Researching San Luis Obispo County History
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Gaps and Silences in Archives and Special Collections
While archives have been viewed as unbiased repositories of the past in its entirety, they are in fact spaces of gaps and silences. These gaps and silences are due to changing opinions of archivists have considered "of enduring value," and can reflect historical, institutional, and internalized racism, classism, sexism, and ignorance of marginalized genders and sexualities. Biases may also impact the archivist's description. Archives are not neutral.
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A project to map the 1883 illustrations of San Luis Obispo County from Myron Angel's History of San Luis Obispo County.
A project to map the 1904 Souvenir of San Luis Obispo photo book.
California State Parks Interactive Maps
Explore the California State Parks map exploring early American settlers of Montaña de Oro