home Sources and Credits Credits Biographies - California State Capitol Museum, California State Parks and Recreation, from The Governors of California and their Portraits by Molly Shoemaker Schaechtele, California State Capitol Museum Volunteer Association. Images of the Official Portraits of the Governors - California Department of General Services. Sources Bean, Walton and James. J. Rawls. California -- an Interpretive History. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1998 Hart, James D. A Companion to California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987. Melendy, H. Brett and Benjamin F. Gilbert. The Governors of California: Peter H. Burnett to Edmund G. Brown. Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965 Nunis, Jr., Doyce B. and Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Editors. A Guide to the History of California. New York NY: Greenwood Press, 1989.. Ottley Allan R., Compiler. California Events 1933- A Selective Chronology. Sacramento, CA: California State Library, 1969. Schaechtele, Molly Shoemaker. The Governors of California and their Portraits. Sacramento, CA: California State Capitol Museum Volunteer Association, 1995. Trover, Ellen Lloyd. Chronology and Documentary Handbook of the State of California. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1972. California State Library Staff John Jewell, Coordinator Emily Newman, Reference Librarian Gary Kurutz, Head, Special Collections James Leu, Student Researcher Patricia Morris, Library Researcher Kathy Cashdollar, Secretary Stacy Caves, Secretary Joyce Walker, Secretary Mike Wong, Programmer Hau Ngo, Asst. Programmer Tung Vu, Asst. Programmer Holly Mann, Student Assistant