Merced Local History Collection
Scope and Contents
1855 to 1957This collection brings together a variety of resources highlighting the history of the people, places, and events of Merced County. These two items in this collection are digitized. First is the Merced Army Flying School book showcasing the daily life at the Flying school in the 1940s. Second is the Merced County Sheriff’s Office Mug book that is a partial book of mugshots, physical descriptions and sentencing history for inmates of California state prisons. Included are a handwritten list of the sheriffs of Merced County, California from 1855 to 1957 and an obituary for Sheriff Samuel Counts Cornell of Merced County, California.
Dates
- Creation: 1885 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research. A portion of the records have been digitized and are freely available online. For help with accessing the original analog records, please contact the Merced Museum.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs. Transmission or reproduction of any materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Extent
1 Gigabytes
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
The original analog records reside at the Merced Museum.
- Title
- Digital Copy of Merced Local History Collection
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Phoenician
Repository Details
Part of the University of California, Merced Library Repository
5200 North Lake Road
Merced 95343 U.S.A. US
(209) 228-4444
(209) 228-4271 (Fax)
archives@ucmerced.edu