This series contains 19th century California newspapers, original, facsimile, and photographic reproduction, found among William McPherson's papers. The materials include two original issues of San Francisco newspapers from 1848. The 12 October 1878 issue of the Santa Ana Herald is not listed by the California Newspaper Project, and may be a unique survival. Other original issues include newspapers from San Francisco (1863), Los Angeles (1869), and Orange (1897), and the literary newspaper, The Cactus, An illustrated journal of the angels (1889). The photographic reproduction of a page from The California Farmer and journal of useful sciences (1862), reproduces S. Rocquefeuil's 1817 account of San Francisco Bay; and the facsimile of the title pages of the The Orange Tribune for 4 September 1886 and 26 March 1887 include an account of the founding of McPherson.