Images and article on water and water conservation in the Southern Coastal Basin of California. Also includes a group photograph at Stoddard's Camp in the San Antonio Canyon.
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...
Architecture, Domestic; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Dwellings; Hikers; Horses; Frontier and pioneer life; Gold mines and mining; Landscape and garden; Landscape photography; Miners; Parade floats; Photographs;...
Two photographs and a newspaper clipping on development and hiker expeditions in the mountain ranges near Claremont, particularly the San Antonio Canyon. Also includes landscape photographs from residences on Foothill Boulevard and a photograph of...
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.
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.
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.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Banks and banking; Boards of trade; Facsimiles; Flood control; Foothill Boulevard (Claremont, Calif.); Land grants; Land grants-California; Land tenure; Landscape photography; Lemon trade; Los...
Page contains various maps and an easement (or servitude) associated with the College Heights Tract, a tract of land on the border of Claremont.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Architecture-Mutilation, defacement, etc.; Boundary disputes; Camping; Canyons; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Forest rangers; Judges; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Public prosecutors; Scrapbook journaling; Trials; Water utilities
A series of articles recount the legal battle over the rights to a road leading to San Antonio Canyon. Articles present a list of accounts through newspaper clippings which detail arrests, filed suits, and destruction of private property.
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.
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.
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.
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Library; Orange growers; La Verne (Calif.); Obituaries; Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.); Baldwin, Cyrus Grandison; Street names; Photographs; Scrapbook journaling; Trees;...
Images of Pomona College and the surrounding area are accompanied by a portrait of Hitchcock and newspaper clippings announcing his death.
