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Portions of the collection are related to Jackson's steamboat company, which is mentioned in three ledgers and in correspondence. Six ledgers dated1889-1896 and correspondence dating to 1901 deal with his work issuing appointments and contracts to mail deliverymen in the southern United States. He ran both these businesses from Eustis, primarily. Other materials include: a diary of Marion Jackson, age 14, which covers life in Eustis; the Jackson family's involvement with church organizations; and some materials on business in Jacksonville. Photographs from a family photo album depict Garrett D. Jackson, and friends or relations from Texas

The Manuscript series is arranged alphabetically and contains appointment books, diaries, family histories, and speeches written by various family members. The oldest items in the collection belonged to Captain Alexander Horn. One item is a seaman's journal which tracks the voyages Captain Horn made between New York and New Orleans and between New York and the British Isles from 1809-1812. The other is a photographic copy of the Horn Log that contains original correspondence with Trinity Church, New York, the National Maritime Museum, and the New York Public Library which help authenticate the Warren and Horn families' relationship to Captain Horn. The appointment books were kept by the Warren family from 1897 to 1906, the diaries were kept by Minnie Horn Warren later in life, from 1932 until the time of her death in 1953. There is one diary that was kept by C.C. in 1913. The appointment books and diaries often track the day-to-day activities of the family and document the weather and ...

These five reminiscences, which were collected by Lindley Bynum, were written by individuals who came to southern California in the second half of the 19th century. They all lived in Los Angeles County, more specifically Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Pasadena, and San Gabriel. The five authors discuss life in early California including their social lives and education, their interaction with the Gabrielino Indians, the citrus industry, agriculture, farming and irrigation. California pioneers Abbott Kinney and William Wolfskill are mentioned

The Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station (CRC-AES) records collection contains administrative records, correspondence, faculty papers, publications, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, reports, project files, and other material relating to CRC-AES. Formerly known as the Citrus Experiment Station (CES), the bulk of materials precede the establishment of UC Riverside's College of Letters and Sciences in 1954. The majority of topics document the history, events, faculty, staff, facilities, research, and experiments of CES. Materials related to CES research and experiments pertain to the physiology and morphology of citrus, fig, date palm, avocado, and other subtropical crops, soil management, smog studies, pest control, and diseases. A majority of citrus related publications and faculty papers were originally part of the former University of California Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture and Citrus Experiment Station Library. Project files pertain to research ...

This collection contains sixty-three audio tapes of interviews by Gilbert G. Gonzales with individuals associated with the citrus industry in Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. These interviews were conducted for Gonzalez's monograph, Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Urbana: Illinois UP, 1994). The collection includes an interview with Felicitas Mendez, one of the parents involved in the United States federal court case Mendez v. Westminster School District, which challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools

Professional and personal papers of William Righter McNair. Included are his notebooks and correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to him. Correspondents include friends, colleagues, patients, business associates, and family members, particularly his mother Mary Stevens McNair, sister Mary Stevens McNair Funk, and his brother Donald Wallace McNair, a California agriculturist and dairy scientist. The letters discuss various aspects of everyday life in California and Pennsylvania, religion, Freemasons, politics and current affairs, including Word War I, science, literature, travels in the United States and Europe, etc. Included are letters from E. Belsito, a friend of W.R. McNair and a Los Angeles artist who studied in Rome in 1922-1929 and Henri V. Berghall, a Finnish immigrant living in San Diego in 1915-1915. There are a few letters by Ernest E. Dawson, the owner of Dawson's Book Shop, and Charles Fletcher Lummis

The collection consists of Board of Directors Meeting Minutes, Fruit Growers Association meeting minutes, general correspondence of the officers, and financial records of the chamber. The collection also includes some materials on Anthony F. Sonka. The earliest extant records of the Chamber are from 1927, though the date of the organization's foundation remains uncertain

This Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) report documents the Yorba Orange Growers Association Packing House in Anaheim, California with machinery in place, an important element for understanding the historical operation of such packing houses. The report includes a collection inventory; photographic prints of the Packing House and its closure; architectural drawings; interviews; photocopies of historical documents, including correspondence, incorporation documentation, telegrams, and other business related documents; and a book

This collection contains correspondence, research notes, photographs, and other material regarding the professional career of Archibald D. Shamel, a physiologist with the United States Department of Agriculture who worked at the Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside, California during the early 20th century. The collection includes a large group of photographs and glass plate negatives documenting the citrus industry in Riverside and around the world. While the bulk of the collection is focused on citrus, there are materials pertaining to other non-citrus crops such as tobacco and corn. The collection also contains material about other areas of horticulture including shade trees, cacti, and flowers. Notable items include photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence regarding local history and the Riverside Parent Navel Orange Tree

Letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and scrapbooks concerning the Tibbets family of Riverside, California and the introduction of the first navel orange trees to the Riverside area