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This collection documents the personal and professional life of Wilmer Amina Carter, former Assembly member representing the 62nd District in the California Assembly and retired Board member of the Rialto Unified School District. The collection primarily consists of vertical files (e.g., press clippings, computer printouts, fliers, newsletters, documents, and photographs) created and maintained by Carter documenting her life and involvement in the Inland Empire’s Black community.

Collection Scope and Content Summary The collection contains 1,610 black-and-white negatives, mostly 4x5-inch, taken in California and Mexico by Charley Clayton Howe between 1947 and 1972. Howe joined the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California, Inc (ASA) in 1948 and in 1975 donated the negatives to the ASA. The Association envisioned the negatives as the initial collection of an archive of photographs on California archaeology that would be open for reference by scholars (“Photographic Archives...

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This collection contains photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, and other materials documenting the history of Latino/a/x baseball and softball with an emphasis on Mexican American baseball in Southern California and throughout the United States.

Abstract This collection documents the history and development of the National Orange Show, an annual event in San Bernardino, California, established in 1889 to promote the region’s citrus industry. The show has played a significant cultural and economic role in San Bernardino and the broader Inland Empire, evolving from a seven-day local exhibition to a long-standing regional tradition with a permanent site established in the 1920s. Materials in the collection include documents, memorabilia,...

Abstract This collection contains video recordings, publications, vertical files, and other materials pertaining to the South Colton Oral History Project that documents life in South Colton, a 1.3 square-mile ethnically segregated Mexican American community within the city limits of Colton, California. Includes oral history interviews with life-long residents and prominent members of the South Colton community as well as related research materials on the history of Colton, California and surrounding...