Judith Downie
Humanities Librarian
CSUSM Library
KEL 3424Office Hours: By appointment or if my
door is open.
(760) 750-4374
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Students in several CSUSM History courses
need to visit local history collections in the course of
their research. The following lists should help you get
started.
Getting Started
Know your topic! This is done by researching the variety
of resources in the library print collection, scholarly
articles and resources mentioned in your text and in
lecture. Note personal names, place name variants, and the
types of local history topics you will need to find
information on. The more specific you can be, the more time
you save when faced with a historical collection and you
help the
staff who are there to help you better.
Even though these examples use local (San Diego)
examples, the same search strategies apply to other regions. Here are some examples of what you could be looking for:
- Personal names
- You are researching the city of Vista, CA. Cave
Couts was a Spanish land-grant holder in the
Oceanside/Vista area. This will be a name to search in
both the
Oceanside Historical Society and
Vista Historical
Museum records since his holdings crossed the
boundaries created later by these two cities.
- Place names
- You are researching the city of Temecula. As cities
and places have not always had the same name, you will
find that Temecula has had earlier names of Temeca,
Temeko, Temecola, and Temeku in various documents you
may examine.
- Events (specific date period)
- You are
researching the Battle of San Pasqual. You can be
specific as to the date--December 6, 1846, or look at
the events of December 1846 or the months preceding and
following for what led up to the battle and the
'after-the-fact' newspaper accounts and more.
- Developments
- You are researching the effects of the railroad's
development into an area. This rarely has a specifically
identifiable time period as the effects of such a
development will generally accrue over time. Scanning
records from the census, local businesses, and
newspapers before the identified finish date will lead
to material on the activities that were part of this
growth and discussion as to what expectations were for this growth.
Some additional resources would be to look at
real estate advertisements and sales, census tract
counts for both population and economic growth, and when
an area incorporated.
Historical newspaper research in the backfiles (the
term for archival newspapers) is likely to require that
you visit a newspaper 'morgue', the library for the area
you are researching, or the local historical society.
Any of these organizations may provide access to older
issues. Many newspapers are not yet indexed or digitized
and will require consultation with a librarian or
history expert to locate pertinent materials.
Checking the web page or by phone for hours and collection access is highly advised
before visiting any of these sites in person!
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Local History Museums
Many of the local museums are run by historical
society volunteers and
will have limited hours and access to their collections. If
you are looking for specific information, advise the staff
helping you of your need. They may not have what you expect,
but may know where to find it. Communities not listed here
do not seem to have a historical society or museum. Lists of museums, historical societies and more
for LA County
and SD County
are available through the Art & Architecture Library at UCSD.
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Historical Societies
Are frequently affiliated with museums or other physical
locations, here are a few of the larger societies that may
include San Diego regional history. |
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Special-Interest
Museums
This is just a sample, there
are many, many more. See
Resources list at UCSD's Civic
Collaborative Home or San Diego Historical Society's
Local History Societies and Museums
page. Also try an internet search using terms
like histor*, museum, your subject interest,
and a region or community name to see if there are others
not yet listed.
- Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum
http://www.agsem.com
(760) 941-1791
- Cabrillo National Monument
http://www.nps.gov/cabr
- California Surf Museum
http://www.surfmuseum.org/ (760) 721-6876
223 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside
- Centro Cultural de Tijuana (for Baja
California History)
http://www.cecut.gob.mx 011-52-664-687 9600
Tijuana, Mexico
- Computer Museum of America
http://www.computer-museum.org (619)235-8222
640 C Street, San Diego
- Fowler Museum of Cultural History
http://www.fmch.ucla.
Part of University of California, Los Angeles.
Related
museum also at UCLA is the Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa
- Heritage of the Americas Museum
http://www.cuyamaca.edu/museum/ (619)
670-5194
12110 Cuyamaca College Drive West, El Cajon
- Immigration Museum of New Americans
http://www.immigrationmuseumofnewamericans.com,
1-619-297-7757
3232 Dowe Street, San Diego 92103
As far as one can tell from their web site, this
interesting sounding museum has no more than a virtual
existence at this point.
- Marine Corps Recruit Depot Command Museum
http://www.usmchistory.com (619) 524-6038
- Museum of Making Music
http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org (760) 438-5996
5790 Armada Dr., Carlsbad
- Natural History Museum of Sugar
http://www.sugarmuseum.org/index.html (cybermuseum
only, looking for a San Diego home)
- San Diego Aerospace Museum
www.aerospacemuseum.org
- San Diego Archaeological Center
http://www.sandiegoarchaeology.org, (760)291-0370
16666 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido
- San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
http://www.sdchm.org
(619) 338-9888
- San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum
http://www.sdhoc.com/main/
Balboa Park, San Diego
- San Diego Maritime Museum
http://www.sdmaritime.com
- San Diego Model Railroad Museum
http://www.sdrm.org
Balboa Park, San Diego
- San Diego Museum of Man
http://museumofman.org,
(619) 239-2001
(Balboa Park)
- Women's History Museum and Education Center
Formerly the Women's History Reclamation Project
http://www.whrp.net,
(619) 233-7963
(Golden Hill area of San Diego)
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Newspapers
These are found
on on the internet, research databases or the 4th floor of the Kellogg Library,
as
noted. For papers without extensive archives, contact
information has been posted for possible archive access.
General
News Archives
Lists maintained by the Special Library Association for
US and foreign newspaper archives. Some are free-access
while others are fee-based access, but most indexes are
free.
Ancestry.com Historical California Newspapers
Requires registration but you can view the list of
titles and date ranges available without registration.
National coverage
Los Angeles Times
(1881- on)
Paper index (1960-on) in NEWSPAPERS area at AI21.L65 L67, older issues in the
CSUSM Microfilm Collection F-2
Los Angeles Times
Index (1972- on)
Paper index located in the NEWSPAPERS area at AI21.L65
L67. Updates
received monthly.
Fairfax County Public Library Historical Newspaper Index
Although full text must be ordered (at a fee) from this
site, the resources indexed are a valuable collection of
material from the 18th, 19th and 20th century Virginia
newspapers.
New York Times (1857-on)
Paper index for 1960-on located in the
NEWSPAPERS area at AI21 .N44.
Updates received
monthly. Microfiche index for 1851-1959 found at C-503
Online Article Index for 1996-on (will not provide
access to full text unless you purchase, but we have the
microfilm for access.)
Online Article Archive for 1851-1995 (will not
provide access to full text unless you purchase, but we
have the microfilm for access.)
San Diego Union Tribune (1871-on)
Note this title has had several changes over the years.
Latest in paper, older issues in the Microfilm
Collection F-1
Currently, there is no index for this title prior to
December 5, 1983. What indexing is available is found in the Research
Database, ProQuest Direct. For earlier periods,
if the event was of enough importance, you should be
able to check the Los Angeles Times or New
York Times indexes to narrow the publication dates.
Texas Newspapers Collection
Online index to a large number of Texas newspapers. The
main index must be downloaded for access. Fees are
charged for copies of specific articles.
U.S.
Newspaper Project
A Federally-funded project for each state and affiliated
territory to microfilm its newspaper holdings. Some
projects are working on indexes or fully-searchable
images. Different projects are at different stages of
completion, check the website provided under each
participating institution for what is available. Good
examples are
Georgia and
Illinois.
The Illinois project provides a
search page that can be used for all the projects.
Some projects have full text and are listed in the full
text section.
Wall Street Journal (1980-on)
Paper Index for 1980-on is located in the NEWSPAPERS
area at HG1 .W26
Community or Special Interest
Coverage
North
County Times (San Marcos city edition, latest 2
months in paper only)
207 Pennsylvania Ave. Escondido, CA 92025
(760) 745-6611
San Diego
Voice and Viewpoint
(Latest 2 months
in paper only)
1729 N. Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92105
(619) 266-2233
Other San Diego newspapers' contact information can
be found on the San Diego Convention and Visitor
Center's
Local Media List
Student Newspapers (in San Diego area, for
others in California, check the
USPNL list)
- Pride: The Student Newspaper (California
State University San Marcos) Library Microfiche
collection C-937 (no index). Previous names were
Pioneer and You Name It. See the
CSUSM
Library Catalog for links to current and
archived sources.
- Daily
Aztec (San Diego State University) search
the archive from 1996. Previous names for the SDSU
student newspaper were the Normal News, the
Paper Lantern, and The Aztec and most
are found in the SDSU Special Collections.
- UCSD
Guardian (University of California San Diego)
has archives available online from January 2002.
Older holdings would be available at the Social
Sciences and Humanities Library.
Need More?
New materials are constantly being added to our holdings,
those of local libraries, and on the internet. Ask for help
in navigating the constantly changing landscape.
Judith Downie,
Humanities Librarian
(760) 750-4374 OR come by my office (KEL 3424), I
am available if my door is open (most of the time).
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