The California State Archives has received grants from several organizations to assist with the preservation of and access to historical records, in a variety of formats.
California Revealed
California Revealed is a State Library-funded initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and serve online historically significant Californiana (e.g., books, documents, audiovisual recordings). Participating organizations identify and select from their collections, create discovery metadata for the selected materials, and send materials together with associated metadata to the California Revealed Project team located at the State Library in Sacramento . To date, more than 200 California libraries, archives, and museums are participating in the project.
See our collections on California Revealed.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
The NHPRC awarded The Friends of California Archives money to support “For Their Protection: Digitizing California's 19th Century Trademark Files,” a project to digitize approximately 24,000 pages from the collection of Trademark Registrations and Specimens, Old Series, 1861-1900 at the California State Archives. Included in the collection are trademarks and specimens from Levi Strauss & Co. jeans, early California wineries' bottle labels, Kentucky bourbon distilleries labels, 19th century medicines and tonics, and the original trademark registered to Anheuser Busch for its Budweiser lager.
For Their Protection: Digitizing California's 19th Century Trademark Files
California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP)
The California State Archives, via the Friends of California Archives, received a CCLPEP grant from the California State Library for a records digitization project, guide, and exhibit on California state government and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
California Supreme Court Historical Society
Through funding provided by the California Supreme Court Historical Society, The California State Archives was able to digitize The Working Papers of the California Constitutional Convention of 1878 and 1879.
1878-1879 Constitutional Convention Working Papers.
Andrew M. Mellon Foundation
Through generous funding by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the joint efforts of the California State Archives and the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, a reference guide, Records in the California State Archives for the Study of Labor History, was created.
See the guide for Records in the California State Archives for the Study of Labor
