Browse Collections (23 total)
Humboldt County Pamphlet Collection
The Pamphlet Collection supplements the cataloged holdings of the Humboldt Room. It consists of brochures, flyers, newspaper clippings, email…
Mary Ann Madej Papers
The materials in this collection document the work done by Mary Ann Madej as a geologist for the Redwood National Park and her tenure with the United…
Contributors: Mary Ann Madej
Don H. Clausen Congressional Papers
From 1963 to 1982 Don Clausen served as our district's representative to the U.S. House of Representatives. Highlights of the collection are materials…
Rudolf Becking Activism Papers - Redwood National Park
Rudolf Becking was a scientist, activist and critic in environmental management in Humboldt County and the surrounding region from the 1960s through…
Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Book Collection
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Rare Books
The Humboldt State University Library maintains a number of rare books as part of its Special Collections department. These items were acquired…
Ericson Photograph Collection
The Ericson Collection depicts a wide variety of everyday northwest California scenes and activities from the 1880s through the 1920s. Lumber…
Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection
The geographic focus of the HCC Maps Collection is Northwestern California, including towns, timber lands, railroad lines, waterways, and mines. Maps…
Roberts Photograph Collection
Anthropologist Arnold Pilling of Wayne State University donated the Roberts Photograph Collection to the Library in the late 1960s. Ruth Kellet…
Hover Photograph Collection
The Hover Collection contains 48 images depicting early 1900s life along the Klamath River in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties, California within the…
Schoenrock Photograph Collection
The Schoenrock Collection consists of 104 photographs taken in and around Requa, California, during its heyday as a bustling cannery town, dating from…
Lucille Vinyard Papers
Lucille Vinyard was an environmental activist who championed the preservation of the environment in Northwestern California. The Lucille Vinyard…
Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Photograph Collection
Images within this collection document specific sites, communities, geographical regions, businesses, Native Indian peoples, events, organizations,…
Swanlund-Baker Photograph Collection
The Swanlund-Baker Collection depicts a wide variety of everyday northwest California scenes and activities from the early twentieth century. Lumber…
Boyle Photograph Collection
The Boyle Photograph Collection consists of photographic negatives taken by Katie and William Boyle of the Trinidad, Moonstone, Crannell and Westhaven…
Tim McKay Postcard Collection
The postcard collection, especially those showing Northwestern California scenes, follow Tim McKay's lifelong interests in the natural world and in…
Peter E. Palmquist Working Photograph Collection
The Peter E. Palmquist Working Photograph Collection contains approximately 5,000 images from Northwest California, especially Humboldt County. The…
Shuster Photograph Collection
Photographs of various facets of Humboldt County taken by Merle Shuster, ranging from the early 1940s to the 1990s.
Contributors: Humboldt State University Special Collections, Merle Shuster
Rudolf W. Becking Collection
The Rudolf W. Becking Collecton documents the professional and political work of Dr. Rudi Becking from the time of his post secondary education in the…
Lynwood Carranco
A selection of photographs capturing the redwoods through the decades starting from the 1850s - present.
Susie Van Kirk Collection
Photos and text scans related to Susie Van Kirk and her work in Northwest California.
Contributors: Humboldt State University Library Special Collections
Slides
These are slides of pictures either taken by or collected by Lucille Vinyard.