Event Title
Special Collections and Archives
Location
Benerd School of Education, Room 118
Start Date
17-5-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
17-5-2019 1:15 PM
Description
The University of the Pacific Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives documents the diverse history and people of Stockton within hundreds of archival collections. We will explore Stockton’s diversity as represented in Pacific’s archival holdings. Historic city directories tell us about settlement patterns in Stockton and reflect racial prejudice. We also have documents of early slave emancipation, Japanese sports, Filipino life in the Delta, the Stockton State Hospital, the Mexican Methodist Church, and the Chinese Christian Center. Lastly, we will touch on a few of the scores of stories found in the Stockton Immigrant Women Oral History Collection compiled in the early 1980s by UOP history professor Sally Miller. These stories are here and ready to discovered, researched, and interpreted by anyone with an interest in our community and its history.
Special Collections and Archives
Benerd School of Education, Room 118
The University of the Pacific Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives documents the diverse history and people of Stockton within hundreds of archival collections. We will explore Stockton’s diversity as represented in Pacific’s archival holdings. Historic city directories tell us about settlement patterns in Stockton and reflect racial prejudice. We also have documents of early slave emancipation, Japanese sports, Filipino life in the Delta, the Stockton State Hospital, the Mexican Methodist Church, and the Chinese Christian Center. Lastly, we will touch on a few of the scores of stories found in the Stockton Immigrant Women Oral History Collection compiled in the early 1980s by UOP history professor Sally Miller. These stories are here and ready to discovered, researched, and interpreted by anyone with an interest in our community and its history.
Comments
Mike Wurtz is Assistant Professor and Head of the Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives at the University of the Pacific Library in Stockton, California. He oversees access, acquisition, and preservation of over 400 archival collections including those of naturalist John Muir, jazz legend Dave Brubeck, San Francisco politician George Moscone, as well as Japanese American Internment during World War II and life in California’s Central Valley. He holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona, a Master’s degree in History and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Geography from Northern Arizona University. He started his archival career over 25 years ago at the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Arizona.