Four downtown Sacramento institutions are throwing open doors that stay locked the rest of the year this Saturday, letting the public wander into archive storage vaults and flip through records dating back to the mid-1800s. The free, 16th annual Sacramento Archives Crawl runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 17, with no ticket required and free shuttles connecting every stop.
The event unfolds at the California State Archives, California State Library, Center for Sacramento History and the Sacramento Room at the Sacramento Public Library, according to the Center for Sacramento History. Visitors can start and finish at any of the four main sites, and free bus transportation is provided between all of them, the center notes. As KCRA reports, the crawl gives the public access to greater Sacramento’s documented history, archive storage areas and rarely seen special collections, including city, county and personal collection records dating to the mid-1800s.
Kim Hayden, an archivist at the Center for Sacramento History, told KCRA that the center’s mission is straightforward: preserve records and make sure the public can actually get to them. “If you’re a history lover, you’re gonna love it. If you’re not a history lover, you might be surprised,” Hayden said, according to the outlet.
What’s Happening at Each Stop
At the Center for Sacramento History, storage vault tours begin every half hour starting at 10 a.m., with the last tour departing at 3:30 p.m., according to Sacramento City Express. Over at the Sacramento Room, history doctoral candidate Abbygale Principe of UC Riverside will discuss the first wave of Filipino immigration to the Central Valley and Sacramento area, with that presentation running from 1 to 2 p.m., the outlet reports…