Re/Collecting Project Archive, circa 1919 - 2002, 2012 - 2014
Online content
Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Grace Yeh
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 1 LF, 1 document box, 493 GB
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Re/Collecting Project Archive. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, Special Collections and Archives
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains digital oral history interviews (circa 2012-2014) conducted with members of under-documented Central Coast communities, as well as digitized photograph, documents, objects, and other materials that the interviewees and others contributed to the project (while retaining the original items). Transcripts, field notes, and indexes exist for many of the oral histories. The collection also includes one folder of physical documents and a box of original mini-DV tapes (from which many of the digital video files associated with the oral histories originated).
- Biographical / historical:
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By the 1920s, the Central Coast, located halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, emerged as a vibrant growing region after the establishment of the rail effectively brought it out of geographic and economic isolation. It became a part of the migrant labor trail, and towns like Pismo Beach, Lompoc, Guadalupe, and Santa Maria were economic—and social—hubs for agricultural workers who came from places like China, Mexico, Japan, Hawaii, and the Philippines. Even before this, the area was home to Chumash and Salinan Indians, who were displaced by Spanish conquerors. And like many places in the United States during the nineteenth century, the Central Coast saw the influx of European immigrants.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open to researchers by appointment. For more information on visiting, access policies, and reproduction requests, please visit our Reference Services page online at http://lib.calpoly.edu/search-and-find/collections-and-archives/reference-services/.
- Preferred citation:
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Re/Collecting Project Archive. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, Special Collections and Archives
- Location of this collection:
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Robert E. Kennedy Library, Rm 409San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, US
- Contact:
- (805) 756-2305