The archives of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur of the California Province located in Belmont, CA, includes journals, memoirs, newsletters, correspondence, photos, scrapbooks and artifacts from over 150 years of their West Coast history.

Holdings

Official records of the Province
Records about individual schools and convents in California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii
Mission accounts
Individual Sisters' records
Manuscripts and documentation of non-educational ministries
Records about properties.

Non-textual holdings

Approximately 4,000 photographs dated 1860 to the present-copyright not expressly owned by the California Province for most before 1960,
40+ oral history taped interviews (not transcribed)
A number of video interviews
A number of architectural drawings, maps and charts
A sizable collection of artifacts related to the Sisters and their institutions.

Major Subjects

Women's education, 19th and 20th century
U.S. education 1851 to the present
Elementary, secondary and collegiate

History

California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii
Western U.S.
Roman Catholic Church U.S.
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, California Province
Women Religious
History, traditions and institutional practices
Relations with church hierarchy with particular emphasis on opening and closing schools
Vatican II and beyond

Restrictions

Some records and manuscripts are confidential. Please check for specifics. Copying permitted by staff only.

Publication Rights

For many of our archival photographs, copyright has not been assigned to the Sisters of Notre Dame, California Province Archives. To use photographs from our collection, researchers must obtain permission from the copyright holder.

Use of all materials is restricted to research and educational purposes. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital reproductions of original materials.