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
98 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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Professional and personal correspondence, published works, projects and community plans, slides, and ephemera pertaining to the lives of landscape architect Warner L. Marsh and his wife, Florence Marsh.
Letter written by Thomas McFee to his aunt, discussing the social and cultural conditions along the river system between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and St. Louis, Missouri during the Gold Rush era.
Papers of Betty L. Melton, a physical education teacher at La Sierra High School in Sacramento. She was instrumental in helping to establish rules and gender equity for California girls' high school athletics through her involvement with the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF).
Shireen Miles was the California State Coordinator for the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1985 to 1989. The bulk of these papers are from her time in that position as she participated in or lead national and state NOW events and activities.
Contains files collected by Alfred Bulf, a member of the Modern Transit Society, Sacramento Chaper, including publications, articles, newspapers, reports, brochures and correspondence.
Congressional records of John E. Moss, the author and sponsor of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Papers of Kikuyo Morimoto Nakatani, a Japanese-born woman who was incarcerated in the Minidoka and Tule Lake War Relocation Centers during WWII. She later studied tea with Madame Sosei Matsumoto, and became a tea master acknowledged by the Urasenke Headquarters in Japan.
Posters pertaining to Native American education, health, and music.
Collection consists of family correspondence, mementos of Julia Norton's transatlantic voyage, and her work in the American Red Cross.