Doing Research

In Sonoma County

Archives In Sonoma County

   

  

Archive Collections

• Gaye LeBaron - Recently published PD Internet Archive  Link 
  
• North Bay Digital Collections (Sonoma State Univ.) Link
  
• Sonoma Heritage Collections (Sonoma County Library) Link
  
• USGenWeb Sonoma County Archives Link
  
• Western Sonoma County Historical Society Link

Sonoma County Library Archives (Digital) 

• Full list can be found here . . . Link
• 2017 Tubbs Fire Oral History Collection, 2023 Link  45 oral histories...
  
• Biblioteca Vinaria Sonoma Link
  
• California Listens -- Sonoma Wildfire Stories Link
• California Listens -- Stories about Being Californian Link
• City of Petaluma Historic Resource Survey Link
• Civil Grand Jury final reports, 2009-2021 Link
• Commission on AIDS records, 1988-1997 Link
• Community Contributions Link
  
• Don Meacham Photography Collection -- Commercial examples, 1965-1980 Link 
• Don Meacham Photography Collection, 1934-1985 Link
• Early Sonoma County High School Yearbooks and Student Publications Link
• Expressions Video Series Link
• Gaye LeBaron Historical Photograph Collection, 1871-1989 Link 
• Grand Jury Final Reports Link
• Guerneville School Children's Book Project, 2020-2021 Link
• Here + Queer, Sonoma County Link
• Historical Publications and Documents Link
• History & Healing After the Fire Link
• Jack Taylor Interviews Link  a collection of over 200 video interviews conducted by the late John P. “Jack” Taylor (1924-2014)
• Lothers & Young Studios Collection, about 1920-1930 Link
• Luther Burbank Home & Gardens Collection Link
• Musical Sonoma Link
• Nellie J. Doyle Collection of Postcards & Greeting Cards Sent or Received, 1880-1941 Link
• Norther California Light and Sound Link
• Robert Feuer Collection of Music Writings, 2005-2018 Link
• Rohnert Park 60th Anniversary Oral History Project 2022 Link
• Snapshots of Santa Rosa, Videos Link
• Sonoma County Advertising and Marketing Collection Link
• Sonoma County Architectural Drawing Collection Link 
• Sonoma County Bar Association Collection Link
• Sonoma County Directories Link
• Sonoma County Fair & Exposition Media Archives, 1936-2011 Link
  
• Sonoma County Historical Society Collection Link
  
• Sonoma County in the ... Television Series Link
• Sonoma County Legal Secretaries Association Collection Link
• Sonoma County Library History Collection, 1869-2023 Link
• Sonoma County Library Historical Newspaper Collection Link
• Sonoma County Library Map Collection Link
• Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection Link
  
• Sonoma County Library Postcard Collection Link
  
• Sonoma County Library Zoom Background Collection Link
• Sonoma County Local Author and Visual Artist Works Link
• Sonoma County Local Authors Link
• Sonoma County Local History Index Link
• Sonoma County Presses and Publishers Link
• Sonoma County Stories -- Voices from Where We Live (Videos) Link
  
• Sonoma County Women Service Members in World War II, 1943-1946 Link This collection recognizes the individual WWII contributions of local women and Japanese Americans, whose military service challenged the stereotypical boundaries of their time.
• Sonoma County Visionaries, Immigrants & Winemakers Collection, about 1865-2005 Link 
  
• Sonoma Historian Link Sixty years of the Sonoma Historian (originally published as The Journal) -- the official publication of the Sonoma County Historical Society.
• Sonoma Responds community collection, 2020-2021 Link A collection of writings, artwork, videos and more from local people in response to the historic challenges of 2020 and 2021.
• Sonoma Sounds Link Video interviews
• Speaking of Wine: SC Winemaker Oral Histories Link
  
• Visual Arts of Sonoma County Link
• Western Sonoma County Historic Resource Survey Link The Final Report of the 1981 Historic Resources Survey presents the findings of the Western Sonoma County Historic Resource Survey team's comprehensive visual assessment of historic resources in coastal and western Sonoma County.
• Western Sonoma County Historic Resources Survey Photographs Link
• Western Sonoma County Historical Society Collection Link
• William Nicholas Connolly scrapbook, 1905-1969 Link

Sonoma State University Archives (Digital)

• California Folklore Digital Collection Link
• Earthquake of 1906 Digital Collection Link
  
• Environmental History Digital Collection Link
• Gaye LeBaron Digital Collection Link
  
• Leopold Justi Digital Collection Link Leopold Justi (1864-1946), a longtime resident of Glen Ellen, was a farmer, a winemaker, a justice of the peace, and an insurance agent. He achieved recognition in each of his endeavors.
• Lime Kiln Digital Collection Link
  
• Modini Ranch Journals Digital Collection Link
  
• Nellie Tombs Digital Collection Link 
• North Bay Historic Preservation Digital Collection Link
  
• Roy Maxwell Talbot Digital Collection Link
  
• Sonoma County Agriculture, Land Use, and Tourism Digital Collection Link The collection consists of pamphlets and ephemera focusing on promoting agricultural production in Sonoma County, as well as land use and development, and county tourism.
• Student Newspaper Digital Collection Link This collection provides access to student newspapers dating from 1961.
• University Archives Digital Collection Link Photographs, documents, and media of historical significance to Sonoma State Universit

Sonoma State University Archives (In Person Searching Only)

• Bill (William M.) Kortum Papers
• Brenda Starr Comic Collection
• C.O.A.A.S.T. Scrapbook Collection
• Camp Amache Digital Collection
• Charles Rhinehart Papers
• Corrick Brown Santa Rosa Symphony Collection
• Dawson Lime Kiln Photograph Collection
• Dust Bowl Migration Archive
• English Chapbook Collection
• Ernest Hemingway letters
  
• Ernestine Smith Papers
• Finley-McFarling Genealogy Collection
  
• Gaye LeBaron Collection (More than just Digital!)
• George E. McCabe papers
  
• Hector Lee Folklore Collection
• Hoyt Earthquake Photograph Collection
  
• Indochinese Cultures Project
• Iva Warner papers
  
• Jack London Collection
• John LeBaron Photograph Collection
• John P. Crevelli Papers
• John Schubert Russian River Collection
• John Shackelford Taylor papers
  
• John W. Hudson Papers
• Leopold Justi Papers
• Lynn Woolsey Congressional Papers
• Max Goodman Collection
• Modini Ranch Journals
  
• Nakata and Stevens Papers
  
• Nellie M. Tombs papers
  
• North Bay Ethnic Archive
• Paul Lorch Collection
• Press Democrat Empire Living Collection
• Regional Collection: Books and maps focused on North Bay history, government, people, and environmental issues (1860s-present)
• Regional Newspaper Collection: Historical California and North Bay newspapers from 1883 to the early 1990s.
• Roland Hauck Papers
• Roy Maxwell Talbot Papers
• Simmons-Banta Photograph Collection
  
• Sonoma County Agriculture, Land Use, and Tourism Collection
  
• Sonoma County Highways Collection
  
• Sonoma County Oral History Project
  
• Sonoma County Preservation Project
  
• Sonoma County Women’s Oral History Collection
• Spanish Civil War Collection
  
• Student Dissent Papers
• Walt Phillips Small Press Collection
  
• Windsor Project Oral Histories

** See SSU's Special Collections for more information on above in person collections. . . . . . (https://library.sonoma.edu/research/special-collections/our-collections)