A Concluding Descriptive Bibliography By Gary E. Strong EDITOR’S NOTE Gary E. Strong is the founder of the California State Library Foundation and founding editor of the Bulletin. He is now retired and lives near Potlatch, Idaho but is still active in bibliophilic and local history circles. A true bibliophile, he has avidly collected the…

The Story behind the Gold Scales in the J. S. Holliday Rare Materials Reading Room of the California State Library By Gary F. Kurutz EDITOR’S NOTES Gary F. Kurutz is the editor of the California State Library Foundation Bulletin and former curator of special collections at the California State Library. …

California Photographer Joins State Library Foundation — EDITOR’S NOTE Mary Beth Barber is the special projects coordinator for the California State Library, and at one time took workshops from Kennedy and other local photographers, shot hundreds of rolls of 35mm black and white film, and spent a great number of hours in The Darkroom as part of…

By JoAnn Levy EDITOR’S NOTE JoAnn Levy is the author of the highly acclaimed They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush, Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California, For California’s Gold: A Novel, and several scholarly articles. …

Discoveries in the California State Library’s Archives By Gary F. Kurutz EDITOR’S NOTE Mr. Kurutz is the Foundation’s current Bulletin editor, former executive director, and former curator of special collections for the California State Library For the last several years, the State Library has participated with the African American community in celebrating Juneteenth or Freedom Day. A…

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The Farm Security Administration’s Reappropriation of Japanese American Farms By Michelle Trujillo EDITOR’S NOTE Michelle Trujillo is a historian, musician, and teacher who studies how marginalized groups counter consequences of discrimination through cultural endurance, solidarity, and activism. Michelle will earn her Master of Arts degree in public history from California State University, Sacramento in spring 2020.

A Fabulous Book Written in Tribute to Sutro Librarian Richard H. Dillon (1924–2016), by His Son Brian Dillon By Gary F. Kurutz. EDITOR’S NOTE Gary Kurutz is the editor of the Bulletin, retired executive director of the California State Library Foundation, and retired curator of special collections for the California State Library. The Bulletin rarely features a new book published by another organization but, I thought our readers…

An Extraordinary Collection of Original Stereographs Donated by Mead B. and Nancy T. Kibbey By Gary F. Kurutz EDITOR’S NOTE Gary Kurutz is the editor of the Bulletin, former executive director of the Foundation, and retired curator of special collections for the California State Library. Through the generosity of the late Mead B. and his wife Nancy T. Kibbey of Sacramento, the Foundation has…