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...
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Bichowsky, Emmo C.; Billheimer, John S.; Business enterprises; Camps; Canyons; Citrus fruit industry; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Electric railroads-Rails; Engineers; Gates, George Augustus;...
Entitled "coming of the Pacific Electric," collection of articles present the various aspects that went into the construction of a Pacific Railway line through Southern California. Includes responses by cities affected and the business deals formed...
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.
Businessmen-Taxation; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Debts, Public; Geological Survey (U.S.); Tax evasion; Politicians; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Holmes Hall; Ranchers; Real property and taxation;...
Collection of articles describes Los Angeles County's real estate value increase and provides comparative values from other counties in the state of California. First article, however, reports property tax evasion by large businessmen and...
Agriculture; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Census; Citrus fruit industry; Complaint letters; Congregational Church (Claremont, Calif.); Country clubs; Dates (Fruit); Lemon trade; Letters; Letterheads; Los Angeles County Fair (Los...
Entitled, "The Pirates of Pomona," page contains pages from Rand McNally and Company's guide as well as a letter of complaint from Frank Wheeler and its response from the company president.
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.
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
Anaheim Union Water Company; Engineers; Highway departments; Land grants; Land grants-California; Maps; Missions; Mountains; Orange County (Calif.)--Maps; Pacific Electric Railway Company; Ranches; Real property; Real property-California; Road...
Map shows highway system, including paved roads, in Orange County. Map includes cities, land tracts, natural landmarks, and surrounding counties. Bottom of map shows soil, oil, and natural gas production in a five year span. Includes map scale and...
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.
Architecture, Domestic; Bears; Beekeepers; Biography; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Dwellings; Founding; Frontier and pioneer life; Land settlement; Landscape and garden; Letters; Martin, Margaret Mary; Martin, Robert Andrew; Martin, William...
Articles and photographs of William T. Martin, the first white settler in Claremont. Includes information on his family, history, and active participation in Claremont and Los Angeles County's development.
Automobiles-Societies, etc.; Blaisdell, James Arnold, 1867-1957; Boy Scouts; Claremont Colleges; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); College presidents; Engineers; Foothill Boulevard (Claremont, Calif.); Glee clubs; Griswold, George C.; Landscape...
Articles cover the opening of the recently-completed Foothill Boulevard and the multi-city celebration in its honor. Relates various details about the physical design of the road itself. Emphasizes Frank Wheeler's historical connection to the...
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...
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Baldwin, Cyrus Grandison; Blaisdell, James Arnold, 1867-1957; Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865; California-Gold discoveries; Cemeteries; Christian cemeteries; Citrus fruit industry; City halls;...
Articles detail the history of Pomona College on its 40th anniversary; a citrus industry landmark; the Claremont school and its time as a city hall and fire station; and the Palomares cemetery, Pomona's oldest graveyard. Also includes a group...
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...
Charts, diagrams, etc.; Electric railroads-Rails; Engineers; Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927; Maps; Pacific Electric Railway Company; Scrapbook journaling; Street-railroads
Map of the Pacific Electric Railway lines in Southern California, particularly from cities below the San Gabriel Mountains to Newport Beach. Highlighted are routes proposed by Henry Edwards Huntington and the final route built by Pacific Electric.
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.
