SUBJECT FILES AVAILABLE ON SITE IN THE SAN DIEGO HISTORY CENTER RESEARCH LIBRARY
African Americans #1, #2
Agriculture – – Avocados – Farming – Flowers – Fruit – Olives – Vineyards – Miscellanea
Alcaldes [Mayors]
Allied Gardens, San Diego
Alpine, CA
Amusements – – Circuses – Merry-Go-Round – Miscellanea
Animals – – Birds – ‘Bum’ – Camels – Cattle – Domestic – Fish – Horses – Reptiles – Sea Mammals – Whales – Wild – Miscellanea Anza Borrego Desert, CA
Archaeology
Architecture – – Adobes – Architects – Awards – Commercial – Residential – Miscellanea
Armed Forces – – Air Force – Army / Camp Callan – Army / Camp Kearny – Army / Camp Wright – Army / Miscellanea – Coast Guard – Marines / Camp Elliott – Marines / Camp Pendleton – Marines / MCRD – Marines / Miramar – Marines / Miscellanea – National Guard – Navy / Camel Corps – Navy / Fuel Depot – Navy / Miramar – Navy / Naval Electronics Laboratory [NEL] – Navy / Naval Hospital – Navy / Naval Militia – Navy / Naval Reserve – Navy / Naval Training Center [NTC] – Navy / Navy League – Navy / North Island / Rockwell Field – Navy / Quarantine Station – Navy / USS Bennington – Navy / USS San Diego – Navy / Miscellanea #1, #2 – R.O.T.C. Armed Forces – – Veterans Administration – Miscellanea
Art – – Artists – Exhibitions – Murals – Pottery – Public Art – Statues – Miscellanea
Associations – – American Legion – Amphion Club – Animal / Wildlife Clubs/Societies – Blind Clubs/Societies – Boosters of Old Town – Boys Clubs – Boy Scouts – Business Clubs/Societies – Camp Fire Girls – Chamber of Commerce – Charitable / Philanthropic Clubs/Societies – Civic Clubs/Societies – COMBO – Congress of History – Cotillion Club – Cuyamaca Club – Democratic Club – East End Gang – E. Clampus Vitas – Elks Lodge – Environmental Clubs/Societies – Floral Clubs/Societies – Flying Samaritans – Gem and Treasure Hunting Association – Girl’s Clubs/Societies – Girls Scouts Associations – – Grand Army of the Republic – Heaven on Earth Club – Historical Shrine Foundation – History / Genealogy Clubs/Societies – Humane Society – Junior League of San Diego – Kiwanis Club – Ku Klux Klan – Los Surenos and Los Surenitos – Masons – Medical Clubs/Societies – Men’s Clubs/Societies – Music /Art Clubs/Societies – Native Sons and Daughters of the American West – Old Timers Club – Planned Parenthood – Red Cross – Rotary Club – Salvation Army – San Diego Athletic Club – San Diego Antique Bottle Club – San Diego Bar Association – San Diego Cadets – San Diego Council of Churches – San Diego County Historical Days Association – San Diego Genealogical Society – San Diego Rifle and Revolver Club – San Diego Rowing Club – San Diego Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis – San Diego Yacht Club – Save Our Heritage Organization [SOHO] – Sister Cities – Social / Recreational Clubs/Societies – Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution – Theosophical Society #1, #2, – Thursday Club – Townsend Clubs – University Club – Urban League Associations – – USO – Veterans Clubs/Societies – Wednesday Club – Women’s Clubs/Societies – Writers Club of San Diego – YMCA – YWCA – ZLAC Rowing Club – Miscellanea
Astronomy
Aviation – – Airships – Brown Field – Disasters – Gillespie Field – Gliders – Flight of Spirit of St Louis – Lindbergh Field – Montgomery Field – Miscellanea #1, #2
Baja California, Mexico #1, #2
Balboa Park, San Diego – – Administration Building – Botanical Building – Buildings / Miscellanea – California Building – Casa de Balboa – Casa del Prado – Ford Building – Horticulture – House of Charm – House of Hospitality – House of Pacific Relations – Plaza de Balboa – Preservation/Restoration /Development #1, #2, Balboa Park, San Diego – – Spreckels Organ Pavilion – Spanish Village – Miscellanea #1, #2
Balena, CA
Banner, CA
Barrio Logan, San Diego
Bay Park, San Diego
Beaches
Bells
Bonita, CA
Bonsall, CA
Books and Publications #1, #2
Border Region, Mexican-American
Borrego Springs, CA
Bostonia, CA
Boulevard, CA
Bridges – – Adams Avenue – Cabrillo / Laurel Street – Coronado Bay Bridge – 30th Street – Miscellanea
Buckman Springs, CA
Burlingame, San Diego
Business Enterprises – – Antiques – Automobile Services – Bakeries and Flour Mills – Bathhouses – Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals – Blacksmiths – Bookstores – Breweries – Campbell Industries – Clothing and Textiles – Construction Industry – Costco / Price Club – Dairies – Defense and Aviation Industries – Drugstores – El Cajon Valley Company – Fiberglass Menagerie – Financial Institutions A-M – Financial Institutions N-Z – Financial Institutions / Miscellanea – Fisheries – Fisheries, Tuna #1, #2 – Foundries – Furniture – General Dynamics / Convair #1, #2 – Grocery Stores – Hardware and Interior Decoration – Hide and Tallow – Horticulture – International – Jessops – Kelp and Potash – Klauber-Wangenheim – Laundries – Law Firms – Livery Stables – Lumber Business Enterprises – – Malls and Shopping Centers – Marston’s Department Store – Massage Parlors – Musical Instruments / Music Stores – NASSCO – Oil / Petroleum – Otay Watch Works – Pacific Southwest Airlines – Photography – Printing – Prostitution – Real Estate – Recreation – Retail Stores – Retirement Communities – Rohr – Rose Canyon Brick Company – Ryan – Saloons – San Diego Gas and Electric / Sempra Energy #1, #2 – San Diego Hardware – San Diego Land and Town Company – San Diego Nail and Iron Works – Scissor Grinding – Shipbuilding – Solar – Spreckels Companies – Telecommunications – Telephones – Tijuana – Title Companies – Undertakers and Undertaking – Western Salt Co. – Westgate Corp – Whaling – Miscellanea
California – – Administration – History – Governors – Mattoon Act Campo, CA
Canyons – – A-G – H-Q – R-Z
Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Carlsbad, CA #1, #2
Carrizo and Carrizo Gorge, CA
Cattle Brands
Caves
Celebrities
Cemeteries – – Calvary – Campo Santo – Fort Rosecrans – Greenwood – Holy Cross – Mount Hope – San Diego County – San Pasqual – Miscellanea
Centennials
Charities – Goodwill Industries
Charity Balls Chinese
Chula Vista, CA #1, #2
Churches – – Baptist – Buddhist – Catholic – Christian – Christian Science – Congregational – Episcopal – Jehovah’s Witness – Jesuits – Lutheran – Methodist – Mormon – Orthodox Eastern – Presbyterian – Protestant – Quakers – Spiritualist – Synagogues – Unitarian – Miscellanea
City Heights, San Diego
Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC]
Clairemont, San Diego
Cleveland National Forest, CA
College Grove, San Diego
Commemorative Coins
Communism
Conventions and Convention Center – Republican Convention 1972 – Miscellanea
Coronado, CA #1, #2, #3
Coronado, CA – Tent City
Coronados Islands, Mexico
Courts – – Coroners – Grand Jury – Yellow Cab Bribery / Conspiracy Case – Miscellanea
Cowboys
Creeks
Crest, CA
Crime #1, #2
Cults
Cuyamaca, CA
Dams – – Barrett – El Capitan – Henshaw – Hodges – Mission / Padre – Morena – Otay – Sutherland – Sweetwater – Miscellanea
Dance
Deadman’s Hole, CA
Dehesa, CA
Del Mar, CA #1, #2
Del Mar Fairgrounds
De Luz, CA
Derby Dike, San Diego
Descanso, CA
Devil’s Punchbowl, CA
Diplomats
Disasters – – Earthquakes – Fire – Floods – Indian Ocean Tsunami – Miscellanea
Duckville, San Diego
Dulzura, CA
East San Diego
Eclipses
Ecology #1, #2
Education – – International History Fair – Police Junior School Patrol El Cajon #1, #2, #3
Elections – – Pre-1900 – 1901-1950 – 1951-2000 – 2001-
Electric Lights
Employment – – International Workers of the World [IWW] – Labor Unions – Miscellanea
Encanto, San Diego
Encinitas, CA
Escondido #1, #2, #3, #4
Exploration – – Expeditions – Miscellanea
Expositions – – California-Pacific International 1935-1936 – Panama-California 1915-1916 – Miscellanea
Fallbrook, CA
Fashion
Festivals – – Admission Day – Cabrillo – Cinco de Mayo – Easter – Fiesta del Pacifico Festivals – – Founding of San Diego – Halloween – Harbor Days – Horton Day – San Diego 200th Anniversary – Trek to the Cross – Miscellanea
Filibusters
Filipinos
Filming in San Diego #1, #2, #3
Fire Department #1, #2, #3
Flags #1, #2
Fletcher Hills, CA
Flinn Springs, CA
Flowers
Folklore
Food
Forts – – Guijarros – Rosecrans – Stockton – Miscellanea
Fossils
Gambling
Gardens – – A-Z – Miscellanea
Gay Community
Geology
Golden Hill, San Diego
Grantville, San Diego
Grossmont, CA
Guatay, CA
Harbor Island, San Diego
Harbors – – Harbor Department – Unified Port District – Miscellanea #1, #2
Harmony Grove, CA
Hillcrest, San Diego
Hipass, CA
Historical Societies – – A-O – P-Z – La Jolla Historical Society – San Diego Historical Society – SDHS/Designer Showcase #1, #2, #3 – San Luis Rey Historical Society – Miscellanea
Historic Buildings – – Adobes – Bancroft House – Britt House – Casa de Tempo – Cliff Mansion [John P. Mills House] – County Administration Building – Courthouses #1, #2 – William Heath Davis House – Green Dragon Colony – Haunted Houses – Klauber Houses – Long-Waterman-Gilbert House – Naval Training Center [NTC] – Police Headquarters – Preservation #1, #2 – Putnam House – Quartermass Wilde House – Rancho Guajome Adobe – Ruiz Alvarado Ranch House – San Diego/Downtown – Sherman-Gilbert House – Timken House – Miscellanea
Historical Markers – – California – San Diego – Miscellanea
Hobbies – Model Yachts
Holidays – – Christmas – Independence Day – Memorial Day – Thanksgiving – Veterans Day – Miscellanea
Hospitals – – Children’s Hospital – County /University/UCSD – County TB Sanitorium/Vauclain – Edgemoor Geriatric Hospital – Mercy Hospital – Paradise Valley Hospital – Scripps Hospitals – Sharp Hospitals – St Joseph’s Hospital / Dispensary – VA Hospital – Miscellanea
Hotels – – A-K – L-Z – American Hotel – Brooklyn Hotel – Hotel del Coronado #1, #2 – Del Mar Hotel [Stratford Inn] – El Cortez – Golden West Hotel – Hotel Florence – Horton Grand Hotel – Horton House Hotel – Lafayette Hotel – Lakeside Hotel – Hotel San Diego [Old and New] – St James Hotel – US Grant – The Westgate – Miscellanea
Housing – – Apartments – Low Cost / Community Housing – Mobile homes/Trailer Parks – Miscellanea
Hulburd Grove, CA Immigration and Immigrants
Imperial Beach, CA
Imperial Valley, CA
Indians – – Agua Caliente [Warner’s Springs] – Archaeology – Barona – Basket Making – Cahuilla – Campo – Capitan Grande – Cuyapaipe – Gambling – History #1, #2 – Inaja-Cosmit – Jamul – Kumaay / Diegueno – La Jolla – La Posta – Los Coyotes – Luisenos – Manzanita – Mesa Grande – Pala – Pauma – Pechanga – Rincon – San Pasqual – Santa Ysabel – Social Life and Customs #1, #2 – Sycuan – Viejas – Yuma – Miscellanea #1, #2
Insects and Spiders
Italians
Jacumba [and Back Country]
Jamacha
Jamul
Japanese
Japatul
Jews
Julian #1, #2, #3
Kearny Mesa, San Diego
Kensington
La Costa
La Cresta
Lagoons
La Jolla #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
Lake Elsinore, CA
Lakes
Lakeside,CA
La Mesa, CA #1, #2, #3
Law Enforcement – – Camp Forestry – Police Department #1, #2 – Sheriff’s Department – US Marshals
Lemon Grove, CA
Leucadia, CA
Libraries – – San Diego City #1, #2 – San Diego County – Miscellanea
Lighthouses – – Ballast Point – Old Point Loma – Point Loma – Miscellanea
Linda Vista, San Diego
Little Italy, San Diego
Little Landers
Logan Heights, San Diego
Machinery
Mallorca, Spain
Manners and Customs
Maps
Marbello, CA
Memorials Mesa Grande, CA
Mexican Americans
Mexico – – Agua Caliente – Ensenada – Mexican War 1846-1848 – Revolutions – Tecate – Tijuana #1, #2 – Miscellanea
Middletown, San Diego
Minerals – – Gems – Gold – Miscellanea
Mines – – Cleveland Pacific – Julian – Lost V – Mormon Coal Mine – Oriflamme – Owens – Peg Leg – Salt – Stone Wall – Miscellanea
Miramar, San Diego
Mira Mesa, San Diego
Mission Bay, San Diego #1, #2
Mission Beach, San Diego #1, #2
Mission Gorge, San Diego
Mission Hills, San Diego
Mission Valley, San Diego
Missions – – Baja California – California #1, #2 – Pious Fund – San Antonio de Pala – San Diego de Alcala #1, #2, #3, #4 – San Gabriel – San Juan Capistrano – San Luis Rey – Santa Ysabel – Father Junipero Serra – Miscellanea #1, #2
Money
Moosa Canyon, CA
Mormon Battalion #1, #2
Mountains – – A-L – M-Z – Miscellanea
Mount Helix, CA
Mount Laguna, CA
Mount Palomar, CA
Mount Palomar – Observatory
Mount Soledad, San Diego
Mountain Springs, CA
Murrieta, CA
Museums – – Aerospace Museum – African-American Museum – Automotive Museum – Centro Cultural de la Raza – Firehouse Museum – Hall of Champions – Maritime Museum #1, #2 – Marston House – MCRD – Midway Carrier Museum – Mingei Museum – Museum of American Treasures – Museum of Art – Museum of Contemporary Art – Museum of Man – Museum of Photographic Arts – Museum of San Diego History – Natural History – Railroad Museum – Reuben H. Fleet Science Center – San Diego Union – Serra Museum #1, #2 – Villa Montezuma #1, #2, #3 – Wells Fargo Museum – Miscellanea
Music – – Bands – Choral – Classical – Early San Diego – Folk / Country Music – Jazz – Opera – Organ Music Music – – Popular – San Diego Symphony Orchestra – Miscellanea
National City, CA #1, #2, #3, #4
Navajo, San Diego
Nestor, CA
Newspapers – – San Diego Herald – San Diego Sun – San Diego Tribune – San Diego Union – Union-Tribune – Miscellanea
Normal Heights, San Diego
North Park, San Diego
Nuclear Research
Nudism
Oak Grove, CA
Ocean Beach, San Diego
Oceanside, CA #1, #2
Oil Exploration
Old Town – – Adobe Chapel – Business Enterprises – Casa de Bandini – Casa de Carrillo Old Town – – Casa de Estudillo – Casa de Lopez – Casa de Machado de Silvas – Casa de Machado de Stewart – Casa de Pedrorena – Casa de Pico – Cobblestone Jail – Congress Hall – Heritage Park – Historic Buildings – History #1, #2 – Mason Street School – Plaza – Pendleton House [Derby House] – Restoration – Seeley Stables / Hazard Museum – Squibob Square – Whaley House #1, #2 – Miscellanea #1, #2, #3
Olivenhain, CA
Orange County, CA
Otay Mesa, CA
Pacific Beach, San Diego
Pacific Islanders
Palm City, San Diego
Parades and Pageants
Paradise Hills, San Diego
Parking
Parks – – A-G – H-Z – Anza Borrego Desert State Park – Cabrillo National Monument – Presidio Park – Presidio Park / Excavations – Presidio Park / Spanish Soldiers – Spanish Landing – Miscellanea
Pauba, CA
Pauma Valley, CA
Picacho, Imperial County
Piers – – Broadway Pier – Crystal Pier – Miscellanea
Pine Valley, CA
Pirates
Place Names #1, #2, #3
Plants
Point Loma, San Diego
Points – A-Z
Pollution
Population
Portuguese
Postal Service – – Airmail – Butterfield Overland Mail – Jackass Mail – Overland Mail – Pony Express – Post Offices – Miscellanea
Potrero, CA
Poway, CA
Presidents
Prisons – – City – County – East Mesa – Federal – History – Las Colinas – Miscellanea
Prohibition
Public Health – – Dentists – Diseases – Epidemics – Longevity – Medical Care – Osteopaths – Treatment – Miscellanea
Public Welfare – – Children’s Homes – Financial Aid – Homelessness Public Welfar – – Neighborhood House – Miscellanea
Pueblo Lands
Race Relations
Radio
Railroads – – A-Z – Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe – National City and Otay – San Diego and Arizona Eastern – San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern – San Diego, Old Town and Pacific Beach / San Diego, Pacific Beach and La Jolla – Santa Fe Depot – Miscellanea
Rainbow, CA
Ramona, CA #1, #2
Ramona – The Story
Ranchos – – A-Z – Agua Hedionda – Buena Vista – Carrillo [Los Quiotes] – Guajome – Guejito – Jamacha / Monte Vista – Los Coches – Los Penisquitos – Miramar [Scripps Ranch] – Monserate – Nacion Ranchos – – Osuna – Otay [Janal] – Rincon del Diablo – San Bernardo – San Felipe – Santa Fe – Santa Margarita y Las Flores – Santa Maria – Warner’s – Miscellanea
Refuse and Refuse Disposal
Restaurants #1, #2
Rivers – – Colorado River – San Diego River – Tiajuana River – Miscellanea
Roads – – Freeways – 163/Cabrillo – Grades – Highways – 94/Martin Luther King Jr – 101/Pacific Coast Highway – Imperial Valley – Interstate 5 – Interstate 8/Hway 80 – Interstate 15 – Interstate 805 – Toll Roads – Miscellanea
Rolando, San Diego
Roseville, CA Russians
Salk Institute of Biological Studies
Salvage
San Bernadino, CA
San Clemente Island, CA
San Diego – – Historical Chronology – History 1769-1899 #1, #2, #3 – History 1900-1929 – History 1930-1969 – History 1970- – The Name
San Diego City – – Administration – Board of Education – Board of Health – CCDC – City Charter – City Council – City Hall – Community Concourse – Downtown #1 – Downtown #2, #3 – Gaslamp Quarter – Horton Plaza #1, #2 – Mayors – Planning – Seaport Village – South/Southeast – Stingaree – Uptown Planners – Miscellanea #1, #2
San Diego County – – Administration – Surveys – Miscellanea
San Dieguito, CA
San Ignacio, CA
San Luis Rey, CA
San Marcos, CA
San Onofre, CA
San Pasqual, CA #1, #2, #3
Santee, CA
San Vincente, CA
Santa Ysabel, CA
San Ysidro, CA
Schools – – A-F – G-L – M-R – S-Z – Bishop’s School – Frances Parker – Grossmont High School – Hoover High School – Army and Navy Academy / Brown Military Academy – SD High School / Russ High School – Miscellanea #1, #2
Seaworld
Senior Citizens
Sewage
Shelter Island, San Diego
Shelter Valley, CA
Sherman Heights, San Diego
Shipping – – Cargo Ships – Chinese Junks – International – Ferries – Lelia Byrd – Orizaba – Passenger/Cruise Ships – Sailing – San Carlos – Shipwrecks – Steamships – Miscellanea
Sidewalks
Smuggling
Solana Beach, CA
Sorrento Valley, CA
Space Exploration
Sports – – Basketball – Baseball – Baseball / The Padres – Boxing – Football Sports – – Football / The Chargers – Golf – Horseracing – Hunting and Fishing – Ice Hockey – Motorboats / Personal Watercraft – Motorsports – Over-The-Line – Powerboats – Rowing – Sailing – Sailing/America’s Cup #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 – Soccer – Surfing – Swimming/Diving – Track and Field – Tennis – Miscellanea
South Bay, San Diego
Springs – – A-Z – Isham Springs [Spring Valley]
Spring Valley, CA
Squatters
Stadiums – – Petco Park – San Diego Stadium / Balboa Stadium – San Diego Stadium / Jack Murphy / Qualcomm – Sports Arena
Stamps
Streets – – El Cajon Blvd – Miscellanea
Sweetwater Valley, CA
Taxation
Telegraph
Television
Temecula, CA
Teralta, San Diego
Theaters – – Armory – Balboa Theater – Civic Theater – Fox / Symphony Hall – Garrick / Empress – Granger Music Hall – Greek Theater – Hollywood / Lyceum – Horton Hall – Isis / Fisher Opera House – La Jolla Playhouse – La Paloma – Louis Opera House – Mission Playhouse – Movie Theaters – North Park Theater – Old Globe – Orpheum / Pantages – Savoy Theater – Silver Strand – Spreckels – Starlight – Miscellanea #1, #2 Tides and Tidelands
Time Capsules
Torrey Pines, San Diego
Tourism
Traffic
Trails – – El Camino Real / King’s Highway – Kearny Trail – La Playa Trail – Old Spanish Trail – Serra Trail – Miscellanea
Transportation – – Automobiles – Buses – Bicycles – Cable Cars – Electric Railway – Horse-Drawn Vehicles – Public Transportation / Miscellanea – Stagecoaches / Stage Lines and Routes – Stagecoaches / Vallecitos – Stagecoaches / Miscellanea – Streetcars – Trolleys – Miscellanea
Trappers
Treasure Hunting
Trees – – Torrey Pine – Miscellanea
Tunnels
Twin Oaks, CA
Universities and Colleges – – California State, San Marcos – Cal Western School of Law – Grossmont / Mesa / City / Palomar / Southwestern – National University – Point Loma Nazarene – San Diego State – Scripps Institution of Oceanography #1, #2 – University of California, San Diego [UCSD] – University of San Diego – Vocational
University City, San Diego
University Heights, San Diego
US Customs Service
Valleys – – A-M – N-Z
Valley Center, CA
Vietnamese
Vista, CA
Volunteers
War – – Civil Defense – Civil War – Gulf War – Korean War War– – Prisoners of War – Spanish-American War – Vietnam War – World War One – World War Two #1, #2 – Miscellanea
Warner Springs, CA
Water – – Aquaducts – California Water Authority – Canals – Flumes – Helix Water District – Metropolitan Water District – Saltwater Conversion – San Diego City – Water Companies – Water Witch – Wells – Miscellanea
Waterfalls A-Z
Weapons
Weather and Climate – – Rainmaking – Miscellanea #1, #2
Wharves
Windmills
Witch Creek, CA
Women
Works Progress Administration [WPA]
Wynola, CA
Yuma, AZ
Zoo #1, #2
Zoo / Wild Animal Park