Census; Civil service Salaries, etc.; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Committees; Municipal bonds; Municipal incorporation; Public meetings; Public officers; Roads Design and construction; Seaver, Carlton; Small cities; Taxation; Trusts and...
Title in full states: "Absurdity of Claremont incorporation. City Government for Claremont will mean heavy taxation--what is to be gained--incorporation will create perpetual discord--final appeal to voters." Article is a submitted plea to...
Artesian wells; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Baldwin, Cyrus Grandison; Banks and banking; Belcher, Harry T.; Bell Telephone Company; Bent, H. K. W.; Blanchard, Nathan W.; Boards of trade; Bonds; Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b....
Collection of newspaper clippings present a chronological history of the development of Claremont. Acknowledgement for much of the source material is made to Frank Wheeler and his scrapbook. The scrapbook is reported as housed in the Claremont...
Abernethy, Martin; Advertising; American Legion of California; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Athletic fields; Banks and banking; Belcher, Harry T.; Betterments; Boards of trade; Bonds; Brooks, Raymond C.; Business enterprises;...
Materials laid on top of, but not affixed to, page 420 consist of four Claremont maps. First map, created by Frank Wheeler, has two sides and gives a detailed description of Claremont and its qualities on back. Last map shows Claremont in 1897.
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...
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.
American LaFrance (Firm); Automobiles; Belcher, Harry T.; Boards of trade; Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865; Brooks, John Tinley; Business enterprises; Church buildings; Church membership; Church officers; Citrus fruit industry; City council...
Collection of articles titled "Know your own city" continues a detailed history of Claremont's development. Set of articles focus on municipal departments, church history, and Claremont's incorporation.
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...
Advertising; Amherst College; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Bachelor of arts degree; Bachelor of liberal studies; Banks and Banking; Bowdoin College; Business enterprises; Cafes; Church buildings; Climate; Cogswell, Franklin;...
Page contains an extensively detailed booklet on Claremont and Pomona College as well as pictures of important Claremont landmarks and photographs of Horace A. Powell.
Palomares, Ignacio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865; Vejar, Ricardo; Washington (D.C.); Daughters of the American Revolution; Trees; Adobe houses; Mount Baldy (Calif.); Landscape and garden; Photographs;...
President Roosevelt comes to Claremont, a tree in Pomona becomes a landmark and the Pomona campus is showcased in a series of images.
Architects; Blueprints; City planners; Claremont (Calif.)-Maps; Claremont Colleges; Dams; Foothill Boulevard (Claremont, Calif.); Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Land trusts; Maps; Mountains; Natural areas; Pomona College...
Page contains two blueprint maps and a paper map. Blueprints show the Claremont Colleges and Padua Hills. Paper map displays real estate lots north of Foothill Boulevard in Claremont.
Armour, Elmer Eugene; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Avis, Walter Moore; Cahuilla Indians; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Congregational Church (Claremont, Calif.); Curran, Charles P.; Duvall, Oliver...
A booklet and newspaper clipping on the early history of Claremont and Pomona. Both describe the Spanish and Native American occupancy of the area. The booklet contains extensive detail on the creation and expansion of Pomona College.
Architecture, Domestic; Automobile repair shops; Business enterprises; Church buildings; College buildings; College stores; Commercial buildings; Drugstores; Duvall, Oliver Harvey; Dwellings; Fleming, Peter; Grocers; Holabird, William Henry;...
Photographs of residences, a natural landmark, and important buildings in and around Claremont. Includes a picture of President Theodore Roosevelt's speech at Pomona College's Pearsons Hall and a picture of two other Pomona College halls.
Baldwin, Cyrus Grandison; Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Complaint letters; Dams; Electric industries; Electric utilities; Engineers; Exhibitions; History-Societies, etc; Horsepower; Hydroelectric power plants;...
Page is titled: "the Pirates of Pomona." Photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings describe the history of the San Antonio power plant: the first long distance generator of electricity by water. Materials include the wrong attribution of the...
Claremont (Calif.)-Maps; Johnson, Cassius C.; Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Maps; Public schools; Railroads; Real property; Real property-California; Scrapbook journaling; Seaver, Carlton; Street names
Page contains maps of Claremont with properties. Some contain names of owners, acreage, city boundary lines. Some maps also label land developments within Claremont.
Blueprints; Citrus fruit industry; Claremont (Calif.)-Maps; Foothill Boulevard (Claremont, Calif.); High schools; Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Lemon trade; Maps; Mountains; Orange industry; Oranges; Pomona College (Claremont,...
Blueprint map shows sold and unsold properties in Claremont. Included on map are tract names, street names, citrus and lemon groves, Pomona College, the mountains and Indian Hill, and the local high school.
Airports; Armstrong Nurseries (Ontario, Calif.); Asylums; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Camps; Canyons; Census; Country clubs; Foothill Boulevard (Claremont, Calif.); Los Angeles County Fair (Los Angeles County, Calif.); Maps;...
Map of cities in the Pomona Valley includes street index with census results from 1930. An outline of Claremont's city boundaries are highlighted in pink.
School buildings; Photographs; Landscape photography; Landscape and garden; Residential real estate; Scrapbook journaling; Baldwin, Cyrus Grandison; Sumner, Charles Burt; Norton, Edwin Clarence; Spalding, Phebe Estelle; Glee clubs; College...
Page contains a commemorative page from "The College Letter," various photos from campus and the college community, a photograph of the town of Claremont and a booklet of town regulations.
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); College buildings; Deans (Education); Landscape and garden; Mount Baldy (Calif.); Norton, Edwin Clarence; Photographs; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Sumner Hall; Pomona College...
Page contains pictures of campus buildings, homes in Claremont, and visit from Theodore Roosevelt. A personal account by Edwin Clarence Norton is included, along with a record of his property taxes.
Advertising; Boards of trade; City council members; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); College buildings; College students; Horse-drawn vehicles; Municipal incorporation; Newspapers; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Pomona College (Claremont,...
Page contains a copy of The Pomona Student from 1889, newspaper clippings regarding the incorporation of Claremont and the ownership of its water company. Also includes are images from Pomona College's campus and student body.
