#californiahistory — Public Fediverse posts

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’. “Seventy years ago, residents of Monticello gathered to mark their last Memorial Day in their small, agricultural town. The spring gathering was always a chance for families and old friends to gather in community. By the time rains came the following year, 1957, Monticello was gone.”

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’. “Seventy years ago, residents of Monticello gathered to mark their last Memorial Day in their small, agricultural town. The spring gathering was always a chance for families and old friends to gather in community. By the time rains came the following year, 1957, Monticello was gone.”

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’. “Seventy years ago, residents of Monticello gathered to mark their last Memorial Day in their small, agricultural town. The spring gathering was always a chance for families and old friends to gather in community. By the time rains came the following year, 1957, Monticello was gone.”

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’. “Seventy years ago, residents of Monticello gathered to mark their last Memorial Day in their small, agricultural town. The spring gathering was always a chance for families and old friends to gather in community. By the time rains came the following year, 1957, Monticello was gone.”

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’. “Seventy years ago, residents of Monticello gathered to mark their last Memorial Day in their small, agricultural town. The spring gathering was always a chance for families and old friends to gather in community. By the time rains came the following year, 1957, Monticello was gone.”

Lunch with the missus. The Paso Robles Inn looking grand today under these California clouds.

#PasoRobles #CentralCoast #CaliforniaHistory #TravelPhotography #PasoRoblesInn #Architecture #WineCountry #AltText

Lunch with the missus. The Paso Robles Inn looking grand today under these California clouds.

#PasoRobles #CentralCoast #CaliforniaHistory #TravelPhotography #PasoRoblesInn #Architecture #WineCountry #AltText

Lunch with the missus. The Paso Robles Inn looking grand today under these California clouds.

#PasoRobles #CentralCoast #CaliforniaHistory #TravelPhotography #PasoRoblesInn #Architecture #WineCountry #AltText

The Santa Barbara News-Press: A California newspaper, back from the dead
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-12-17/essential-california-santa-barbara-news-press-comeback?mc_cid=db524e6b99&mc_eid=6b7c404259
#SantaBarbara #Journalism #Newspapers #CaliforniaHistory

"Born in a San Jose hospital, Harlan was just a week old when his family brought him back to the ranch – first to King City by vehicle, then five miles west in a wagon horse taxi. He rested in a space popular as an overnight stay among Indigenous people and homesteaders: Indian Cave. Next morning, baby Stanley was attached to a saddle and proceeded the final 12 miles on a mule over a narrow horse trail.” https://www.montereycountynow.com/entertainment/literature/at-98-stanley-vernon-harlan-is-a-trove-of-ways-of-life-past-presented-as/article_c66af8d6-bdb4-45b0-8dd0-bdfc89f87bdd.html

#BigSur #MontereyCounty #CaliforniaHistory

UC San Francisco: Stories of Care, Community, and UCSF History Now Digitized and Online. “These digital collections reflect rich histories that inform contemporary medical practices and the health sciences. They also provide a deeper understanding of the people who built UCSF and the communities it serves, as well as the artistry and activism embedded in care, and the lived experiences captured […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/uc-san-francisco-stories-of-care-community-and-ucsf-history-now-digitized-and-online/

UC San Francisco: Voices of Mount Zion Hospital: Physician Oral Histories Digitized and Online. “A trove of 54 oral-history audio recordings from Mount Zion Hospital, now part of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mount Zion, conducted between 1995 and 1997, is now available online.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/08/voices-of-mount-zion-hospital-physician-oral-histories-digitized-and-online-uc-san-francisco/

University of California San Francisco: UCSF Print News Preserved and Digitized Through California Revealed . “Thanks to generous support from California Revealed, a state-wide initiative to digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials documenting California’s history, art, and culture, UCSF Archives and Special Collections now offers expanded digital access to more than 4,600 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-print-news-preserved-and-digitized-through-california-revealed/

University of California San Francisco: UCSF Print News Preserved and Digitized Through California Revealed . “Thanks to generous support from California Revealed, a state-wide initiative to digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials documenting California’s history, art, and culture, UCSF Archives and Special Collections now offers expanded digital access to more than 4,600 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-print-news-preserved-and-digitized-through-california-revealed/

University of California San Francisco: UCSF Print News Preserved and Digitized Through California Revealed . “Thanks to generous support from California Revealed, a state-wide initiative to digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials documenting California’s history, art, and culture, UCSF Archives and Special Collections now offers expanded digital access to more than 4,600 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-print-news-preserved-and-digitized-through-california-revealed/

University of California San Francisco: UCSF Print News Preserved and Digitized Through California Revealed . “Thanks to generous support from California Revealed, a state-wide initiative to digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials documenting California’s history, art, and culture, UCSF Archives and Special Collections now offers expanded digital access to more than 4,600 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-print-news-preserved-and-digitized-through-california-revealed/

New-to-Me, from Editor & Publisher: Mapping Black California turns data into stories of equity and resilience. “The team frequently utilizes ArcGIS, an advanced software application used to create interactive maps, to visualize concerns related to racial inequity. With the world literally at their fingertips, they’ve explored how cities spend their money on policing, where money goes in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/11/editor-publisher-mapping-black-california-turns-data-into-stories-of-equity-and-resilience/

New-to-Me, from Editor & Publisher: Mapping Black California turns data into stories of equity and resilience. “The team frequently utilizes ArcGIS, an advanced software application used to create interactive maps, to visualize concerns related to racial inequity. With the world literally at their fingertips, they’ve explored how cities spend their money on policing, where money goes in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/11/editor-publisher-mapping-black-california-turns-data-into-stories-of-equity-and-resilience/

New-to-Me, from Editor & Publisher: Mapping Black California turns data into stories of equity and resilience. “The team frequently utilizes ArcGIS, an advanced software application used to create interactive maps, to visualize concerns related to racial inequity. With the world literally at their fingertips, they’ve explored how cities spend their money on policing, where money goes in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/11/editor-publisher-mapping-black-california-turns-data-into-stories-of-equity-and-resilience/

JOHN THOMAS WALTON
1937 – 2025

"In a world moving at ever-increasing speed where some people’s grip on reality seems to be loosening, it’s useful to take a step back and slow down sometimes, to take a few moments and reflect on how #history gets made—it’s not just what happened, it’s what people say happened, and they are not always the same.” - David Schmalz
https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinion_blog/a-tribute-to-john-walton-a-historian-who-perfectly-illustrated-how-narratives-weave-through-time/article_37ccd5ad-5e5d-43aa-a0fd-e54fbb721922.html

"The narratives about the era of California missions and Monterey’s Cannery Row and the writings of John Steinbeck and Robinson Jeffers propelled him to write “Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey” (2001). In this book he examined the historical formation and reformation of community in Monterey over a period of 230 years.”
https://www.easternsierranow.com/in-memoriam-john-thomas-walton/

#MontereyCountyNow #CaliforniaHistory #UShistory #JohnThomasWalton

Fortune cookies: An American invention with a Japanese twist https://www.byteseu.com/1375865/ #AmericanCuisine #CaliforniaHistory #ChineseRestaurants #CulturalFusion #FoodHistory #FortuneCookies #Japan #JapaneseFood #JapaneseImmigrants #MassProducedDesserts #TsujiuraSenbei

Now online: the 1978 A History of Berkeley exhibition catalog—digitized for the California Local Government Documents Collection. From Indigenous roots to the Free Speech Movement, it’s a rich record of the city’s past.

Read it at the @internetarchive here: https://archive.org/details/C124894123

Learn more at https://igs.berkeley.edu/news/history-berkeley

#CaliforniaHistory #Berkeley #DigitalPreservation

In North America, the oldest reliably identified human remains are 13,000 years old. They were found on one of California's Channel Islands. Humans had settlements on the islands that date back thousands of years. After Spanish colonization, many were removed by force and were made to work as virtual slaves in the mission system.
#channelislands
#californiahistory
#indigenouspeoples
#Chumash
https://secretlosangeles.com/channel-islands-california-oldest-human-remains-north-america/

New-to-me, from KQED: He’s Saving 20,000 Tapes of Underground Music and Making it Free to All. “On any given day, this is where you’ll find [Shayne] Stacy, the founder of the nonprofit Sacramento Music Archive. Just a half-hour’s drive from Sutter’s Mill and its famous California discovery, Stacy tends methodically to his own goldmine: a mass of underground music from Sacramento, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/kqed-hes-saving-20000-tapes-of-underground-music-and-making-it-free-to-all/

New-to-me, from KQED: He’s Saving 20,000 Tapes of Underground Music and Making it Free to All. “On any given day, this is where you’ll find [Shayne] Stacy, the founder of the nonprofit Sacramento Music Archive. Just a half-hour’s drive from Sutter’s Mill and its famous California discovery, Stacy tends methodically to his own goldmine: a mass of underground music from Sacramento, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/kqed-hes-saving-20000-tapes-of-underground-music-and-making-it-free-to-all/

New-to-me, from KQED: He’s Saving 20,000 Tapes of Underground Music and Making it Free to All. “On any given day, this is where you’ll find [Shayne] Stacy, the founder of the nonprofit Sacramento Music Archive. Just a half-hour’s drive from Sutter’s Mill and its famous California discovery, Stacy tends methodically to his own goldmine: a mass of underground music from Sacramento, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/kqed-hes-saving-20000-tapes-of-underground-music-and-making-it-free-to-all/

UC Santa Cruz: Announcement: New Online Archive of California. “Many researchers use the Online Archive of California (OAC) to access descriptive information about archival collections across the state, including at UCSC. We are excited to announce that the California Digital Library recently upgraded this site, which they have completely rebuilt adapting community-supported open source […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/announcement-new-online-archive-of-california-uc-santa-cruz/

UC Santa Cruz: Announcement: New Online Archive of California. “Many researchers use the Online Archive of California (OAC) to access descriptive information about archival collections across the state, including at UCSC. We are excited to announce that the California Digital Library recently upgraded this site, which they have completely rebuilt adapting community-supported open source […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/announcement-new-online-archive-of-california-uc-santa-cruz/

Coachella Valley Independent: Losing Our History? Funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway. “Despite all of this good news, however, the future of the California Digital Newspaper Collection (cdnc.ucr.edu) remains unclear—and Geiger is now unemployed, along with the rest of his […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/27/coachella-valley-independent-losing-our-history-funding-for-the-california-digital-newspaper-collection-was-restored-but-uc-riverside-laid-off-all-of-the-employees-responsible-for-the-projec/

Coachella Valley Independent: Losing Our History? Funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway. “Despite all of this good news, however, the future of the California Digital Newspaper Collection (cdnc.ucr.edu) remains unclear—and Geiger is now unemployed, along with the rest of his […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/27/coachella-valley-independent-losing-our-history-funding-for-the-california-digital-newspaper-collection-was-restored-but-uc-riverside-laid-off-all-of-the-employees-responsible-for-the-projec/

Los Angeles Sentinel: Rare Recordings of L.A. Choirs to Be Part of Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive. “‘The Saviour Home Record Library,’ an anthology of Los Angeles gospel choirs in the 1960s, is being made available online by the Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center at Baylor University. Compiled by B-movie filmmaker Jim “Buddy” Ball, the 40-album set features tracks that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/los-angeles-sentinel-rare-recordings-of-l-a-choirs-to-be-part-of-baylor-universitys-black-gospel-archive/

Los Angeles Sentinel: Rare Recordings of L.A. Choirs to Be Part of Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive. “‘The Saviour Home Record Library,’ an anthology of Los Angeles gospel choirs in the 1960s, is being made available online by the Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center at Baylor University. Compiled by B-movie filmmaker Jim “Buddy” Ball, the 40-album set features tracks that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/los-angeles-sentinel-rare-recordings-of-l-a-choirs-to-be-part-of-baylor-universitys-black-gospel-archive/

Los Angeles Sentinel: Rare Recordings of L.A. Choirs to Be Part of Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive. “‘The Saviour Home Record Library,’ an anthology of Los Angeles gospel choirs in the 1960s, is being made available online by the Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center at Baylor University. Compiled by B-movie filmmaker Jim “Buddy” Ball, the 40-album set features tracks that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/los-angeles-sentinel-rare-recordings-of-l-a-choirs-to-be-part-of-baylor-universitys-black-gospel-archive/

Los Angeles Sentinel: Rare Recordings of L.A. Choirs to Be Part of Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive. “‘The Saviour Home Record Library,’ an anthology of Los Angeles gospel choirs in the 1960s, is being made available online by the Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center at Baylor University. Compiled by B-movie filmmaker Jim “Buddy” Ball, the 40-album set features tracks that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/los-angeles-sentinel-rare-recordings-of-l-a-choirs-to-be-part-of-baylor-universitys-black-gospel-archive/

Los Angeles Sentinel: Rare Recordings of L.A. Choirs to Be Part of Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive. “‘The Saviour Home Record Library,’ an anthology of Los Angeles gospel choirs in the 1960s, is being made available online by the Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center at Baylor University. Compiled by B-movie filmmaker Jim “Buddy” Ball, the 40-album set features tracks that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/los-angeles-sentinel-rare-recordings-of-l-a-choirs-to-be-part-of-baylor-universitys-black-gospel-archive/

Internet Archive: Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities . “In 2023, the Community Webs program was awarded a grant from the National Historical Publication and Records Commission for the ‘Collaborative Access to Diverse Public Library Local History Collections’ project. This grant supported the digitization of local history collections […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/internet-archive-community-webs-digitization-grant-reveals-stories-of-san-franciscos-immigrant-communities/

Internet Archive: Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities . “In 2023, the Community Webs program was awarded a grant from the National Historical Publication and Records Commission for the ‘Collaborative Access to Diverse Public Library Local History Collections’ project. This grant supported the digitization of local history collections […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/internet-archive-community-webs-digitization-grant-reveals-stories-of-san-franciscos-immigrant-communities/

Internet Archive: Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities . “In 2023, the Community Webs program was awarded a grant from the National Historical Publication and Records Commission for the ‘Collaborative Access to Diverse Public Library Local History Collections’ project. This grant supported the digitization of local history collections […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/internet-archive-community-webs-digitization-grant-reveals-stories-of-san-franciscos-immigrant-communities/

Internet Archive: Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities . “In 2023, the Community Webs program was awarded a grant from the National Historical Publication and Records Commission for the ‘Collaborative Access to Diverse Public Library Local History Collections’ project. This grant supported the digitization of local history collections […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/internet-archive-community-webs-digitization-grant-reveals-stories-of-san-franciscos-immigrant-communities/

THE BRACERO LEGACY MURAL unveiling celebration starts at 4:30pm Friday, April 18 at Chualar Market, 24335 Grant St., Chualar.

https://www.montereycountynow.com/people/831/a-stunning-new-mural-in-chualar-captures-the-beautiful-painful-legacy-of-bracero-farmworkers/article_852de880-4752-4d26-8f39-2db573f71337.html Report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

BTW, to our knowledge (haven’t checked for updated census info), Chualar has the highest percentage of Hispanic or Latino population and the lowest median household income in Monterey County. See Monterey County Weekly’s chart in https://bikemonterey.org/resources/en-espanol.

#Braceros #FarmworkerHistory #FieldworkerHistory #Immigrants #Agriculture #CaliforniaHistory #MontereyCountyHistory #WeFeedYou #SalinasValley #SaladBowlOfAmerica #HanifPanni #Artist #Mural

THE BRACERO LEGACY MURAL unveiling celebration starts at 4:30pm Friday, April 18 at Chualar Market, 24335 Grant St., Chualar.

https://www.montereycountynow.com/people/831/a-stunning-new-mural-in-chualar-captures-the-beautiful-painful-legacy-of-bracero-farmworkers/article_852de880-4752-4d26-8f39-2db573f71337.html Report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

BTW, to our knowledge (haven’t checked for updated census info), Chualar has the highest percentage of Hispanic or Latino population and the lowest median household income in Monterey County. See Monterey County Weekly’s chart in https://bikemonterey.org/resources/en-espanol.

#Braceros #FarmworkerHistory #FieldworkerHistory #Immigrants #Agriculture #CaliforniaHistory #MontereyCountyHistory #WeFeedYou #SalinasValley #SaladBowlOfAmerica #HanifPanni #Artist #Mural

THE BRACERO LEGACY MURAL unveiling celebration starts at 4:30pm Friday, April 18 at Chualar Market, 24335 Grant St., Chualar.

https://www.montereycountynow.com/people/831/a-stunning-new-mural-in-chualar-captures-the-beautiful-painful-legacy-of-bracero-farmworkers/article_852de880-4752-4d26-8f39-2db573f71337.html Report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

BTW, to our knowledge (haven’t checked for updated census info), Chualar has the highest percentage of Hispanic or Latino population and the lowest median household income in Monterey County. See Monterey County Weekly’s chart in https://bikemonterey.org/resources/en-espanol.

#Braceros #FarmworkerHistory #FieldworkerHistory #Immigrants #Agriculture #CaliforniaHistory #MontereyCountyHistory #WeFeedYou #SalinasValley #SaladBowlOfAmerica #HanifPanni #Artist #Mural

THE BRACERO LEGACY MURAL unveiling celebration starts at 4:30pm Friday, April 18 at Chualar Market, 24335 Grant St., Chualar.

https://www.montereycountynow.com/people/831/a-stunning-new-mural-in-chualar-captures-the-beautiful-painful-legacy-of-bracero-farmworkers/article_852de880-4752-4d26-8f39-2db573f71337.html Report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

BTW, to our knowledge (haven’t checked for updated census info), Chualar has the highest percentage of Hispanic or Latino population and the lowest median household income in Monterey County. See Monterey County Weekly’s chart in https://bikemonterey.org/resources/en-espanol.

#Braceros #FarmworkerHistory #FieldworkerHistory #Immigrants #Agriculture #CaliforniaHistory #MontereyCountyHistory #WeFeedYou #SalinasValley #SaladBowlOfAmerica #HanifPanni #Artist #Mural

Smithsonian: Smithsonian Launches Online Lesson That Investigates Long-Omitted Information on California’s History. “The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s new digital lesson ‘California Native American Survival and Resilience During the Mission Period: A Source Investigation’ provides a more complete understanding of U.S. colonial history by including Native […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/23/smithsonian-smithsonian-launches-online-lesson-that-investigates-long-omitted-information-on-californias-history/

What's behind the names of the streets near my home: Bernal and Sunol? For a few decades, California was part of Mexico. I wrote several stories about the women of the Rancho Era.
https://write.as/footsteps/the-bernal-women-of-the-alta-california-ranchos
https://write.as/footsteps/maria-josefa-daria-sanchez-of-sinaloa-new-spain

For a different view of the connections, try this: https://kumu.io/654tnelson/bernal-family#bernal/ranchos

#CaliforniaHistory #MexicanRanchoEra #Bernal #Sunol #EastBay #History