Tour of the California Room's Digital Archive:

Past, Present & Future

Carol Acquaviva

Librarian & Digital Archivist

Anne T. Kent California Room

Golden Gate Bridge!

Natural Landscape!

Interesting People!

Rich History!

Anne T. Kent California Room

Laurie Thompson Head Librarian Curator Administrator Conservator Acquisitions Diplomat

OH SO MANY HATS!

Carol Acquaviva

Librarian & Digital Archivist Technical Advisor; Digitization; Media Conversion;

Metadata Cataloger; Server Re-booter-er

IN THE BEGINNING….

Courtesy Internet Archive Wayback Machine

2003

Oral History Before CONTENTdm

Courtesy Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Children’s May Day Festival, 1910

Hikers in Marin County, 1922

San Quentin State Prison “Prisoner Olympics,” 1930

Courtesy Internet Archive Wayback Machine

OUR CONTENTdm Debut, 2011

TODAY!

Mountain Play, atop Mt. Tamalpais 1913 – present

1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire

Golden Gate Bridge Construction, 1933-1937

Collections in CONTENTdm

Oral History

NEWSPAPERS IN CONTENTdm

Marin County Journal, 1861-1888

Marin Journal, 1888-1922

CHALLENGES ALONG THE WAY

Above: Boxers in San Rafael, circa 1910.

Right top: San Quentin State Prison, field games, 1930.

Right bottom: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

SOLUTIONS!

Above: Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Marin County

Civic Center, San Rafael, circa 1963.

Right, top: Marinship, circa 1943.

Right bottom: time card for Mt. Tamalpais Railway., 1914

SUCCESS!

Above: Scene from “Salomy Jane,” California Motion Picture Corp., 1914. Right, top: Muir Woods, circa 1940. Right, bottom: Stinson Beach, circa 1910.

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS...

Visitors to Marin County, 1889

Website: Marinlibrary.org/californiaroom Digital Archive: contentdm.marinlibrary.org

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