Finding aid of the Sutter County local history photograph collection
Sutter County Library staff
Sutter County Library
© 2006
Main Branch
750 Forbes Avenue
Yuba City, CA 95991
Phone: (530) 822-7137
Email: http://www.co.sutter.ca.us/forms/contact.aspx?contact=library
URL: http://www.co.sutter.ca.us/doc/government/depts/library/library
Sutter County Library
Title: Sutter County local history photograph collection
Dates: ca. 1880-1980
Collection number: Consult library
Collector:
Sutter County Library (Calif.)
Collection Size:
900 items
200 online items
Repository:
Sutter County Library
Yuba City, CA 95991
Abstract:
Sutter County Library's photograph collection includes images of local historical interest including early farming; small
town and country life in California's northern Central Valley; early recreational hunting and fishing; family life in a migrant
camp; levees and floods; historical buildings, main streets, schools, railroads; cultural and ethnic diversity and tradition.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research
Photographic copies are public record available for research. Property rights of photographic copies reside with the Sutter
County Library. Creators of the records and their heirs retain literary rights.
Sutter County local history photograph collection. Sutter County Library, Yuba City, California.
Collection was created by Sutter County Library staff in 1998-99 as part of the California State Library, Shades of California
grant project, Cycle 2, with additional gifts to the library.
Photographs were reproduced from personal photo albums and photographs submitted by county residents participating in the
Shades of California 'photo days' and 1998-99 grant project supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services
under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Additional
local historical photographs were gifts to the library.
Scope and Content of Collection
Sutter County Library's photograph collection includes images of local historical interest including early farming; small
town and country life in California's northern Central Valley; early recreational hunting and fishing; family life in a migrant
camp; levees and floods; historical buildings, main streets, schools, railroads; cultural and ethnic diversity and tradition.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
Yuba City (Calif.)
Sutter County (Calif.)