California Heritage Project

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Lynn Jones Director, California Heritage
Project UC Berkeley Library
Funded by UC Berkeley, and the Oakland and San
Francisco Unified School Districts.
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Lynn Jones K-12 Outreach Coordinator California
Heritage Project UC Berkeley Library
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Our Essential Question

• How can K-12 teachers and students best use
  online access to historical pictures to enhance
  their understanding of California's
  history and culture?

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Project Objectives

• Introduce K-12 students and teachers to archival
  materials
• Create web-based learning materials
• Promote the integration of technology into K-12
  curriculum
• Feedback on Berkeleys digital libraries

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Project Activities

• Teacher School Librarian Professional
  Development
• School Site Visits
• Standards-based Curriculum Development

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Our hook is the historical pictures in the Cal
Heritage collection.
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Whats In the Collection?

• 18th, 19th and 20th century photographs,
  drawings, prints, maps
• Finding aids
• Search function
• Background information on the collections

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Major Topics

• The Mexican Period
• Californias natural landscape, such as Yosemite
• The Gold Rush
• Native Americans
• San Francisco history
• World War II, including Japanese-American
  relocation
• Californias diverse population

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Lets see some examples.
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Ein tanz der Indianer in der Mission in St Jose
in Neu-Californien ca. 1806. Honeyman collection.
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Portrait of a mulatto boy. 1848. Honeyman
collection.
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Discovery of rich gold mines in Sacramento,
Calif. ca. 1848. Honeyman collection.
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Andy at sluice box, Auburn Ravine, Calif., in
the early 1850s.
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Horse market, Sonora. 1855. Honeyman collection.
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Old Mission Church, Santa Barbara from the
Santa Barbara Views, 1875 collection
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Montecito - Santa Barbara Co., California,
April 21st, 1884 from the Santa Barbara Views,
1875 collection
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Negro boy, Irishman and an Austrian in front of
US MintSF. ca. 1880. Graves collection.
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Los Angeles , Cal., 1873. Photographer Mathews,
A.E.
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Wong Fook, one of the Big Eight Chinese
gamblers of 1896. left to right, Mary Lee, Wong
Fook, Susie Wong. Cook collection.
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Pacific Crude Oil Cos La Belle well no. 2
gushing. June 1912. The Oil Industry in
California collection.
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Yurok boys and house. between 1901 1930.
Kroeber collection.
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Afro American Council, 13th annual, Oakland,
Calif. 1907. Bancroft portrait collection.
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Yosemite Falls. 1873
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Wrecked house, Scott near Post St. SF
earthquake, 1906. Photographer Miles Brothers
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A Chinese girl of today. 1922. Cook collection.
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Mr. P. Vaca and family. He was the original
owner of Vaca Valley under the Mexican land
grant. 1931. Cook collection.
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View of the Golden Gate Bridge during its
construction. 1933. The Golden Gate Bridge
Construction Photographs collection.
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Migrant family of Mexicans on the road with car
trouble, February, 1936. Photographer Lange,
Dorothea
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Lone Pine, Calif.--Evacuees of Japanese ancestry
arrive here by train and await buses for
Manzanar. 1942. War Relocation Authority
collection.
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Evacuees at Manzanar, watching a ball game, 1942.
War Relocation Authority collection.
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Richmond Calif. Housing conditions prior to
building of Kaiser shipyard. 1941-1943. Kaiser
collection.
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Recruitment poster for Kaiser health plan,
1938. Kaiser collection
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Second day of the Huey Newton trial. 1968.
African Americans in the SF Bay Area collection.
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Willie Brown speaks to the students on Commons.
ca. 1970. African Americans in the SF Bay Area
collection.
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Home Page http//sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage
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Technical factoids

• SGML marked up finding aids (EAD-DTD)
• Library catalog records hyperlinked to finding
  aid, then to digitized item
• Originals photographed scanned to Kodak Photo
  CD (1024x1536 gray scale images)
• gif thumbnails, med and high res .jpg viewing
  images created

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What do students learn?

• Information Literacy
• Technology Skills
• Primary historical sources

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What do teachers learn?

• Technology Skills
• Integrating the Internet into the classroom
• Pedagogy
• School librarian as partner

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How does this benefit the Library?

• Attracts new students to Berkeley
• Instructional design assessment
• Feedback on digitization projects

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Whats next for K-12 outreach?

• New funding sources
• Focus on sharable digital objects
• Learn from the experience to plan anew

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Questions?

• Lynn Jones
• California Heritage Project Coordinator
• UC Berkeley Library
• ljones_at_library.berkeley.edu
• [phone]