Main Street, Boulder Creek
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Boulder Creek's main street with view of BCMA and the U.S. Post Office
Elston, Deborah Maddock
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1914-07
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Boulder Creek
1910s
Marilyn Hummel: Bonny Doon History and Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve
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Marilyn Hummel (1927-2013) was a resident of Bonny Doon from 1968 until her death in 2013.
Adapted from her obituary:
Marilyn Hummel held strong beliefs in the importance of social justice and environmental protection. She served as President of the League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz County; officer in the Rural Bonny Doon Association; office manager and Executive Committee member of the Santa Cruz Group of the Ventana Chapter of the Sierra Club; member of the Santa Cruz County Planning Commission; and member and Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the Santa Cruz County Housing Authority.
One of her most significant personal accomplishments was saving an isolated and fragile outcropping of the Santa Cruz Sand Hills. As private citizens, Marilyn and a small group of other dedicated volunteers worked for years to halt the clearing of what would later be recognized by the state as one of the ten most important botanical sites in California. The area is now forever protected as the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve.
Contents:
Box #1 - Bonny Doon history: interviews, photos, history of schools, businesses, fire department, etc.
Box #2 - Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve: background material
Box #3 - Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve: correspondence, reports, etc.
Box #4 - Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve: court documents and related BDER documents
Access & Use: The Hummel files are open for research use. Appointments to view the collection can be made by contacting the library. Permission to publish materials must be requested from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Hummel, Marilyn
Donated by Natalia Flechsig, July 2019
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
circa 1980-2000
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5 linear feet (4 boxes)
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Bonny Doon
1980s
1990s
2000s
Starr Pait Gurcke: Translations of pre-statehood documents
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This is a collection of translations by Starr Pait Gurcke of California pre-statehood documents.
Starr Pait was born in San Jose in 1911. She graduated from San Jose State and received a master’s degree in Germanic languages from Stanford. She married Werner Gurcke, a German citizen, in 1936 in Santa Cruz. Starr Pait Gurcke translated documents concerning Mission Santa Cruz and Villa de Branciforte for local historians and the County of Santa Cruz. She died in Santa Cruz in 1997. Her family’s story is told in the book “We Were Not the Enemy” by her daughter Heidi Gurcke Donald.
UCSC Special Collections has a complete set of Starr Gurke's research papers and copies of her translations. The following list from UCSC includes the names of the collections where she found documents about Villa de Branciforte and Santa Cruz.<br /><br />Translations of pre-statehood documents: Villa de Branciforte, 1797-1859 Santa Cruz Mission Annual & Biennial Reports, 1791-1840 County of Santa Cruz - collection of early documents, ca. 1844-1865 Alcalde of the Villa de Branciforte, 1st & 2nd Constitutional Court - January-May, 1844, etc. Santa Barbara Mission Archives - H L. Lummis House Account Book of Mission Santa Cruz, 1792-1822 Mission Santa Cruz Reports, 1806, 1809, 1833 General Inventory of the Mission Santa Cruz, Aug.24, 1834 Miscellaneous letters from Santa Barbara Mission Archives - 1794, 1809-1844; from the De la Guerra Collection, Santa Barbara Mission Archives - 1815-1834; Mission Santa Cruz Letters - 1813; From the estate of Rosario Curletti, Santa Barbara Mission Archives Bancroft Library - Present Condition of California - General Report to the Viceroy, May 11, 1796 by Fr. Isidro Alonzo Salazar; "Priest's letters and Mission Accounts" - Santa Cruz - 1807-1846; Letters from BL Vallejo XXIX p.153 (1826), 232 (1838), 276 (1838), 489 (1824) Archivo General de la Nacion Mexico - "Year of 1803 Californias - Jose Marcelino Bravo & other settlers of the Villa de Branciforte - concerning their moving to the site of Corralitos 6 Leagues distant from the Villa" - Bravo Expediente San Francisco Chancery Archives - Letters concerning Mission Santa Cruz #234-768 - 1799-1817; #774-1399-2 - 1816-1820; #878-1660 - 1818-1824; Priest's Letters - 1816-1827 Huntington Library - Letters concerning Mission Santa Cruz - 1812-1852 Wallace B. Stevens Collection, University of Texas - Copy of the Report of the Royal Exchange and Minister in charge of the 2nd Naval Department concerning a new settlement in California titled "Branciforte" - 11/17/1795 - 12/17/1795; "Expediente concerning the Erection of the Villa de Branciforte in New California" - 1976, 1977, 1798, 1799, 1800-1803; J. S. Majors Original Grant from Governor Alvarado - 1839-1841 Monterey County Archives, Vallejo Collection - v.1 Criminal (ca. 1807-1833); #1-7/89, 401-586; 439-507 to 1807-1833; v.2 Criminal (1835-1837) #1-142; 143-256 to 1835-1837 MAMC Mexican Archives - Monterey County - Miscellaneous letters; Bolcoff Letters.<br /><br />For a complete description of the Starr P. Gurcke Papers at UCSC see <a href="http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82n53g3/">Inventory of the Starr P. Gurcke Papers</a>
Access & Use: The Gurcke notebooks are open for research use. Appointments to view the collection can be made by contacting the library. Permission to publish materials must be requested from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Gurcke, Starr
Gift of the Gurcke Family; received from Heidi Gurcke Donald, June 2019.
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Circa 1965-1990
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Santa Cruz (County)
California
Great Register of the County of Santa Cruz, California, for 1890
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Transcribed, annotated and edited by Stanley D. Stevens.
"This compilation contains a transcription of the Great Register for 1890 that has been annotated and edited to include the missing data that was not published in the three-volume 'California 1890 Great Register of Voters Index'" [from the introduction].
Revised edition 4/28/2019 (originally published 3/1/2010).
Stevens, Stanley
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
2019-04-28
Reproduced with permission of the author.
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Santa Cruz (County)
1890s
First City Hall, 1966
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The first City Hall for Scotts Valley and the Scotts Valley Police Department were both in the same building on Scotts Valley Drive.
Seapy, Donald
Scotts Valley Historical Society
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1966
Copyright, 2001 by Donald E Seapy.
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Scotts Valley City Seal
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Simons, Wendell
Scotts Valley Historical Society
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1966
Copyright, 1966 City of Scotts Valley.
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1960s
Scotts Valley City Limits Sign with Council Members
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Scotts Valley City Limits sign with city officials and council members. Left to right: man unknown, Harry Wiens, woman unknown, Agnes Lewis, Mayor Bill Graham, man unknown, C.R. Roberson
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Scotts Valley Banner
Scotts Valley Historical Society
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1966
Copyright, 1966, Scotts Valley Banner.
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Scotts Valley
1960s
Friend Stone, Second Scotts Valley Mayor
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Friend W. Stone, second Scotts Valley Mayor from 1971-1975and the first Scotts Valley City Manager.
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Scotts Valley Historical Society
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1978-03
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1970s
Scotts Valley Sign
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Scotts Valley sign with population and elevation. Two boys standing underneath are Johnny Morgan and Chip Cureton, in 1952.
Contreras, Trini
Scotts Valley Historical Society
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1952
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Scotts Valley
1950s
1976 Scotts Valley Cavalcade Program
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Bicentennial Cavalcade of Santa Cruz County, 1976 July 31 - August 7, souvenir program with photos of government officials.
Dingman, Rolland
Scotts Valley Historical Society
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1976
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Scotts Valley
1970s