Brenda Starr, Reporter debuted on June 30, 1940 in the Chicago Tribune. The strip became a daily feature in October 1945. Brenda Starr was created by Dale Messick, one of the few female cartoonists of her time. Ms. Messick continued...
The materials in the Corrick Brown Santa Rosa Symphony Collection were collected by the former symphony conductor, Corrick Brown and his wife Norma Reddert Brown, pianist and musicologist. Included are programs from 1937-2004, newspaper and magazine clippings, programs from events...
The collection is comprised of 42 volumes and 8 microfilm reels of material documenting various aspects of North Bay history, with a focus on beliefs, customs & folkways; place names & folk speech; historical characters, outlaws, miners, and lumbermen; legends,...
Compilation of meeting minutes, news items, correspondence, newsletters, and documents created or collected by Californians Organized to Acquire Access to State Tidelands (C.O.A.A.S.T.) from 1968-1972. Materials cover California coastal access, coastal development, and legislation.
The John P. Crevelli Papers, dating primarily from 1965 through 2015, include correspondence, government documents, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, fliers, and ephemera on various county, state, and national environmental issues.
Photographs of lime kiln ruins in northern and central California, documenting a critical 19th century industry producing lime for the construction of cities in the area. The collection includes 16 photographs (16 X 20 in.) and text documents by the...
Concerned that the history of the migration of 350,000 "Okies" to California would be lost, Gerald Haslam, Professor of English, established the Okie Studies Project. Included are examples of the work of Charles L. Todd, a librarian in the U.S....
This collection is comprised of original chapbooks from England published in the nineteenth century. These chapbooks include song books, lesson books, fortune telling guides, natural histories, histories, and other ephemera. The term “chapbook” was first used in 1824, according to...
The Finley-McFarling Genealogy Collection contains over 700 citations to documents involving early Finley families in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and California along with a number of collateral lines. These documents, all in transcribed form and many with...
A collection of letters exchanged between Max C. Goodman, a Philadelphia pharmacist, and Charmian London written between 1932 and 1935.
The Roland Hauck Papers, dating from 1963 through 1982, include correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, ephemera and photographs on various county, state, and national environmental issues, including creeks and other waterways, fish and wildlife, the Sonoma Valley and the...
Denne Petitclerc met Ernest Hemingway while Peticlerc was working as a reporter for a Miami, Florida newspaper. Four personal letters from Hemingway were donated to the Ruben Salazar Library in 1969 by Petitclerc. They are from a correspondence Petitclerc held...
These vintage photographs of the extensive earthquake and fire damage to downtown Santa Rosa once belonged to Henry’s daughter, Frances H. Gove (d.1993 in Monterey, California). The envelope and its contents were found in a Monterey bookshop by a dealer...
This collection is comprised primarily of reproductive copies of correspondence, memorandums, field notes, catalogues, and annotations of Dr. John Wiz Napier Hudson, Ethnology Researcher. The original documents for much of this collection are found in the Grace Hudson Museum in...
The Library and the Extended Education Program at Sonoma State University were awarded a grant in 1983 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an Indochinese Cultures Project focusing on the diverse peoples and cultures of Cambodia, Laos, and...
Leopold Justi (1864-1946), a longtime resident of Glen Ellen, was a farmer, a winemaker, a justice of the peace and an insurance agent. He achieved recognition in each of his endeavors. As a farmer and winemaker, he helped develop a...
The Kortum papers, dating from 1954 to 2014, include correspondence, documents, maps, clippings, photographs, and ephemera on national and local environmental and political topics.
The collection houses the research material of newspaper columnist Gaye LeBaron relating to the North Bay region of California. Files hold support materials for more than 8,200 newspaper columns written for The Press Democrat newspaper in Santa Rosa, California. Included...
The John LeBaron Photograph Collection, dating from 1950 through 2014, includes photographic negatives and prints from his work as a documentary photographer, recording regional and national history with his keen eye and artistic perspective.
Dr. Hector Lee (1908-1992) came from Chico State University to SSU at its inception. He was a nationally known authority on western folklore and a true teller of tall tales. The Lee papers document Dr. Lee’s involvement with the folklore...
The story of this collection begins with its creator, Carl J. Bernatovech, who was born in Buffalo, New York on September 8, 1943. Shortly after returning from the Vietnam War, Mr. Bernatovech read The Call of the Wild. He became...
The life of American writer Jack London (1876-1916) spanned a lively and complicated historical era and he was able to capture the period in his many works of fiction and nonfiction. This collection, donated by Palmer Andrews in 2014, focuses...
The Paul Lorch Collection consists of three boxes of materials that include writings by Lorch and others that document the AIDS epidemic, Harvey Milk and other topics related to the Gay Rights Movement and San Francisco’s gay community in general.
Considered one of the founding fathers of Sonoma State University, George E. McCabe was chair of the Education and Psychology Division. His commitments extended to national and state commissions, civil rights activism, and politics. The collection is comprised of papers...
The Modini Ranch Journals collection showcases journals and ledgers handwritten by James (Jim) Lawrence and Shirley Nye Modini, gifted to Sonoma State University Library by Audubon Canyon Ranch in 2013. Jim and Shirley Modini were Sonoma County natives who lived...
The Nakata and Stevens papers date from 1938. The key item within the collection is an original manuscript titled “A Hero to His Valet” by Yoshimatsu Nakata, transcribed by Barry Fox Stevens. From 1907 to 1915, Jack London and his...
Forty-six oral history cassette tapes (converted to CD) and miscellaneous items donated by the interviewees — including photos, slides and a narrative report from the camp director of the Granada Relocation Camp in Amache, Colorado, a Japanese-American internment camp during...
The images in the North Bay Historic Preservation Digital Collection constitute an important chronicle of local buildings and represent a significant piece of the region's social, cultural, and anthropological history dating from the mid-1800s. The majority of photographs were taken...
Formerly the Sonoma Marin Farmer, the newspaper North Coast Farmer was published from July 1988 to January 1991, covering news of agricultural interest in Sonoma and Marin counties. First associated with the Sonoma Marin Farm Bureau, it was then published...
Walt Phillips, a former newspaper journalist, photographer, and columnist has created hundreds of poems and drawings since 1959. His work has appeared in many publications, including The Massachusetts Review; Prairie Schooner; Yellow Brick Road; Pearl; Wormwood Review; and Chiron Review....
The Empire Living Collection contains feature articles written under various titles (Howdy Neighbor, Redwood Empire Magazine, Empire Farms Magazine, Empire Living and the Medley Magazine) between 1948 and 1977 that cover a wide range of topics, but with an emphasis...
The original Regional Collection of the Library collected and preserved newspapers over the years since Sonoma State College was founded. These newspapers eventually became an archival collection of historical newspapers covering many areas of Sonoma County, including the Petaluma Argus...
The Rhinehart papers, dating from the late 1960s through 2007, include correspondence, government documents, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, fliers and ephemera. All relate to such varied local environmental issues as estuarine sanctuaries, the Bodega Bay power plant, coastal...
In 1979 the new library at Sonoma State University was named after Mexican-American journalist Rubén Salazar. Clippings of articles written by him during the 1950s and ‘60s for the local newspaper, The Press Democrat, were compiled and became the root...
The John Schubert Russian River Collection contains photographs, maps, postcards, scrapbooks, business records, family histories, and ephemera relating to the history and development of Sonoma County's Russian River area resorts, social and civic organizations, festivals, cemeteries, railroads, bridges, schools, mining...
Compilation of meeting agendas, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings brochures, flyers, reports and other materials that document local, state and national environmental issues.
The collection is comprised of approximately 120 photographs depicting members of the Simmons family of Sonoma and Riverside counties and the Banta family of Riverside County, California. The photographs were first donated to the San Diego Genealogical Society by the...
The Smith papers, dating from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, include correspondence, government documents, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, fliers and ephemera. All relate to such local environmental issues as nuclear power plant construction and coastal access.
The collection, covering the years 1906 – 1915 and 1949, consists of pamphlets and ephemera focusing on agriculture production in Sonoma County, as well as land use and development, and county tourism. The greatest depth of information is on the...
These right-of-way appraisal files were developed by the California Highway Commission (CalTrans) to document the right-of-way access needed to build Highway 101 through Sonoma County. Also included are some files for Highways 12, 116 and 1. Dates range from 1940s...
Twelve oral history transcripts documenting the daily lives of early Sonoma County families. The interviews took place between 1975 and 1978 as part of the Oral History Program, California State College, Sonoma, under the guidance of Professor Ed Morse.
The Sonoma County Women’s Oral History Collection, dating from 1970-2008, contains interviews on CD or cassette tape, typed transcripts, annual reports, magazines, exhibition materials, and ephemera relating to the history and development of the women’s movement in Sonoma County. The...
The Student Dissent papers are a collection of materials from the library’s former pamphlet file documenting student dissent throughout the United States during the 1960s and early 1970s. The papers include original writings, reprinted journal articles, pamphlets, and bibliographies on...
Roy Maxwell Talbot (1880-1963) began his career in the Chinese Maritime Customs in 1908. He served as Commissioner of Customs from 1935 until 1938, when he became Audit Secretary in the Inspectorate General's Office. He was in that position until...
Taylor, an original forty-niner, had business interests in the Santa Rosa, California area. He established a popular resort, White Sulfur Springs, and owned valuable land in downtown Santa Rosa. He built the most substantial business block at that time, known...
Collection items include Tombs’ diary dated 1885 through August 1887, three pieces of correspondence, a bill of sale for a slave (1848) and an insurance advertisement. The total of eight papers in the collection provide a snapshot of the life...
Balancing an integrated program to maintain environmental quality along Coastal California, Iva May Warner has faced nearly insurmountable odds for over a decade. Joining two former Feinstone Award (the Sol Feinstone Environmental Award, given by State University of New York)...
Research materials of the 1979 Windsor Junior High School project to gather oral histories of longtime Windsor residents. Includes fifty cassette tapes, most of which are transcribed.
Lynn Woolsey, a progressive Democrat, served as representative to the United States Congress for California's 6th congressional district. The collection is comprised of legislative research, introduced and passed bills, speeches, manuscripts, awards, and visual media documenting her years of service...