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Sacred Landscapes in America is a bibliographic research guide to UC Berkeley library and web resources on sacred landscapes across American ethnic and religious cultures, with an emphasis on California and the San Francisco Bay Area. Consult also the bibliographic research guide Sacred space: resources for information on the design of sacred spaces. For additional assistance consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff, 210 Wurster Hall.

UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who are off campus may use items marked UCB Only or UC Only by using The Library's proxy service or by installing the Connecting@Berkeley CD on their computer.

Last updated: 2 December 2005 Conditions of Use

    Quick Facts: Get up to speed quickly on an unfamiliar topic: use dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guidebooks to find quick facts and background information.
    Dictionaries:
  1. Many dictionaries are available on the web, including the Oxford English Dictionary (UCB Only), which, in addition to defining words, traces the development of their meaning through time. Entries are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world. The etymologies and quotations offer insight to the meaning of place names and landscape elements.

  2. Here are a couple of examples of the many specialized dictionaries, focussing on a particular historical period or American ethnic, racial, or religious community, which are available on campus. Use the MelvylŪ catalog to discover others; add the word dictionaries to any subject or keyword search.
  3. Dictionary of Asian American history. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986.
    4. Doe Refe, Moffitt Refe, & Asian Amer E184 O6 D53 1986 Reference
  4. Glossary of Jewish life, by Kerry M. Olitzky. Northvale, NJ: J. Aronson, 1992.
    5. Moffitt BM50 O45 1992

    Encyclopedias:  Note the availability of additional encyclopedias on other ethnic and specific religious groups, housed in the Information Center or the Ethnic Studies Library.  In addition, the Encyclopedia Britannica (UCB Only) is available online, and is a good starting place for many topics. For additional online encyclopedias go to The Library's home page; select " Electronic Resources" under the "Find Information" tab; select "Electronic Resources by type;" select "Encyclopedias."
  1. Encyclopedia of multiculturalism, Susan Auerbach, ed.  NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1994.
    2. Main E184 A1 E58 1994 v.1-6 Library use only
  2. The Encyclopedia of religion - CD ROM Network - UCB Only  Lindsay Jones, ed. in chief. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. Covers the theoretical, practical and sociological aspects of religion, including extensive coverage of non-Western religions.
    3. Online ed.: Networked workstations
    Paper ed.: Doe Refe & Moffitt Refe  BL31 E46 2005 v.1-15
  3. Encyclopedia of sacred places, by Norbert C. Brockman. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.
    EnvDesign, Doe Refe BL580 B76 1998 Reference
  4. Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups, Stephan Thernstrom, ed. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ., 1980.  Broad coverage.
    5. EnvDsgn  E184 A1H35 Reference

    Guides & Handbooks:
  1. Finding local information (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to finding U.S. community-specific information in the UC Berkeley libraries, the community, and on the web, in the context of the built environment and with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area and California. Especially note the section on Reading the Built Environment.
    2. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/locinfo.html
  2. Five views, an ethnic sites survey for California. Sacramento: State of California, Dept. of Parks and Recreation, Office of Historic Preservation, 1988. Consists of five long essays on five California ethnic groups: Native Americans, Black Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Mexican Americans. Each essay includes descriptions of sites and a bibliography.
    3. EnvDsgn F870 A1 F541 1988 Reference & circulating
  3. History of the U.S. cultural environment  (UC Berkeley, Library)  A research and bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley print and web resources for the study of the built environment of the United States.
    4. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html
  4. Multiculturalism in the U. S.: a comparative guide to acculturation and ethnicity, John D. Buenker & Lorman A. Ratner, eds. Rev. & expanded ed. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2005.  Online table of contents.
    5. Main, Moffitt  E184 A1 M85 2005
  5. Pathfinder: American folklife resources (Internet Public Library, Univ. of Michigan) A guide to researching American folklife studies.
    6. http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/PF/folklife.html
  6. Places of worship: exploring their history, by James P. Wind.  Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1990.
    7. EnvDsgn, Moffitt  R515 W56 1990


    Finding Books: 
    Finding your topic in the online catalogs: This selection of subject headings should be useful in locating materials in The Library's catalogs. Terms can be combined.
    [place name] -- Antiquities
    [place name] -- Religious institutions
    [place name] -- Religious life and customs
    Anthropo-geography
    Architecture and religion 
    Cemeteries
    Church architecture 
    Cultural geography 
    Earth -- Religious aspects
    Ecology human -- Religious aspects
    Environmental justice
    Environmental psychology
    Ethnic folklore
    Ethnic group, e.g.:
         Afro-American#
         European-American#
         Indians of North America
         Japanese-American#
         Italian-American#
         Racially mixed people
    Ethnic groups 
    Ethnology 
    Feng-shui      		Folklore
    Follies
    Fire -- Religious aspects
    Gardens -- Relgious aspects
    Geomancy
    Historic sites -- [place name]
    Historical markers -- [place name]
    Holy wells
    Human geography 
    Immigrants -- United States
    Indigenous peoples
    Labyrinths--Religious aspects
    Land settlement patterns
    Land tenure -- Religious aspects
    Landscape architecture
    Landscape -- West (U.S.)
    Material culture
    Minorities -- Cross-cultural studies
    Monuments -- [place name]
    Mountains -- Religious aspects
    Nature -- Religious aspects
    Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- [place name]
    Popular culture    		 Religion and geography
    Religion -- Comparative studies
    Religious groups or belief systems, 
    e.g.:
         Animism
         Buddhism
         Catholic Church
         Christianity
         Hinduism
         Islam
         Judaism
         Protestant churches
    Psychology, Religious
    Sacred groves
    Sacred places
    Sacred space
    Shrines
    Spiritual life
    Synagogues
    Temples
    War memorials -- [place name]
    Water -- Religious aspects

    Bibliographies: Bibliographies are lists of books and other materials on a given subject; they can be a quick way to discover resources on your topic. Here is a representative selection of bibliographies in the UC Berkeley libraries. Note that dissertations are also an excellent source of bibliographies.

  1. American and Canadian immigrant and ethnic folklore: an annotated bibliography, Robert A. Georges, Stephen Stern, comps.  NY: Garland Pub., 1982
    2. Anthro, Main, & Compar Ethn  GR105 G43 1982
  2. Bibliography on race and ethnicity in California, prep. for Geography 50AC, Fall 1996 [by] Professor Richard Walker, Clement K. Lai.  [Berkeley: Dept. of Geography, 1996].
    3. IGS  97 00437
  3. Discovering Latino religion: a comprehensive social science bibliography, Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, ed.  NY: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 1995.
    4. Doe Refe  BR563 H57 A12 D5 1995
  4. Ethnic California: a bibliographic guide including national, California, southern California and Orange County sources, by Stephen Gould. Hollywood, CA: Sun Dance Press, 1994.
    5. Bancroft  F870 A1 G681 1994
  5. Folklife resources in the Library of Congress, by Timothy Lloyd and Hillary Glatt.  Rev. ed. Washington: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1994.
    6. Main  GR37 B33 1994
  6. Guide to multicultural resources, by Charles A. Taylor.  Madison, WI: Praxis, 1986--.
    7. Compar Ethn HN42 T2 Reference
  7. History of landscape architecture  (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley library and Internet resources for research in the history of landscape architecture.
    8. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/histland.html
  8. Immigrant experience: an annotated bibliography, by Paul D. Mageli.  Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1991.
    9. Doe Refe & Moff Refe E184 A1 A12 M334 1991
  9. Landscape architecture reference sources (UC Berkeley, Library) A selective bibliographic guide to basic landscape architecture reference sources in the UC Berkeley libraries and on the Internet.
    10. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/landref.html
  10. Religion in the twentieth-century American West: a bibliography, Richard W. Etulain, comp. Albuquerque, NM: Center for the American West, Dept. of History, Univ. of New Mexico, 1991.
    11. Bancroft  Z7757 U5 R455 1991
  11. The Sacred landscape bibliography, by Catherine Yronwode.
    12. http://www.luckymojo.com/bibliocontents.html

    Selected Readings: Here is a sampling of books related to sacred landscapes, available in the UC Berkeley libraries. For additional materials, consult the online catalogs, using the previously-suggested subject terms.

  1. Cemeteries as sacred landscapes, by Sharon Beirne Fuller. Master's thesis, Landscape Architecture. Univ. of Texas at Arlington, 1998.
    EnvDesign RA627 F85 1998a
  2. Ethnicity and the American cemetery, Richard E. Meyer, ed. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1993.
    3. EnvDsgn  GT3203 E84 1993
  3. God's place in the world: sacred space and sacred place in Judaism, by Seth D. Kunin.  NY: Cassell, 1998.
    4. Main  BM655 K86 1998
  4. I become part of it: sacred dimensions in native American life, D.M. Dooling and Paul Jordan-Smith, eds.  NY: Parabola Books, 1989.
    5. Moffitt, Native Amer  E98 R3 I2 1989
  5. Keep your head to the sky: interpreting African American home ground, Grey Gundaker, ed.   Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1998. Includes the chapter "Sacred places and holy ground."
    6. EnvDsgn, Main  E185.86 K43 1998
  6. Neighborhoods in transition: the making of San Francisco's ethnic and nonconformist communities, by Brian J. Godfrey. Berkeley: Univ. of  California Press, 1988.
    7. EnvDsgn, Main, Moffitt, & Ethn   HN80 S4 G6 1988
  7. Permanent Californians: an illustrated guide to the cemeteries of California, by Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall. Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 1989.
    8. EnvDsgn CT225 C85 1989 Reference
  8. A Place for the sacred: Native American and European American representations of death in the American landscape, by Suzanne Butler Perlmutter. Master's Thesis, Landscape Architecture. Univ. of Washington, 2000.
    EnvDesign BL581 U6 P47 2000a
  9. Religion, law, and the land: Native Americans and the judicial interpretation of sacred land, by Brian Edward Brown.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
    10. Law  KF8210 R37 B76 1999
  10. Sacred places: how the living earth seeks our friendship, by James A. Swan.  Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, 1990. Emphasis on Native Americans.
    11. EnvDsgn, Native Amer BL580 S92 1990
  11. Sacred places, sacred spaces: the geography of pilgrimages, Robert H. Stoddard and Alan Morinis, eds.  Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State Univ., 1997.
    12. Earth Sci  BL619 P5 S24 1997
  12. Sacred worlds: an introduction to geography and religion, by Chris C. Park.  NY:  Routledge, 1994.
    13. Main  BL580 P37 1994
  13. Screening the sacred: religion, myth, and ideology in popular American film, Joel W. Martin, Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr., eds.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
    14. Main  PN1995.5 S36 1995


    Finding Journal Articles: Here is a selected list of indexes and abstracts to aid in locating journal articles and other materials.  See also the UC Berkeley Library guides Landscape Architecture Indexes & Abstracts and Architecture Periodical & Newspaper Indexes.  For UC or UCB Only titles, go to The Library's home page; go to Find Information and select Articles.

  1. Alternative press index online via FirstSearch/OCLC - UCB Only  "The leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change."
    Online ed.: 1991--.
    Paper ed.: 1969--; Main Stack HM101 A12 A55
  2. America: history and life - UC Only  Contains article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Excellent index for American cultural history and popular culture.
    3. Online ed.: 1982--.
    Paper ed.: 1954--; Main Stack E3 A43
  3. Anthropology Plus via Eureka/RLG - UC Only  Contains citations to articles and essays in the fields of anthropology and archaeology. Subjects covered include art history, landscape history, ethnohistory, geography, folklore, geology, and history.
    4. Online ed.: 1984--
  4. ATLAS full text plus - UCB Only  The ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project provides online versions of the entire runs of a core collection of more than 50 significant scholarly periodicals in the field of religion, representing a wide selection of Christian tradition, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Confucianism, and other religious traditions. Some full text available.  At the citation click on Check for Holdings button for links.
    Online access: 1949--.
  5. Chicano database via Eureka/RLG, Univ. of California. Indexes all types of materials on Mexican-American topics, and since 1992, materials on other Latino cultures.
    6. Online ed: 1967--.
    Paper ed.: 1967--; Main Stack E184 M5A12 C53
  6. Guide to social science and religion. Flint, MI: National Periodical Library. 1969--.
    7. Main Stack H71 A12 G831969-1996
  7. HAPI online; Hispanic American periodical index - UC Only  Includes citations to articles, documents, book reviews, and original literary works in approximately 400 social science and humanities journals that contain information on Latin America, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and Hispanics in the United States. Links to selected full text articles via Ingenta or JSTOR.
    8. Online access: 1970--.
  8. Index to Black periodicals, Boston, MA: G.K. Hall & Co., 1988--.
    9. Doe Refe  E185 I5 Periodical Indexes
  9. International index to Black periodicals (IIBP) via Chadwyck-Healey - UCB Only Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, and full-text coverage of 25 core Black studies periodicals (1998--).
    10. Online access: Coverage varies, 1910--.
  10. JSTOR - UCB Only A full-text archive of interdisciplinary scholarly journal literature, including African-American studies, anthropology, history, and philosophy. Excellent resource.
    11. Online access: Coverage varies, starting with the first date of issue.
  11. MLA international bibliography via CSA - UC Only Includes international coverage of materials in the areas of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.  Contains over 1 million citations from 4,000+ journals, books, proceedings, dissertations, bibliographies, etc.
    12. Online ed.:  1963--.
    Paper ed.:  1921/25--; Doe Refe  PB25 A12 M6: MLA international bibliography of books & articles on the modern languages.
  12. Philosopher's index via WebSPIRS - UCB Only  Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, etc.
    13. Online access: 1940--.
  13. Poole's plus (19th century masterfile) - UCB Only  A subject index to 479 American and English periodicals from 1802-1906. Bibliographic citations only.
    14. Online ed.: Coverage varies.
    Paper ed.:  Main AJ3 P7 1852, Poole's index to periodical literature: an index to periodical literature
  14. Religion index one: Periodicals. American Theological Library Association. 1949/1959--.
    15. Main Stack BL20.5 I6 Latest vol. in Doe Reference
  15. Social sciences citation index via ISI - UCB Only  Indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines.
    16. Online access: 1997--.
  16. Sociological abstracts via CSA - UC Only  Indexes journal articles, book chapters, & reviews from over 1,900 journals, books, book chapters, and reviews in the social sciences.
    17. Online ed.: 1963--.
    Paper ed.: 1952--; Main HM15.5 S6


    Finding Newspaper Articles: Newspapers are often one of the few records of current community and local public policy issues.  Increasingly available full-text on the web, listed here is a small selection of resources. Consult The Library's home page (Electronic Resources/ News Databases) for a complete listing of available newspaper indexes and databases. Also, the Periodicals/Newspapers/Microforms web site contains a list of newspapers currently received at UC Berkeley, organized geographically.
    Newspapers:

  1. California newspapers (News Link) Organized by place within broad categories (e.g., dailies, business, alternative).
    2. http://ajr.newslink.org/canews.html
  2. California ethnic newspapers (New California Media Online). Includes the full text of approximately 100 California ethnic newspapers, many with English translations.
    3. http://www.ncmonline.com/

    Newspaper indexes & databases:

  1. Access world news via NewsBank - UCB Only Full-text database of articles from almost 1,600 regional, national, and international newspapers and newswires. Scroll down page to find link.
    2. Online access: Coverage varies.
  2. Ethnic newswatch via ProQuest - UC Only Full-text coverage of more than 200 newspapers and other periodicals published by ethnic and minority presses in the U.S. Includes articles published in African-American, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Native American, Asian, Jewish, Arab, and European/Eastern European publications.
    3. Online access: 1960--.
  3. Lexis-Nexis academic - UCB Only Includes indexing to journals and newspapers and provides full-text.
    4. Online access: Coverage varies.
  4. Historical newspapers online via Chadwyck - UC Only  Contains four major historical resources: Palmer's Index to the Times (1790 to 1905),  Palmer's Full Text Online (1785-1870),  The Official Index to the Times (1906 to 1980), and The Historical Index to the New York Times (1851-1923). Citations only.
    5. Online access: 1790-1980.


    Dissertations: Dissertations not owned by UC Berkeley may be borrowed through Interlibrary Service. Note that ordinary MelvylŪ subject searches will frequently miss dissertations which are not usually given subject treatment; in Advanced Search use main title searches in combination with format=dissertations.

  1. Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) - UCB Only Indexes doctoral dissertations since 1861 and masters' theses since 1960.  Great source of bibliographies. Some dissertations available full-text online.
    2. Online ed.: 1861--.
    Paper ed.: 1861--;  Main AC801 M45
  2. Ethnic folklife dissertations from the United States and Canada 1960-1980: a selected annotated bibliography, by Catherine Hiebert Kerst. Washington: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1986.
    3. Main Stack GR105 A12 K471 1986
  3. Folklore theses and dissertations in the United States, Alan Dundes, comp. Austin: Published for the American Folklore Society by the Univ. of Texas Press, 1976. Covers M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations from 1860 through 1976.
    4. Anthro & Doe Refe  GR65 A12 D85
  4. Immigration-related dissertations (Center for Immigration Studies)
    5. Online ed.: 1997--.
    Paper ed.: IGS A9886 July 1999
  5. Religion and the American experience, 1620-1900: a bibliography of doctoral dissertations, Arthur P. Young and E. Jens Holley, comps.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
    6. Main Stack  BL2424 A12 Y686 1992
  6. Religion and the American experience, the twentieth century: a bibliography of doctoral dissertations, Arthur P. Young and E. Jens Holley, comps. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
    7. Main Stack  BL2424 A12 Y68 1994


    Architecture, Landmarks, Monuments, etc.: Here is a representative selection of guides to American monuments, religious architecture, and other sites of special cultural significance.

  1. America's architectural roots: ethnic groups that built America, Dell Upton, ed. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1986.
    2. EnvDsgn  NA705 A4931 1986
  2. America's religious architecture: sacred places for every community, by Marilyn J. Chiat.  [Washington, D.C.]: Preservation Press, 1997.
    3. EnvDsgn  NA5205 C48 1997
  3. Berkeley landmarks: an illustrated guide to Berkeley, California's architectural heritage by Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny. Berkeley: Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, 1994.
    4. EnvDsgn  NA735 B38 C34 1994 Reference Desk & circulating
  4. Built for change: neighborhood architecture in San Francisco, by Anne Vernez Moudon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.
    5. EnvDsgn NA7238 S35 M681 1986
  5. Famous caverns and grottoes: described and illustrated, by W. H. Davenport Adams. NY: T. Nelson, 1890.
    6. Main Stack  GB601 A3
  6. Guide to architecture in San Francisco and northern California, by David Gebhard, et al. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith, 1985.
    7. EnvDsgn  NA735 S35 G831 1985 Reference
  7. A Guide to monuments in the United States, by Coppa & Avery Consultants.  Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, [1984].  Bibliography.
    8. EnvDsgn  NA200 A12A7 no. 1143 Index
  8. Historic landmarks of Black America, by George Cantor.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.
    9. EnvDsgn  E185.53 A1 C36 1991 Reference
  9. Historic spots in California, by Mildred Brooke Hoover...[et al.]  Rev. by Douglas E.Kyle.  4th ed.  Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1990.
    10. EnvDsgn  F862 H571 1990 Reference
  10. Houses of God: region, religion, and architecture in the United States, by Peter W. Williams.  Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997.
    11. EnvDsgn  NA5205 W55 1997
  11. Sacred places: American tourist attractions in the nineteenth century, by John F. Sears.  NY: Oxford Univ.Press, 1989.
    12. EnvDsgn  E164 S431 1989
  12. Sacred places of San Francisco, by Ruth Hendricks Willard.  Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1985.
    13. EnvDsgn BR560 S3 F42 1985 Reference Desk
  13. San Francisco architecture: the illustrated guide to over 1,000 of the best buildings, parks, and public artworks in the Bay Area, by Sally Byrne Woodbridge.  San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992.
    14. EnvDsgn NA735 S35 W64 1992 Reference Desk & circulating
  14. San Francisco Bay Area architects & architecture: resources (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to researching San Francisco Bay area architecture.
    15. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/sfindex.html
  15. Wayside shrines in northwestern California, by Pliny Earle Goddard. In: American anthropologist, n.s., v. 15, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1913).
    16. Anthro GN1 A3


    Images, Plans, & Maps: For addition images or maps, consult the Earth Sciences & Map Library; for additional maps.  For additional on-line image links see Image Sources for the Built Enviroment (UC Berkeley Library). Also try ditto.com, a  fast web search engine for images. Search by name/term/description or by category (e.g. nature-landscape).

  1. American landscape and architectural design, 1850-1920 (Harvard Univ.)  This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920.  Views include photographs, plans, maps, & models.   Also indexed in the American Memory project.
    2. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
  2. American memory (U.S. Library of Congress)  Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana collections.
    3. http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
  3. Architecture and landscape: plans & pictorial sources (UC Berkeley, Library) A selected list of print materials that provide views, plans, sections, elevations, and/or details of important buildings and sites.
    4. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/pict.html
  4. California heritage project. (UC Berkeley, Library)  A digital archive containing photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library.  Includes many historical images of SF Bay Area places.
    5. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
  5. Ethnic studies  (UC Berkeley, Media Resources Center) An online videography of an extensive collection of videos and related materials pertaining to ethnic studies, organized by ethnic group.  Available for viewing in the Media Resources Center.
    6. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/VideographyMenu.html
  6. Historical and cultural atlas of African Americans, by Molefi K. Asante.  NY: Macmillan & Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.
    7. Doe Refe, Moffitt Refe E185 A8 1991
  7. Historical atlas of California, by Warren A. Beck and Ynez D. Haase. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press [1974].
    8. EnvDesign G1526 S1 B41 1974 Reference
  8. World architecture index: a guide to illustrations, by Edward Teague. NY: Greenwood Press, 1991. Comprehensive list of illustrations, plans and views found in over eighty different architecture books arranged by geographic location.
    9. EnvDesign NA202 T4 1991 Reference Desk


    Archives & Libraries:
    Archives & Special Collections:

  1. ArchivesUSA - UCB Only  Provides indexing to the records of the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States.
    2. http://archives.chadwyck.com/
  2. Environmental Design Archives (UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design) "The work of most of the San Francisco Bay Region's historically significant architects and landscape architects are represented in the collections of nearly 100 architects and firms." A list of collections is on the web.
    3. http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/
  3. National Archives and Records Administration (U.S.) Great resource for primary research sources. The NARA web site includes digital images of many records in the Archive.
    4. http://www.nara.gov/
  4. Online Archive of California (Univ. of California)  A UC-wide prototype union database of 30,000 pages of searchable online archival finding aid data, which provide detailed descriptions of archival collections in California.  Many finding aids include biographical information & images.
    5. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
  5. San Francisco History Center--Historical photograph collection (San Francisco Public Library) Contains more than 250,000 photographs of San Francisco and California scenes from 1850 to the present, including views of San Francisco street scenes, buildings, and neighborhoods. The collection is searchable on the web; copies of these images may be ordered.
    http://www.sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfphoto.htm

    Libraries:

  1. Local libraries:  See Libweb for links to library web sites at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/.
  2. Campus Libraries:
    3. Anthropology Library
    Anthropology and ethnography.
    230 Kroeber Hall
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/

    Bancroft Library
    Western Americana. Non-circulating.
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/

    Earth Sciences & Map Library
    Earth sciences, maps, and cartography.
    50 McCone Hall
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/

    Environmental Design Library
    City planning, environmental planning, architecture, & landscape architecture.
    210 Wurster Hall
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/

    Ethnic Studies Library
    Asian-American, Chicano, and Native American Studies.
    30 Stephens Hall
    http://eslibrary.berkeley.edu/

    Graduate Theological Union Library
    Religion and theology. UC Berkeley students may borrow materials.
    2400 Ridge Road at Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
    http://library.gtu.edu/

    Doe Reference Center
    General reference collection & service in the social sciences and humanities. Non-circulating collection.
    2nd Floor, Doe Library
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/reference.html

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Landscape Architecture Librarian
Environmental Design Library

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