EA 20 Nature, Culture, and Society

Curated for EA 20, this virtual exhibit contains digitized versions of materials found in Special Collections.  These items are to help course students complete their final project, Deconstructing Claremont.

Materials in this virtual exhibit include primary sources spanning 1872 to 2017 and cover a variety of topics including:

  • Tongva indigenous people
  • Rancho San José, the precursor to the City of Claremont
  • 1880s boosterism materials
  • citrus industry
  • early water and power efforts in the area
  • 1916 and 1938 flood photographs
  • ground water information
  • local water issues

Be sure to refer to the EA 20 course guide created for this class.  It contains a wealth of links to digitized content and descriptions of relevant archival collections not yet digitized.

Credits

Digital exhibit created by Lisa Crane, Western Americana Manuscripts Librarian