Ephemera Collection

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Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The Ephemera Collection at the Center for Sacramento History is an artificial collection created to organize and make accessible the large number of discrete, historically valuable ephemeral items we receive as one-off or small miscellaneous donations.

Processing information:

Processed by Kim Hayden, Hannah Thompson, Gabriel Suarez, and Xavier Martin.

Arrangement:

The Ephemera Collection is arranged into 29 series:

  • Agriculture
  • Arts and Entertainment
  • Boosterism and Visitor Guides
  • Business
  • Communications
  • Conventions
  • Cultural Events, Organizations, and Sites
  • Development, Redevelopment, and Historic Preservation
  • Education
  • Environmental
  • General Sacramento and Sacramento County History
  • Government, Politics, and Elections
  • Labor
  • Maps
  • Military and Civil Defense
  • Old Sacramento
  • Parks and Other Public Sites
  • People of Sacramento and Sacramento County
  • Periodicals
  • Photographs, general - Sacramento
  • Photographs, general - Sacramento County
  • Postcards - Sacramento
  • Postcards - Sacramento County
  • Religious Events and Organizations
  • Restaurants and Menus
  • Social Events and Organizations
  • Sports and Recreation
  • Transportation
  • Utilities

Most of these series also contain subseries. Arrangement is alphabetical.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

All requests to publish or quote from private manuscripts held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron. No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records.

Location of this collection:
551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95811, US
Contact:
(916) 808-7072
csh@cityofsacramento.org
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