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Outstanding in their fields : California's women farmers
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HD6077.2.U62 C26 2005
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Lease for Chinese sharecrop farmers, Butte Country, California
Manuscripts
In this document, Matthew Lynch agrees to lease to Ah Hem, Lem Y.U., and John Ah Sue 17 acres of land near Westwood (east of the future town Oroville, California) to grow potatoes and to supply horses and plows to cultivate the land. The Chinese were to pay Lynch $140 in gold coins and to give him one-third of the potatoes already planted.
mssHM 83414
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California Water Plan. Santa Clara Valley Farmer
Manuscripts
The collection deals primarily with the professional and personal activities of Samuel Brooks Morris, a civil engineer of note in Southern California who was most active from the 1930s into the early 1960s. The collection deals with local (Pasadena and Los Angeles), state and national engineering concerns, largely related to water reclamation, dams, hydrogeology, water litigation, and a wide range of related technical publications. The material consists of a highly diverse mix of manuscripts and printed materials, including correspondence, maps, notes, charts, fliers, and brochures, often interspersed within each folder. The correspondence is primarly to and from colleagues, but also includes discusion with government officials at all levels from local to national. The collection includes a small number of photographs, located in appropriate sections of the collection by subject.
mssMorris, Samuel papers
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J.E. (Joshua Elliot) Clayton letter to the editor of California Farmer
Manuscripts
Clayton voices his concern for the preservation of "the Mammoth Cedars of California." Also included is a photocopy of an article from the newspaper California Farmer, 1856, November 7, which contains a printed version of the letter.
msshm 43199
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California for the settler : the natural advantages of the Golden State for the present day farmer
Rare Books
249669