[Miscellaneous Files: Folders of Historical Material]
Description
"NLF," large pamphlet (by S. Hickman and D. Hawkins?) with a brief history of the Newhall Land and Farming Company (5 copies), given to employees Jan. 16, 1997; flyer with facsimile of page from the "San Francisco Commercial Yearbook" for 1886 with advertisement by Newhall Land and Farming Company. Company: Newhall Land & Farming Company.
The collection consists mainly of the business and accounting records of the Newhall Land and Farming Company, the White Investment Company, and numerous subsidiaries for the period 1883-1970s. A detailed list of the companies represented is located below. In addition to fairly complete runs of board minutes as well as land papers and related material, there are accounting volumes, various reports, press clippings, and some historical materials. Included are the itemized claims by the Newhall Land and Farming Company to the City of Los Angeles in 1928 for its losses resulting from the St. Francis Dam disaster. Also included are legal and adminstrative papers for the estates of some members of the Newhall family.
Folder of "Historical" material: brief typescript history of the Newhall Land and Farming Company and its present status ; manuscript notes; "Notes" of the California Historical Society, vol. XX, no. 9 (Nov. 1968); 2 pieces of ephemera. Company: Newhall Land & Farming Company.
