Manuscripts

Material regarding the Valle family and Rancho Camulos, Ventura County, California

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Description: The group of items consists of claims, certificates of redemption, deeds, promises to pay, and letters all related to the Valle family, Rancho Camulos, and other land they owned in Ventura, Los Angeles, and Riverside counties. Valle family members represented in the collection are Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle, Ysabel Del Valle, Ulpiano Del Valle, Ygnacio Del Valle, and Josefa Del Valle de Forster. Also included are two wine labels from the family's winery.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1860-1915.
Call number: mssHM 68343-68349
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, September 1965.
Associated people: Del Valle, Reginaldo F. (1854-1938.)
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[Del Valle family portrait]

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Five members of the Del Valle family seated on a bench. There is an older woman, Ysabel Valera Del Valle, three boys, and a man, Reginaldo Del Valle (son of Ysabel).

photCL 504

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An image of a large group seated around a cloth-covered table set out under the grape arbor at Camulos. Josefa Del Valle is seated at left and is wearing a hat. Reginaldo Del Valle is seated on the right.

photCL 504

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California Courts, Supreme Court. To Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle: certificate of Admission to practice as Attorney

Manuscripts

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.

HM 43970

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Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle papers

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mssDelvalle

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Liga Protectora Latina. To Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle: Diploma de Honor

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HM 43971

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Portraits of Reginaldo del Valle family and friends

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Portrait photographs of members of the Del Valle family of Southern California and friends taken by various Los Angeles and San Francisco photographers in the late 19th century. Portraits include Mrs. Ignacio Del Valle and Reginaldo del Valle (photPF 20168); Isabella Del Valle, photograph by Taber (photPF 20169); a group portrait of the Del Valle family by F. G. Schumacher (photPF 20170); Maria de Jesus Sue Wilson Shorb, daughter of Don Benito Wilson, photograph by Morse (photPF 20171); Edward L. Watkins, photograph by V. Wolfenstein (photPF 20172); a group portrait of the Watkins family, 1890, by Westervelt (photPF 20173); William Sanford Banning, as a child (photPF 20174); the Newmark family, photograph by Elite (photPF 20175); and a photograph of Ignacio J. F. Forster as a baby, photograph by Marceau (photPF 20175).

photPF 20168-20175

Material regarding the Valle family and Rancho Camulos, Ventura County, California

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