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Scraper teams working at the Pierson land development near Merced
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Scraper Teams - Pierson Land Development nr. Merced (undated). 1 item
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 One of the series contains drafts of the unpublished manuscript Sky Farmers and Mule Skinners with Something about Hay Muckers, Buckaroos, and Bindle Stiffs and a Sheepherder or Two.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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Scraper Teams - Pierson Land Development nr. Merced (undated). 2 items
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.
mssLattaS
Man with mustache ; Yosemite Lumber Company buildings, Merced Falls, Merced County
Manuscripts
Glass plate with two photographs. The first is of an unidentified standing in front of a stream or river. The other shows buildings of the Yosemite Lumber Company in Merced Falls.
mssLattaS, Box 116, Folder 16, Item 1
Merced Station
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a view of the Merced railroad station. There are two trains stopped even with the station, locomotive first, and a third stretching to the left with markings of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. There are three carts lightly loaded in front of the station, and pairs of people standing near the train nearest the station.
mssLattaS, Box 110, Folder 2, Item 1
Ranch scene, Merced
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
Family portrait ; house with fruit trees, Merced Falls, Merced County
Manuscripts
Glass plate with two photographs. The first is a family portrait with three women and a baby. The other is a view of a one-story house with fruit trees in the yard, surrounded by a wire fence.
mssLattaS, Box 114, Folder 2, Item 1