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Finding Aids
Finding aids are indexes to special collections located in libraries, historical societies, and museums. Typically a finding aid provides description and biographical information about the collection as well as an inventory of primary source materials in the collection.
Finding aids for Cal Poly Humboldt's collections are linked in the Special Collections List of Collections. Search Keywords there first.
Listed below are finding aids to collections of important sources of information about some aspect of northwestern California that are NOT at the Cal Poly Humboldt Library. These finding aids are all on the Online Archive of California (OAC).
Other sources for finding aids are Archives West and ArchiveGrid, a database of descriptions of archival collections from the vendor OCLC.
California State Archives
- Belotti (Frank P., Assemblymember) Papers, [1957-1972]
- Collier (Randolph, Senator) Papers, 1939-1976 (See also Collier (Randolph) Papers 1945-1955 at Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.))
- Hauser (Dan, Assemblymember) Papers, 1983-1996
- Inventory of the Military Department. Adjutant General. Indian War Papers
- State Land Office Records, 1852-1932
Cal Poly Humboldt University
- See the List of Collections - some of these include online finding aids.
California State University Chico
- Hill (Dorothy J.) Ethnological and Historical Photo Collection. See also the Dorothy Hill webpage at Chico.
Historical Sites Society of Arcata
Huntington Library, San Marino
Redwood National Park
- Black (Peter) Collection, 1930-2005, bulk 1960-1978
- Van de Mark (Dave) photograph collection, 1964-2006, bulk 1964-1978
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
- Conservation Associates Records, ca. 1959-1979
- Department of Anthropology Records, 1901-[ongoing]
- Dolbeer Carson Lumber Company Records, ca. 1884-1941
- Elk River Mill and Lumber Co. Records, [1884-1933]
- Ethnological Documents Collection of the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1875-1958 - HSU Library MF 2641; Finding aid Ref E 77 C352 2002
- Kroeber (A.L.) Papers, 1869-1972 - Cal Poly Humboldt Library MF 2635
- Merriam (C. Hart) Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938 (1441 images online) - Cal Poly Humboldt Library MF 2640
- Merriam (C. Hart) Papers: Volume I: Papers Relating to Work with California Indians, 1850-1974 (bulk 1898-1938) - Cal Poly Humboldt Library MF 2639
- Union Lumber Company Records
University of California, Berkeley, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- California Ethnographic Field Photographs, 1900-1960 (3,305 images online)
- Collection of Manuscripts from the Archaeological Archives of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Kroeber (Alfred L.) Ethnographic Photographs of California Indian and Sonora Indian Subjects, 1901-1930 (626 images online)
University of California, Davis, Special Collections
Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.)
- A search for "Klamath" finds 21 collections.