Collections
The University Library contains a wide range of diverse and unique collections that can be explored below. Some archival collections may be in the process of being arranged and may take longer to access.
Featured Collections
125 narratives revealing a layered understanding of the Chicana/o movement in Northern California, specifically Sacramento.
Chronicles the Japanese American experience of immigration and settlement to the United States, WWII Internment, redress, and reparations. Includes JAAC finding aid, digital collection, monographs, serials, oral histories, audiovisual materials, and more.
Manuscripts, personal papers, and organizational records document regional and national politics, as well as the literary, community, and cultural life in the Sacramento Region.
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125 narratives revealing a layered understanding of the Chicana/o movement in Northern California, specifically Sacramento.
Website that digitally unites collections of 15 system-wide CSU archives related to the WWII incarceration of people of Japanese descent. Sacramento State has contributed over 2,500 scans including correspondence, government documents, newsletters, and ephemera such as luggage tags, menus, block manager meeting minutes and work assignment slips.
A photograph and artifact collection documenting some of the activities of the Frank Fat Family which reveals an important story of immigration, family, hard work, and success of a Chinese-American family in Sacramento.
Collection contains records pertaining to the "STOP E.R.A." Committee, the "Eagle Forum", "Phyllis Schlafy Report," and other materials related to the Women's rights movement.
Chronicles the Japanese American experience of immigration and settlement to the United States, WWII Internment, redress, and reparations. Includes JAAC finding aid, digital collection, monographs, serials, oral histories, audiovisual materials, and more.
Biographical material, newspaper clippings, exhibition material, publications, scrapbooks, photgraphs, and slides pertaining to Irving Marcus, artist and chairman of the Art Department at Sacramento State during 1966-1969.
The Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection presents the ceramics, scrolls, and tea utensils collected and used by Sokiku Nakatani in her studies and as a teacher of Chado (the Way of Tea).