New additions to Digital Collections
Archives and Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of 13 collections which have been added to UC Davis Library’s Digital Collections in the last six months:
- The recently digitized collections span circa 1908 (H.C. Tibbitts Photographs) to present day (John Haeger Papers).
- Digitized items include scrapbooks, faculty papers, photographs and photograph albums, a diary and a booklet.
- Collection topics include personal/family travel in California, wine writing, faculty papers, regional businesses and landscapes, and statistics for baseball leagues at Japanese American incarceration camps.
Recently Added Digital Collections
California Here We Come Travelogue
This scrapbook chronicles the automobile trip of Lillian E. Wickline Dalziel, Frances Ostrom and two other women in Frances’s 1937 Plymouth Special “to attend the Supreme Council, Order of Amaranth, at Los Angeles, California.”
Alice Ring Smythe Photograph Album
A photograph album of a young woman hiker’s excursion to Yosemite in the late 1920s. Among many other gorgeous vistas, her photographs capture images of Bridal Veil Falls, Half Dome, El Capitan, Nevada Falls, and Illilouette Falls.
Old Vines in New Lands: A Study of Mature Pinot Noir Vineyards in California and Oregon (2025) is a new online publication by wine writer John Haeger, exclusive to our digital collections. The piece provides Haeger’s profiles of mature pinot noir vineyards in California and Oregon, including their histories, attributes, and practices, with each profile complemented by Haeger’s tasting notes.
Compiled by Ada Hall, a Chinese American woman living in Vallejo, California, this photograph album includes many photographs of outings to the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition at Treasure Island, as well as images of Hall spending time in Vallejo with friends and family.
Drew Carriage Company Photograph Album
Thirteen photographs make up this promotional album produced by the Drew Carriage Company. Most of the photographs show the engine and operation of the newly introduced kerosene-powered International Harvester 8-16 Tractor.
Susan Gilmore Pierce Photograph Album
The photograph album was a gift from Josephine Foster to Susan Gilmore Pierce, owner of the Glen Alpine Springs resort in Lake Tahoe. In addition to images of the Glen Alpine Springs resort, the album includes photographs of Susan Gilmore Pierce and Josephine Foster participating in climbing, fishing, and rowing activities.
Western Travels of a Newlywed Couple Photograph Album
This album follows the lives of newlyweds Marian and Jerry who travel throughout California and the Southwest visiting their families, national parks and other scenic places. Locations in California include Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz, San Simeon, Buck’s Lake, Marin County, San Francisco, Mt. Lassen, and Lake Tahoe.
Japanese-American Woman in Postwar California Photograph Album
This photograph album documents the life, family, friends and classmates of a young Japanese-American woman identified only as “Annie.” The album includes a series of about twenty portraits of Annie’s friends and classmates which also include printed name cards mounted with the portraits.
This collection includes selections from the papers of Isao Fujimoto, a pioneering faculty member in Asian American Studies and the Community Development graduate program at UC Davis. Materials include correspondence, records and grassroots publications related to alternative (green) technology, the development of the Northern California food movement, and community and rural development.
The collection contains 96 photographs taken circa 1908 by Howard Tibbitts, a San Francisco-based photographer whose work was featured in the Southern Pacific Railroad’s tourist magazine, Sunset. The photographs focus on California agriculture, vineyards, tourist destinations, towns, and railway infrastructure along the northernmost portion of the Sunset Route, and includes photographs of vineyards in Napa, Sonoma, and Fresno counties, sugar beet farming and refining, water sources relied on by all forms of agriculture in the Central Valley, major thoroughfares and buildings in cities and towns along the route.
The diary is a day-by-day narrative of a family motor excursion to Yosemite and Lake Tahoe in the summer of 1918.
Baseball Tule Lake Center, 1944
This booklet contains statistics for the baseball leagues at the Japanese American incarceration camps in 1944. Included are pitching and batting records and averages, teams and their rosters, and a recap of the All-Star games and the Elimination Tournament.
Images of the Mammoth Mining Company from Kennett, California are found in this album from circa 1910. The scenes include the Mammoth Company hospital, the slag pot and engine, the converters inside the smelter complex, the company’s power house, the tramway and substation, and the track system around the company’s property, among others.