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	Fall 2008: Volume 54 Number 4 Goes online when next issue is published. The Bishop's School, 1909-2009 Irving Gill's Vision for the Bishop's School Artists in La Jolla, 1890-1950 Village Memories: A Photo Essay on La Jolla's Past Book Reviews Documentaries Book Notes
	Summer 2008: Volume 54 Number 3 Complete Issue Online Director's Message San Diego Olives: Origins of a California Industry National City in Pictures A National City Investor: Theron Parsons (1805-1893) National City Public Library: An Early History New Life for an Old House: A Community Legacy in National City Book Reviews
	Spring 2008: Volume 54 Number 2 Complete Issue Online "Liberty Station" and the Naval Training Center in San Diego San Diego's Sweetheart: Maureen Connolly Life Beyond Gold: A New Look at the History of Julian, California The Balboa Theatre: A Preservation Project Completed The Charity Ball Book Reviews
	Winter 2008: Volume 54 Number 1 Complete Issue Online African Americans and Historic Preservation in San Diego: The Douglas and the Clermont/Coast Hotels Americanism and Citizenship: Japanese American Youth Culture of the 1930s "Skid Row": Filipinos, Race and the Social Construction of Space in San Diego A Compromised Country: Redefining the U.S.-Mexico Border Profile of a Public Historian: Susan Hasegawa Book Reviews
	Fall 2007: Volume 53 Number 4 Complete Issue Online Sweet Dreams: The Showley Brothers Candy Factory Reinventing Downtown San Diego: A Spatial and Cultural Analysis of the Gaslamp Quarter Dan Dickey: Mid-Century San Diego Artist The Philanthropic History of Las Patronas Book Reviews
	Summer 2007: Volume 53 Number 3 Complete Issue Online ZLAC Rowing Club, 1892-2007 Coming Out Gay, Coming Out Christian: The Beginnings of GLBT Christianity in San Diego, 1970-1979 “La Mojonera” and the Marking of California’s U.S.-Mexico Boundary Line, 1849-1851 The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation Museum Review: San Diego Natural History Museum Dead Sea Scrolls
	Winter 2007: Volume 53 Numbers 1 & 2 Complete Issue Online Bouquet of Roses: The Stories Behind San Diego Places Named for Louis Rose Craft Beer in San Diego Society Thomas Wolcott Sefton: Collector, Banker, Benefactor The Need for Water: Federal Government & the Growth of San Diego, 1940-1955 Phase 2: Places of Promise Exhibit Review
	Summer-Fall 2006: Volume 52 Numbers 3 & 4 Complete Issue Online Forgotten Air Pioneers: The Army’s Rockwell Field at North Island John Nolen and San Diego’s Early Residential Planning in the Mission Hills Area Roberto Galvan: A Latino Leader of the 1940s Museum of San Diego History: Belle Baranceanu Exhibit
	Winter-Spring 2006: Volume 52 Numbers 1 & 2 Complete Issue Online "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay:" 100 years of Photographs from the San Diego Historical Society San Diego's Normal Heights: The Growth of a Suburban Neighborhood, 1886–1926 Governor Robert W. Waterman, Waldo Waterman, and the Stonewall Mine, 1886-1891 "Your Affectionate Son, Robinson": American Expansionism and the Life of Captain Abraham Robinson Johnston, 1815-1846
	Summer-Fall 2005: Volume 51 Numbers 3 & 4 Complete Issue Online The Gould Family of San Diego: Pioneers in Business, Recreation and Community Service "Until Kingdom Come": The Design and Construction of La Jolla's Children's Pool "I See a Great Future for the City": Kate Field's Visit to San Diego in 1888 "The Service Knows and Will Remember": The Aircraft Crash Memorial on Japacha Ridge
	Winter-Spring 2005: Volume 51 Numbers 1 & 2 Complete Issue Online Two Days in San Francisco—1906 San Diego's Bygone Burlesque: The Famous Hollywood Theatre A Gothic Architect in San Diego: Philip H. Frohman and the New St. Paul's Church, 1906-1966
	Summer-Fall 2004: Volume 50 Numbers 3 & 4 50th Anniversary Issue Complete Issue Online Exploring San Diego's Past: Fifty Years of The Journal of San Diego History When Dr. Fairchild Visited Miss Sessions: San Diego 1919 George White Marston: Baseball Player Revelations of a Reformer: Helen D. Marston Beardsley and Progressive Activism Land, Water, and Real Estate: Ed Fletcher and the Cuyamaca Water Company 1910-1926
	Winter-Spring 2004: Volume 50 Numbers 1 & 2 Complete Issue Online Una Casa del Pueblo—A Town House of Old San Diego El Congreso in San Diego: An Endeavor for Civil Rights The Rancho Tía Juana (Tijuana) Grant The Development of Spanish-language Television in San Diego: A Contemporary History
	Summer-Fall 2003: Volume 49 Numbers 3 & 4 Complete Issue Online Reconstructed Adobe: The Spanish Past in the Architectural Records of the San Diego Historical Society, 1907-1929 Guide to the Architectural Records Collection of the San Diego Historical Society
	Spring 2003: Volume 49 Number 2 Complete Issue Online Rear Admiral Roger Welles—San Diego's First "Navy Mayor" Character, Vision and Creativity: The Extraordinary Confluence of Forces that Gave Rise to The Scripps Insitution of Oceanography
	Winter 2003: Volume 49 Number 1 Complete Issue Online Reclamation and Preservation: The San Diego Chinese Mission, 1927-1996 The U.S.-Mexican War in San Diego, 1846-1847
	Fall 2002: San Diego's Health 1888-1889 Complete Issue Online First Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of San Diego, 1888 First Annual Report of the San Diego County Hospital and Poor Farm, 1889
	Summer 2002: Complete Issue Online Cultures of Accommodation Between the US Navy & Citizens of San Diego California, 1900-1951 Humanist Sentiment, Modern Spanish Heritage, & California Mission Commemoration, 1769-1915 The Wild Frontier Moves South: ...the Growth of Tijuana's Vice Industry, 1908-1935

Spring 2002: Special Issue: Filming San Diego: Complete Issue Online; Introduction: San Diego Film Town; Filming San Diego: Hollywood's Backlot 1898-2002; San Diego Filmography
Winter 2002: The Legacy of Civil Engineering: Complete Issue Online; Civil Engineering for Buildings; Mission Bay: An Engineer's Vision; Mission Bay Aquatic Park: The History of Planning and Land Acquisitions; Dry Rivers, Dammed Rivers and Floods: An Early History of Floods in San Diego; Water Supply Development in San Diego County and a Review of Related Outstanding Projects; A Review of San Diego's Transit History: From Rail to Bus to Rail
Fall 2001:: Complete Issue Online; Growing Up Together: The University of California's One Hundred-Year Partnership with the San Diego Region; The Challenge Saloon Murder in San Diego, 1872: Augustin Castro's Fight for Clemency
Summer 2001: Special Issue - San Diego Landscape Painters: Complete Issue Online; An Overview of San Diego Artists; The Memoirs of Charles A. Fries; Memoirs of Alfred R. Mitchell; The Artist Maurice Braun: Aesthetic and Philosophic Values; The Land That Inspired the Artists; Artists' Biographies and Works on Exhibit
Winter/Spring 2001:: Complete Issue Online; Local Public Records and San Diego History; An Examination of Additional Uses; A Guide to the San Diego Historical Society Public Records Collection
Fall 2000:: Complete Issue Online; Hillcrest: From Haven to Home; Photographic Essay of Hillcrest; The Persian Water Rug Fountain: Balboa Park's Lost Treasure
Spring/Summer 2000:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego's Ku Klux Klan 1920-1980; Photograph Essay From "All in a Day's Work"; The Pantoja Map of 1782 and the Port of San Diego
Winter 2000:: Complete Issue Online; Captain Edward William Funcke: Hunting in Baja California for a Living; From Spanish Romance to Neon Confidence and Demolition Fear: The Twentieth Century Life of the El Cortez Hotel
Fall 1999:: Complete Issue Online; The History of the California China Products Company
of National City, California, 1911-1917; Mission Masonry at Rancho Guajome Adobe
Summer 1999:: Complete Issue Online; Introduction; Creating a Monument, Re-creating History Serra Museum & Presidio Park; A Civic Architect for San Diego: William Templeton Johnson; The Use of Presidio Hill; Historians and the Spanish Occupation of San Diego
Spring 1999:: Complete Issue Online; Inventing Agriculture in Southern California; Marketing a Booming City in 1887: San Diego in the Chicago Press; The Outposts of Mission San Luis Rey
Winter 1999:: Complete Issue Online; Magonista Revolt in Baja California, 1911 Capitalist Conspiracy or Rebelion de los Pobres?; Marine Mammal Protection Act; Its Role in the Decline of San Diego's Tuna Fishing Industry
Fall 1998:: Complete Issue Online; Palomar, After 50 Years San Diego's famous observatory & telescope; L. Frank Baum's La Jolla: Halfway to Oz; An Old Town "Gunfight": The Homicide Trial of Cave Johnson Couts
Spring/Summer 1998:: Guide to the Photo Collections of the San Diego Historical Society
Winter 1998:: Complete Issue Online; Samuel Parsons Finds Xanadu in San Diego Balboa Park; Irving J. Gill, Progressive Architect [part 2]; Conception and Realization of Chicano Park
Fall 1997:: Complete Issue Online; Irving J. Gill, Progressive Architect [part 1]; Joseph Snook: English Mariner, California Don
Summer 1997:: Complete Issue Online; 1775 revolt at Mission San Diego de Alcala; Luisa Moreno and the Beginnings of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement in San Diego; The Urban Layout of Old Town San Diego
Spring 1997:: Complete Issue Online; Classicism and Concrete: Harrison Albright's Architectural Contributions to Coronado; The Images of Ralph P. Stineman (on-line exhibit includes photos not in the Journal); Captain Jose Panto and the San Pascual Indian Pueblo in San Diego County 1835-1878
Winter 1997:: Complete Issue Online; "Starved and Treated Like Convicts": Images of Women in Point Loma Theosophy; A Place Called Borego: Homesteader Days in Borrego Valley; "If Only You Could Send Me a Strong and Sound Leg," Letters of A. S. Ensworth to Thomas Whaley, 1862-1865
Fall 1996:: Complete Issue Online; The Ranch House at Warner's; Radio and Real Estate: The U.S. Navy's First Land Purchase in San Diego
Summer 1996:: Complete Issue Online; Hot Enough to Melt Iron: The San Diego Nikkei Experience 1942-1946; The History of Hedges and the Cargo Muchacho Mining District Part II: A Case Study of the Lives of Mexican Miners in a Company Town of the Southern California Desert
Spring 1996:: Complete Issue Online; The History of Hedges and the Cargo Muchacho Mining District Part I: A Case Study of the Lives of Mexican Miners in a Company Town of the Southern California Desert; A Talk with Bert Ritchey: An interview by Leonard Knight
Winter 1996:: Complete Issue Online; Frank P. Allen, Jr.: His Architectural and Horticultural Imprint on San Diego; The Park Brickyard Company
Fall 1995:: Complete Issue Online; Rancho Guajome: an Architectural Legacy Preserved; Luisa Moreno: A Hispanic Civil Rights Leader in San Diego
Summer 1995:: Complete Issue Online; Visions of Paradise - the Selling of San Diego
Spring 1995:: Complete Issue Online; La Madre Santísima de la Luz; The Acquisition of La Madre Santísima de la Luz; Uncovering the Madre de la Luz; 1926, The Formative Year of Kensington Heights; Concrete Shipbuilding in San Diego, 1918-1920
Winter 1995:: Complete Issue Online; This Was Paradise: Voices of the Pacific Coast League Padres, 1936-1958; From Grecian Columns to Spanish Towers: The Development of San Diego State College, 1922-1953
Fall 1994:: Complete Issue Online; Formidable Places: Building a Railroad in Carriso Gorge; Letters Written from San Diego County, 1879-1880
Summer 1994:: Complete Issue Online; Modern Perspectives: Three Women Artists of the 1920s & 1930s
Winter-Spring 1994:: Complete Issue Online; The Killing of Juan Diego: From Murder to Mythology; When the Lone Eagle Returned to San Diego; Charles Russell Orcutt: Pioneer Naturalist; San Diego's Own Napoleons
Fall 1993:: Complete Issue Online; A Passion for Water: Hans H. Doe and the California Water Industry; Women in Wartime: The San Diego Experience, 1941-1945
Summer 1993:: Complete Issue Online; Burlingame: The Tract of Character 1912-1914; The Zest for Learning: Founding and Early Years of Francis Parker School; A Preliminary Checklist of Masters' Theses and Doctoral Dissertations on the History of San Diego
Winter-Spring 1993:: Complete Issue Online; Further and Further Away: The Relocation of San Diego's Nikkei Community - 1942; Temporary Suburbs: The Lost Opportunity of San Diego's National Defense Housing Projects; War Comes to San Diego; Defending the Border: The Cavalry at Camp Lockett
Fall 1992:: Complete Issue Online; When the Elephants Marched Out of San Diego: The 1972 Republican Convention Fiasco; The Battle for Ham and Eggs: The 1938-1939 San Diego Campaign for the California Pension Plan
Summer 1992:: Complete Issue Online; The Sacred and the Profane: The Restoration of Mission San Diego de Alcala 1866-1931; The Prince of Wales Visits San Diego: A Study in Perception; Mercantile to MacDonald's: Commercial Strips in San Diego
Spring 1992:: Complete Issue Online; How Ellen Scripps Brought Ancient Egypt to San Diego; The Development of Egyptian Revival Architecture in San Diego County; San Diego: Historical Resources of the Federal Government in the National Archives--Pacific Southwest Region
Winter 1992:: Complete Issue Online; Hollywood in San Diego: the Administration of Location Shooting in City Parks.; Murderous Women and Mild Justice: A Look at Female Violence in Pre-1910 San Diego, San Luis Obispo and Tuolumne Counties.; Collections of the Jerry MacMullen Library at the San Diego Maritime Museum.
Fall 1991:: Complete Issue Online; Pablo Apis and Temecula; Nuestra Señora De Guadalupe: The Mexican Catholic Experience in San Diego; A Wide Range of Collections at San Diego State University
Summer 1991:: Complete Issue Online; Pole Fishing for Tuna, 1937-1941: An Interview with Edward S. Soltesz; Not a Matter of Choice: San Diego Women and Divorce, 1850-1880; Local History Materials in the California Room of the San Diego Public Library
Spring 1991:: Complete Issue Online; Serving the City's Children: San Diego City Schools, The First Fifty Years.; The Pueblo Lands: San Diego's Spanish Heritage; Local History Materials in the Research Archives of the SDHS
Winter 1991:: Complete Issue Online; Archaeological Excavation and Education at the San Diego Royal Presidio, 1987-1990; David Owen Dryden, a Builder in the Craftsman Style; A Few More Pieces of the Puzzle: Collections Documenting San Diego History at the University of California, San Diego
Fall 1990:: Complete Issue Online; The Southwest on Display at the Panama California Exposition, 1915; El Cajon, California 1900
Spring-Summer 1990: Marston House special issue: The George White & Anna Gunn Marston House; Marston House: Chronology; The Arts and Crafts Movement in America; George White & Anna Gunn Marston: A Sketch; Hebbard & Gill, Architects; The George White & Anna Gunn Marston House; Self-Guided Walking Tour of Seventh Avenue; The Marston Garden: The Southwest Interprets English Romantic
Winter 1990:: Complete Issue Online; The Making of the Panama-California Exposition.; San Diegans, Inc.: The Formative Years, 1958-63. The Redevelopment of Downtown San Diego; The Treatment of Indian Murderers in San Diego, 1850-1900
Fall 1989:: Complete Issue Online; "The Adobe is My Birthstone" Leo Carillo's Rancho de las Quiotes; The Most Critical Option: Sex Offenses and Castration in San Diego, 1938-1975; The Cold War and Harry Steinmetz: A Case of Loyalty and Legislation
Summer 1989:: Complete Issue Online; Early Sculpture and Sculptors in San Diego; Reading Between the Lines (Of A Business Ledger)
Spring 1989:: Complete Issue Online; A City, A Bank, A Family [San Diego Trust & Savings Bank]; Hospital Based Nursing Schools in San Diego, 1900-1970; Eating That Smoke: San Diego's Fire Department, 1889-1989
Winter 1989:: Complete Issue Online; The Cobblestone Connection in San Diego's Architectural History; A Visit to the Home of California's First Martyr [Fray Luis Jayme]; A History of Santa Rosalia in Baja California; Prostitutes, Progressives, and Police: The Viability of Vice in San Diego 1900-1930
Fall 1988:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego and the Gilded Age: The Efforts to Bring the Texas and Pacific Ralroad to San Diego; San Diego's Gardening Heritage: The Cultivation of Paradise on Earth.; Forgotten Sentinel on Marston Point: The History of the San Diego Fire Alarm Communications Building
Summer 1988:: Complete Issue Online; St Anthony's Indian School in San Diego, 1886-1907; Seeker of Light and Shadow: Lou Adelaide Bigelow; Harriett Barnhard Wimmer: A Pioneer San Diego Woman Landscape Architect
Spring 1988:: Complete Issue Online; Bungalow Courts in San Diego: Monitoring a Sense of Place; Leslie and Melicent Lee: Artist, Author and Friends of the Indian; The Railroad Stations of San Diego County: Then and Now
Winter 1988:: Complete Issue Online; The Duchess of Windsor and The Coronado Legend, Part II; The Year 1588 and San Diego de Alcalá; In the Midst of Things: Rebecca Craft and the Woman's Civic League; Writing History with Picture Postcards: Revolution in Tijuana
Fall 1987:: Complete Issue Online; The British Are Coming: or, The Army of India and the Founding of Ensenada; The Duchess of Windsor and the Coronado Legend. Part I; The Little Mission History at an Inch to the Foot; Four Hundred Dollars Worth of Justice: The Trial and Execution of Indian Joe, 1892-1893
Spring-Summer 1987:: A Special Centennial Edition: The Villa Montezuma; The Villa Montezuma as a Product of Its Time; Jesse Shepard and the Spark of Genius; Restoration of a Grand Historic Site; Chronology of Events
Winter 1987:: Complete Issue Online; William Sterling Hebbard: Consummate San Diego Architect; The Jessop Street Clock: A San Diego Landmark; Horton's Purchase: The Real Story
Fall 1986:: Complete Issue Online; Mathias F. Heller -- The Cash Grocer; George White Marston and Conservative Reform in San Diego; San Diego County's Water Crusader, Fred A Heilbron
Summer 1986:: Complete Issue Online; Painting Ladies: Some Early San Diego Women Artists; Vallejo's Plan of the San Diego Presidio
Spring 1986:: Complete Issue Online; Dog-Holes, Bomb-Lances and Devil-Fish: Boom Times for the San Diego Whaling Industry; When the President Spoke at Balboa Stadium; Presidio Park: A Statement of George W. Marston in 1942; The Lemon Grove Incident: The Nation's First Successful Desegregation Court Case
Winter 1986:: Complete Issue Online; The Changing Face of Mission San Diego; The California Southern Railroad and the Growth of San Diego; John Holt: a Case of Contrasts
Fall 1985:: Complete Issue Online; The California Southern Railroad; San Diego Invites the World to Balboa Park a Second Time; Do You Want an Exposition? San Diego's 1935 Fair in Photographs; "God's Garden:" The Grossmont Art Colony
Summer 1985:: Complete Issue Online; James W. Robinson and the Development of Old Town San Diego; Like the Ancients: the Art of Donal Hord; La Jolla Hermosa: A Subdivision Triumph
Spring 1985:: Complete Issue Online; The Birds and Bees in Twin Oaks: Visit of a Naturalist in 1889; The Old Globe Theatre: Highlights from Fifty Years; The Fort that Never Was on Ballast Point
Winter 1985:: Complete Issue Online; 100 Years Ago in San Diego; Success at Mid-Life: Charles Reiffel, 1862-1942, San Diego Artist; Social and Intellectual Growth of San Diego's University Club; The Silent Sentinel: Samuel Wood Hamill, F.A.I.A.
Fall 1984:: Complete Issue Online; The Cabrillo Rifles: San Diego's Home Guard In World War I; The Start of Professionalism: Three Early SanDiego Artists; George White Marston: The Merchant Prince of San Diego
Summer 1984:: Complete Issue Online; Louis John Gill: Famous but Forgotten Architect; San Diego's First Cabrillo Celebration, 1892; The Work and Character of Edwin M. Capps; María Amparo Ruiz Burton: The General's Lady
Spring 1984:: Complete Issue Online; Legal Hocus-Pocus" The Subdivision of Jamacha Rancho; Between Germany and Carlsbad: A High Yielding Bond; The Republican Experiment and The Bishop's School; A.H. Sweet: Profile of a High-Minded Gentleman
Winter 1984:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego Baseball: The Early Years; Ensenada: Its Background, Founding and Early Development; San Diego Trust & Savings Bank; Richard Kerren: Study of a San Diego Soldier-Pioneer; The Mexican-American War in Baja California
Fall 1983:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego and His Biographers; Scripps in the 1950s: A Decade of Bluewater Oceanography; Lillian Jennette Rice: Search for a Regional Ideal, The Development of Rancho Santa Fe; An Atmosphere of Friendliness: The Cuyamaca Club; A Little Gem of a Park: A Personal Memoir of Mission Cliff Gardens
Summer 1983:: Complete Issue Online; Serving San Diego County's Southern Indians? Campo Indian Agency Schools; Emigrants and Indians: Selections From C.J. Couts' Military Correspondence, 1849; A Grand Lady Turns Ninety-Five: The Hotel Del Coronado; Maiolica at the San Diego Presidio Gateway Search Excavation: A Preliminary Analysis; Matthew Simpson's Diary: A Wednesday in San Diego, 1854
Spring 1983:: Complete Issue Online; The Hotel Riviera del Pacífico: Social, Civic and Cultural Center of Ensenada; Jesse L. Nusbaum and the Painted Desert in San Diego; "Working For the Good of the Community:" Rest Haven Preventorium for Children; A Brief Glimpse of the Kumeyaay Past: An Interview With Tom Lucas, Kwaaymii, of Laguna Ranch
Winter 1983:: Complete Issue Online; Pioneer Spirit: The Klauber Wangenheim Company; The Wetherbee Planing Mill: A Case History of the 1880s Boom and Bust; Logan Heights: Growth and Change in the Old "East End"; The San Diego Woman's Home Association: A Volunteer Charity Organization; Don José Antonio Aguirre: Spanish Merchant and Ranchero
Fall 1982:: Complete Issue Online; Wells Fargo in San Diego; San Diego's Early Years as a Health Resort; "Offensive Stupidity," and the Struggle of Abe Tokunoske; San Diego Cemeteries: A Brief Guide
Summer 1982:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego's Victorian Homes; Two Reading Rooms—One for Each Sex Public Library Beginnings, 1880-1890; The Ramona Castle: Irene Amy Strong's Home and the Craftsman Movement; Reminiscences of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and the Academy of Our Lady of Peace, 1882-1982; Early Journalism in San Diego: The San Diego Herald and The San Diego Union
Spring 1982:: Complete Issue Online; A Momentous 100 Years: The Story of San Diego High School; San Diego High School: Architectural Reflections; San Diego High School, 1882-1982 A Photographic Perspective; Sports at San Diego High School: Two Oral Interviews
Winter 1982:: Complete Issue Online; Boomerang Boom: San Diego 1941-1942; Jerry MacMullen: An Uncommon Man, Part II; The Music Festival San Diego Almost Had; Balboa Park, 1909-1911; The Rise and Fall of the Olmsted Plan
Fall 1981:: Complete Issue Online; Fishermen of San Diego: The Italians; Temple Beth Israel; Captain Henry Fitch, San Diego Merchant, 1825-1849; Jerry MacMullen: An Uncommon Man
Summer 1981:: Complete Issue Online; E.W. Morse and the San Diego County Beekeeping Industry, 1875-1884; How Scripps Institution Came to San Diego; Adaptation of the Bajacalifornian to the Environment from Earliest Times to the Mid-Nineteenth Century; S.A.T.C., San Diego's Student Army; In Memoriam: Dina Moore Bowden
Spring 1981:: Complete Issue Online; The Selling of a City: Oceanside 1920-1930; Black Pioneers in San Diego 1880-1920; The Founding of San Diego's Red Cross; Ships and Sherds: Ceramics at the San Diego Presidio
Winter 1981:: Complete Issue Online; U.S. Grant, Jr. A Builder of San Diego; Lydia Knapp Horton: A "Liberated" Woman in Early San Diego; Mud Volcanoes, Faults and Earthquakes of the Colorado Delta Before the Twentieth Century
Fall 1980:: Complete Issue Online; Theosophy and Symbolist Art: The Point Loma Art School; The Discredited Revolution: The Magonista Capture of Tijuana in 1911; Christmases in California
Summer 1980:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego Indians and the Federal Government: Years of Neglect, 1850-1865; San Diego's "Portia of the Pacific:" California's First Woman Lawyer; From Gopher Traps to Electronics: The Southern California Exposition at Del Mar Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary; Fighting Tom Sweeny: The California Years; In Memoriam: Bert M. Fireman
Spring 1980:: Complete Issue Online; "Phoenix" Revisited: Another Look At George Horatio Derby; La Jolla Legacy; San Diego's Open Forum -- Birth and Death; The Voting Women of San Diego, 1920
Winter 1980:: Complete Issue Online; Samuel Fox, Merchant and Civic Leader In San Diego, 1886-1939; The Baja California Gold Rush of 1889; San Diego Police, A Look Back; Station KGB and the Development of Commercial Radio in San Diego
Fall 1979:: Complete Issue Online; Jamul Cement: Speculation in the San Diego Hinterland; Music in the Jesuit Missions of Baja California (1698-1767); San Diego Interiors: (1880-1930); Rebuilding the California Southern Railroad:
The Personal Account of a Chinese Labor Contractor, 1884
Summer 1979:: Complete Issue Online; William Kettner: San Diego's Dynamic Congressman; From Seed to Center Seven Decades of Floral Service; Junípero Serra Museum: Architectural, Cultural and Urban Landmark; The Mormon Volunteers: The Recruitment and Service of a Unique Military Company
Spring 1979:: Complete Issue Online; Images of Our Past: The San Diego Title Insurance and Trust Company Historical Photographs Collection; For Discovery, Collection and Preservation The San Diego Historical Society; Irving Gill: The Artist As Architect
Winter 1979:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego's City Park 1902-1910: From Parsons To Balboa; The Only Safe and Sane Method: The Curtiss School of Aviation; The Viceroy Marquis de Croix: A Biographical Sketch
Fall 1978:: Complete Issue Online; The Garrisons of San Diego Presidio: 1770-1794; Before the War: The Japanese In San Diego; Helen Hunt Jackson In San Diego
Summer 1978:: Complete Issue Online; Asama Gunkan - The Reappraisal of a War Scare; The San Diego Zoological Garden: A Foundation to Build On; Women In San Diego ... a history in photographs; Anna and Albert Valentien: The Arts and Crafts Movement In San Diego; The Politics of Water in San Diego 1895-1897
Spring 1978:: Complete Issue Online; People and Places; Images of Nineteenth Century San Diego In Lithographs and Paintings; Indian Labor at the California Missions -- Slavery or Salvation?; The Case of the Missing Book of Hours; Wartime San Diego 1943 -- Photographs by Mike Hazelip; Oliver S. Witherby First State District Judge of San Diego; Devil's Corner and Oliver S. Witherby
Winter 1978:: Complete Issue Online; From Lope de Vega to San Diego: The Backgrounds of Spanish Colonization in the Californias
Fall 1977:: Complete Issue Online; Mission Cliff Gardens; In Places Men Reject: Chinese Fishermen at San Diego, 1870-1893; Remember Old Number Sixteen? Recollections of the La Jolla Street Car Line; The Modern Boston Tea Party: The San Diego Suffrage Campaign of 1911; James McCoy: Lawman and Legislator; Mystery Man of Ocean Beach
Summer 1977:: Complete Issue Online; Kondo Masaharu And The Best Of All Fisherman; Maurice Braun: Master Painter Of The California Landscape; In Search Of The Original Californian: Herman ten Kate's Expedition To Baja California
Spring 1977:: Complete Issue Online; Annie Besant's Lecture Tour of San Diego; San Diego's Chinese Mission; The Junipero Serra Song at San Diego State Teachers College; San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter; San Diego's City Park, 1868-1902
Winter 1977:: Complete Issue Online; El Camino Real in Baja California: Loreto to San Diego; Chicano History: an Oral History Approach; The True Origins of Spanish Colonial Officials and Missionaries; The Blochman Saga in San Diego; The Beginning of Secular Colonization in Baja California
Fall 1976:: Complete Issue Online; The Excavation Program at the San Diego Presidio; San Diego: The Saint and the City; Memories of Early Days in Baja California; Silent Film Making in San Diego, 1898-1912; Some Reflections on California, 1776
Summer 1976:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego's Centennial Celebration: A Pictorial Essay; Filipino Migrants in San Diego, 1900-1946; San Diego's Naval Disaster: The Explosion of the Bennington
Spring 1976:: Complete Issue Online; Don Pedro Prat: A Great and Ineffable Tragedy; Pages From the Diary of Cave Johnson Couts: San Diego in the Spring and Summer of 1849; Whatever Happened to Izard Street? Pacific Beach and Its Street Names; The California Column in the Civil War: Hazen's Civil War Diary; El Camino Real in Baja California: A Commentary on Problems of the Serra Route by Ronald L. Ives
Winter 1976:: Complete Issue Online; A Bicentennial Guide to Significant Events in the San Diego Region; Lovell's Report on the Cahuilla Indians, 1854; William Marshall, "The Wickedest Man in California": A Reappraisal; The Imperial Valley in 1904; An Account by Hugo de Vries; The Death of Fray Luis Jayme: Two Hundredth Anniversary
Fall 1975:: Complete Issue Online; California in 1831: Heinrich Virmond to Lucas Alaman; Blacks in San Diego County: A Social Profile, 1850-1880; Problems of the Serra Route; Rumblings at Pala; Documents in Architectural History; Cleveland National Forest: San Diego's Watershed
Summer 1975:: Complete Issue Online; The Decline of the Californios; The Franklin Brothers of San Diego; Philip Crosthwaite: San Diego Pioneer and public Servant; Geraniums Vs. Smokestacks: San Diego's Mayoralty Campaign of 1917
Spring 1975:: Complete Issue Online; Pedro Fages and Miguel Costanso: Two Early Letters From San Diego in 1769; A Study of the Location of Mule Hill: General Kearny's Camp After the Battle of San Pasqual; The Fallbrook Irrigation District Case; From Aspin to Zanzibar: Street Names in San Diego's Mission Beach
Winter 1975:: Complete Issue Online; When the Imperial Valley Fought for Its Life; The Little Landers Colony of San Ysidro; Merchants and Dons: San Diego's Attempt at Modernization, 1850-1860
Fall 1974:: Complete Issue Online; Yachting: Its History In San Diego; The Mission of Ulises Urbano Lassépas to Baja California; The Puerto de Don Gaspar: A Note On An Erroneous California Place Name; John Steven McGroarty: From The Green Verdugo Hills; San Diego's Horton Plaza
Summer 1974:: Complete Issue Online; Reminiscences of Lomaland. Madame Tingley and the Theosphical Institute in San Diego; Military View of San Diego in 1847: Four Letters from Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson to Governor Richard B. Mason; Military Posts in San Diego 1852; The Uneasy Alliance: Jewish-Anglo Relations in San Diego 1850-1860; A Brief History of the Granite Industry in San Diego County; Warren's Not Warner's: A Postscript to "The Stage to El Centro"
Spring 1974:: Complete Issue Online; When the Red Lights went out in San Diego: The Litle known Story of San Diego's "Restricted District"; A Black American in Mexican San Diego: Two Recently Recovered Docmuents; Cassius Carter: The Scrapbooks of a District Attorney; Factors of Nationality in Frontier Mobility in San Diego County
Winter 1974:: Complete Issue Online; Rancho Guajome: A California Legacy Preserved; Student Protest at its Best: San Diego, 1918; Tempting Temecula: The Making and Unmaking of a Southern California Community
Fall 1973:: Complete Issue Online; Viva Los Californios! The Battle of San Pasqual; The Creation of the Anza Borrego Desert State Park; The Rose of San Diego; Alfred R. Mitchell: Pioneer Artist in San Diego; The Identification of Two Burials at the San Diego Presidio
Summer 1973:: Complete Issue Online; The Discoverer of Alta California: Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho or Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo?; Paradoxes in the History of Baja California; Amiel Weeks Whipple and the Boundary Survey in Southern California; The Hispanic Heritage and the Borderlands
Spring 1973:: Complete Issue Online; A California Romance in Perspective: The Elopement, Marriage and Ecclesiastical Trial of Henry D. Fitch and Josefa Carrillo; The Mary Walker Incident: Black Prejudice in San Diego, 1866; Allen Hutchinson, British Sculptor (1855-1929): An Artist's Career: From England, Hawaii and the South Pacific to San Diego, California; The Villa Montezuma: Jesse Shepard's Lasting Contributions to the Arts and Architecture
Winter 1973:: Complete Issue Online; California's Hispanic Heritage: A View Into the Spanish Myth; William E. Smythe and San Diego, 1901-1908; The I.W.W. Free Speech Movement: San Diego, 1912; Henry A. Crabb, Filibuster, and the San Diego Herald
Fall 1972:: Complete Issue Online; Utopia in Baja California: The Dreams of José de Gálvez; A Chicano Perspective on San Diego History; Matthew Sherman, Pioneer San Diegan; Early Days in San Diego: Memoirs of Augusta Barrett Sherman; Memories of Grandmother Sherman; Matthew Sherman's First Home in New San Diego
Summer 1972:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego Looks at the Maderista Revolution in Mexico 1910-1911; The Location of the Indian Village of Temecula; San Diego's Opera Unit of the WPA Federal Music Project; X-Rays and Artifacts at the San Dieego Presidio Excavations
Spring 1972:: Complete Issue Online; Sebastian Vizcaino and San Diego Bay; The San Diego City Schools Curriculum Project
Winter 1972:: Complete Issue Online; The Internment of the Japanese of San Diego County During the Second World War; The Historical Archives of Baja California Sur: their antecedents and recent creation; The Stage to El Centro
Fall 1971:: Complete Issue Online; Irving John Gill: San Diego Architect; William Templeton Johnson, San Diego Architect, 1877-1957; The Davis House: New San Diego's Oldest and Most Historic Building; Historic American Buildings Survey: San Diego—1971
Summer 1971:: Complete Issue Online; Developing San Diego's Desert Empire; Hugo de Vries Visits San Diego
Spring 1971:: Complete Issue Online; Native of Arica: Requiem for a Don; The Role of the San Diego River in the Development of Mission Valley; Racetrack to Highway: San Diego's Early Automobile Days
Winter 1971:: Complete Issue Online; Cuyamaca Land Grant Trial; The Letters of Thomas Rylan Darnall; Immigrants on the Gila and Baja California Routes to San Diego in 1849
Fall 1970:: Complete Issue Online; Contemporary Artists of San Diego; San Diego's Eucalyptus Bubble; A Chapter from the Logbook An Unusual Burial from the San Diego Presidio
Summer 1970:: Complete Issue Online; Jesse Shepard and the Villa Montezuma; The Jesse Shepard House; Architectural Notes; Illuminations
Spring 1970:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego's Medico-Legal History 1850-1900; The Plank Road; How Uncle Charley Came to California
Winter 1970:: Complete Issue Online; Hatfield the Rainmaker; South San Diego—July 30, 1871
Fall 1969:: Complete Issue Online; The Struggle Over Secularization of the Missions on the Alta California Frontier; John S. Harbison: Pioneer San Diego Beekeeper; San Diego's Judges of the Plains; A Tribute to George Marston
Summer 1969:: Complete Issue Online; The Historic Significance of Presidio Park; A Young Man Comes to Town; The Origin of Presidio Park and Junípero Serra Museum; A Plant Tour of Presidio Park; The San Diego Historical Society; Junípero Serra Museum; San Diego Acquires a Park and Museum
Spring 1969:: Complete Issue Online; An Auto Trip Through San Diego's Back Country; The Jackass Mail—San Antonio and San Diego Mail Line; San Diego's Cable Railway; Documents of San Diego History—A Unique Case: Temecula Indians vs. Holman and Seaman
Winter 1969: Places and People in Old Town: Complete Issue Online; Places in Old Town; The Bandini Family; The Estudillo Family; The Machado-Silvas Family; The Machado Stewart Family
October 1968:: Complete Issue Online; A Landscape of the Past: The Story of the Royal Presidio Excavations; The Birthplace of the San Diego Union
July 1968:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego County Landmarks
April 1968:: Complete Issue Online; Tradition and Today: The Osuna Story; The Stonewall Jackson House; The Hon. J. Fortescue, Esq. Ret.; Report on Presidio Excavations, 1967
October 1967 - January 1968: Special Issue: "San Diego...Where California Began"
July 1967:: Complete Issue Online; (Dedication) "A Good Memory" - Don M. Stewart; Father Serrra and the Soldiers; The Old Point Loma Light; A Friend Was for Sharing
April 1967:: Complete Issue Online; Quite a Fellow (Dedication); San Diego Barracks; Dream of Glory (William Heath Davis); Vision of Greatness (Alonzo E. Horton)
January 1967:: Complete Issue Online; We Were Together 48 Years; A Trip to the Mines; Interview with Dave Henderson; Pueblo Postscript
October 1966:: Complete Issue Online; Love Affair with History Roscoe E. "Pappy" Hazard; Serra Museum "Swings" (Like a Pendulum Do); A Political History of a Mexican Pueblo: San Diego from 1825 to 1845, Part 2
July 1966:: Complete Issue Online; A Political History of a Mexican Pueblo: San Diego from 1825 to 1845, Part I; Opportunities for Research in San Diego History; Biographical Sketch of Dr. A. P. Nasatir
April 1966:: Complete Issue Online; Philip II Orders the Journey of the First Manila Galleon; History of the First Greek Theatre in America at Point Loma, California 1901-1965
January 1966:: Complete Issue Online; The Lady Who Lives by the Sea: The Story of Hotel del Coronado; Acquisitions: 1965
October 1965:: Complete Issue Online; The First Season's Work at the 'Silent City' Preliminary Report to the Membership on the Archaeological and Historical Investigations at the Royal Presidio of San Diego; July 16th, 1929 San Diego Celebrated its 160th Birthday; A Small Cannon Recovered from San Diego Bay; The Use of Newspapers, and a Checklist
June 1965:: Complete Issue Online; Pioneer Spanish Families of California; Father O'Keefe Rebuilder of Mission San Luis Rey; The Politics and History of William Kettner; The Diaries of Dr. George McKinstry Jr. 1858-1879; Rufus Choate A taped interview of reminiscences
March 1965:: Complete Issue Online; The Missions of Alta California; Early Women Jurors in San Diego; Jean Baptiste Charbonneau: The Wind River Scout; Louis Almgren: Fire Chief; A Letter of 1887, from Germany to Frank Burnham; Philip Crosthwaite: At age 80 a Remarkable memory
January 1965:: Complete Issue Online; The Discovery & Earliest Explorations of Baja California; California's Cattle_Range Industry: Decimation of the Herds, 1870-1912; Daniel Cleveland: San Diego Patron; Official Correspondence of the First Alcalde and Ayuntamiento of San Diego
October 1964:: Complete Issue Online; Dietary Deficiency Diseases in the Period of Discovery; Tidal Marigrams; A Shipment of Goods to the Presidio of San Diego
July 1964:: Complete Issue Online; Those Accursed Howitzers; An Early San Diego Physician: David Hoffman; The "Lost" Serra Document
April 1964:: Complete Issue Online; The Last of the Padres; Winifred Davidson; San Diego's Street Names; The Jaguarina-Weidermann Battle
January 1964:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego and the 1849 State Convention; The Chinese at Sorrento
October 1963:: Complete Issue Online; The Ready Relief Mine; Yaqui Well; Those Peaceful "Torture Trees"
July 1963:: Complete Issue Online; The Escondido Story; Barefooted to the Gold-Fields
April 1963:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego's Naval Militia; George Parrish Tebbetts; A Venerable Pipe-Organ
January 1963:: Complete Issue Online; Up from San Antonio; They Used to Call It "Wireless"; Captain Vancouver's Organ
October 1962:: Complete Issue Online; The Fiftieth Year (El Cajon and La Mesa); Keno Wilson -- A Lawman's Lawman; The Exchange Hotel
July 1962:: Complete Issue Online; National City in Review
April 1962:: Complete Issue Online; A Barren Hilltop Becomes a Park; A Plant Tour of Presidio Park; The Junipero Serra Museum
January 1962:: Complete Issue Online; The Concord Stage
October 1961:: Complete Issue Online; There Came Upon Me a Day of Trouble; As Others Saw Us; Tea-Kettle Days; Historical Miscellany
July 1961:: Complete Issue Online; Las Flores; Old Town Memories; Frank Sessions' Performing Steers; Las Encinitas Rancho and "Olivenheim"
April 1961:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego in the Civil War; The Affair at Minter's Ranch; California's Lost Battalion; "S.D. War Vessel Alerted!..."
January 1961:: Complete Issue Online; The High Iron to La Jolla
October 1960:: Complete Issue Online; Ballast Point Lighthouse; The Clubhouse on Steamship Wharf; The Zlac Rowing Club; Minor Maritime Disaster; You'll find them in Every Library
July 1960:: Complete Issue Online; A Store at Campo in 1899; Farewell to Colonel Cody; "Little Red School-House" Days in Ramona; Fourth of July on the Bay
April 1960: Special Issue: Complete Issue Online; The Whaley House
January 1960:: Complete Issue Online; Where California Began; San Diego Area Histories
October 1959:: Complete Issue Online; Old Town Talk -- II; Fort Rosecrans, California
July 1959:: Complete Issue Online; Ninety Years in San Diego -- the Story of the Klauber Wangenheim Co.; The Orizaba -- and Johnson Heights; Two horsepower is Plenty; Is the Trash-can Always the Answer?
April 1959:: Complete Issue Online; Childhood Recollections of the Agua Tibia Ranch; The Wreck of the Yankee Blade; The Immortal Judkins; From Cuneiforn to Magnetic Tape; Casualties of 1958
January 1959:: Complete Issue Online; Historical Landmarks of San Diego County
October 1958:: Complete Issue Online; River Town; Old Town Talk -- II; La Jolla No. 1; The Venerable Ning Po
July 1958:: Complete Issue Online; Point Loma's Controversial Oaks; Wagons West - The Conestoga; "Old Rosy"; Early Days of the Public Library
April 1958:: Complete Issue Online; Chuck-wagon Days; The Automobile is Here to Stay; Hey-Day of the N. C. & O.; The Old Country Store
January 1958:: Complete Issue Online; Old Town Talk; Palomar's Friendly Hermit; The Santa Ana Winds; The Obituary Column; Casualty of 1957
October 1957:: Complete Issue Online; Life at the Oriflamme Mine, 1875-1876; Better Days -- or Something; When the Railroad Bypassed Los Angeles; A Swell Yachting Party; Herbert C. Hensley
July 1957:: Complete Issue Online; The San Diego and Escondido Stage; Journalistic Remarks on the Los Angeles and Tucson Mails; Stonewall Days; The Old Side-Wheeler Senator; Notes on Our Ocean Transportation
April 1957:: Complete Issue Online; Birch's Overland Mail in San Diego County; Lassator's in Green Valley; Firing the Anvil; Salt-Water Overland Mail
January 1957:: Complete Issue Online; A Young Man Comes to Town; Steamer Day; The Mighty Goliah; A Bishop's First Glimpse of a Frontier Town; The Lakeside Inn; The Day of the Dismal Picnic; Casualties of 1956
October 1956:: Complete Issue Online; Mutton Chops, and a Round; Thumbing Through San Diego's First Directory; Justice in Old Town
July 1956:: Complete Issue Online; Cullamac, Alias Del Capitan Grande; Seventy-five years of Light; Don Pedro's Cattle Range; A Spanish Wall
April 1956:: Complete Issue Online; The Building of the Horton House; Land Boom Palace; The Glittering St. James Hotel; The Franklin House; New San Diego's Finest Hotel -- in 1867
January 1956:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego's First Railroad; Steam Trains to East San Diego; Those Fabulous Cable-Cars; The Return of 104; Casualties of 1956
October 1955:: Complete Issue Online; Southern California's First Light; No. 355; When the Lower Light Was New; Ups and Downs of the Old 355; Point Loma's Century of Light; "Sisters Under Their Plaster"; List of Light Keepers
July 1955:: Complete Issue Online; Forty-Niners' Independence Day; Information Please...; The Last Pack Train; Byways of Old City Park; Plain and Fancy; Mountain Springs
April 1955:: Complete Issue Online; San Diego Barracks; How Old is That House?
January 1955: Our first issue!: Complete Issue Online; San Diego in One Easy Lesson; San Diego County Ordinances; San Diego's Shrunken Boundaries; County Boundary Line Map; The Public Reading Room

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