Sutter County Museum Past Exhibits - 2007
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What's Going On? - Vietnam Exhibit
The traveling exhibit What's Going On? – California and the Vietnam Era opens on Friday,
October 12 with a reception and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Community Memorial Museum
in Yuba City. What's Going On? provides a timely examination of the impact of the Vietnam War
on California life and culture. Home to numerous defense contractors and military training centers,
the state also served as the primary portal for both returning soldiers and Southeast Asian
immigrants following the fall of Saigon. As the epicenter of the war's home front, California
became a hotbed of social and political movements that spread across the country.
The exhibit focuses on events in California from the 1950s Cold War era to the present, with special
emphasis on the tumultuous years from the Vietnam conflict's escalation in 1965 through its end in
1975. During that time, California was the epicenter of the war’s domestic front. The state was the
staging ground for most of the nation's defense contractors, the location of principal military
centers where troops were trained and transported, and the base of legendary peace protests and New
Right politics ushered in by Reagan’s gubernatorial election in 1966.
The exhibit includes historical artifacts, photographs, and documents interwoven with oral histories
contributed by veterans, activists, and former refugees. What's Going On? gives visitors an opportunity
to consider and ask questions about this important period in our nation’s history. It will remain at
the Community Memorial Museum through November 25.
The exhibit tour was organized by the California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA) in concert with the
Oakland Museum of California. CERA is a network of professionally operated museum and cultural organizations
that collaborate to create and tour smaller, affordable, high quality exhibitions that enhance civic
engagement and human understanding. CERA is generously support by The William Randolph Hearst Foundation
and the Irvine Foundation.
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The Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County and the Yuba College Photo Guild
presents: Recent Photographs. This stunning collection of work from local photographers
runs from August 31 through September 28, 2007.
Photographs by the students of the Yuba College Photography Department: Eric Baral,
Richard Jacobo, Faith Barker, Carl Lindmark, Heidi Carothers, Sara Mortimer, Alex Cervantes,
Jordan Poe, Warren Crocker, Sharon Powers, Javier Del Rio, Patricia Larsen Reilly,
Dawn DeTomasi, Leland Reusser, Kristen Dover, Mirella Santana, Gary Dughi,
Jessica Shewmake, Rachel Fulmer and Herschel Todd.
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Photographic Exhibit by Local Photographers - Circa 1900
This exhibit is now open and will run through to the end of August. Admission
is free. It highlights the work of local photographers and their subjects. The
photographs are circa 1900 and they are from the museum's collection.
Before photography became a hobby available to all, photographs were planned
projects. To have a picture made, you went to see a professional photographer.
You dressed in your best clothes, adopted a somber position, and held your
position - to move meant blurring the picture and runing the exposure. Taking
a trip from the western part of the county into Marysville to have your picture
made would mean making an all day trip to town and back and possibly staying
the night before heading back to the homestead.
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Forgotten Photos at Museum
Rondal Partridge began helping his mother, photographer Imogen Cunningham,
in the darkroom with her platinum printing when he was five. During the 1930s
he worked as a photographic assistant to Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange, both of
whom strongly influenced his work. Partridge was part of the National Youth
Administration before striking out on his own. The museum is pleased to present
his stunning work in the exhibit From the Byways to the Highways: Rondal Partridge
Photographs California 1936 - 1969. It opens on May 18 and remains through July 8.
The six sections of California photos include early influences, California rodeo,
rural Depression shots on location with Dorothea Lange, urban pastimes and politics,
postwar expansion, and prosperity and pollution.
Partridge, a Berkeley octogenarian, looks at photography as a life of learning. There
is an accompanying catalog, Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge
available in the Museum Store.
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Picture This: Marysville’s Forgotten Photographer
A new exhibit at the Community Memorial Museum in Yuba City features photographs of the
local area from about 1900 into the 1940s. A nearly forgotten photographer, Clyde O. Taylor,
photographed the people and events of life in our small community one hundred years ago.
The photos lay in an old cardboard box until they were passed on to the museum by a distant
relative of Taylor. This thoughtful gift opened up the world of the early 20th century in a
way not seen before.
Taylor was a man of diverse talents who was a fireman, a movie projectionist, ran a delivery
business and an “electric hospital” and, ultimately, a gun repair and locksmith shop. No
matter what endeavor he engaged in, he continued to make photographs of people and events in
our area. He photographed everyday aspects of life, such as dogs and children, and
extraordinary events like fires, floods, snow and celebrations including parades and social
events.
The exhibit called Picture This: Marysville’s Forgotten Photographer, will remain at the
Community Memorial Museum through March 16. Museum open hours are Tuesday through Friday from
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free.
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Please join us in welcoming the author of the new biography of John Sutter, Albert Hurtado,
a native of Sacramento who is Professor of Modern American History at the University of
Oklahoma. He will be at the Museum to discuss his new biography of John Sutter and to sign
copies of the book.
John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier by Albert L. Hurtado, on Saturday,
January 27, 2007 2:00 p.m. at the Community Memorial Museum.
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