Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Dan Flynn Sacramento guidebook research files
- Dates:
- 1987-2001
- Creators:
- Flynn, Dan
- Abstract:
- This collection is made up of subject files and photographs compiled by Dan Flynn while researching for his Sacramento guidebook Inside Guide to Sacramento: The Hidden Gold of California’s Capital. Material includes ephemera, magazines, brochures, newspaper clippings, restaurant menus, pamphlets, and photographs of local area businesses and points of historic interest. The book itself provides an overview of Sacramento’s neighborhoods, restaurants, bars, cafes, nightlife, cultural institutions, events, and accommodations. It also touches on the towns surrounding Sacramento.
- Extent:
- 3 linear feet (3 boxes)
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Dan Flynn Sacramento guidebook research files, MS0091, Center for Sacramento History.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection is made up of subject files and photographs compiled by Dan Flynn while researching for his Sacramento guidebook Inside Guide to Sacramento: The Hidden Gold of California’s Capital. Material includes ephemera, magazines, brochures, newspaper clippings, restaurant menus, pamphlets, and photographic prints and slides of local area businesses and points of historic interest. The collection is separated into two series based on format: printed material and photographs.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dan Flynn, author of Inside Guide to Sacramento: The Hidden Gold of California’s Capital, was born in 1961 in Oxnard, California. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s degree in political science from Rutgers University. Flynn moved to Sacramento in 1986 and worked for the California state legislature until 2005, when he began working as the director of the Olive Center at University of California, Davis.
Flynn came up with the idea to create a Sacramento guidebook when he saw there were few in existence. He began his research for the book in 1992 and self-published it in 1994. He continued his research and re-published the book two more times, in 2000 and 2002.
The book itself provides trivia and an overview of Sacramento’s neighborhoods, restaurants, bars, cafes, nightlife, cultural institutions, events, and accommodations. It also touches on the towns surrounding Sacramento, and lays out tours in specific neighborhoods and the greater Sacramento area.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by Dan Flynn in 2010 (accession number 2010/002).
- Processing information:
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Processing and finding aid by Brittani Orona, 2011. Finding aid edited by Kim Hayden, 2020.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged into 2 series:
- Series 1. Printed material, 1987-2000
- Series 2. Photographs and audiovisual, 1992-2001
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2020
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid created by Kim Hayden. Date of source: June 22, 2020.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research use.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Dan Flynn Sacramento guidebook research files, MS0091, Center for Sacramento History.
- Location of this collection:
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551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd.Sacramento, CA 95811, US
- Contact:
- (916) 808-7072