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Guide to the Harrison Family Home Movie Collection
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Table of contents What's This?
  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Access Restrictions
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Processing Information
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Arrangement
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Harrison Family Home Movie collection
    Bulk Dates: circa 1960 - 1967
    Collection number: MS 177
    Creator: Harrison, W.H.
    Collection Size: .5 linear feet (1 box)
    Repository: African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
    Oakland, CA 94612
    Abstract: The Harrison Family Home Movie Collection includes five 8mm color home movies recorded by the Harrison family of Richmond, California documenting the family’s barbeque business, Harrison’s Bar-B-Que, and daily life for African Americans in Richmond, California during the 1960s. The home movies total 107 minutes and include footage of a road trip the family made through Denver, Colorado on their way to visit family in rural Texas near Ballinger, Texas and Amarillo, Texas. Footage also includes farm workers picking and processing grapes mostly likely in the Napa Valley and scenes from the California State Fair.
    Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English

    Access

    Access to original film reels restricted. Digital files open to the public.

    Access Restrictions

    Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.

    Publication Rights

    Permission to publish from the Harrison Family Home Movie Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.

    Preferred Citation

    Harrison Family Home Movie collection, MS 177, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.

    Acquisition Information

    Harrison Family Home Movie Collection was donated by Steve Polta to the African American Museum & Library at Oakland in 2012.

    Processing Information

    Processed by Sean Heyliger December 4, 2014.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The Harrison Family Home Movie Collection includes five 8mm color home movies recorded by the Harrison family of Richmond, California documenting the family’s barbeque business, Harrison’s Bar-B-Que, and daily life for African Americans in Richmond, California during the 1960s. The home movies total 107 minutes and include footage of a road trip the family made through Denver, Colorado on their way to visit family in rural Texas near Ballinger, Texas and Amarillo, Texas. Footage also includes farm workers picking and processing grapes mostly likely in the Napa Valley and scenes from the California State Fair.

    Arrangement

    Series I. Home movies

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
    African American families--California.
    Agricultural laborers--California--History.
    Agricultural laborers--California--Napa Valley.
    California State Fair and Exposition--Pictorial works.
    Ocean Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.
    Richmond (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
    Amateur films.