Sonoma History Images

01/27/2025

Vingie E. Roe, Cloverdale Author, AZO RPPC, CHS collection

12/08/2023

11/13/2023

Col. Hartwell Lyttleton Preston, Founder of Preston Ca. and husband to Madam Emily Preston, 1821-1889, Original Lg.CDV photograph, signed/dated 1862

11/13/2023

Planting Grapes, Healdsburg ca.Jos. Downing, albumen stereoview, cir.1871. Purchased 17 years ago from established dealer, possibly the first known image of its kind in Sonoma co. Very rare photograph.

08/21/2021

Monte Rio Ca. Sonoma Co. The Crew with Northwestern Pacific's Railroad Engine #19, "The Peter Donahue" Built in 1884. Photo by John B. Rhea, 1872-1946, Realphoto Postmarked 1908.

06/26/2021

Did you know the complete run of the Sonoma Historian (1962-2021), the quarterly journal of the Sonoma County Historical Society, is accessible online? https://www.sonomacountyhistory.org/publications or direct link https://bit.ly/SoHis. Looking for a specific topic of local historic interest (baseball, stone quarries, the Electric Hotel)? The index is maintained by Special Collections at SSU: http://library.sonoma.edu/.../our.../sonoma-historian. 🕰️
Photo: Members of the (Leroy) Jewett Band.

04/20/2021

Pat Paulsen, Mayor of Asti, Ca. 1986, original silver gelatin print

04/18/2021

Windsor Ca. cir. 1910's

04/18/2021

Motor boat Races, Russian River, Healdsburg Ca. 1938 postmark

02/27/2021

Guests at Alder Glen Mineral Springs, cir. 1907, RPPC, Grant and Riechers, photographers. Azo stampbox.

10/17/2020

Pop McCray, The Old Homestead, Cloverdale, 1908, G&R Photographer, Silver Gelatin Print, SHI collection