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Encinitas Historical Society outlines plan to digitize schoolhouse archives and make local history accessible

Encinitas City Council · January 1, 2025
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Summary

The Encinitas Historical Society described a volunteer‑driven archiving project to catalog and digitize thousands of local historical materials and to create a searchable database for public use at the 1883 schoolhouse.

Hillel Schwartz, archivist for the Encinitas Historical Society, gave a roughly 20‑minute presentation describing an ongoing project to catalog, photograph, digitize and index a broad collection housed in the 1883 schoolhouse above Pacific View. The society's holdings include thousands of photographs and negatives, oral history interviews (cassette and videotape), newspapers, maps,…

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