California Digital Newspaper Collection

Current newspapers from San Joaquin County: San Joaquin Republican 1851-1862 Stockton Independent 1856-1925 Stockton Record 1890-1904 It also has newspapers from several neighboring counties (Sacramento, Alameda, Contra Costa, Amador). It also has the San Francisco Call, which regularly carried sections entitled "Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys" and "San Joaquin Valley Farms."

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CAGenWeb Project

This is a branch of the U.S. GenWeb Project. It includes some newspaper archives and indices, and links to many other resources for the state and individual counties.

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Digital Public Library of America

This free online repository contains links to more than 54 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States offering a unique research resource for family historians and genealogists.

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Google News Archive of Lodi Newspaper 1881-2009

This was a project of Google that has been discontinued, however previously digitized historical newspapers remain online and searchable for free. It includes digitized copies of The Lodi News, Lodi News-Sentinel and The Lodi Sentinel from 7 January 1881 to 30 June 2009 under the L listings.

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Haggin Museum Library/Archives

The Haggin Museum, which opened in 1931, is located in Victory Park in central Stockton. Its archive houses thousands of books, historic photographs, maps, and other items relating to Stockton and California history. Access to the collections is by appointment only, and research fees apply.

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Internet Archive: San Joaquin County Resources

The Internet Archive is a vast online repository of digitized resources. It contains online digital images of the county plat books, illustrated histories of San Joaquin County, and a large collection of historical documents and other materials.

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Online Archive of California Finding Aid to University of the Pacific Archives

This is a direct link to the OAC guide to the holdings in the University of the Pacific Library's Holt-Atherton of Special Collections, which contains a wealth of historic photos, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and many other items.

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ObitsArchive.com

This subscription-based website which includes over 53 million U.S. Obituaries, including several San Joaquin County newspapers, such as The Record (Stockton), the Escalon Times, the Lodi News-Sentinel, the Oakdale Leader and the Riverbank News.

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Online Archive of California

The Online Archive of California provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 350 contributing institutions, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California, and the collections maintained by the ten University of California campuses.

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University of the Pacific Archives and Holt Atherton Special Collections

The mission of Holt-Atherton Special Collections is to collect, preserve, and provide access to manuscript collections made up of primary sources that focus on California, American history, and the University of the Pacific, as well as a specialized book collection. The Special Collections department is open to the public and Pacific students to use its unique resources in their research.

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