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Audiovisual material relating to topics on Japanese Internment in California, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under Executive Order 9066. 

Audiovisual material relating to Mexican folk music. A majority of the themed collection contains rehearsal and performance recordings of the Mexican Players at the Padua Hills Theatre. Other material includes recorded oral interviews and histories of Mexican players and hostesses at the Padua Hills Theatre, such as Michaela Jimenez, Gilberto Flores, and Casilda Amador Thoreson. 

Audiovisual material relating to topics about the California homefront during World War II, 1939-1945. A majority of the content consists of recorded oral interviews from workers of the Marinship Coorporation, a shipbuilding company founded in 1942 in Sausalito, California.

Image material relating to the Natomas Water & Mining Company, founded in 1853. A majority of the themed collections consists of maps mining property and irrigation lines along the American and Feather Rivers. 

Audiovisual, image, and text material relating to trains and the railroad. Content includes correspondence between railroad exectives, moving images of trains, and still images of railroad life. Other material consists of ticket stubs, dining car menus, and Southern Pacific bulletins.