Description
This intentionally accumulated
collection of scattered issues of newspapers printed in California consists of approximately
100 Orange County titles and approximately 160 titles from other urban, rural, and remote
locations, primarily in Southern California. Significant but chronologically limited
coverage can be found for papers from Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego counties. The
newspapers range from popular weeklies and dailies to more overtly political publications.
Issues documented in these newspapers include the concerns of agricultural, seaport, mining,
and industrial workers; Native Americans; political campaigns; artist communities; and the
military. Coverage of the Antebellum and Civil War periods in American history is
particularly strong in issues of the
Daily Alta California.
Also of interest is the relatively comprehensive coverage of the socialist weeklies
Upton Sinclair's Epic News and
Upton Sinclair's
National Epic News
from the 1930s, in addition to issues of
Utopian News and
Upton Sinclair's End Poverty. The
collection also features scattered, rare issues of Spanish-language weeklies published in
Orange County during the middle of the 20th century, such as
Accion and
Noticias (Fullerton), and
El Anunciador Mexicano,
Latin American,
and
El Nuevo Mundo (Santa Ana). Titles range from those issued
by large publishers to independents. The collection also includes a small number of
German-language publications.
Restrictions
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.