Collection of 19th century and early 20th century magazines with a focus on fine arts, engravings, poetry, and articles on arts and culture. "Picturesque America" features articles on Northern California from 1874-1875....
The Assyrian Oral History collection chronicles the stories of members of an Assyrian enclave in Turlock, California. The majority of stories were recorded in the early 1980s with interviewees recounting family histories extending back to the early part of the...
Collection is comprised of manuscript copy of Brotherton's published book "Annals of Stanislaus County, Volume 1, River towns and ferries," and also includes 3 boxes of sources used....
The California Institute for Peruvian Studies (CIPS) collection is comprised of primary and secondary research, including monographs, journals, artifacts, and primary research. Founded in 1984 by retired California Senior Archaeologist, Francis A. Riddell, CIPS was created in order to carry...
This collection is comprised of oral histories conducted through the CSU Stanislaus Oral History Project. Individual oral history projects within this collection are organized into series....
A conference on Indigenous American education was held in March 1967, at Stanislaus State College. Participants included administrators, teachers from representative schools with a high proportion of Indigenous American students, anthropologists, social scientists, and Indigenous Americans from tribes throughout California....
The Dias Photographic Collection contains more than 30,000 prints, slides, and negatives of photographs taken by professional photographer Manuel Dias. Dias worked for the Modesto Bee and the Stanislaus County Office of Education as an aerial photographer, and maintained his own private photography business...
This collection comprises 38 individual hand-colored proof-plate lithographs by John Gould (1804-1881). The lithographs are from the "Birds of Europe" and "The Birds of Great Britain," published by John Gould, and printed by Taylor and Francis, London. The lithographs from...
George Weber Hume was one of a partnership of three men who innovated salmon canning in the United States. Beginning in 1864, they launched a salmon canning industry that spanned the Pacific coast from California to Alaska. The G. W. Hume Company began as...
A collection of family correspondence (1813-1912) that documents the Hutchings-Newsom family's western migration and aspects of pioneer life. Beginning in Virginia, the letters trace family settlements from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri to California, Oregon, and Washington. A majority of the letters center on Missouri and the Hills Ferry area in Stanislaus County....
Sergeant James W. Gleeson was from Merced, California, and served in the 363rd Infantry during World War I. This collection is comprised of three of his diaries written between 1917-1918. Also in the collection are photos of Gleeson as a...
The U.S. Army Rehabilitation Center located in Turlock, California, was open from 1942-1945 for the purpose of imprisoning and rehabilitating U.S. Army military found to be in violation of military regulations of the time. Carling Malouf was working on his...
This collection is comprised of facsimiles from the Ralph Leroy Milliken Museum in Los Banos. The collection was created in the 1970s to accommodate history students at Stanislaus State. Included is an index and some biographical information. Milliken conducted oral...
This collection of 34 DVDs is comprised of a biography, an interview, and 32 individual video lessons taught by Rabi Petros on the Assyrian language. The Assyrian language is spoken in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, the United States,...
The Assyrian book collection of the Rev. Eshoo Paul Sayad of Turlock, acquired by the CSU Stanislaus library in 1970, includes many rare books about Assyrian religion and culture, from early beginnings in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia to modern times in Northwestern Iran. The collection...
This collection is comprised of miscellaneous graphic materials, including discrete items, series, and record groups. The materials may have limited or unknown provenance, and are not associated with any larger existing collection....
Oral interviews and transcripts beginning in the 1960s of notable local community members, such as Fred McMillan who was born in Stanislaus County in 1876. CSU Stanislaus acts as a repository for the interviews done by the Stanislaus County Oral...
A collection of photographic negatives of Stanislaus County schools and their students, 1854-1970....
The Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection consists of two sets of photographic images and one commemorative scrapbook that depict in various ways the multifaceted history, geography, and culture of one specific region of the northern San Joaquin Valley....
This collection comprises print copies of theses and dissertations written by CSU Stanislaus students in fulfillment of graduate degrees. Volumes in this print collection were written between circa 1970 through 2008. See the "Print Theses and Dissertations Inventory" digital object...
This collection is not noted on previous inventories. It appears that the monograph, the "History of Stanislaus County," was used as a journal or notebook for holding collected articles and handwritten notes. Articles are interspersed between the pages and appear...
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This order led to the forced internment of Japanese Americans, most of whom were United States citizens. ...
This collection is comprised of sources, notes, correspondence, related newspapers, and an original manuscript of Stanley T. Wilson's history of Stanislaus State College, "How Turlock won a college." Wilson was a newspaper editor and publisher who purchased the Turlock Daily...
Gordon H. Winton, Jr. (born in Merced, 1913) represented the 31st District (Merced and Madera Counties) in the California General Assembly (1957-1966). He was an influential legislator during his tenure, sponsored critical legislation, and was instrumental in the decision to locate Stanislaus State College in Turlock. ...
Bernice Wood (1887-1963), known as an innovator of immigrant education in Hughson and Modesto in the years 1920-1940, was a teacher, banker, real estate agent, Turlock Irrigation District (TID) employee, as well as an owner of a small farm. The collection includes letters received...
Collection is comprised of correspondence and materials collected during Gary Zahn's tenure as manager of the San Luis National Wildlife Restoration Complex, from 1980-1999. Materials are organized topically and chronologically, and address the following topics: drain water issues, water contracts,...