Manuscripts
Well on the Figmond Tract, Merced County
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Well on the Figmond Tract, Merced County
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a group portrait at a well on the "Figmond Tract" in Merced County. There are ten men, some in suits and some in work clothes, nine women in dresses and hats, a small child, an infant, and a dog. The well mechanism is under a triangular wooden frame, with water rushing down the chute in the center of the image.
mssLattaS, Box 113, Folder 2, Item 1
Well on the Figmond Tract, Merced County
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a group portrait at a well on the "Figmond Tract" in Merced County. There are ten men, some in suits and some in work clothes, nine women in dresses and hats, a small child, and an infant. The well mechanism is under a triangular wooden frame, with water rushing down the chute in the center of the image. Rectangular section of the image in the lower right was not developed, with only "Sec 35 well ; Figmond ; Tract" written in. Possibly "36" rather than "35".
mssLattaS, Box 113, Folder 3, Item 1
Seven women with a "Merced County" sign
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a group portrait of seven women in a field posing with a sign reading "Merced County". The women, wearing dresses or blouses and skirt and fancy hats, are in two rows, with four women standing and three women kneeling or sitting and holding the sign.
mssLattaS, Box 113, Folder 14, Item 1
Group portrait of young women and man, Merced Falls, Merced County
Manuscripts
A group portrait of seven young women and a young man with a brush-covered hill in the background. The young man is wearing a dark suit and tie and seated on a chair in front of the young women, who are all wearing nice, calf-length dresses.
mssLattaS, Box 116, Folder 12, Item 1
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Mostly Fairmead (Merced Station Merced County) - photo of "Figmond Tract" (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.
mssLattaS
Group portrait of young men and women, Merced Falls, Merced County
Manuscripts
A studio group portrait of nine young women, four young men, and one older man with a mustache (possibly a high school graduating class?). The group is arranged in three rows, with the young women seated in the first two and the men standing behind them.
mssLattaS, Box 116, Folder 6, Item 1