Manuscripts
History and development of irrigation in northern California with special reference to Glenn County
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Glenn of California
Visual Materials
Dining room furniture set–ups, probably at the show room of furniture maker Glenn of California. Includes expanding dining tables and buffets.
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Official Map of Colusa County California : Compiled and drawn from official surveys by J. B. De Jarnatt
Rare Books
Shows drainage, township, section, and quarter lines, land ownership, ranchos, supervisor and school districts, etc. "Approved and declared the official map of Colusa County, by order of the Board of Supervisors at the Feb'y. session A.D. 1874." Includes tables of distances and statistics.
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Map showing properties of the Bear Valley Irrigation Company and lands which can be irrigated under the Bear Valley System including portions of San Bernardino, San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles Counties, California
Visual Materials
Photograph of a map of Southern California showing territory depicting Bear Valley Irrigation Company and lands which could be irrigated under the Bear Valley System, labeled primarily with rancho names and the Alessandro Tract.
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Origin and early development of irrigation and water rights in the east San Bernardino Valley : offprint
Manuscripts
Article was Bulletin No. 4 for the San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District, Redlands, California. On the cover page, "Irrigation and" in the title is handwritten changing the published title.
mssHM 84206
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Employees - Davis, Glenn W
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: copies of cover and a single page from Elizabeth Taylor - a biography in photographs, with photo and text related to brief dating relationship between Taylor and Glenn Davis; article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1954, "Glenn Davis has new role in gridiron classic"; various items of correspondence related to Davis' - incl. "Mayor's Certificate of Appreciation" signed by Mayor Yorty, 1964; various information sheets on Davis; tear sheet, Civic Center / Downtown News, 9/9/1980, "Bird's eye view of the Claremont Comet" (Glenn Davis); Metro. News section, LAT, 6/19/1960, "Schissler to resign as Times' events director - Glenn Davis, star of gridiron, will take over..."; article copy, Weekend Desert Post, 6/26/1987, "Mr. Outside (Glenn Davis) still known as one of Army's best"; LAT tear sheet, 11/20/1983, "The glory of yesterday," article on Glenn Davis and his teammate at West Point, Felix Blanchard.
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California - Glenn and Mendocino Counties, (including abstract of title for El Cazadero)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Los Angeles businessman Henry Workman Keller (1869-1958) and is comprised of approximately 7985 pieces. Many of the papers are bound together in files so that one item may contain up to 500 or more letters.It includes papers related to land in California and Mexico, agriculture (including materials on the prune and rice industries, irrigation and flood control) in Colusa County, California, and mining (including copper, lead and zinc mines) in Mexico. There are also materials related to the citrus fruit industry, the Automobile Club of Southern California, and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Correspondents represented in the collection include: Harry Chandler, John Page Crutcher, Edward Fletcher, Llewellyn A. Luce, John G. Mott, Epes Randolph, Ygnacio Sepúlveda, Henry H. Timken, and William L. Valentine. Businesses with which Henry Workman Keller (1869-1958) was association which are represented in the collection include: the San Isidro Ranch Company, the Thousand Acre Ranch Company, and the San Manuel Mines Company and its subsidiaries.
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