Qualla: Faces in the Glass https://qualla.com/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/c/w/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Faces in the Glass https://qualla.com/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county Faces in the Glass: Introduction https://qualla.com/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county/ Photo credit Jhougen, CC BY-SA 4.0. When the Odd Fellows' Hall at Third and D Streets in Marysville was demolished in the 1970s, no one thought much about what was stored inside. Scattered among the debris were glass plate negatives -- hundreds of them -- recording the faces of Yuba-Sutter residents stretching back to the 1860s. Photographers had worked out of that building for nearly a century, from L.J. Stinson in the Civil War years to Earl Cilley in the 1930s, each leaving behind fragile plates that captured miners, merchants, families, and children in silver and glass. Some of the negatives were lost. Others found their way to a small museum on Butte House Road in Yuba City, where a photographer named Allan Lamb spent hundreds of hours scanning and printing them. The portraits he recovered -- sharp, luminous, startlingly intimate -- became an exhibition called "Portraits From Glass: Faces of Yuba-Sutter." The building that housed those negatives is gone. The faces survived.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/c/w/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county-wp/9qcw-faces-in-the-glass-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Faces in the Glass: A Gift on Butte House Road https://qualla.com/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county/ Photo credit Jhougen, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Sutter County Museum exists because two people decided their community deserved a place to remember itself. Howard and Norma Harter, along with the Sutter County Historical Society and other private donors, funded the construction of a museum at 1333 Butte House Road in Yuba ...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/c/w/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county-wp/9qcw-faces-in-the-glass-a-gift-on-butte-house-road.mp3 0:06 2 full Faces in the Glass: The People Who Were Here First https://qualla.com/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county/ Photo credit Jhougen, CC BY-SA 4.0. The museum's most significant permanent exhibit tells a story that predates the Gold Rush by thousands of years. "The Nisenan: A History of the Sacramento Valley" was created in partnership with tribal members and includes artifacts specifically made for display -- not relics ext...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/c/w/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county-wp/9qcw-faces-in-the-glass-the-people-who-were-here-first.mp3 0:06 3 full Faces in the Glass: From Sutter's Ambition to Sutter County's Harvest https://qualla.com/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county/ Photo credit Jhougen, CC BY-SA 4.0. The county takes its name from John Sutter, the Swiss-born entrepreneur whose sprawling land grant, Rancho New Helvetia, anchored European settlement in the Sacramento Valley. Sutter's story is one of ambition undone by the very discovery that made his name famous: the Gold Rush ...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/c/w/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county-wp/9qcw-faces-in-the-glass-from-sutters-ambition-to-sutter-countys-harvest.mp3 0:06 4 full Faces in the Glass: Small Museum, Long Memory https://qualla.com/community-memorial-museum-of-sutter-county/ Photo credit Jhougen, CC BY-SA 4.0. County museums rarely make headlines, and the Sutter County Museum is no exception. It does not hold a Rembrandt or a dinosaur skeleton. What it holds is harder to replace: the specific, granular, unglamorous memory of a single place. The glass plate negatives rescued from the Od...

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