Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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
Manuscripts
A view of about two dozen cattle in a field with sparse grass. A wire fence in the background separates the field from orchards.
mssLattaS, Box 116, Folder 1, Item 1
Manuscripts
Glass plate with two photographs of three women and a baby posing next to a house. There are posing in a yard, with a house and porch behind them on the right and a picket fence behind them on the left.
mssLattaS, Box 116, Folder 18, Item 1
Manuscripts
A street view of a small one story house set behind a picket fence. A young woman is sitting on the steps to the front porch, reading. There is a flowering tree in between the fence and the front of the house, and rose bushes growing up in front of the porch on the left.
mssLattaS, Box 117, Folder 4, Item 1
Manuscripts
Glass plate with two photographs of a pair of young women standing by tall evergreen trees.
mssLattaS, Box 116, Folder 5, 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.
mssLattaS