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April 19, 2013	A Look Back: Humboldt State Through the Years A Look Back: Humboldt State Through the Years features many photos from the Library Special Collections. As plans have been developing for the Centennial, the Humboldt Room staff - Joan Berman, Katie LaSala and Carly Marino - have been answering many questions about all aspects of the history of the institution. Use this University Archives page to explore that history for yourself.
November 27, 2012	More Redwoods Photos Command Interest Historical logging photos from the Library Humboldt Room continue to fuel newspaper articles. The latest is Ericson photo Korbel School on stump #2 which is featured in the Portland Oregonian as clones from this Fieldbrook stump will be planted near Port Orford on December 4.
November 1, 2012	Ericson Logging Photos International! Seems that someone posted HSU Library Humboldt Room/Ericson photos to this site: Daily Mail Online in September. No, permission wasn't requested, but they did add "Humboldt State University Library" to each of the images - nice publicity! We've had 2 referrals since then requesting permission to use the photos in French and Danish newspapers ..and most recently an inquiry from Ripley's Believe It or Not! Visit the Library's Special Collections website for more information about our historical photograph collections.
August 27, 2012	HSU History: Did You Know? HSU used to host a “Frosh Camp” for incoming freshman? It’s true, long before the development of the Humboldt Orientation Program (HOP) the campus community had a history of welcoming its new students in style. During the 1920s and into the 1940s this intensive introduction to campus life included skits and other participatory events. In the fall of 1955 these activities and events were formalized into Frosh Camp. Its purpose, according to the official Frosh Camp pamphlet, was to provide a “program of orientation to Humboldt State College” and offered students “the much needed before school vacation.” This 2-3 day event included a whole host of activities such as nature outings, fireside chats, and sock-hops. Frosh Camp Handbooks, complete with camp rules of good conduct, daily itineraries, traditional songs and yells, and name lists provide unique insight into the culture that had formed on campus by the mid twentieth century. For more information about Frosh Camp or HSU history in general, visit the Library’s Humboldt Room. Citation: Archives Pamphlet Collection, Special Collections Department, Humboldt State University Library.
August 8, 2012	Special Collections Exhibit Enjoy some HSU history through the exhibit next to the Library Lobby. "HSU Library Special Collections: Looking back at 15 years" was prepared by summer intern Brittany Britton. New collections - Becking, Buckley, McKay, Palmquist/Yale - and newly digitized collections - Roberts, Schoenrock are featured, along with many timelines and artifacts of the University's history.
March 30, 2012	Palmquist Online The HSU Library Humboldt Room staff have completed scanning 3,700 images in the Peter E. Palmquist Working Photograph Collection - see the collection page for information about this collection and a link to the searchable database. The next step to further enhance the collection, as noted in this recent press release, will be to identify, scan and catalog approximately 700 more Northwestern California photographs uniquely held in the Palmquist collections at Yale Univeristy. HSU archivist Edie Butler will travel there in April to begin the process, supported in part by a generous grant from the Peter E. Palmquist Fund at the Humboldt Area Foundation.
February 20, 2012	Becking Collection Open for Research See Humboldt Now for press release about the completion of a grant project to organize and make available for researchers the Rudi Becking Collection in the HSU Library Humboldt Room.
December 15, 2011	New Humboldt Room Collections & Exhibits Read about new collections in this story Library Enlarges Key North Coast Archives and see examples of Humboldt Room collections in the exhibit "How can Special Collections help you envision and understand a 'Place' in Humboldt County?" The town of Crannell is featured.
June 21, 2010	HSU - Historical Photos Part 2 There is a new exhibit of photos from the Humboldt Room's HSU Public Affairs Collection in the North Wall case on the first floor. This complements the Historical Photos exhibit in the Main Case - what can you recognize?
May 4, 2010	HSU - Historical Photos & Book The Humboldt Room celebrates the publication of a pictorial history *Humboldt State University* by alumna Katy Tahja with an exhibit of more photos from the newly processed HSU Public Affairs Collection. The exhibit opens May 11 and will be on display in the Library through the summer. A reception and book signing will be held on May 14, 4-5:30 in the Library Lobby - please join us!
January 25, 2010	Hidden Collection Grant The Rudi Becking Collection will be processed over the next two years thanks to a newly received grant coordinated by Humboldt Room staff Joan Berman and Edie Butler. See more.
December 8, 2009	Finding New Books The exhibit case on the North wall of the Library Lobby illustrates using the "New Titles" feature of the Library Catalog to locate materials added to the Humboldt Room in the last month. Some of these may be newly published books like *Abalone Tales* or *Medicine Trails, or a journal issue such as the October issue of National Geographic Magazine* on Redwoods.
September 9, 2009	NG & Redwoods 1899-2009! Come explore the Redwoods through the lens of *National Geographic. An exhibit on the main floor of the Library coincides with the release of the October issue. National Geographic* has been covering Redwoods since 1899 - all of the materials used for the exhibit come from the Library's Humboldt Room, a repository for information about Northwestern California. Along with the banner on the clock tower and the Library exhibit, there will be a presentation by Nick Nichols and Mike Fay on Saturday October 3, 8 p.m., Van Duzer Theater.
October 1, 2008	October Events in the Library! Check the Calendar and do come to Stories a Photo Tells this Thursday, October 2, at 4 p.m. in the Library Fishbowl (Library 209).
September 19, 2008	Stories a Photo Tells Finding History in Photographic Archives - See the exhibit in the Library September 24-October 20. Then, on Thursday, October 2, 4-6 p.m., HSU Library Fishbowl, hear historian and author Dione Armand (Eureka and Sequoia Park) and photographer and curator Joseph Wilhelm ("An Arcata Ago") present their methods and insights regarding the use of archival photographic resources, highlighting their experiences with the extensive HSU Library Humboldt Room collections (MORE).
June 6, 2008	Unlocking The Archives Exhibit Library Humboldt Room staff invite you to celebrate with them what it looks like to finish processing a major collection! The exhibit *Unlocking the Archives: The Eureka Tidelands Case of 1968* is on the first floor of the Library through August 25. For more information about the collection, including a slide show based on the exhibit, see http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/holdings/waterfront.htm.
April 22, 2008	Arcata At 150 - Photo Exhibit Three HSU students assisted Joseph Wilhelm in restoration and research as he created this splendid exhibit honoring Arcata's 150 years as a city. The 35 remastered digital images show the changing Arcata region over eight decades. Enjoy these images online or catch the exhibit as it moves from venue to venue around Arcata. Then explore the HSU Library Humboldt Room collections from which the exhibit originated - Ericson Collection and Shuster Collection.
December 6, 2007	Need An Image? The Library maintains a page that includes 1) image databases only available through the Library, 2) a search form that searches for books in the Library that contain images and 3) directories of good images sites on the Internet. The latest edition to the page is the Image Collection that contains over 285,000 images of people, places, historical events, and natural history.
September 18, 2007	World War II - Humboldt County Drawing from the rich resources of the Humboldt Room, this exhibit in the Library Lobby includes letters to Humboldt State President Gist and newspaper articles about the Emidio and the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works. Recent publications are also showcased: a masters thesis by Jack Bareilles; a Humboldt Historian article by Gayle Karshner, "Humboldt State College: Memories of the World War II Years" and Chag Lowry's book Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of World War II.
January 8, 2007	Humboldt Room Exhibit In Lobby Northwestern California Forest Communities continues in the Library lobby through January 29 as well as online: maps, photos and more. A special treat is the Belcher Atlas.
November 16, 2006	Belcher Atlas Online The Belcher Atlas of Humboldt County, 1921-22, is online on the Humboldt Room Collections page. This is at higher resolution than on the Calisphere site!
November 7, 2006	Primary Sources In Calisphere Find historical photographs and maps of northwestern California in Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources. For Humboldt Room collections see Humboldt Room Photograph Collections.
February 2, 2006	Shuster Aerial Photos Online You're invited! View the Shuster Aerial Photograph Collection (2,300 images online!) and see the Exhibit in the Library, February 14-March 13.