Local History

New Resource to Find Historic Maps Online

FIMo (Fire Insurance Maps online) is a user-friendly online research platform for finding historic maps. Through the UC Davis Library, researchers, students and anyone with a UC Davis CAS login can now access online fire insurance, real estate and other land use ...

March 21, 2019 • Jillian Kido

50 Features of Special Collections: the World’s Greatest Wine Library

43/50 Don’t take our word as the world’s greatest wine library. Take it from the man who wrote the book on wine, Hugh Johnson, author of World Atlas of Wine, who donated his papers to Special Collections in 2015 to 2016. He described us as “simply ...

May 21, 2017 • Christine Cheng

Davis: Then & Now

As the exhibit celebrating the centennial of the City of Davis enters its final weeks on display, we were inspired to add one more piece to it with the following “Then & Now” images of Davis. The historic images below are from Special Collections and the present day photographs ...

May 17, 2017 • Sara Gunasekara

Stop by Shields on Picnic Day!

Don’t miss the Library Open House from 11am-2pm on Picnic Day, this Saturday, April 22! All activities take place in the main lobby of Shields. Davis 1917-2017: Celebrating 100 Years of Community: Celebrate the city centennial with a visit to this exhibition from our Special Collections, which brings historic Davis to ...

April 20, 2017 • Jessica Nusbaum

Happy 100th Birthday, City of Davis!

Happy 100th birthday to the City of Davis which was incorporated exactly a century ago today on March 28, 1917! Prior to the city’s incorporation in 1917, the town’s citizens were subject to a county-administered form of government. The first effort to create a city government was defeated in December ...

March 28, 2017 • Sara Gunasekara

50 Features of Special Collections: Holland Land Company Records

30/50 With the recent rains, the opening of the Sacramento Weir, and the flooded Yolo Bypass, we thought that it was fitting to feature the Holland Land Company Records this week. The following information is drawn from the collection finding aid. Be sure to check out ...

February 9, 2017 • Sara Gunasekara

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