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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a view of a ranch in Merced. There are 13 horses in front of a wooden fence in the foreground. In the yard between the fence and the farm buildings in the background there is an early open top automobile with five passengers, and an empty four wheel buggy harnessed to a horse. There is a farm house, a barn, a few smaller buildings, and two windmills.
mssLattaS, Box 9, Folder 4, Item 1
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a group portrait of a work crew in front of trailers. There are about 60 men standing and sitting, and one woman with an apron standing in of the open door at the nearest end of the trailer.
mssLattaS, Box 113, Folder 1, Item 1
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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 One of the series contains drafts of the unpublished manuscript Sky Farmers and Mule Skinners with Something about Hay Muckers, Buckaroos, and Bindle Stiffs and a Sheepherder or Two.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.
Sky 86 (4)
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a view of the Merced railroad station. There is a train stopped even with the station, and another pulled farther up on the left. There is a lightly loaded cart in front of the station, and about 20 men standing and looking at the train on the left.
mssLattaS, Box 113, Folder 4, Item 1
Manuscripts
A group portrait of about 32 students and 3 teachers taken in front of a school in Merced County. The group is arranged in rows with seven of the girls seated and a teacher seated at either end, in front of a building with six sets of tall windows.
mssLattaS, Box 115, Folder 7, Item 1
Manuscripts
A group portrait of about 70 students and 2 teachers taken in front of a school in Merced County. The group is arranged in rows with the women seated at either end, in front of a building with six sets of tall windows. At least ten of the children do not have shoes.
mssLattaS, Box 115, Folder 3, Item 1
