Take the Tour | What Is Shades All About?
Links to Other Shades Sites | List of Donors

Welcome to "Shades of Corona!" These pages will give you a glimpse of the over 800 photographs that were added to Corona Public Library's Heritage Room collection through the "Shades" program.

Take the Tour

There are two ways to view these images. You can go directly to the first photograph, full size and captioned, and go on from there to look at all twenty images in this virtual gallery. Or go to the main pages for thumbnails of the photos in the following catagories:

• The Beginning: Early Corona 1896 - 1945
• The Years of Change: Corona 1945 - 1980
• The Years of Growth: Corona since 1980.

Click on each thumbnail to see the full photograph.

To view the complete collection come to the Heritage Room at Corona Public Library. A list is available of all the people who donated photos for the Shades project. To learn more about the "Shades of California" project, keep on reading or look at some of our links to other "Shades" sites.

What Is "Shades" All About?

"Shades of Corona" is part of the statewide "Shades of California" photo history project which is documenting the daily lives and historical, political, and cultural contributions of the diverse communities of California.

"Shades of California" sponsors Photo Days at public libraries throughout the state where people are invited to bring their family albums and personal photograph collections. Community volunteers and project staff select and document photographs which are then copied on-site by professional photographers. These images are archived by the libraries and will be made available to the public at the host libraries. Copies of the photographs will also be maintained at the California State Library.

In Corona, the "Shades of California" grant helped to expand the photograph collection of Heritage Room at the Corona Public Library. The emphasis of the project was to collect photographs from communities that were not represented in existing photograph collections.

Links to Other "Shades" Sites

The California State Library has put together a list of the libraries that are participating in the "Shades of California" project.
http://www.library.ca.gov/CSL_Newsletter/156/156-20.hmtl

One of these libraries was the Riverside Public Library. They have put their photos online.
http://www.ci.riverside.ca.us/museum/exhibit/shades.htm

The L.A. Public Library was the first to do a "Shades" project. You can view part of their large photo collection online. Click on the link below and then choose photo collection.
http://www.lapl.org/elec_neigh/index.html

© 1998  The photographs on this web site are the property of the Corona Public Library. Any use of these materials in publication or printed documents must acknowledge that they are "Courtesy of the Corona Public Library" and the author must have the written permission of the Corona Public Library to publish these materials. The library holds all rights and copyright interests to these photographs.