Manuscripts
Letters and reminiscences on Ventura County, Calif
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Thomas R. Bard letter to Rev. Lawrence F. Bower
Manuscripts
Letter from Thomas R. Bard on United States Senate letterhead to the Reverend Lawrence F. Bower answering a query as to when he took his seat in the Senate. Included is a contemporary newspaper clipping about the Senator and a mounted photograph.
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Thomas Robert Bard papers (Addenda)
Manuscripts
The addenda consists of correspondence, letterbooks, account books, and other documents related to the business activities and political interests of Thomas Robert Bard. Subject matter includes the following: The Union Oil Company, its subsidiaries, and the petroleum industry in California; local and national politics from 1870-1915; Indian affairs in the Ventura County area; and land, development, and the growth of businesses in Ventura County.
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Diaries and account books related to oil drilling in Ventura County, Calif
Manuscripts
Five account books and diaries kept by Charles Barnard while he was drilling oil wells in Ventura County, California. Includes a description of the first oil well at Devil's Canyon, excerpts from various drilling guides consulted by Barnard, and the names and addresses of Barnard's business contacts. The diaries cover the years 1889-1891 and 1891-1892. Also includes a printed almanac related to drilling (1883).
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Ventura County (Calif.). Letter to Ernest Braunton
Manuscripts
The collection contains 69 items. There are three manuscripts, including an essay about horticulturist Theodore Payne and a poem read before the Illinois Association of Los Angeles, California. The 40 items in the correspondence section are arranged by author. Most of the correspondence is composed of replies to Ernest Braunton's inquiries regarding various horticultural statistic and facts. Other letters, including those from Walter Raymond, are in regard to the operation and dissolution of the Southern California Horticultural Society. The 26 items in the ephemera section are arranged alphabetically by type. The majority of the ephemera are records and documents of the Southern California Horticultural Society. There is also a pamphlet on Point Lomos, California. Subjects in the collection include: history of agriculture in California; Horticulturalists of California; and history of horticulture in California.
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Ventura County
Visual Materials
The collection consists of photographs (the majority of which are housed in two photograph albums), negatives, published material, and ephemera that depict locations throughout California and the Western United States. Many of these were locations where Frank Rolfe, a geologist, worked on various surveys, including the Los Angeles aqueduct survey. The collection contains two photograph albums: one depicts the initial Los Angeles aqueduct survey, the second contains photographs of Los Angeles (central Los Angeles and neighborhoods where Rolfe and his wife lived), the San Gabriel Valley and other locations in Los Angeles County (Devil's Gate Dam, the San Gabriel Mountains, the St. Francis Dam and San Francisquito Canyon), San Bernardino County (the San Bernardino Mountains, Big Bear Lake), Riverside County (the Coachella Valley, Tahquitz Canyon, the Temescal Valley, Riverside, the San Jacinto Mountains), Kern County, and commercially produced images of Yosemite. Boxes 3 and 4 contain negatives; viewing of the negatives must be arranged with the Curator of Photographs. The negatives depict street scenes in central Los Angeles, including the wrecking of the Temple Block, the Amestoy Block, the Hall of Records, and Bunker Hill. Also included are views of the West Adams neighborhood; houses where Rolfe and his wife lived in the 1920s and 30s; the snowstorm of 1932; and the 1920 Inglewood earthquake. The collection also includes images of Hollywood and vicinity (including a number of photographs of the Mulholland Dam and images of Brentwood and Bel Air); Santa Monica (including the Santa Monica Mountains and Decker Canyon); Santa Catalina Island; north Los Angeles County (including the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, the ruins of the Saint Francis Dam and San Francisquito Canyon, and the golden spike celebration at Lang); the San Gabriel Valley (including many views of the San Gabriel Mountains); Orange County (including Modjeska's home, Santiago Canyon, San Juan Capistrano, the Puente hills, and Santa Ana Canyon); San Diego County; San Bernardino County (including a number of photographs of mining camps, including Ivanpah and Camp Roach; construction of the Ludlow and Southern Railway; and mining operations, such as the Bagdad Chase Mine and the Bagdad Mining and Milling Company); Riverside County (including the Temescal Tin Mine, Temescal and the Temescal Valley, Hog Lake, the San Jacinto River, Mount San Jacinto, and Idyllwild); Ventura County; Kern County (images of the Kern River); Inyo County; Yosemite; northern California (including Stanford and Susie Lake); Nevada (Truckee River dam projects); Oregon; Washington; Utah; Glacier Park, Montana; people (Rolfe, his family and friends); and miscellaneous photographs (a number of desert views, mostly Southern California). The collection also contains commercial photographs of the Rolfe family, many in carte-de-visite format. The ephemerial materials consist of a letter written in 1862 from Sutter Creek by Rolfe's father Ovid to his brother Alfred in Dorchester, Massachusetts; biographical sketches of members of the Rolfe family; clippings compiled by Rolfe; Rolfe's high school and college diplomas; card files on Rolfe family history, covered wagons in Los Angeles, and Temescal history; and negative books.
photCL 400 volume 12
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1901-1923
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of correspondence related to Thomas R. Bard's leadership of the Union Oil Company, its subsidiaries, and other enterprises with which Bard was concerned. There are also agreements, leases, financial statements, patents, and reports in the collection.
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