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Angels Camp Museum
Collection
Identifier: RA-0015
Scope and Contents
This collection contains multiple personal correspondences and other materials for the Inks family of Calaveras County between the years 1869 and 1889. Letters contain personal sentiment and hopes for the family, most notably James Inks and his close family. In 2010, UC Merced undergraduate student Kyle Shipley undertook a project to digitize and curate a small collection of items from the Angels Camp Museum for his "History 190: Applied Research" internship under Prof. Gregg...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1869 - 1889
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library
Branch of Forestry and Vegetation Management records
Collection
Identifier: SEKI 22368
Abstract
Records generated within the organizational divisions of Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park concerning the branch of Forestry and Vegetation Management.
Dates:
1897-2005; Majority of material found within 1987-2002
Found in:
Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park
University of California Cooperative Extension Records, Butte County
Collection
Identifier: UCCE-0013
Content Description
Butte County Records for Butte County, UC Cooperative Extension Office. These records include 56 records cartons of material. Materials include paper files, photographs, and 35mm slides. Topics include almonds, walnuts, prunes, rice, navel orangeworm and the 4-H youth development program.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914 - 2000
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library
Charles G. Holdridge Photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RA-0014
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs taken by and of Charles G. Holdridge, which were taken between 1889-1914. The photographs portray the turn of the century living conditions in Fresno and the surrounding area. Over his life, Holdridge managed a lumber mill near Shaver Lake before opening Buckeye General Store in Fresno. Buckeye General Store eventually burned down, which is documented in this collection. Holdridge appears in many of the photographs, while other people are pictured but are...
Dates:
1889 - 1914
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library
Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture Digitized Collection
Collection
Identifier: RA-0016
Abstract
The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (formerly known as the Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center) in Hanford, California housed a broad range of Japanese art, in diverse media and from multiple periods. The collection includes Japanese screen and scroll paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, textiles, metalwork and woven bamboo art, with works dating from the tenth century to the present day. Areas of particular emphasis within the representative...
Dates:
700-[ongoing]
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library
Division of Maintenance and Construction records
Collection
Identifier: SEKI 22367
Abstract
Records generated within the organizational divisions of Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park concerning Park management, planning and development.
Dates:
1948-2002; Majority of material found within 1960-2000
Found in:
Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park
Division of Resource Management and Science records
Collection
Identifier: SEKI 22369
Abstract
Records generated within the organizational divisions of Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park concerning Park management, planning and development.
Dates:
1874-2003; Majority of material found within 1964-1999
Found in:
Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park
Division of Business and Administrative Support Services records
Collection
Identifier: SEKI 22365
Abstract
Records generated within the organizational divisions of Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park concerning Park management, planning and development.
Dates:
1904-2005; Majority of material found within 1969-2002
Found in:
Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park
Don Pedro Project Digital Collection
Collection
Identifier: RA-0020
Scope and Contents
The 168-megawatt Don Pedro Project located on the Tuolumne River, in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the eastern edge of California's Central Valley, provides water storage for the irrigation of over 200,000 acres of farmland, for municipal and industrial use, as well as for retail electric services, among other purposes. The Turlock Irrigation and Modesto Irrigation Districts applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for...
Dates:
2015-04
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library
Ernest Lowe Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RA-0007
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographic materials by Ernest Lowe, who documented farmworker communities in the San Joaquin Valley and Salinas Valley between 1960 and 1966 while working for the KPFA-FM radio station. His subjects include field and orchard work, farm worker communities and camps, family life, portraits, agribusiness infrastructure, and early unionization by Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the National Farm Workers Association/United Farm Workers. Lowe...
Dates:
1958 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1958 - 1966
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library