Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Steam threshing outfit
- Description
- A steam threshing outfit in a field.
- Call number
- photCL Pierce 06894
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A group of men with horse-drawn and steam operated harvesting equipment in a field.
photCL Pierce 06892
Visual Materials
Close up of a combination steam harvester in a field. There are six men riding aboard the harvester and one in the field leaning against a wheel.
photCL Pierce 06901
Visual Materials
Image of small boy standing on a bucket on a ship deck wearing a sailor outfit.
photCL 131 (112)
Visual Materials
A working crew standing next to well drilling outfit in Tulare County.
photCL SCE 04 - 00490
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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 One of the series contains drafts of the unpublished manuscript Sky Farmers and Mule Skinners with Something about Hay Muckers, Buckaroos, and Bindle Stiffs and a Sheepherder or Two.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.
Visual Materials
O1 - Oil Wells & Equipment - Baash-Ross Pump Outfit - close-up - Huntington Beach.
photCL SCE 02 - 16449
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