Manuscripts

San Isidro Ranch Company ledger

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Description: Register of activities of the San Isidro Ranch Company in Baja, Mexico. Each act recorded in the ledger bears a notarial stamp and seems to be copies prepared for the company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1911-1932.
Call number: mssHM 84073
Creator: San Isidro Ranch Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Addie Mattox, September 2022.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

San Isidro Ranch Co. Ledger

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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