BAY AREA LIBRARIES

BAY AREA ARCHIVES

SELECTED WEBSITES FOR AMERICAN HISTORY

 U.S. CENSUS DATA, CALIFORNIA DEMOGRAPHIC DATA, AND STATISTICAL ABSTRACTS

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INFLATION/DEFLATION CALCULATORS

J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State Uni.

California State Library, Sacramento

UC San Francisco

Other CSU campuses

J. Porter Shaw Library, National Maritime Museum

 UC Davis

San Francisco Public Library

Boalt Law Library

On the SFSU Campus:
Labor Archives and Research Center
480 Winston Drive
(labor and the left. northern California)

Online Archive of California
California Digital Library

On the SFSU campus:
Special Collections/ Archives
6th floor of the library
(history of SFSU)

Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
(U.S. history, especially California and the West)

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University

Judah Magnes Jewish Museum Libraries and Archives, Berkeley (western Jewish history)

National Archives, Pacific Region,
San Bruno
(federal agencies in northern Calif. and the Pacific; microfilm copies of federal records)

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Gilded Age & Progressive Era

California

The Cold War

 Useful Reference Sites

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Cost of Living Calculator
(since 1913 only; American Institute for Economic Research)

Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator
(NASA)

The Inflation Calculator
(since 1800)

How Much Is That Worth Today?
(1665 to present; eh.net)

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Cost of Living Calculator
(since 1914; includes geographic variables as well as time)

Selected Historical Census Data
U.S. Census Bureau

IPUMS:  Integrated Public Use Microdata Series 
historical census microdata for social and economic research, University of Minnesota

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
U.S. Census Bureau

United States Historical Census  Data Browser
University of Virginia

California Statistical Abstract 
Ca. Dept of Finance

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