California State Library: State Library Awards $750,000 to Preserve and Make Accessible California’s LGBTQ+ History. “The California State Library announces the award of $750,000 in grant funds to ensure the physical and digital preservation and increased accessibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer archives relating to LGBTQ+ history in California.”

This launched in January when I was in the middle of moving and mourning my Granny so I missed it. California State Library: California State Library Announces Release of Newly Digitized Prison Press Collection Spanning 1915-1991. “Featuring 21 distinct periodicals created by incarcerated writers, editors, and artists, this California Prison Press collection offers an unparalleled window into […]

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’. “Seventy years ago, residents of Monticello gathered to mark their last Memorial Day in their small, agricultural town. The spring gathering was always a chance for families and old friends to gather in community. By the time rains came the following year, 1957, Monticello was gone.”

Lunch with the missus. The Paso Robles Inn looking grand today under these California clouds.

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In today's post from The Wine Clarion (re https://caparoso.substack.com/p/the-old-vineyard-water-tower), every picture tells a story, while the story illustrates the pictures conveying the history and passion of heroic grape growers. Enjoy!

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📸 The invention of the Kodak camera helped make photography part of everyday life — and changed how families documented their world.

A new Kelley House Museum column traces early photo technology and the beloved pets and people captured in Mendocino County history.

https://mendovoice.com/2026/01/with-the-invention-of-the-kodak-camera-in-1888-photos-became-part-of-everyday-life/?utm_campaign=columns&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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🌿 When doctors were few and far between, women on the Mendocino Coast delivered babies, treated illness and kept records that helped communities survive.

This week’s local history column explores their stories.

https://mendovoice.com/2026/01/from-delivering-babies-to-recordkeeping-mendocino-county-women-did-it-all/?utm_campaign=columns&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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📜 She crossed the continent by wagon, raised five children, built a thriving business in Mendocino, and refused to be taken advantage of.

Meet America Jane Moore, a 19th-century woman whose grit, independence and business savvy shaped local history.

https://mendovoice.com/2026/01/her-name-was-america-and-she-did-not-suffer-fools/?utm_campaign=tmv&utm_source=mastodon

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