Comprises scattered issues of early California newspapers with the bulk published in San Francisco. The collection comprises mostly single issues, with the bulk covering the years 1860 to 1900. A portion of the newspapers are foreign language papers reflecting the diversity of San Francisco at that time. They include Serbian, Japanese, Chinese, German, French, Hebrew, and Spanish-language papers. Collection also includes two 1870 issues of the Brooklyn Independent, published in Brooklyn, California, a former city in Alameda County that was annexed to Oakland in 1872. Also includes two single issues from newspapers published in Nevada.