Amusements, Music, Culture


Bluestocking Press Online Store
Used Book Search Service - Biblio.com
The Daguerreian Society homepage
The Daguerreotype
Hair Work Supplies, Stories
The Dialect Coach.com
Music of Historic America - CD's
The Historical Cookery Page, while mostly Renaissance and earlier, is rich with old cookery.
Reenactment Eyewear - Don Griffin is a PA optician and reenactor who can supply competitively priced prescription glasses for periods from the 1500s to the 1920s.
Acanthus Books - Facsimile reproductions and non-facsimile reprints of antiquarian culinary works, as well as scholarly works on food and culinary history.
Beaver Buckets Reproductions wooden buckets, washtubs, butter churns, and other wooden containers.
Texas Sutler - Early 19th Century wares.
How to Cuss like a Soldier - Fine guide
Pilgrim's Projects - This musician and musical instrument maker (luthier) has an e-Bay store that includes supplies and kits for period instruments. At times he has historic instruments in playable condition. Very reliable in our member's experience.
Southern Victorian Antiques has extensive historic furniture and contributes to our virtual museum.

E-Texts

ALHFAM home page
Alonzo Delano, California Correspondence, 1849-52
California Men and Events, Time 1769-1890
California Steam Navigation Co. Sacramento River Steamers Chrysopolis and Yosemite.
Columbia California - Columbia State Historic Park
Gazetteer- California, & Travel via Nicaragua, Panama, Cape Horn & Overland. by John Hayward, 1851.
Horn's Overland Guide, from ... Council Bluffs, [Iowa] ... to ... Sacramento, California ...  1852.
Sacramento County
The General Railroad Law of California. enacted May 20, 1861.
The Prairie Traveler.  A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions. Capt. Marcy, 1859.
The Traveller's and Tourist's Guide Through the United States of America, Canada, Etc. by Wellington Williams, 1851.
Trails of Hope- Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869. Utah Academic Library Consortium
Alonzo Delano, California Correspondence, 1849-52
Nitroglycerine! Terrible Explosion and Los of Lives in San Francisco

Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
Three years in California [1851-54] by J.D. Borthwick
California, First Person Narratives General Collections, Titles list 1, Titles list 2
Discovery of Gold, by John A. Sutter - 1848
The Authenticity Triad

Music

Barleycorn Concertinas Concertina Guide a personal introduction to concertinas
DoN Nichols' concertina Home page
California Sheet Music Project (Duggan)
Historic American Sheet Music
Music Library
The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection

Templeton Music Collection