California Directories

Directories of heads of households were published for major cities of California. The Family History Library, for example, has:

Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Public Library has the following with a few small gaps in the years available. The 1872 directory is a combination city-county one. The catalog and digital images work best with Internet Explorer rather than Firefox.

San Francisco

Web Sites
http://www.uscitydirectories.com/ca.htm

www.lapl.org

www.ancestry.com ($)

http://www.distantcousin.com/Directories/CA/