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	Books About the Beat Generation Women of the Beat Generation: The artists, writers and muses at the heart of a revolution. Find it at 810.8 KNI. Snapshot poetics: A photographic memoir of the beat era. Find it at 810.9 GIN. Beat Culture and the New America: 1950 - 1965. Find it at REF 700.1 W. The Beat Generation: A Gale Critical Companion. Find it at REF 810.900. The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels and Hipsters, 1944 - 1960. Find it at 810.9 WAT. You will also find the works of famous Beat authors Keroauc, Ginsberg and Burroughs in the Library. The Source. This documentary devotes considerable attention to the influence of the beats, and interviews with such notables as Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, and Philip Glass, performance clips of Bob Dylan, and news footage from the 1960s establish how the sensibility of the writers trickled into all of society. Find it at SOU in the Video Collection. Here is a map of the Library to help you locate your research materials. Visit our Literature Online Database to conduct additional research. Native Populations of San Francisco San Francisco Native Populations The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area General San Francisco Resources Shaping San Francisco Includes information on the following subjects as they pertain to San Francisco history: ecology, labor, transit, African Americans, women, literature (including the Beats), and gays and lesbians. Founding of San Francisco in 1776 Artistic Renderings of the California Missions California Historical Society Online Exhibits Panoramic Photographs of San Francisco 1851-1915 San Francisco Municipal Reports, 1866-1906 San Francisco Gold Rush Resources San Francisco and the Gold Rush Chronology of the San Francisco Gold Rush Walk San Francisco’s Gold Rush Trial History of San Francisco Gold Rush-era Street Names, by Henry C. Carlisle San Francisco Gold Rush Banking – 1849 San Francisco at Statehood – 1850 by Katherine H. Chandler San Francisco and the Civil War – 1861 by Charles B. Turrill Miscellaneous Gold Rush Resources “Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California,” by Guadalupe Vallejo “Life in California Before the Gold Discovery,” by John Bidwell Capt. Montgomery Ends Indian Slavery in San Francisco – 1846 William T. Sherman – California Before the Gold Rush – 1847 “Discovery of Gold in California,” by Gen. John A. Sutter – 1848 California Gold Rush Chronology 1846 - 1849 Excerpts from John Sutter's Diaries 1838-1848 Eyewitness to the Gold Discovery, by James S. Brown – 1848 Thomas O. Larkin Writes of the Gold Discovery – 1848 Miners Arrive on the Steamship California – 1849 From the Diary of Alvin Coffey, African American 49er – 1849 African American Rights During the Gold Rush Dramatic Impact of the Gold Discovery, by Theodore H. Hittell Gold Rush-Era Daguerreotypes from the Oakland Museum Miner’s Ten Commandments – 1849 Commandments from a Miner’s Wife – 1849 Gold Rush Stories from Pioneer Women 14 Lithographic Views of the California Gold Rush 1850-1857 in PowerPoint (900 Kb) Gold Mining Along the Klam ath and the 1851 Indian Massacre Ulysses S. Grant and the California Gold Rush – 1852 The Miner’s Song – 1857 A Gold Rush Poem – 1864 Chinese Immigrants in San Francisco A Brief History of Chinatown The Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred - 1849 Photograph: “Chinese Girl with Bound Feet” Chinese Miners in the Gold Fields – 1860 Chinatown Gambling and Vice – 1871 View Inside a Chinese Opium Den Anti-Chinese Sentiments in San Francisco – 1874 Kearneyism, The Chinese, and Labor Unrest – 1877 “Chinatown Declared a Nuisance!” – 1880 Scene in a Chinese Opium Palace – 1880 “China’s Menace to the World,” By Thomas Magee – 1890 Tour of Chinatown – 1900 Chinese Telephone Company – 1901 Why Chinatown has Remained Where it is – 1902 “Asiatic Coolie Invasion” – 1906 Mayor Schmitz Bars Coolie Labor from Earthquake Reconstruction Plans to Relocate Chinatown – 1906 China’s Empress-Dowager Contributes to Chinese Relief – 1906 National Guard Members Loot Chinatown – 1906 Smuggling of Chinese Slave Girls Thwarted – 1912 Chinatown Tong Wars of the 1920s San Francisco’s Beat Generation The Sixties in San Francisco – A Chronology A Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature Yahoo Directory on the Beat Generation How the Beat Happened City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Biographies for Notable Beat Writers and Artists Famous SF Beat Artists Breaking Up With the Beats Featured Authors Frank Norris An Overview of Norris’ Works Dashiell Hammett Biographical Information Jack Kerouac Kerouac Speaks devorah major Biographical Information *Brown Glass Windows* Frank Chin Critical Review of *Donald Duk* Arturo Islas Biographical Information Additional Biographical Information La Mollie and the King of Tears

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