It’s time for spring cleaning!  Still have lots of photos from AT at Camp Roberts, Camp San Luis Obispo or Fort Irwin?  Is your digital camera or computer full of photos from your last deployment? Need to get rid of all that history in the bottom of your closet?

Well, the California National Guard has established a Joint Image Library at the California State Military Museum.  The library will collect, conserve and make available to the historians, researchers and the general public,  photographs and digital images depicting the military history of the State of California in general and the California National Guard (to include the Militia, Volunteers, State Guard, State Military Reserve, and Naval Militia) in particular.

Those units and individuals who wish to donate photo albums or digital images on CD/DVD/Flash Drive should prepare a photo log or at write on the reverse of the photograph with a No. 2 or softer pencil as much information as possible about the image.

Photographs in albums will be removed, conserved and placed into archival sleeves and binders.  Those albums donated by an individual will have their contents kept together when possible in a separate binder and cataloged as a separate collection and named after the donor.  An example is provided as noted below:

49^th Separate Infantry Brigade:  SFC John Doe Collection, Headquarters and Headquarters Company Annual Training Camp San Luis Obispo, 1970

The museum is also maintaining images of California installations, ships  with California names (USS California, USS Los Angeles, USS Mariano Vallejo, etc.) and those military units and individuals with strong California ties (i.e. 91^st Division, GEN George Patton, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, etc.)

Separate photographs, CD/DVDs, Flash Drives, and or Photo Albums should be sent to the California State Military Museum, ATTN: Joint Image Library, 1119 2^nd Street, Sacramento, CA  95814

The finding aid for this image library is located at www.militarymuseum.org/imagelibrary.html.