Manuscripts, personal papers, and organizational records documenting regional and national politics, as well as the literary, community, and cultural life in the Sacramento Region.
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Manuscript Collections Currently Available Online
The Sacramento Movimiento Chicano and Mexican American Education Oral History Project
Rock and Radio Poster Collection
Southeast Asia Community Resource Center Collection
Japanese American Archival Collections (JAAC)
The Japanese American Archival Collection at Sacramento State chronicles the Japanese American experience of immigration and settlement to the United States, WWII internment, redress, and reparations. The collection was established in 1994 with a gift of photographs, documents and artifacts from the teaching materials of Mary Tsukamoto, and additional gifts from the Florin Japanese American Citizens League, records of the Sacramento VFW Nisei Post 8985, and more than 240 individual community members. It is international in scope, with an emphasis on Sacramento and the Central Valley, and is widely recognized because of the depth and breadth of its holdings. It includes documents created by incarcerates, governmental bodies, the military, concentration camp administrators and employees, and community members who were supportive of and hostile to people of Japanese descent. Formats of the primary sources include diaries, documents, pamphlets, newsletters, photographs, scrapbooks, artifacts, artwork, textiles, monographs, audio/visuals, electronic records, serials, and personal narratives.
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Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
The Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection supports various campus programs, anchoring the Hellenic Studies Program within the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Center on campus, and serves as a research collection of international significance for scholars around the globe through the grant-funded Hellenic Research Fellowship Program (HRFP). Consisting of the holdings of the former Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, this interdisciplinary research collection opened in the University Library in 2003 and has grown to number over 83,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal and institutional archives. The collection comprises circulating books, journal holdings, archives and manuscripts, electronic resources, non-print media materials, rare books, art and artifacts. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region, including the Hellenic diaspora worldwide. There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary-source materials. Ours is the premier Hellenic collection west of the Mississippi and one of the largest of its kind in the country. The collection curator, George I. Paganelis, oversees all aspects of its development, enhances access to the collection through class orientations, specialized individual consultations, and research guides, and administers the HRFP.
University Archives is the official repository for the permanent, historical records of California State University, Sacramento. The Archives collects, preserves, and provides access to primary source material documenting CSU, Sacramento administration, faculty, students, and alumni/ae.
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Sac State Hornet (Student Newspaper)
The Statesman (Yearbooks)
University Archive Photograph collection (Note: this collection is being digitized on an ongoing basis)
Records from campus offices are designated for the University Archives by a combination of campus policy, California State University system policy, and federal and state laws. All university records must first go through the University's Record Management program before they are identified as belonging to the archives.
For more information about how to access our collections, please contact us by phone at 916-278-6144 or send an email to lib-scua@csus.edu
