Suggestions from someone:

• Finding a consultant  Society of American Archivists.

• Starting an Archive - Elizabeth Yakel

• AASLH classes, some free.

• AASLH Free Resources

• IMLS Youtube

• NEDCC Free resources

• Cleaning

  • Taking care of woodwork and look for in NEDCC and NPS,

• National Park Service Conserv O Grams 

  • "Safer Cleaning Alternatives For The Museum & Visitor Center"

  • Conservogram for silver and Silverware youtube tutorial 

• PROTECT YOURSELF!

  • Heavy metals in stereocards and books - orange, green, yellow beware!

• IMLS Museums for Digital Learning Webinar

  • Museums for IMLS Webinars Digital Learning 

  • Participating Museums and sign up

  • History Colorado Resource Kit

  • Resource Kit Planning Guide

  • Info@MuseumsForDigitalLearning.org

  • Stanford SPICE

  • UCB History-Social Science Project

AALSH

The Shinn family's archives are in many locations across the region, state, and country. 

Note also: Dr. Robert Fisher's collections are split up and in multiple archives. Researchers who wish to learn about the Shinn Family need to know that there are Shinn family items in multiple archives in Fremont -  the Fremont Main library in the Maurice Marks section, the Museum of Local History, and the Shinn Museum.

Copies available of some references in the Shinn Museum library.

• Check wikipedia for Charles Howard Shinn and Milicent Shinn for links to books and articles.

• The Story of the Files by Ella Sterling Cummins; 1982 reprint in Shinn museum; much easier to scan the online version for 'Shinn' to find reference to Charles and Milicent. Includes the history of the early journals. Chapters on the Californian, Argonaut, Overland Monthly. Various poems. Good place to locate articles written by Charles and Milicent.

• Charles Howard Shinn's library sold in 1917

• Biography of a Baby 1900 Read on Google Books Milicent Shinn Read on LOC gold cover, UCB

• The "Overland Monthly" Under Milicent Washburn Shinn, 1883-1894: A Study in Regional Publishing," Grant Skelley thesis. 1968 Proquest. 

• Untold Lives: The First Generation of American Women Psychologists, Scarborough and Furumoto, Google books, 1987; An honor to be included. However the chapter "The Family Claim: Ties that Bound Milicent Shinn" ignored the work with the ACA that Milicent continued after her PhD. It ignored her 1907 publication. It also ignores the family dynamics, because Joseph, Florence, and a nurse also cared for Grandma Lucy.

•  Female Networks for Science: Programs and Politics 2012 Christine Von Oertzen. According to von Oertzen, she encountered Milicent when she wrote this book. The International Federation of University Women was formed in 1918-1919. It was founded by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA which was later the AAUW, the American Association of University Women.  WWI changed the agenda of the ACA. "Of education in judgment, in width of view, in knowledge, in tolerance, in a sense of proportion among individuals, and in mutual respect and sympathy and mutual help and cooperation among the peoples of the world. We believe that this is the beginning of the organized training of women to be citizens of the world, and through women, of men too, . . . in short, the enterprise of preparing some portion of human material for the League of Nations that is to be. "

• Science in the Cradle: Milicent Shinn and Her Home-Based Network of Baby Observers, 1890–1910, Christine Von Oertzen; 2013 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany; Wiley Online Library; Von Oertzen covers Milicent's work with the ACA and home-based baby studies. She discovered Milicent from the international branch of the ACA, the pre-cursor of the AAUW.

• Far More Than Dutiful Daughter: Milicent Shinn's Child Study and Education Advocacy After 1898, Dr. Elissa Rodkey; 2016 Crandall University, New Brunswick, Canada; available from APA PsychNet or Taylor Francis Online. Dr. Rodkey covers Milicent's later work and explores the family dynamics.

• “We Feminine Foresters”: Women, Conservation, and the USDA Forest Service, 1850-1970 includes Julia Shinn, wife of Charles. Mentions an article June 1930 American Forests and Forest Life about Shinn, Julia T. “The Ranger’s Boss.”  The limited search turned up this.

• 100 Years Of Federal Forestry in the US.

• Sweet Peas of Civility

• The University of California, Its Women, and the Schools

• We were interviewed in 2023 by Jiayu Jeng of KTSF26 on May 5, 2023 and May 12, 2023 How fun! And yes, the ginkgo did fall down shortly thereafter.

• Where Women Made History - Milicent Shinn

• NEH toolkit

• The Story of the Shinn Ranch  (Kathryn Kasch, descendant of Charles Howard Shinn)

• Joshua Fong's memoirs include recollections about his family ties in the area when his family came after 1917. The Reverend Fong So-Yick and his wife Low He Wan (Annie) came to California because of religious persecution. They had cousins and uncles who worked for the Shinn Ranch and the California Nursery Company. Joshua Fong said that he drove the cherry truck for harvest. Eventually the Fongs had a farm in current day northern Fremont off of Fremont Boulevard near Beard Road.

• Shinn-anigans blog is about the Shinn family, Washington Township in the 1800s, and beyond!

• The The Illustrated Shinns is an old project, newly revived to blog on bits of interesting Shinn history.

• Charles Howard Shinn's wikipedia page was created by a Shinn House volunteer.  Frequent updates and checks are done on the accuracy of the updates. However be mindful that anyone can update wikipedia and so you should always check the references.

• Charles Shinn's Library what did he read and what did he sell in 1917?

• Milicent Shinn's page was created by a neighbor and has been updated by a Shinn House volunteer as well as others.

• The history of the Shinn family in Europe and America / Josiah Hazen Shinn We've noticed some inaccuracies, such as where Annie was born. She was born in Red Rock according to many family documents and the census records.

• Thomas Mayhew patriarch to the Indians (1593-1682) The life of the worshipful governor and chief magistrate of the island of Martha's vineyard

• Salted Tories. The Story of the Whaling Fleets of San Francisco We have noted that the Oakland Tribune has mentioned Lloyd Hare in a couple of articles about the Mayhews. His name Lloyd Hare AKA Lloyd C.M. Hare AKA.
  More on Mayhews 1946,  

Josiah Royce Historian in Quest of Community Royce was Anna Head's brother-in-law. His sister lived in Newark. The Shinn archives have a picture of him visiting Milicent and Joe. He was a celebrated orator. He attended Cal. PhD from Johns Hopkins. Harvard.

The California Revealed Partner Institution page is here. Items on this California State Library project are also hosted on Calisphere and on the Internet Archive. If you want to search within the WTMOLH archives, it is best to use the Internet Archive project. For example, here is a search for Shinn that reveals many Shinn items held by the Museum.

Maps

Local

• Inventory of the State Land Office Records anything in here?

• MapRank Search is really great! You can input your location and select dates and find maps of those eras. Georeference from there to find out where locates were in today's landscape.

• HistoricAerials lets you select a location and then step through time. Great for watching Alameda Creek change over time.

• Diseños

• 1833 The Harbour of San Francisco, Nueva California. Views: The Entrance to San Francisco Harbour

• 1844 Port De San Francisco Dans La Haute Californie.

• 1849 Wichtigsten Hafen und Rheden, Goldregion von Californien.

• 1853 San Lorenzo for Addison Crane Higley 

• 1852 Initiatory survey of the lands of the "Mission San Jose" [Calif.] : under an order of the U.S. Land Commissioner dated April 1, 1852 / surveyed in the month of May 1852 under an order of the U.S. Surveyor Gena., dated April 28th, 1852 by C.C. Tracy, U.S. Deputy Surveyor for Pico

• 1852 Farallones, San Francisco Bay.

• 1863 ex-Mission San José from UC Berkeley which has other interesting suggestions for maps

• 1871 Routes from San Francisco to the Yosemite Valley.

• 1873: The hard-to-find 1873 Allardt map of Alameda County; Yale; shows the original 1866 railroad into Alameda Cañon which was abandoned around 1870.

• 1873: South Sheet: Map Of The Region Adjacent To The Bay Of San Francisco. Shows Shinn, Beard, Indian Mounds

• 1878: Thompson and West no. 4 and no. 5. Handy from those pages are "Related" and "Thumbnails" which look pretty similar. Also the Georeference button is really fun to see what's there today. Not always totally accurate, but pretty close. Stuart Guedon and Dr. Fisher reprinted this book in black and white in 1976 so you can see the text as well as the maps. 

• Detail of Washington Corners and Vallejo Mills Thompson & West 1878

• Alameda County 1880 Oakland Daily & Weekly Tribune - David Rumsey. You can print from David Rumsey or find it here, too.

• 1889 Map of Alameda County - 

• 1910 Southern Pacific Timetable with map. The second rail line through the ranch was SP.

• 1915 Western Pacific timetable.

• The  1996 USGS Geologic map of Alameda County

• David Rumsey Map Rank App. Plug in Fremont California, make the sider show only the era that you want.

• Someday, we will figure out how to find the really old survey maps on the Alameda County Public Works website

• Online USGS Topo maps

• Photos of ships and Oakland in 1887

Elsewhere Maps

• Kyoto historic maps Find where the Japanese nursery was located in 1876.

General Maps

• Topo

Rain

• The 1955 Flood map Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-54  shows that the cottage and Milicent's house were not flooded. 

• Guide to Bay Creeks page on 1955 flood

• J.C. Shinn's Rain book 

Assessors

• Assessors maps from MOLH 

• Abstract of Lands ex-Mission San Jose

• Current Assessors maps

Geography

• Alameda Creek Watershed Historical Ecology Study. You can download the whole book for free.

Archives

• California State Archives

Below is a portion of the large aerial photo of the Niles area from 1934 or 1937 depending on who you ask. This aerial was in the Bank of the West next to Palo Alto Medical Facility for years. They closed the branch and the Museum of Local History now has the aerial.

In red is one portion of the Shinn property. The Shinn House is to the left of the label and not covered by this aerial. 

At this time, the Shinn Pit was getting quarried. Today it is full of water and is called Shinn Pond.

The Yellow arrow is approximately where the China Camp was located. This still needs confirmation. 

The Shinn Cottage also needs to be located.  It was moved near the Shinn House along with Milicent's house when that area was quarried.

Where was Shinn Lake, we've wondered for years. Perhaps it was the widened area of Alameda Creek below the Shinn Pit.

And now where was Shinn Island and where is the referece to it?  Perhaps it was upstream of Shinn Pond where the stream was braded through the trees.

• Fruitful Legacy NPS 

• Heritage Orchard Conference 2023-2024 recordings

• 1915 study on Apricots in Niles

• Solano county (has great fruit drying picture)

• Niles Fruit Cooperative - in archives

• California Business Ephemera Collection, California Historical Society has Chiuda & Botto records

• Tankhouse: see online tour for history

• House: We don't know where the house design came from. There are several ideas. Perhaps the design came from a model home from the newspaper, such as the one in the Russian River Flag below.  Pattern IX is very similar and an architect might have bought the plans and then made modifications as needed. However, the house was built in 1876 and Palliser's book was published about 1878. However, the the pattern could have existed earlier than 1878 and was available through the newspaper. Farmington CT was only about x miles away from Stratford CT

Archival Accessioning Best Practices from AASLH

Ethnic Studies Mandate for California

EDsite

UCB History-Social Science Project 

MOCA Heros no 2 - Chinese Railroad Workers

Behind the Big House The Chinese workers were not slaves, but there may be some interesting ways to present this history.

Lucy and James met in Platteville Wisconsin. Lucy was a school teacher at Platteville Academy

Two Years Before the Mast with the closest that Richard Henry Dana made it to Mission San Jose while in the SF Bay Area somewhere between 1834 and 1836.

CPF Crowdfunding Historic Preservation: Direct Public Offerings and Other Ways to Raise Funds

Save America's Treasures Grant One for preservation projects (for properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places for national significance or designated a National Historic Landmark. The property may be listed on either individually or as contributing to a nationally significant district). These awards are managed by the National Park Service.

Transcribing help from the National Archives