Francisco De Asis (Mission Dolores) - Registered Landmark Number One

    Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) State Historic Landmark 327

    San Francisco Cemeteries

    San Francisco Streets Named for Pioneers

San Francisco Solano de Sonoma (Sonoma Mission)

    Sonoma Mission

    Sonoma State Historic Park

San Gabriel

    Agua Mansa: An Outpost of San Gabriel, 1842-1850

    The San Bernardino Estancias

    San Gabriel Mission Parish

San Juan Bautista

    The Barrel Organ at Mission San Juan Bautista

    Indian Family Housing at Mission San Juan Bautista

    San Juan Bautista

San Juan Capistrano

    Cliff Swallow

    Mission San Juan Capistrano

San Luis Obispo

    History in San Luis Obispo County: Mission San Luis Obispo

San Luis Rey

    Contributions to Luiseño Ethnohistory Based on Mission Register Research

    The Outposts of Mission San Luis Rey

    Pala Asistencia (Mission San Antonio de Pala)

    Welcome to Mission San Luis Rey

San Miguel Arcángel

    History in San Luis Obispo County: Mission San Miguel

    Mission San Miguel Arcángel

San Rafael Arcángel

    The History of Early Mill Valley

    Mission San Rafael

Santa Barbara

    The History of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library

    Old Mission, Santa Barbara, CA

    Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library
Santa Cruz

    Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

    Mission Santa Cruz at Holy Cross Parish

    Santa Cruz Mission Adobe

    Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park

    Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park: Archaeological Excavations for Public Use Facility Construction

Santa Inés

    Historic Mission Santa Ines Area

    Mission Santa Inés Aqueduct Mapping Dynamic GIS, History and Technology 2003/04 Santa Ynez Valley Union High School

    Old Mission Santa Inés

California's "Two Lost Missions" (Colorado River)

    Massacre at the Yuma Crossing: Spanish Relations with the Quechans 1779-1782

    Site of Mission La Purísima Concepción, 1780-81.

    Site of Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer.

    The Yuma Massacre of 1781



ADOBES


    The Andres Pico Adobe

    Dana Adobe, Nipomo, California

    Earth Architecture

    Monterey Area Adobes and Other Early Buildings

    Olivas Adobe Historical Park

    Peralta Adobe

    The Ramon Peralta Adobe Historical Site

    Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park

    Archaeological Investigations of 19th Century California Indian Labors at Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park

    Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park

ARCHAEOLOGY


    Reconstructing Maiolica Patterns from Spanish Colonial Sites in Southern California

    Spanish Missions and Native Religion: Contact, Conflict, and Convergence

THE ARTS


    California Mission Music

    Stealing California's Mission Past

    Translator's Notebook: The Mission Church and Its Furnishings

BIBLIOGRAPHIES


    CMSA's Bibliographies for California Missions & Other Hispanic Sites)

    Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians

    Bibliography on Chumash Indians

    A Bibliography of Early California. and Neighboring Territory Through 1846: An Era of Exploration, Missions, Presidios, Ranchos, and Indians

    Hispanic Music in Alta California

CONSERVATION/PRESERVATION


    Designguide.com:

    The Getty Seismic Adobe Project at Work

    Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings, National Park Service

GENEALOGY


    California Mission Cemeteries

    Contra Costa County Historical Society

    Los Californianos

    William Goodwin Dana Genealogy

    Los Descendientes De Santa Barbara (Descendants Of Santa Barbara Presidio)

    Los Pobladores 200

    San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records

    The Society for Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research (SHHAR)

    Sons of the American Revolution, South Coast Chapter

MAPS


    1699 Louis Hennpin Map of North American Continent

    David Rumsey Collection, Cartographic Associates

    Homann America Map, 1707

    Map of Rancho el Encino, 1873

    Maps of the Pimeria: Early Cartography of the Southwest

    The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County 1930 Map

    Plat of the Rancho Tujunga, 1858

    Plat of South 59,550 80/100 Acres of Rancho Ex Mission San Fernando

    Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Maps, 1855-1875

NATIVE CALIFORNIANS


    California Indian Museum and Cultural Center

    THE CHUMASH (by Brian Fagan),

    The Chumash Indian Council Of San Luis Obispo County [Southern California]

    The Indians of San Diego County

    NATIVE AMERICANS AT MISSION SANTA CRUZ, 1791-1834, INTERPRETING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD

    News from Native California

    An Overview of Ohlone Culture

    "Sociopolitical Aspects of the 1775 Revolt at Mission San Diego de Alcala: an Ethnohistorical Approach"

    Tataviam

    The Trail to Kashtiq

    Baja California, 1967-1992: Images by Harry Crosby

    Baja California Collection

    Baja California: Manuscripts

    Charles III: Expulsion of the Jesuits (l767)

    The Earliest Libraries in Baja California Missions

    Kino Mission Tours

    Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert

    RAMBLING THROUGH BAJA CALIFORNIA WITH PEN & BRUSH

ORIGINAL SOURCES


    American Journeys

    Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) Master Bibliography and Index (University of Arizona)

    Documents from the Spanish & Mexican Periods

    Mission 2000

    San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records

    Using Primary Sources on the Web

PRESIDIOS


    Bibliography for Presidios & Soldiers in the Californias & Northern New Spain

    "The Catalonian Volunteers and Their Assignments in Northwestern New Spain, 1767-1803

    Leon Campbell, "Colonial Life in Spanish California During the North American Revolution"

    Monterey's First Years: The Royal Presidio of San Carlos de Monterey

    Presidio of San Francisco: Cultural History

    Presidio of San Francisco - Funston Avenue History

    The Funston Avenue Archaeological Research Project at the Presidio of San Francisco

    The Presidios of Alta California

    Spain's Role in the American Revolution from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

    The Use of Presidio Hill

    Web de Anza

PUEBLOS


    Pueblo of Los Angeles


      Campo de Cahuenga

      The Discovery of Los Angeles

      The Early Settlement of Los Angeles

      The Prideful Mission and the Little Town: Los Angeles

      El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Park

    Pueblo of Branciforte


      Time Line for the Establishment of the Pueblo de Branciforte

      Villa de Branciforte

      Captain Jose Panto and the San Pascual Indian Pueblo in San Diego County, 1835-1878.

      Weaving The Water Web: Evolution of the Legal Framework for Water Resource Development in California

RANCHOS


    Bouquet Canyon

    California Longhorns Vs. Texas Longhorns of Yesteryear and Today-- A Comparative Study

    California's Ranching History,1774-1848

    Camulos

    Castaic

    The Historic Dominguez Rancho Adobe

    History of Longhorns in California

    Mexican Land Grants by County

    The Past in California's Landscape

    Rancho Camulos National Register of Historic Places Nomination

    Rancho Camulos Museum

    Rancho Los Alamitos

    Rancho Los Cerritos (Long Beach)

    Ranchos of California

    Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana

WOMEN


    Briones, Juana

    Indian Women Performing Spanish Mission Song

    WOMEN AND THE CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA, 1542-1840: CODES OF SILENCE

    Women and Power in Alta California: 1790-1835

    California Division of Tourism

    The Four Remaining Franciscan Missions

    A Mission Record of the California Indians

    Monterey Bay Area Missions

    The Spanish Plant Name Quiz

    University of Michigan "Making of America" Website: California Missions

    A Virtual Tour of the California Missions



PICTORIAL RESOURCES



    Alice Iola Hare Photograph Collection (1900-1912)

    Automobile Club of Southern California Digital Archive

    Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)

    The California Historical Society Digital Archive

    California Missions

    California Missions

    California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856

    Franciscan Missions of California - Photographs, ca. 1876-1882

    Historical Photographs of the Old Mission

    Illustrated Glossary of Terms Relating to California Missions & Other Hispanic Sites

    Indian Women and Priest at Pala Mission

    Juan José Fustero. Piru, California

    Juan José Fustero: Death Certificate

    Kroeber (Alfred L.) Ethnographic Photographs of California Indian and Sonora Indian Subjects, 1901-1930

    Magic Lantern Slides - The Berkeley Geography Collection

PROJECTS BY & FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS



TEACHER RESOURCES


    Illustrated Glossary of Terms Relating to California Missions

    "A Day in the Life of A Friar

    "Horno Construction Techniques ...

    LIVE AGAIN OUR MISSION PAST

    Mission Directory

    American Journeys

    Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)

    B-8's California Missions Resources

    CA Indian Maps

    California Missions

    California During the American Revolution

    The California Missions On-Line Project

    Californio to American: A Study in Cultural Change

    The Cyber Serra Mission Project

    "A Day in the Life of a Mission"

    Early California History: An Overview.

    Las Californias, 1697-1834, Missions, Presidios, and Pueblos of Alta and Baja California

    Learn California.Org

    Documents from the Spanish & Mexican Periods

    Conquest of California 1846-1848

    Leonis Adobe

    Mission Santa Cruz at Holy Cross Parish

    San Diego County Mission Quiz

    The Spanish Missions of California

    State Standards

    Your Mission: The Last Mission



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