Manuscripts

Tong Wo & Co. purchase bill of Chinese goods

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Description: A printed form, filled in: a purchase bill issued by Tong Wo & Co., San Francisco, California, to San Joaquin & Kings River Canal Co., for an extensive list of products worth almost $300.00. The products listed in this purchase bill were presumably meant for the Chinese labor force employed by the San Joaquin company; they were known to employ over 100 Chinese workers in 1872. The products listed on the bill include personal items such as silk jackets, pants, and shirts, silk handkerchiefs, bamboo and woolen hats, cotton shoes, chopsticks, and rice baskets; other commodities listed include gin, tobacco, vermicelli, preserved plums, garlic, and shrimp.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1875 August 19.
Call number: mssHM 84115
Creator: Tong Wo & Co

Chas. W. Neeld & Co. holiday goods

Visual Materials

Image of a leaflet advertising holiday goods available for purchase at Charles W. Neeld & Co. Prices and promotional information about the products are listed. Print was folded, with four printed pages total, two on verso and two on recto. Recto includes four vignettes of bicycles and wagons on the right page, and the left page includes nine vignettes of products ranging from washing machines, to carpet sweepers, rocking-horses, baby carriages, and more. Interior verso pages include images of sleds, wagons, desks, easels, and tool chests also available for sale.

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Canal School – Chinese of Bakersfield

Manuscripts

The collection contains Frank F. Latta's research material from his five decades of researching the history of California's San Joaquin Valley and Miller & Lux, in particular dry farming known as skyfarming. Subjects include: agriculture and farming in the San Joaquin Valley, the development of agricultural machinery (combines, plows, reapers, scrapers, threshing machines, tractors and various types of harvesters), livestock, ranches, cattle, and crops, mostly wheat. Also covered are: early aviation, early automobiles, bears, crime, the Dalton Gang, the Donner Party, earthquakes, education and schools in the San Joaquin Valley, floods, freight and steamships on the San Joaquin River, gold mines, irrigation, canals and water rights in San Joaquin Valley, land grants, livestock, lumber, outlaws, pioneers, the Presbyterian Church in California, ranches, rivers, roads, saddlery, sheepherding in California, overland journeys to California and California politics, government and history. Also talked about are women, African Americans, Chileans, Chinese, Mormons, Native Americans and Jews in California. The collection contains roughly 180 oral interviews with people living in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1930s through the 1970s. One of the series contains drafts of the unpublished manuscript Sky Farmers and Mule Skinners with Something about Hay Muckers, Buckaroos, and Bindle Stiffs and a Sheepherder or Two. Frank F. Latta worked on this manuscript for five decades.

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Specimen type catalog, printed in black and green. Shows a variety of typefaces and stamping products (date received, paid, bill due, etc.) for a variety of business needs. Numerous Chinese owned-business are represented in sample logos, business cards and stamps, the majority are local to San Francisco, but business in Minnesota and Mexico are also shown. The publication is undated, but one of the stamps depicted is for 1934.

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