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Center for Sacramento History
551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd.
Sacramento, California 95811
Phone: (916) 808-7072
Email: csh@cityofsacramento.org
Collections with online items: 19
Physical collections: 133
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Baer (Max) recordings

The Max Bear recordings document Baer's recorded life, including his boxing career, interviews, guest appearances, radio programs, and family.

 
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California Superior Court (Sacramento County) case files for The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente (criminal case #18056)

The collection is made up of exhibits and evidence from Sacramento County Superior Court criminal case #18056, . Puente stood trial for the murders of her boyfriend and eight of her Sacramento boarding house tenants between 1982 and 1988 in...

Comstock Club records

The Comstock Club was organized in 1964 by nine Sacramento civic and community leaders who sought to preserve and strengthen the concepts and fundamentals of our democracy. They believed that this could be achieved by presenting, in a public forum,...

 
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Forman (Edward S.) papers

The collection is 2.5 linear feet in size and contains correspondence, publications, news clippings, black and white photographs, 16mm film, a scrapbook, and artifacts relating to the professional career of engineer Edward S. Forman. Divided into six series, the collection...

 
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Historic Environment Consultants collection

The collection documents Historic Environment Consultants' work on projects needing historic preservation evaluation, including historic districts, preservation districts, areas under development or redevelopment, and individual houses and buildings. Properties include commercial, city, county, state, and federal buildings and properties; industrial...

 
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Issei Oral History Project collection

The collection primarily consists of reel-to-reel and cassette tape recordings of oral history interviews that were conducted almost entirely in Japanese, and English-translated transcriptions of interviews. Not all audio recordings have a transcription, and not all transcriptions have an associated...

 
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KCRA-TV film collection (Part 1 of 3)

The KCRA-TV Film Collection documents the work of Sacramento's NBC television affiliate from 1957 to 1982. The bulk of the collection contains day-to-day news stories, politics, crime, local events, sports, and human interest stories occurring in northern California and the...

KCRA-TV film collection (Part 3 of 3)

The KCRA-TV Film Collection documents the work of Sacramento's NBC television affiliate from 1957 to 1982. The bulk of the collection contains day-to-day news stories, politics, crime, local events, sports, and human interest stories occurring in northern California and the...

 
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National Council of Jewish Women, Sacramento Section records

The National Council of Jewish Women – Sacramento Section was chartered in 1959. The administrative records of the volunteer organization include eight subseries: artifacts, club events, club records, finances, meeting minutes, photographs, publications and reports. The bulk of the material...

 
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Sacramento (Calif.) Assessor records

The collection documents the City of Sacramento Assessor’s Office assessment and recording of property valuations within the city, including real property, personal property, corporate property, and levees. Also includes delinquent tax rolls and tax sale records. Records date from circa...

Sacramento (Calif.) Police Department records

The Sacramento Police Department Collection contains a wide range of material dating from 1860 to 1993, spanning most of the department's history. The majority of the collection is made up of mug books that date from 1860 to 1949 and...

Sacramento County (Calif.) Clerk Recorder records

The County Recorder as provided for by the California State Government Code is responsible for the recording of publicly registered documents. As a division of the Law and Justice Agency, the Recorder is responsible for receiving, verifying, dating, indexing, recording,...

Sacramento County (Calif.) County Court records

The collection documents cases and other activities of the Sacramento County Court from its establishment in 1850 to its abolishment in 1879 when the Superior Court system was created. The largest portion of the collection is made up of case...

Sacramento County (Calif.) Court of Sessions records

The Court of Sessions was created in 1850 by the California State Legislature and disbanded in 1863 when its activities were transferred to the County Court. The court served two functions: transacting general county business and hearing certain criminal cases....

Sacramento County (Calif.) Justice Court records

The collection is made up of Justice Court records from Sacramento County. They cover specific cities and townships, including Sacramento, American, Brighton, Folsom, Franklin, Granite, Natoma (included Folsom and Mormon Island), and San Joaquin. Material is specific to Sacramento unless...

Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society records

The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society (STJS) began on Sunday May 5, 1968, with a group of local jazz musicians gathering at the Orangevale Grange Hall to play for a small group of jazz fans. The musicians included Dr. Bill Borcher,...

Small collections from the Sacramento region

The collection is made up of very small acquisitions that tell the story of a particular period in the life of Sacramento area individuals, families, groups, organizations, and businesses. It also includes short runs of periodicals, Sacramento Gold Rush-era correspondence,...

 
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Valley Broadcast Legends collection

The collection contains video oral histories with VBL members (including transcripts in most cases), plus VBL newsletters, ephemera, photographs, and publications....

 
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Walerga oral histories collection

The collection consists of cassette tape recordings of oral histories, a small number of typed transcripts of the oral histories, administrative records related to the project, and photographs. Digital copies have been made of all of the oral histories, and...