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February 7, 2010 - Added "A Brief Guide to the Palace of Fine Arts - Panama Pacific International Exposition - Post Exposition Period" by Michael Williams to the "Other California Books" page and the Panama-Pacific Exposition Page.

May 13, 2007 - Added "Ode on the Exposition" by George Sterling to the "A. M. Robertson" page and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

May 12, 2007 - Added "Mining Week" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

May 7, 2007 - Added "Argentine Trade with the World" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

May 6, 2007 - Added pages for publishers "John Howell" and "Overland Publishing."

April 6, 2007 - Added "Circular of Information - Panama-Pacific International Exposition" by the Department of Fine Arts to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

February 25, 2007 - Added "The Old Spanish Missions of California & San Gabriel Mission and the Mission Play" by Anne Jennings Nolan and Mildred MacLean to the "Other California Books" page.

November 23, 2006 - Added "The Story of a Great Achievement" by American Telephone and Telegraph Co. to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

November 16, 2006 - Added "Storied Walls of the Exposition" by Katherine Delmar Burke to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

October 29, 2006 - Added "The Evanescent City" by George Sterling and Francis Bruguiere to the "A. M. Robertson" page and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

October 28, 2006 - Added "The Department of Commerce - Panama-Pacific International Exposition Edition 1913" by U.S. Department of Commerce to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

October 8, 2006 - Added "The Great Diamond Hoax" edited by James H. Wilkins to the "James H Barry Press" page.

September 27, 2006 - Added page for publisher "Wahlgreen Company." Added "A Brief Guide to the Department of Fine Arts - Panama-Pacific International Exposition" by Michael Williams to the Wahlgreen Company page.

August 26, 2006 - Added page for publisher "Coleman Cox." Added "Listen to This" by Coleman Cox to the Coleman Cox page. Added "2nd 1000 Questions Answered in California Agriculture" by Edward J. Wickson to the Pacific Rural Press page.

June 3, 2006 - Added "The Panama Canal at San Francisco 1915" by Panama Canal Exhibition Co. to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

April 28, 2006 - Added "Information for Visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco - 1915" by Rainier Beer to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

April 23, 2006 - Added "The General Electric Company at the Panama-Pacific Exposition" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

April 9, 2006 - Added "Impressions of the Art at the Panama-Pacific Exposition" by Christian Brinton to the "Other California Books" page, the Panama-Pacific Exposition page, and the Panama California Exposition page.

March 12, 2006 - Added "Experimental Organic Chemistry" by James F. Norris, Ph. D. to the "Miscellaneous (non California related books)" page.

February 1, 2006 - Added "Official View Book - Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915 - San Francisco" to the H. S. Crocker page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

January 27, 2006 - Added "Panama-Pacific - Panama-California Souvenir 1915" by the International Harvester Company to the "Other California Books" page, the Panama-Pacific Exposition page, and the Panama California Exposition page.

January 22, 2006 - Added "Tour of the Governor of Pennsylvania Members of His Staff and the Pennsylvania Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

January 12, 2006 - Added "Salmon Cook Book - How to Eat Canned Salmon" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

December 31, 2005 - Added "The People's Easy Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and Mysteries of the Zone" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

November 27, 2005 - Added "Catalog of the Exhibit of the Department of State at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco, Calfornia 1915" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

November 20, 2005 - Added "Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco - 1915" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

November 3, 2005 - Added "Little Literary Lights" by Augustin S. MacDonald to the "John Newbegin" page.

October 15, 2005 - Added "San Francisco One Hundred Years Ago ..." by Louis Choris - Translated by Porter Garnett to the "A. M. Robertson" page.

October 14, 2005 - Added "San Francisco and Vicinity - When the Golden Gate ... is Golden" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

October 5, 2005 - Added "Little Bronze Playfellows" by Stella George Stern Perry to the "Paul Elder" page and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

October 1, 2005 - Added "The Inscriptions" by Porter Garnett to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

September 30, 2005 - Added "Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Ephemera" page.

September 4, 2005 - Added "Samuel Levinson" page. Added "What We Saw at Madame World's Fair" by Elizabeth Gordon to the "Samuel Levinson" page and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

August 30, 2005 - Added "Palace of Fine Arts and Lagoon" by Bernard R. Maybeck to the "Paul Elder" page and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

August 27, 2005 - Added "The Denby Children at the Fair" by Mary E. Bamford to the "Other California Books" page.

August 20, 2005 - Added "Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Popular Information" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

August 15, 2005 - Added "San Francisco and the Panama-Pacific Universal Exposition" by James Henry MacLafferty to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

August 8, 2005 - Added "The President's War Message" by Woodrow Wilson to the "Paul Elder" page.

August 4, 2005 - "Southern Pacific Building" by Southern Pacific Railroad to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama California Exposition page. Added page for publisher "Walter N. Brunt" to the home page.

August 3, 2005 - Added "Los Angeles Today - 1915" by Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce to the "Other California Books" page, the Panama-Pacific Exposition page, and the Panama California Exposition page.

June 11, 2005 - Added a Panama California Exposition page. Added "San Diego - Panama California Exposition" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama California Exposition page.

June 5, 2005 - Added "Condensed Facts Concerning the Panama-Pacific Universal Exposition - San Francisco 1915 - Celebrating the Opening of the Panama Canal." to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

May 28, 2005 - Added "Souvenir Canadian Pavilion" to the to the "Miscellaneous Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

May 23, 2005 - Added "Panama-Pacific International Exposition - San Francisco- 1915" to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

April 15, 2005 - Added "The Court of Ages" by Beatrice Wright to the "Ricardo J. Orozco" page and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

March 31, 2005 - Added "Guide to San Francisco and the Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915" by the Baldwin Piano Company to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

March 26, 2005 - Added "California and the Expositions" by the Union Pacific System to the "Other California Books" page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

February 28, 2005 - Added "Westwind Magazine" page. Added May 1911 issue to that page.

July 2, 2004 - Added "The Complete Cynic" by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford and Addison Mizner to the "Paul Elder" page.

June 17, 2004 - Added "California Sketches - Second Series" by O. P. Fitzgerald to the "Other California Books" page.

June 6, 2004 - Added doc file (Palm OS) for "The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition".

April 9, 2004 - Added "The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition" by Cora Lenore Williams to the "Paul Elder" page.

April 6, 2004 - Added "Lifes Enthusiasms" by David Starr Jordan to the Miscellaneous Books page.

March 11, 2004 - Added doc files (Palm OS) for "Out of Doors - California and Oregon", "Fascinating San Francisco", "Reminiscences of a Pioneer", and "The Lure of San Francsico".

March 1, 2004 - Added page for "Grafton Publishing" in Los Angeles. Added book "Out of Doors - California and Oregon" by J. A. Graves to the Grafton Publishing page.

February 22, 2004 - Added "Fascinating San Francisco" to "Other California Books" page.

January 22, 2004 - Added "Reminiscences of a Pioneer" by Colonel William Thompson to the Miscellaneous Books page.

December 14, 2003 - Added "The Lure of San Francsico" by Elizabeth Gray Potter and Mabel Thayer Gray to the "Paul Elder" page.

December 2, 2003 - Added "The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1904" by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford and Addison Mizner to the "Paul Elder" page.

October 23, 2003 - Added "Bohemian San Francisco" by Clarence E. Edwords to the "Paul Elder" page.

October 12, 2003 - Added "The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition" by Louis Christian Mullgardt to the "Paul Elder" page and to the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

August 30, 2003 - Added "The Penance of Magdalena" by J. Smeaton Chase to the "Other California Books" page.

August 26, 2003 - Added "Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851" edited by Porter Garnett to the "Academy of Pacific Coast History" page.

July 24, 2003 - Added "History of California" by Helen Elliott Bandini to the "Other California Books" page. Added "The Rout of the Frost King" by Eugéne Neustadt to the Paul Elder page. Added doc file (Palm OS) for "Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition".

May 1, 2003 - Added doc file (Palm OS) for "The Jewel City."

April 18, 2003 - Added "Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition" to the "Other California Books" page and to the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

April 8, 2003 - Added "The Exposition Babies" by Edith Kinney Stellmann and Louis J. Stellmann, to the H. S. Crocker page, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition page.

April 4, 2003 - Added "The Jewel City" by Ben Macomber to the John Newbegin page. Created new page for all books about Panama-Pacific Exposition.

February 16, 2003 - Added "Under the Prophet in Utah" by Frank J. Cannon & Harvey J. O'Higgins to the "Miscellaneous" page. Added doc file (Palm OS) for "Chimes of Mission Bells."

February 4, 2003 - Added page for "Philopolis Press" from San Francisco. Added "Chimes of Mission Bells" by Maria Antonia Field, to the Philopolis Press page.

January 22, 2003 - Added "The Spirit of 1906" by George W. Brooks, to the "Other Books" page; and added "The Log of the Empire State" by Geneve L. A. Shaffer to the "Other Books" page.

January 9, 2003 - Added "The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition" by A. Stirling Calder to the "Paul Elder" page. Added doc file (Palm OS) for "Stories of the Old Missions of California."

December 24, 2002 - Added "Stories of the Old Missions of California" by Charles Franklin Carter to the Paul Elder page. Added doc file (Palm OS) for "Seven Maids of Far Cathay".

November 9, 2002 - Added "Seven Maids of Far Cathay" by Bing Ding (Mary F. Ledyard) to the "Paul Elder" Page. Added doc files (Palm OS) for "Legends of San Francisco" and "History of the Donner Party."

October 29, 2002 - Added "History of the Donner Party" by C. F. McGlashan to the "A. Carlisle & Co." page.

October 1, 2002 - Added "Legends of San Francisco" by George W. Caldwell to the "Philips and Van Orden" page.

September 29, 2002 - Added "Paul Bunyan and His Big Blue Ox" by W. B. Laughead to the "Other California History Books" page. Added page for A. Carlise and Co., and added page for Philips and Van Orden.

September 13, 2002 - Added "The Art of the Exposition" by Eugen Neuhaus to the Paul Elder page. Added "A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee in 1856" by Stephen Palfrey Webb to the "Other California History Books" page.

August 13, 2002 - Added "Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts" by Juliet James to the H. S. Crocker page.

August 5, 2002 - Added "The Potato Child and Others" by Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury to the Paul Elder page, added "A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce to the Paul Elder page.

July 29, 2002 - Added doc file (Palm OS) for "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Jr." Added doc file (Palm OS) for "The Inhumanity of Socialism." Added new links to "Other Web Resources" page and to "Paul Elder" page. Added "Palaces and Courts of the Exposition" to the "Other California History Books" page.

July 6, 2002 - Added "The Inhumanity of Socialism" by Edward F. Adams to the Paul Elder page. Added doc file (Palm OS) for "Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor".

July 1, 2002 - Added "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Jr." by Wallace Irwin to the Paul Elder page.

June 27, 2002 - Added "Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor" by Wallace Irwin to the Paul Elder page.

June 24, 2002 - Added doc file (Palm OS) for "The Sea Fogs."

June 20, 2002 - Added "The Sea Fogs" by Robert Louis Stevenson to the Paul Elder page.

June 7, 2002 - Added doc file (Palm OS) for "Famous Missions of California"

June 5, 2002 - Added "Famous Missions of California" to the "Other California History Books" page.

June 3, 2002 - Added doc file (Palm OS) for "Their Mariposa Legend"

June 2, 2002 - Added page for "Post Printing and Binding Co. - Pasadena." Added "Their Mariposa Legend" to "Post Print and Binding Co." page.

June 1, 2002 - Added doc file (Palm OS) for "The Case of Summerfield"

May 24, 2002 - Added "The Case of Summerfield" to Paul Elder Page.

May 22, 2002 - Added "One Thousand Question in California Agriculture Answered" to Pacific Rural Press page.

April 7, 2002 - Moved reference for "The March of Portolá" from "Other Books" page to H. S. Crocker page. Added text for "The March of Portolá."

March 23, 2002 - Added page for "Ricardo J. Orozco."

March 13, 2002 - Added doc files (Palm OS) for the following books: The Philosophy of Despair, California and the Californians, Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, and The Long Ago.

March 10, 2002 - Added doc files (Palm OS) for the following books: The Story of the Pony Express, The Galleries of the Exposition, Notes by the way in a Sailor's Life, and Tennessee's Partner. Fixed links on the "Pacific Rural Press" page to the home page (thanks to: roybryant@seventwentyfour.com for pointing out this problem).

February 24, 2002 - Added page for Pacific Rural Press; and moved appropriate books for "Other Books" page to Pacific Rural Press. Added "The Story of the Pony Express" by Gleen D. Bradley to the "Other Books" page.

February 21, 2002 - Added doc files (Palm OS) for the following books: A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country, Angel Island, California 1849-1913, California Romantic and Resourceful, San Francisco During April 1906, Starr King in California, The Vigilance Committee of '56, and Vignettes Of San Francisco.

February 16, 2002 - Added "Notes by the way in a Sailor's Life" by Captain Arthur E. Knights to the A. M. Robertson page.

February 15, 2002 - Added "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum" by Wallace Irwin to Paul Elder page.

February 10, 2001 - Added location of each page to top of each page. Corrected link to text of "San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906." Made corrections to Paul Elder Page. Added "The Galleries of the Exposition" by Eugen Neuhas to the Paul Elder page.

December 31, 2001 - Added "San Francisco Public Schools - War Production Training Program" to "Other Books" page.

December 30, 2001 - Added "The Long Ago" by Jacob William Wright to the Press in the Forest page.

December 28, 2001 - Added "A Tramp Through Bret Harte Country" by Thomas Dykes Beasley to the Paul Elder page.

December 23, 2001 - Added "California and the Californians" by David Starr Jordan to A. M. Robertson page, added new page for "The Press in the Forest" in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

December 9, 2001 - Added "The Philosophy of Despair" by David Starr Jordan to Paul Elder Page, added titles to the "Other Books" page, added additional links to websites with related infromation.

December 2, 2001 - Added "California 1849-1913 or The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State" by Lell Hawley Woolley to "Other Books" page.

November 24, 2001 - Added "Tennessee's Partner" by Bret Harte to Paul Elder Page

November 23, 2001 - Added Photo's of Concepcion Arguello's Gravesite to "California Romantic and Resourceful"

October 28, 2001 - Added Internet Content Rating info

October 8, 2001 - Added "San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906" by John Stetson to "Other Books" page

October 6, 2001 - Added "Vignettes of San Francisco" by Almira Bailey to "Other Books" page.

September 22, 2001 - Added "California Romantic and Resourceful" by John F. Davis to A. M. Robertson page.

September 16, 2001 - Added "Angel Island" to Miscellaneous page.

July 27, 2001 - Added "Papers of the Vigilance Committee of 1851 II" to the Academy of Pacific Coast History Page

July 8, 2001 - Added links to websites about Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin

June 6, 2001 - Added "The Vigilance Committee of 1856" to James H. Barry page.

June 1, 2001 - Added navigation icons to the entire site.
Fixed "error 404 page" to have link to home page

April 22, 2001 - Added many titles to the "Other Books" page

April 7, 2001 - Added "Starr King in California" to Paul Elder page

April 1, 2001 - Added doc files (for Palm OS) for and Project Guttenberg headers for:
How Members of Congress are Bribed - on James H. Barry page
Down the Mother Lode - on Other books page
The City That Was - Other books page
A Bit of Old China - on A. M. Robertson page
The Native Son - on A. M Robertson page
The Californiacs - on A. M. Robertson page

March 30, 2001 - Changed Other Web Resources page

March 28, 2001 - Added "The Native Son" to A. M. Robertson page.

March 20, 2001 - Added Albert Dressler Publisher Page
Added John J. Newbegin Page
Moved "The City of Domes" to John J. Newbegin Page

March 18, 2001 - Added Titles to Paul Elder Publisher Page.

January 30, 2001 - Added "The City of Domes" to Other California Books Page
-Added more titles to H.S. Crocker Page

November 21, 2000 - Added H.S. Crocker page

November 19, 2000 - Added "A Bit of Old China" to A.M. Robertson page.
- Added P.J. Thomas Publisher Page.
- Added Paul Elder & Company Publisher Page.
- Updated Other California Books Page

November 5, 2000 - Added "Down the Mother Lode" to Other California Books list.

October 27, 2000 - Added more titles to A. M. Robertson Page, doubling number of entries.

October 24, 2000 - Added more titles to A. M. Robertson Page

October 8, 2000 - Added "The San Francisco Clearing House Certificates of 1907-1908"

October 4, 2000 - Added "Story of the California Legislature of 1909"