Resources

• Agricultural History Project at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds
• Amah Mutsun Tribal Band website
• Rizzo, Martin. Dissertation. “No Somos Animales: Indigenous Survival and Perseverance in 19th Century Santa Cruz, California.” Available online through the University of California’s escholarship platform.
• Calisphere: Gateway to many of California’s rich digital collections. Project of the University of California Libraries. Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over one million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more. 
• Capitola History Museum
• Central Coast Secrets--website by retired Cabrillo College history professor/researcher Sandy Lydon.
• Pajaro Valley Historical Association
• San Lorenzo Valley Museum
• Santa Cruz County Public Library Local History articles (fully digital) Search “UCSC.”
• Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
• Santa Cruz Public Library Historical Photographs Collection (digital)

Archives--UCSC Library Special Collections

• Historical Maps and Aerial Photos--Santa Cruz Region
• Leon and Jeannette Rowland collection (MS.051). Collected research documents on the history of people and places in Santa Cruz County from pre-statehood California to 1951. Included are scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, articles, writings, notes, notecards, and other research documents created and collected by Leon Rowland and his wife Jeannette. The collection also includes a small amount of original pre-statehood documents concerning land ownership in California.
• Local History and Santa Cruziana Collections at the UCSC Library’s Special Collections & Archives.
• Postcard Collection (MS 467) This collection contains postcards and postcard packets from the Santa Cruz area, California counties, the United States, and some international locations. 
• Santa Cruz Ephemera Collection (MS 72). This collection contains ephemeral material arranged by broad topics such as Santa Cruz City, Santa Cruz County, Entertainment, Business, Education, Religion. Boxes 1-9 contain early pre-1950 material.

Digital Exhibits--UCSC Library

• “History of the UCSC Quarry and the Cowell Ranch.” Curated by UCSC graduate student Christine Turk for UCSC Physical Planning and Construction.
• UCSC Digital Collections Online: Includes the Santa Cruz Historical Photograph Collection. This collection contains hundreds of images of Santa Cruz County from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Oral Histories

• Michael Bergazzi: Santa Cruz Lumbering
• Frank Blaisdell: Santa Cruz in the Early 1900s
• Santa Cruz and the Cowell Ranch, 1890-9641
• John Dong: the Cowell Ranch Cookhouse
• Adalbert Wolff: The Cowell Ranch, 1915