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Wheeler Scrapbook Collection
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    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 130

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 130

    • Airplanes; Architecture, Domestic; Automobiles; Banks and banking; Bells; Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865; Business enterprises; Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908; College teachers; Duvall, Oliver Harvey; Dwellings; Eastman Kodak Company; Electrical...

    • Articles recount tales by older members of Claremont community who were active in the founding and modernizing of the city. Focuses on college faculty, the general neighborhood, the first Claremont store, and establishment of the city's water...
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 106

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 106

    • Architecture, Domestic; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Biography; Business enterprises; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Congregational Church (Claremont, Calif.); Obituaries; Palmer, Frank L.; Photographs; Portraits;...

    • Collection of obituaries, biographies, and photographs of Frank L. Palmer and Lewis Nathaniel Smith. Includes photograph of Mrs. Lewis Nathaniel Smith.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 302

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 302

    • Adams, John S.; Advertising, Newspaper; Artesian wells; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Bartlett, William Henry; Basins (Geology); Camp, John Bradford; Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ); Citrus fruit industry; Clippings...

    • A collection of articles which focus on water use and reuse in the Pomona Valley area. Most articles focus on water well use in particular cities, specifically usage by water companies, ranchers, and citrus growers. Last article relates a...
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 317

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 317

    • Actions and defenses; Aqueducts; Artesian wells; Auditors; Auditor's reports; Bonds; Boulder Canyon Project (U.S.); Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Currier, Alvan Tyler; Dams; Dikes (Geology); Droughts; Engineers; Financial statements;...

    • Newspaper article and balance sheet detail the activities of the Pomona Valley Protective Association and its work in irrigation and water conservation in Pomona and Southern California.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 101

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 101

    • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Founding; Frontier and pioneer life; Garner, Herman H.; Gold; Horse-drawn vehicles; Land settlement; Landscape and garden; Letters; Martin, William T.; Mexicans; Mormons; Parties; Photographs; Portraits, Group;...

    • Captioned "Early history of Claremont by H. A. Palmer," page includes a collection of articles and short pieces on the history of El Alisal and Claremont's development.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 333

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 333

    • Carrion, Saturino; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Corporate treasurers; Dams; Electric railroads-Rails; Engineers; Executives; Foreign workers, Chinese; Forest rangers; Fruit growers; Geological Survey (U.S.); Hart,...

    • Page chronicles plans by the San Jose Mutual Irrigation Company to irrigate the San Gabriel Valley. Clippings detail the history of the project, construction plans, responses by affected cities, and the project's conclusion. Also contains the...
    • Wheeler scrapbook 3, page 393

    • Wheeler scrapbook 3, page 393

    • Claremont (Calif.)-Maps; Cooperative societies; Farms; Irrigation; Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Maps; Mountains; Ranches; Real property; Real property-California; Rivers; Scrapbook journaling; Seaver, Carlton; Southern Pacific...

    • Page contains a map of Claremont with names of land tracts as well as a map of Pomona Valley's irrigation and pumping plants.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 111

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 111

    • Automobiles; Banks and banking; Business enterprises; Commercial buildings; Dwellings; Horse-drawn vehicles; Irrigation; Men's clothing; Pacific Electric Railway Company; Photographs; Portraits, Group; Printed ephemera; Real estate developers;...

    • Photographs of Claremont's early businesses and business owners. Includes a picture of a well from the Del Monte Irrigation Company and the office of the Pacific Electric Railroad.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 123

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 123

    • Airplanes; Architecture, Domestic; Archives; Beekeepers; Botany; Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Dwellings; El Alisal (Claremont, Calif.); Flood damage; Flood damage prevention;...

    • Articles cover William T. Martin, Claremont's first American settler, as well as the early history of Claremont floods and flood damage. Other pieces describe the unique history of specific areas in early Claremont including Palmer Canyon, El...
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 216

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 216

    • American review of reviews; Architecture, Domestic; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Donkeys; Dwellings; Holabird, William Henry; Irrigation; Landscape and garden; Letterheads; Letters;...

    • Articles and letters on Colonel Henry Holabird, a real estate developer in early Claremont. Also includes a clipping from the American Review of Reviews.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 300a

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 300a

    • Automobiles; Bicycles; Boys; Children; Forest rangers; Girls; Horse-drawn vehicles; Horses; Irrigation; Lakes; Men's clothing; Photographs; Portraits, Group; Snow; Trees; Trolley cars; Women

    • Contains images from the mountains with various people who either pose or are in the middle of activities.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 301

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 301

    • Adams, Frank E.; Artesian wells; Bartlett, William Henry; Bowler, William Wilson; Camp, John Bradford; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Crawford, Henry M.; Currier, Alvan Tyler; Elliot, Joseph; Engineers; Fruit growers;...

    • A meticulous article on wells in Southern California, the clipping lists owners, placement, and amount of water produced from specific wells in various neighboring cities in the general Pomona Valley area. Article lists several notable citrus...
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 307

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 307

    • Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Baker, Vincent W.; Bear attacks; Camp, John Bradford; Camping-California; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Cremation; Donkeys; Freemasons; Fruit growers; Fumigation;...

    • A collection of newspaper clippings which relate to the area called Brown's flats and John Bradford Camp, its owner.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 308

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 308

    • Agriculture; American Home Missionary Society; Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Appendicitis; Artesian wells; Banks and banking; Beet sugar industry; Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865; California State...

    • Newspaper clippings recount various topics including, but not limited to, deaths, suicides, marriages, reports on the Congregational Church, and then current population counts of Pomona.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 311

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 311

    • Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Botany; Camps; Canyons; Citrus fruit industry; Claremont Colleges; Climate; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); College teachers; Congregational churches; Dinosaurs; Droughts; Electric railroads;...

    • Page contains newspaper articles which cover a plethora of subjects in Claremont and Los Angeles. Also contains a booklet which describes the positive qualities of Indian Hill and Claremont.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 326

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 326

    • Arbuthnot, Daniel G.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Bartlett, William Henry; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Crop rotation; Doyle, Patrick W.; Fertilizers; Fires; Fritz, William O.; Fumigation; Hotels;...

    • Page contains an article of citrus grove growing practices of Claremont and nearby districts. Also contains photographs of Pomona in the late nineteenth century.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 329

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 329

    • Beckett, James; Caricatures and cartoons; Carson, Walter Scott; Dams; Fleming, Edward J.; Fleming, Peter; McComas, Joseph E.; Poetry; Photographs; Printed ephemera; Satire; Scrapbook journaling; Tonner, Patrick Charles; Water utilities

    • Page contains a political satire of leaders instrumental to Pomona's development. Includes a photograph of a dam built by the Pomona Land and Water Company.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 329a

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 329a

    • Alcoholism; Carson, Walter Scott; Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.); Commercial buildings; Hotels; Irrigation; Jails; Landscape and garden; Mountains; Photographs; Scrapbook journaling; Sheep; Southern Pacific Railroad Company; Springs; Steam;...

    • Collection of photographs relate to early Pomona, its water company, a hotel, and various buildings.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 1, page 42

    • Wheeler scrapbook 1, page 42

    • Claremont (Calif.)-Maps; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Windmills; Maps; Photographs; Trees; Orange growers; Farmhouses; Reprints; California-History; Spain; Mexico; Land grants-California; Agriculture; Farming; Irrigation; Water; Citrus;...

    • Map of land tracts donated for the use of Pomona College. Page includes photographs, a newspaper clipping, and a short history of the surrounding land.
    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 331

    • Wheeler scrapbook 2, page 331

    • Agriculture; Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882; Animals, Fossil; Antiquities; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Banks and banking; Baptists; Barnes, E.; Bible. O.T.; Bixby, L. H.; Boards of trade; Church buildings; Church of the...

    • Page contains articles on activities in La Verne, particularly its union with the city of Lordsburg and a fight between citrus growers and the California Citrus Union. Also contains articles on various archeological finds in Claremont and Lordsburg

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