Manuscripts
Certificate, Diploma, and Map
- Description
- A collection of 371 items from 1835 to 1938, which contains letters, manuscripts, documents, and maps, in both English and Spanish, related to the life and career of Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle. It includes material on California politics and government, water resources, agriculture in the Owens Valley, the St. Francis Dam disaster, Stephen Mallory White, the Del Valle family (including a copy of the will of Ygnacio del Valle) and the William Mulholland Memorial. There are also land papers for the Camulos Ranch in Ventura County, California.
- Production date
- 1835-1938.
- Call number
- mssDelvalle
- Provenance
- Gift of Lucretia Grady, June 1940.
- Purchased from James Smalldon, March 1965.
