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. Listed below are finding aids to collections which are important sources of information about some aspect of northwestern California. These finding aids are all on the Online Archive of California (OAC). The finding aids with images online can also be searched through Calisphere.

Other sources for finding aids are the Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) and the CSU Directory of Special Collections.

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

State Land Office Records, 1852-1932

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

Caskey (Ruth H.) Collection, 1890-1977

Humboldt State University

See the List of Collections - some of these include online finding aids.

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

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 - HSU Library MF 2635

Merriam (C. Hart) Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938 (1441 images online) - HSU Library MF 2640

Merriam (C. Hart) Papers: Volume I: Papers Relating to Work with California Indians, 1850-1974 (bulk 1898-1938) - HSU 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)

Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.)

A search for "Klamath" finds 19 collections.