Sutter Buttes Oral History Collection, 2005-2006

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Summary

Creators:
Pacific Regional Humanities Center
Abstract:
The Pacific Regional Humanities Center at the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with the Middle Mountain Foundation, collected oral histories of landowners in the area of the Sutter Buttes. The Sutter Buttes are a small mountain range located in the north Sacramento Valley of California. The collection contains transcriptions of six oral histories as well as five of the original recordings. Five of the six transcriptions are available in full text online through the California Digital Library's eScholarship Repository.
Extent:
0.4 linear feet 5 digital objects
Language:
Collection materials in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sutter Buttes Oral History Collection, D-459, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains transcriptions of six oral histories of landowners in the Sutter Buttes area. Also included are five of the original recordings of the interviews which were conducted during 2005-2006.

Arrangement of the Collection

The collection is arranged in two series: Transcription and Recordings.

Biographical / historical:

The Pacific Regional Humanities Center (PRHC) was an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2002 and overseen by the UC Davis Humanities Institute. The PRHC was created to generate humanities research and public programs for the Pacific United States and Territories: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas and emphasized the study of "place" in its many dimensions. During 2005-2006, the PRHC, in collaboration with the Middle Mountain Foundation, collected oral histories of landowners in the area of the Sutter Buttes. The Sutter Buttes are a small mountain range located in the north Sacramento Valley of California.

In 2007 the PRHC was reconceptualized as the California Cultures Initiative, still coordinated by the UC Davis Humanities Institute.

The Middle Mountain Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1989 to "educate the general public in the relevance and importance to society of natural and cultural resources and to encourage preservation, understanding, and good stewardship of such resources."

Source:

"About the Middle Mountain Foundation," Middle Mountain Foundation web site. Accessed April 14, 2009.

Processing information:

Sara Gunasekara processed this collection and created and encoded this finding aid.

Physical location:
Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sutter Buttes Oral History Collection, D-459, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
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