Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Harrison, W.H.
- 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.
- Extent:
- .5 linear feet (1 box)
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
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Harrison Family Home Movie collection, MS 177, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Harrison Family Home Movie Collection was donated by Steve Polta to the African American Museum Library at Oakland in 2012.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Sean Heyliger December 4, 2014.
- Arrangement:
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Series I. Home movies
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- African American families--California.
Agricultural laborers--California--History.
Agricultural laborers--California--Napa Valley.
California State Fair and Exposition--Pictorial works.
Amateur films. - Places:
- Ocean Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.
Richmond (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Access to original film reels restricted. Digital files open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish from the Harrison Family Home Movie Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
- Preferred citation:
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Harrison Family Home Movie collection, MS 177, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
- Location of this collection:
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659 14th StreetOakland, CA 94612, US
- Contact:
- (510) 637-0198