I have used several resources in putting up this page. I have also found lots of interesting information that I did not use. I have listed both types below. Most of them are available in either the Santa Clara or Sunnyvale Public Libraries, but many are now out of print.
BOOKS:
Alternative School at Fremont High School, ed.Prune Pits: The Collective Stories of Early Sunnyvale-Cupertino Residents. Sunnyvale, CA: Fremont High School, 1978.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth. San Francisco: The History Company, 1891.
Beal Richard A. Highway 17: The Road to Santa Cruz. Aptos, CA: The Pacific Group, 1991.
Bean, Walter and James J. Rawls.California: An Interpretaive History. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book C., 1988.
Beck, Warren A. and Ynez D. Hasse. Historical Atlas of California. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974.
Bernstein, Alan and Bob DeGrase, Rachel Grossman, Chris Paine, and Lenny Seigel, Silicon Valley: Paradise or Paradox? The Impact of High Technology Industry on Santa Clara County. Mt. View, CA. Pacific Studies Center, 1977.
Block, Eugene B. The Immortal San Franciscans for whom the streets were named San Francisco, CA. Chronicle Books, 1971.
Caddes, Carolyn and Barbara Newton. Portraits of Success: Impressions of Silicon Valley Pioneers. Palo ALto, CA: Tioga Publishing, 1986.
California History Center, ed. Sunnyvale, City of Destiny. Cupertino, CA: De Anza College, 1974.
Chan, Sucheng, This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in Californaia Agriculture, 1860-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Dowling, Patrick, J.California The Irish Dream San Francisco: Golden Gate Publishers, 1989.
Durst, Sophie P. Mosaics 1946.
Galaraza, Ernesto. Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story. Santa Barbara, CA: McNally & Loftin, Publishers, 1964
Gates, Mary J. Contributions to Local History, Rancho Pastoria De Las Borregas, Mountain View. San Jose, CA: Cottle & Murgotten, 1985.
Gates, Paul W.,ed. California Ranchos and Frams 18456-1862 Including the Letters of John Quincy Adams Warren of 1861, Being Largely Devoted to Livestock, Wheat Farming, Fruit Raising, and the Wine Industry, Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967.
Gleason, Spencer. Naval Air Station: Moffett Field, California. Silver Anniversary 1933-1958. San Francisco: Globe, 1958.
Hartman, Edwin P. Adventures in Research: A History of Ames Research Center 1940-1965. Washington D.C.: NASA Center History Series, National Aeronautuics and Space Administration, 1970.
Hayes, Dennis. Behind the Silicon Curtian: The Seduction of Work in a Lonely Era. Boston: South End Press, 1989.
Hendry, G.W. and J. N. Bowman. The Spanish and Mexican Adobe and Other Buildings in the Nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties 1776 to About 1850: Part 7, Santa Clara County. Berkeley: University of California Berkeley, 1940.
Humphrey, Janetr. From Blossoms to the World: A Study of Fruit Preservation in Santa Clara Valley Prior to 1930. California Histroy Center, Local History Studies, Vol. 6. Los Altos Hills, CA: Foothill Community College Disrtict, 1970.
Jacobson, Yvonne. Passing Farms, Enduring Values:California's Santa Clara Valley. Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1984.
Johnson, Hortense V. A Monkey on her Back 1978.
Leadership Sunnyvale. On the Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Sunnyvale. Sunnyvale, CA: Leadership Sunnyvale, 1988.
Loomis, Patricia. Signposts San Jose, CA. San Jose Historical Museum Assocation, 1982.
Lukes, Timothy and Gary Y. Okihiro. Japanese Legacy. Cupertino, CA: California History Center, De Anza College, 1985.
Mahon, Thomas. Charged Bodies: People, Power and Paradox in Silicon VAlley. New York: New American Library, 1985.
Malone, Michael. The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley. New York: Doubleday, 1985.
McWilliams, Carey. Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939.
Mountain View Public Library, ed. Bittersweet: Memories of Old Mountain View, Vol. II The Spanish. Mountain View, CA: Mountain View Public Library, 1980.
Munro-Fraser, J.P. History of Santa Clara County, California. San Francisco: Alley, Bowen and Company, 1881.
Nash, Gerald D. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Payne, Stephen M. Santa Clara County: Harvest of Change. Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications, 1987.
Peterson, Kay. ed. Sunnyvale Collage. Sunnyvale School District, 1981.
Polk's San Jose City Directory and Santa Clara County Directory, 1930 San Francisco: R.L. Polk & Co., Publishers 1929.
Rocq, Margret M.,ed. California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings. 2d ed. Stanford: California Library Assocation, Stanford University Press, 1970.
Rogers, Evertt M. and Judith K. Larsen. Silicon Valley Fever: Growth of High Technology Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
Sawyer, Eugene T. History of Santa Clara County. Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1992.
Scott, Mel. The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Prespevctive. 2d ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Seavey, Kent L. and James Williams. Images: Sunnyvale's Heritage Resources. Sunnyvale, CA: City of Sunnyvale, 1988.
Siegel, Lenny and John Markoff. The High Cost of High Tech: The Dark Side of the Chip. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.
Sullivan, Gabrielle. Martin Murphy, Jr. California Pioneer 1844-1884. Stockton, CA: University of the Pacific, Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, 1974.
Sullivan, Leo. Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers. Santa Clara County and its Resources. A souvenir of the San Jose Mercury. San Jose, 1895.
Sung, B.L. The Story of the Chinese in America New York: Collier Books, 1967.
Sutter, Johann A. Diary of John Sutter. Palo Alto, CA:Grabhorn Press, 1932.
Taylor, Bayard. El Dorado, Vol. 1. Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborn, 1968.
Times Tribune. Moffett-1989. Palo Alto, CA: Times Tribune, 1989.
Thompson & West. Historical Atlas Map of Santa Clara County. San Francisco, 1876.
Thompson, Zoe. Farm, Home and Forge: Turn of the Century Santa Clara County Implements. California History Center. Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 1970.
Troustine, Philip J. and Terry Christensen. Movers and Shakers: The Study of Community Power. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
Wollenberg, Charles. Golden Gate Metropolis: Prespectives on Bay Area History. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of Calfornia, Berkeley, 1985.
Young, Stanley. The Missions of California. San Francisco Chronicla Books, 1988.
Zavella, Patricia. Women's Work and Chicano Fasmilies: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
THESES or RESEARCH PAPERS:
Esteban, Judy. "The Spanish in Sunnyvale." Research paper, De Anza College, 1974.
Fisher, J. Donald. "A Historical Study of the Migrant in California." Master's Thesis, University of Southern California, 1945; Reprinted San Francisco: R and E Associates, 1973.
Flowe, Douglas E. "An Open Space System Plan for the City of Sunnyvale, California." Master's Thesis, San Jose State University, 1977.
George F. Gayer. "The Iron Men of Hendy." Compiled from Gayer manuscripts by Vernita Eubank and James Van de Erve, 1985. Westinghouse pamphlet file #1 in Silicon Valley Library.
Goldman, Karen. "Fern Ohrt's Story: Saving the Trees," on file Sunnyvale Public Library, 1979.
Greenberg, Jaclyn. "Industry in the Garden: A Socail History of the Canning Industry and Cannery Workers in the Santa Clara Valley, California, 1870-1920." Ph.d diss.,University of Michigan, 1985.
Hsieh, You-Wen. "The Redevelopment of Downtown Sunnyvale, California." Master's Thesis, San Jose State University, 1979.
Keller, John F. "The Production Worker in Electronics: Industrialization and Labor Development In California's Santa Clara Valley." Ph.d. diss., University of Michigan, 1981.
Mayfield, David W. "Ecology of the Pre-Spanish San Francisco Bay Area." Ph.D. diss., San Francisco State University, 1978.
Norton, William J. "A Country Weekly Goes Suburban--The Story of The Cupertino Courier and Its Sister Publications, Los Altos Town Crier and Sunnyvale Scribe." Master's Thesis, San Jose State University, 1971.
Saxenian, Annalee. "Silicon Chips and Spatial Structure: The Industrial Basis of Urbanization in Santa Clara County." Masters Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
Won, Kaye J. "Neighborhood Profile: A Statistical and Graphic Description of Sunnyvale's Neighborhoods." Library of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 1971.
Winters, Mildred G. "Mariano Castro." On file at the California History Center. Castro Collection, Box 8.
ARTICLES:
Axelrad, Marice. "Profile of the Electronics Workforce in the Santa Clara Valley." San Jose: Project on Health and Safety in Electronics, 1979.
Besler, Karl. "The Making of Suburban America." Cry California 5 (Fall 1970): 1-18
Gibb, Robina. "Silicon Valley's New Wave of Europeans: European Engineers and Managerss Who Have Moved to California." International Management, 42 (Nov. 1987): 45.
Grove, Andrew S. "The Future od Silicon Valley." California Management Review, 29 (Spring 1987).
Hanson, Dirk. The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1982.
Hoefler, Don C. "Silicon Valley--U.S.A.." Electronic News, 11, 18, 25 January 1971.
Johnston, Moria. "High Tech, High Risk, and High Life in Silicon Valley." National Geographic October 1982: 459-477.
Lewcock, Thomas F. and O. Jess Barba. "Managers and Police Chiefs: Friends or Foes?" Public Management 70 (June 1988) : 2.
Markusen, Ann Roell and Robin Block. "Defensive Cities: Military Spending, High Technology, and Human Settlements." IN High Technology, Space, and Society, ed. Manuel Castells. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, Vol. 28, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, 1985.
Matthews, Glenna. "The Fruit Workers of the Santa Claraa Valley: Alternative Paths to Union Organization During the 1930's." Pacific Historical Review 51 February 1985: 51-70.
Nation's Cities Weekly. "Saving Dollars Through Computerized Management: Sunnyvale, California." Nation's Cities Weekly Vol.9, 31 March 1986, 6.
Noyce, Robert N. and Marcian E. Hoff. "History of Microprocessors." Micro (February 1981): 8-11,13-21.
Saxenian, Annalee. "The Genesis of Silicon Valley." In Silicon Landscapes, ed. Peter Hall and Ann Markusen. Bostroin: Allen & Unwin, 1985: 20-34.
______. "The Apricot War: A Study of the Changing Fruit Industry During the 1930s." Agricultiral History 59 (Jan. 1985): 25-39.
______. "Ethnicity and Success in San Jose." Journal of Interdisciplinary Histroy 7 (Autum 1976): 305-318.
Valdez, Luis. "Envisioning California." California Histroy, Winter 1989/90: 162.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES:
"Sunnyvale: Prunes to Missiles," Newsweek, 9 June 1969, 77.
"Heart Transplant for Sunnyvale." Peninsula Magazine, June 1979.
MAPS:
Sanborn Map Company. Fire Insurance Map of Sunnyvale, 1908 and 1930.
"Rancho Posolmi." Map. Castro Collection Inventory, Bos 8. California History Center, 1862.
Official Map of the County of Santa Clara, Ca. 1866. California History Center.
OTHER MATERIAL:
Conrad, Rebecca. "Slurbanizing the Valley of the Heart's Delight: Orgins of Agricultural Land Protection in California." Souresseau Academy Grant Request, 1983.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Selected Bibliography on Sunnyvale's History". May 1991.
Santa Clara County Tax Rolls, 1793-73. Assesor parcel numbers 110-01-061 and 110-02-062.
State of California. 1852 Agricultural Census. Santa Clara County.
United States. Bureau of the Census. Santa Clara County, California: 1850 through 1910.
VIDEO RECORDINGS:
California History Center. Elizabeth Nicholas: Libby's Cannery Worker's Project. Produced by De Anza College. 45 min. De Anza College, 1984. Videocassette.
Del Monte Corporation. "Rainbow Harvest." Promotional film. 10 min. 1950.
Valley of the Heart's Delight." 1922.
UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL:
Rambo, Ralph. Canning Labels. Originals in the Michelle Jacobson Collection, California History Center.
Sunnyvale Public Library, Scrapbooks of Orchadists 1920-1970.
Sunnyvale Public Library. Aerial Photo of Sunnyvale, circa 1930.
WEB SITES:
Many of these links were not used for this page, but I liked them.
A brief history of the transistor
A good look at The California Missions
Santa Clara Countys Political Graveyard
OTHER PAGES OF MINE:
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