Scope and Contents The Nisaburo Aibara Collection features materials from the Turlock Social Club, a local Japanese-American community group active between 1939 and 1970. It contains documents regarding the Stockton, Turlock and Merced Assembly Centers and Japanese American Citizens League chapters. The Collection also features correspondences with reactions, responses, and preparations for the 1942 forced removal and internment of Japanese-Americans. Additionally, the Collection has records on the Central...

Scope and Contents Lawrence and Clara Arnold moved with their young son, Paul, from San Francisco to the Fruitland Colony (Atwater, California) in 1909. The Arnolds were farmers, and Lawrence "Pop" Arnold helped build the first school in the Fruitland Colony and the first Methodist church in Atwater. The collection documents the family's pioneer history along with key milestones in their lives up through the 1960s. Significant historical events are documented as well, including the creation of...

Scope and Contents The Assyrian Oral History collection chronicles the stories of members of an Assyrian enclave in Turlock, California. The majority of stories were recorded in the early 1980s with interviewees recounting family histories extending back to the early part of the 20th century. According to Dr. Arianne Ishaya, preliminary research on this project began in the 1970s while she was working on her Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA. From 1981-1982, Dr. Ishaya conducted 108 interviews with members of the...

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Collection comprises various historical maps of California, including Central California and cities outside of Stanislaus County (see Local Cities and County documents and map resource for Stanislaus County and city maps). The California maps range in content, size, purpose, and historical provenance. Types of maps include the following: water resources, land and parcel, mining, topographical, and railroads.

Scope and Contents The Dias Photographic Collection contains more than 30,000 prints, slides, and negatives of photographs taken by professional photographer Manuel Dias. Dias worked for the Modesto Bee and the Stanislaus County Office of Education as an aerial photographer, and maintained his own private photography business in Modesto, California. The aerial photography component includes photographs that depict the agriculture, industry, irrigation, recreation, roadways, schools, and urban areas of the San...

Scope and Contents The Stanislaus County and Cities' historical records comprise a collection of city and county documents representing Stanislaus County and its cities, including Turlock, Modesto, and other cities and areas of the county. Some of the materials were transferred to the Special Collections from county offices and saved from disposition. Other materials were transferred from the McHenry Museum in Modesto. The bulk of the coverage is from the beginning of the county's history in 1854 through...

Scope and Contents A collection of nearly complete runs of local history periodicals. Titles and their sponsoring agencies include the following: CHISPA (Tuolumne County Historical Society), the Gateway (Patterson Township Historical Society), The Mariposa Sentinel (Mariposa County Historical Society), Stanislaus Stepping Stones (McHenry Museum and Historical Society), and the Turlock Pioneer (Turlock Historical Society). These publications contain research articles on historical topics not found...

Content Description This collection is comprised of print newspapers dating back to 1870's, including the very early Stanislaus County newspapers, Tuolumne City News and The Stanislaus County Weekly News, together with the several precursor titles of the modern-day Modesto Bee. The collection also includes an early print-run of the Sacramento Reporter, together with early newspaper-runs representing several Stanislaus County towns and villages, including Ceres, Hughson, and Denair. A full archive of The Turlock...

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Oral interviews and transcripts beginning in the late 1950s of notable local community members, such as Fred McMillan who was born in Stanislaus County in 1876. CSU Stanislaus acts as a repository for the interviews done by the Stanislaus County Oral History Project sponsored by the McHenry Museum and Historical Society. University Archives holds a similar collection of oral interviews of significant CSU Stanislaus faculty, staff, and administrators.

Scope and Contents The Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection consists of two sets of photographic images and one commemorative scrapbook that depict in various ways the multifaceted history, geography, and culture of one specific region of the northern San Joaquin Valley. The images describe two differing but related perspectives on the Stanislaus County region of the Central Valley of California: 1. the early history of the village of Turlock (founded in 1871), illustrated by a collection of...