This collection consists of over 30,000 historic photographs of Northern California dating from the beginning of the state. Images include portraits, landscapes, and city views, mining, farming, ranching, logging, and general life as it was lived from the early 1850’s to present.
The John Nopel Collection is comprised of hundreds of images of Chico and Butte County, residents, landscapes, and industries. A lifelong Chico resident, teacher, and historian, John Nopel (1915-2006) collected these unique photographs over many decades and he did so with a passion to create a visual heritage of his hometown. The …
Edward Stuhl was born in 1887 in Budapest, Hungary. As a young man, he spent his time hiking and climbing in the Austrian Alps. He worked as an apprentice in his father's stained glass studio and studied at the Graz Academy of Art and the Munich Academy of Art. His formal art education, blended with his love of nature, is evident in …
The Record began as a monthly magazine of the Chico State Normal School in March of 1896 under the title of The Normal Record, and soon became a quarterly, then in 1914, a semi-annual publication. The Record attained its recognizable “yearbook” form when it began to be published annually in 1919. When the school became Chico …
The Orville Goldner Collection
Orville Charles Goldner was born on May 18, 1906 in Toledo, Ohio. Goldner moved to California in the early 1920s to pursue his undergraduate degree at the California School of Fine Arts in Berkeley, CA. In 1940 he earned his master’s degree from Stanford University. While at Berkeley he met Dorothy …
Pioneer Days started in 1915 as a springtime celebration promoting the college to visiting high school students. The events evolved in to a week of activities to include a parade, dances, sack races, pie eating, tug-o-war, beard contests, theatrical and variety shows and concert. Campus groups competed with historical displays …
This collection documents the history, growth and development of our university and provides source material for administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and other members of the university community. Included in this collection are current and historic class schedules, yearbooks, newspapers, works by our faculty, university …
The Chico Army Airfield or Chico Army Flying School was located 5 miles north of Chico, Butte County, California during World War II. The city of Chico was approved as the site for the Army Air Corps Base on August 26, 1941. Construction began in January 1942 and the first cadre of troops arrived in April. The base opened April 15, …
Romanzo Erastus Wood, or R. E. Wood, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts August 10, 1838. In 1859 he came west on the Oregon-California trail arriving in Napa County, California. Wood married Mary Elizabeth Olmstead Wade on October 17, 1864. The couple was joined by Mary's young daughter, Cleo Emma. The Woods moved to Santa Cruz …
The Northeastern California digital collection presents materials from the Special Collections representing the historical and cultural heritage of the 12 county "NE Cal" area encompassing materials from Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Yuba, and Sutter counties. The collection contains a …
The Northeastern California Diaries collection contains unpublished personal diaries and journals. These materials reflect the daily life and commerce of the inhabitants of the northeastern California region.
These collections are works in progress.
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