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Descriptive Summary
Title:
California Dairy Industry History
Collection
Dates:
1856-1986 (bulk
1953-1978)
Collection number:
Consult repository
Collector:
California State
Parks
Extent:
38.7 cubic feet in 52 boxes and 34.75
cubic feet of bound
volumes.
Repository:
California State
Parks
1416 9th Street, Room 943, Sacramento, Ca.
95814
Abstract:
The
California Dairy Industry History Collection
contains documentary items extracted from a
large assemblage of materials
collected for use at an anticipated California Dairy Museum.
Between 1976 and
1981 California State Parks, in cooperation with the California
Dairy Museum
and Educational Foundation (CDMEF), participated in a joint venture to
create a
museum at Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz County. The museum was
intended
to showcase the contributions of the dairy industry to the social and
economic
development of California. In 1976 the CDMEF donated its collection of
dairy
machinery, equipment, and archival materials to the California State Parks. The
foundation also established an advisory committee to assist California State
Parks in managing the collection and in locating and acquiring additional
materials
for the proposed museum. In 1981 the State Parks Commission voted not
to fund the museum,
and the collection went into storage—first at Wilder Ranch
State Park and then at the
State Museum Resources Center in West Sacramento.
The archival collection described in
this guide covers the period of 1856 to
1986 with the bulk of the material dating
from 1930 to 1978..
Physical location:
The collection resides
at California
State Parks Archives, Sacramento.
Language:
English
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