Blaisdell, James Arnold, 1867-1957; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917; China History Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901; Church of the Brethren; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Congregational Church (Claremont, Calif.); Cowboys; Doshisha Daigaku; Garner, Herman...
Three articles by Lee Shippey on the happenings of Claremont. Includes facts on the famous residents of Pilgrim's Place, a retirement community for missionaries, missionary doctors, and missionary educators. Also recounts personal anecdotes from...
Advertising, Newspaper; American Tree Association; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Beet sugar industry; California; Church services; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Daughters of the American Revolution; Franciscans; Frontier...
Various articles relate a wedding in the Palomares and Soto family, the historical significance of a Pomona live oak tree, and a notable railroad accident in San Dimas.
Pageants; College theater; College students; College teachers; Costumes and clothes; Historical drama; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); National songs; Horses; Horse-drawn vehicles; Bands (Music); Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Frank P....
Images from a pageant put on by Pomona College at the Greek Theatre in Claremont on 17 June, 1913 in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the college.
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.
Group of photographs depicts flood and flood damage in Pomona College, Claremont's railroad station, and Foothill Boulevard. Also includes a photograph of Mexican workers bringing in driftwood.
Land grants; Land grants-California; Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Maps; Maps; Real property-California; Real property surveys; Stahlberg, A. J.; Wildy, J. H.
"Map of the county of Los Angeles California. Compiled from U. S. land surveys[,] records of private surveys and from other reliable sources." Map shows Mexican land grants which comprise Los Angeles County in 1877. Map scale is two miles for every...
Bichowsky, Emmo C.; Billheimer, John S.; Business enterprises; Citrus fruit industry; College presidents; Dole, James Albert; Duvall, Oliver Harvey; Electric railroads-Rails; Engineers; Gates, George Augustus; Hart, Elmer W.; Huntington, Henry...
Page contains Frank Wheeler's personal retelling of the Pacific Electric Railway's development in Southern California and photographs of notable men, including railroad magnate Henry Edwards Huntington.
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.
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.
Adams Express Company; Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882; Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America; Apprenticeship programs; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Bible. O.T.; Bixby, Llewellyn; Bridges;...
Page contains articles relating to Frank Wheeler's activities and historical speeches. Also includes his obituaries. Last clipping shows image of Ontario's first, mule-driven street car.
African Americans; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Dorsey, Hilliard P.; Dorsey, Kewen Hilliard; Drew, Thomas Stevenson; Freemasons; Hellman, Herman W.; Hellman, Irving H.; Hellman, Marco; Founding; Freemasons; Frontier and pioneer life;...
Two articles give information on citizens of early Southern California. Includes an obituary of Kewen Hilliard Dorsey and a group photograph of the Rubottom home with family and visitors.
Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882; Bible. O.T.; Camp, John Bradford; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Founding; Frontier and pioneer life; Fryer, James M.; Garthside, Joseph Relton; Land grants-California; Native Americans; Palomares, Ignacio;...
Clipping transcribes Frank Wheeler's speech given at the Pomona realty banquet. His speech details the history of the Pomona Valley from early Spanish and Mexican ranchers to when he began his work in real estate.
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Essays; Libraries; Photographs; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Library; Portraits; Speeches, addresses, etc.
Two articles written by Willis Holmes Kerr and Albert Daniel Stauffacher and published in the Pomona College Magazine. Kerr writes about the importance of history and the preservation of libraries. Stauffacher's article is his 1934 convocation...
Claremont (Calif.)-Maps; Claremont Colleges; Facsimiles; Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Los Angeles Pacific College; Maps; Real property; Real property-California
Materials laid on top of, but not affixed to, page 341 contain map tracings with plot lines, properties, and their owners.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Basins (Geology); Canyons; Deserts; Forest reserves; Game reserves; Geological Survey (U.S.); Indian reservations; Johnson, Cassius C.; Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Letters;...
Materials laid on top of, but not affixed to, page 376 consist of Claremont block maps, correspondences with the Los Angeles County Assessor's Office, and maps of the San Gabriel Valley.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Brooks, John Tinley; Contracts; Facsimiles; Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Maps; Pacific Electric Railway Company; Real property; Real property-California; Scrapbook journaling;...
Page contains map tracings of the Arbol Verde tract and properties near Indian Hill Boulevard. Tracings cover the cities of Claremont and Upland.
Canyons; Corona Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Company; Land grants; Land grants-California; Land subdivision; Land tenure; Maps; Packing-houses; Piers; Real property; Real property-California; Reservoirs; Scrapbook journaling; Southern Pacific...
Page contains three maps. First two maps show Mexican land grants and real estate properties in Riverside County. Last map shows properties in Laguna Cliffs in Orange County.
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...
