INVENTORY TO THE PIERCE FAMILY PAPERS, 1841-1940

Series 1. George W. Pierce, Sr., 1841-1905.

Physical Description: 415 items, 1.5 linear ft.

Scope and Content Note

Series I. (1841-1905) is made up of items created or collected by George W. Pierce, Sr. and is divided into 5 subseries: Incoming Letters, Legal Documents, Financial Records, Diaries, and Printed Material.

Subseries 1.1. Incoming Letters, 1866-1888

Physical Description: 9 items

Scope and Content Note

Incoming Letters (1866-1888) is the first subseries in Series I. The letters are arranged alphabetically by the name of the person or organization sending the letter.

Box 1:1

California Wine Growers' Association; C. H.S. Williams, President; Nov. 20, 1866; form letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:1

Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodland, CA Lodge, No. 111, April 26, 1875, invitation

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:1

Jeans, T. J., Feb. 14, 1887, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:1

Perkins, George C., Governor of California and Mrs. George C. Perkins, Feb. 6, 1880, invitation

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:1

Sacramento Bank / Sacramento Savings Bank; E. R. Hamilton, Cashier; 1879-1888; 2 letters, 1 statement, 1 envelope

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 1:1

Spaulding, R. S., Under Sheriff, Yolo County, CA, Jan. 3, 1884, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 1.2. Legal Documents (1859 - 1905)

Physical Description: 97 items

Scope and Content Note

Part of Series I, the subseries, Legal Documents (1859-1905, 97 items), is divided into documents having to do with property, public office, and other subjects. Within those three divisions, the legal documents are listed by type such as abstracts of title, insurance policies, or agreements. The property records have to do with property (especially land and livestock) owned by the Pierce Family and Yolo County, CA citizens. Public office documents pertain to the offices of Justice of the Peace and Public Administrator held by George W. Pierce, Sr. in Yolo County, CA. Legal documents in the other category include life insurance policies and a petition to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors reagrding County roads.

Subseries 1.2.1. Property (1859-1905)

Physical Description: 24 items

Abstracts of Title

Physical Description:

Box 1:2

Deeds, mortgages, and tax receipts for Yolo County, CA property and probate records for the estate of George W. Pierce, Sr. and related letters, 1881-1905

Physical Description: 3 items

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Agreements, 1859-1881

Physical Description: 4 items

Box 1:3

Oakes, David M. with George W. Pierce, Sr., May 20, 1859

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:3

Malone, Drury with George W. Pierce, Sr., April 17, 1861

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:3

Hubbard, J. M. with E. L. Brown, June 8, 1863

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:3

Fiske, George D. with George W. Pierce, Sr., April 19, 1881

Physical Description: 1 item

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Indentures and Mortgages, 1859-1879

Physical Description: 7 items

Folio 10:1

Oakes, David M. to Henry Conner; April 6, 1859

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:1

Conner, Henry and David M. Oakes with George W. Pierce, Sr.; Sept. 29, 1860

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:1

Deck and Company with George W. Pierce, Sr.; Dec. 18, 1868

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:1

Pierce, George W., Sr. to C. E. Greene; Nov. 14, 1873

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 10:1

Bank of Woodland with George W. Pierce, Sr. and Eunice Pierce; 1875-1879

Physical Description: 2 items

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Insurance Policies for Property, 1869-1879

Physical Description: 8 items

Folio 10:2

Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, 1869-1870, envelope and policy

Physical Description: 2 items

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Folio 10:2

Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, 1872-1873, policy

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:2

Hartford Fire Insurance Company, 1873-1879, 1 envelope, 2 policies, and 1 note

Physical Description: 4 items

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Folio 10:2

Farmers' Fire Insurance Company, 1878, receipt

Physical Description: 1 item

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Other Property Records, 1863-1888.

Physical Description: 2 items

Box 1:4

Notice from George W. Pierce, Sr. to R. C. Clark, May 9, 1863

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:4

Last Will and Testament of George W. Pierce, Sr., Aug. 13, 1888

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 1.2.2. Public Office,1859 - 1871

Physical Description: 10 items

Box 1:5

Certification that George W. Pierce, Sr. was elected Justice of the Peace, Yolo County, CA., Sept. 12, 1862

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:5

Documents used by George W. Pierce, Sr. as Public Administrator, Yolo County, CA, 1867 - 1871. Records for the estates of: William Allingham, Martin E. Knapp, and S. J. Thomas

Physical Description: 8 items

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Box 1:5

Order of Judge Davis, Yolo County, CA, 1859

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 1.2.3. Other (1861 - 1889)

Physical Description: 55 items

Box 1:6

Life Insurance Records, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1869 - 1889, 5 letters, 10 form letters, 27 receipts, 6 promissory notes, 6 envelopes

Physical Description: 54 items

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Box 1:7

Petition to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, regarding County roads, ca. 1861

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 1.3. Financial Records, n.d., incomplete date, 1841 - 1889

Physical Description: 275 items

Scope and Content Note

The subseries Financial Records is made up of tax records; account statements, promissory notes, and receipts; and account books.

Subseries 1.3.1. Tax Records (1841 - 1887)

Physical Description: 61 items

Scope and Content Note

Tax records include income, poll, and property tax bills and receipts for the Pierce Family during the years 1841 - 1887. Assessment lists are also part of this sub-subseries.

Assessment Lists

Physical Description: 7 items

Folio 10:3

n.d., 1881-1889

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Tax Bills

Physical Description: 5 Items

Box 1:8

1880-1885

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Tax Receipts

Physical Description: 49 items

Box 1:9

Receipts, 1841-1851

Physical Description: 8 items

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Box 1:10

Receipts, 1853-1869

Physical Description: 23 items

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Box 1:11

Receipts, 1871-1887

Physical Description: 18 items

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Subseries 1.3.2. Account Statements, Promissory Notes, and Receipts; n.d., incomplete date, 1853-1889

Physical Description: 177 items

Scope and Content Note

These account statements, promissory notes, and receipts pertain to Pierce Family and Ranch purchases, payments, and income for the years 1853-1889. Materials are arranged chronologically and grouped in 10 folders with undated items in the first folder. Because the senior Pierce gave up control of the ranch to his son on September 18,1888, most Pierce Family and Ranch financial records after that date are part of the George W. Pierce, Jr. series.

Box 1:12

n.d. or incomplete date

Physical Description: 13 items

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Box 1:13

1853-1859

Physical Description: 6 items.

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Box 1:14

1860-1863

Physical Description: 24 items

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Box 1:15

1866-1868

Physical Description: 13 items

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Box 1:16

1870-1876

Physical Description: 15 items

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Box 1:17

1877-1879

Physical Description: 31 items

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Box 1:18

1880-1883

Physical Description: 29 items

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Box 1:19

1884-1885

Physical Description: 17 items

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Box 1:20

1886-1887

Physical Description: 20 items

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Box 1:21

1888-1889

Physical Description: 9 items

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Subseries 1.3.3. Account Books, 1845-1882

Physical Description: 37 items

Scope and Content Note

Account books are the third type of financial records in the George W. Pierce, Sr. Series. These 4 account books (1845-1882) include financial records from Pierce's old home in Southport, WI and records for the Pierce Ranch and Family in Davisville, CA. One account book was also used as a scrapbook and contains many clippings from the 1860s.

Box 1:22

Accounts begun in Southport, WI / Kenosha, WI and continued in Yolo County, CA, 1845-1869, 1 volume with inserts of 3 notes and 1 telegram

Physical Description: 5 items

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Box 1:23

Accounts for Pierce Family Ranch and Office of Justice of the Peace, Yolo County, CA, 1856-1861, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:24

Time book for laborers on Pierce Family Ranch, 1868-1882, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:25

Accounts for Pierce Family Ranch and records for Justice of the Peace, Yolo County, CA, Account book converted into scrapbook, circa 1860-1869, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:26

Clippings from account book/scrapbook, circa 1860-1869

Physical Description: 29 items

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Subseries 1.4. Diaries, 1852-1890

Physical Description: 27 items (20 volumes and 7 leaves)

Scope and Content Note

Diaries, the fourth subseries of Series I, consists of 20 diaries (and 7 loose leaves) written by George W. Pierce, Sr. during the years 1852-1890. The diaries are arranged chronologically, and diaries for some years are missing. Pierce's diaries provide researchers with financial information as well as commentary about ranch and family events. Pierce's 1888 diary was written in an 1884 diary book. On Sept. 17, 1888, entries in the 1888 diary begin to be made by Pierce's son, George W. Pierce, Jr. An 1889 diary book was converted into the 1890 diary. Eunice Pierce wrote the final entries for her husband's 1890 diary--detailing the last 11 days of the life of the senior George W. Pierce--on an inserted leaf of paper.

Box 1:27

Travel Journal with short account of move from Kenosha, WI / Southport, WI to California and a list of expenses, 1852, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:28

Diary, 1867, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:29

Diary and Accounts, 1870, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:30

Diary, 1871, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:31

Diary, Accounts, and Draft of remarks made to Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Yolo Lodge no. 169, 1872-1873, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 1:32

Diary, 1873, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:33

Diary and Accounts, 1874, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:34

Diary,1877-[1878], 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 1:35

Diary and Accounts, 1879, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 1:36

Dairy and Accounts, 1880-1881, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 1:37

Diary and Accounts, 1881, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 1:38

Diary and Accounts, 1882, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:1

Diary and Accounts, 1883, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:2

Diary and Accounts, 1884, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:3

Diary and note, 1885, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:4

Diary and Accounts, 1886, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:5

Diary and Accounts, 1887, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:6

Diary, 1888, 1 volume and 1 leaf.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:7

Diary and Accounts, 1889, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:8

Diary, 1890, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Subseries 1.5. Printed Material, 1863-1879

Physical Description: 16 items

Scope and Content Note

The last subseries of Series I is Printed Material. Printed Material is divided into items having to do with organizations or other subjects.

Subseries 1.5.1. Organizations, 1863-1879

Physical Description: 10 items

California Wine Growers Association

Box 2:9

Certificate of membership, 1867

Physical Description: 1 item

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Freemasons

Physical Description:

box 2:10

Pamphlet; "By-Laws of Woodland Lodge No. 156 of Free and Accepted Masons," San Francisco, CA: Franklin Printing House, 1872

Physical Description: 1 item

Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 1863-1879

Physical Description: 7 items

Box 2:11

Anniversary Hymns, incomplete date

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 10:4

Newspaper, "New Age," Sept. 30, 1871

Physical Description: 1 item

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Pamphlets, 1863-1879

Physical Description: 3 items

Box 2:12

Pamphlet: "Constitution and by-laws of Woodland Lodge No. 111, I.O.O.F.," Sacramento, CA: Crocker, H. S., 1871

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:13

Pamphlet: "Constitution, by-laws and rules of order of Woodland Lodge No. 111, I.O. of O.F.," Sacramento, CA: Crocker, H. S., 1863

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:14

Pamphlet: "Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual communication of the R. W. Grand Lodge of the State of California," 1879

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:15

"Responses to be used at the dedication of the Odd Fellows Hall at Suisun," April 25, 1873

Physical Description: 2 items

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Patrons of Husbandry - National Grange

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Box 2:16

Pamphlet; "Constitution of the order of Patrons of Husbandry and by-laws of the National Grange," Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, 1873

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 1.5.2. Other Printed Material, 1867-1879

Physical Description: 6 items

Folio 10:5

Broadside, Administrator's sale for the estate of S. J. Thomas, 1867

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:17

Hymn, 1877

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:18

Newspapers; "The Daily Republican;" Woodland, CA; Aug. 21, 1879; Aug. 29, 1879; Sept. 1, 1879; Sept. 2, 1879;

Physical Description: 4 items

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Series 2. Eunice Pierce, 1867-1908

Physical Description: 68 items, .5 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Series II (1867-1908) is composed of items created by or collected by Eunice Pierce. This series is divided into 5 subseries: Correspondence, Legal Documents, Financial Records, Diaries, and Printed Material.

Subseries 2.1. Correspondence, 1879-1895

Physical Description: 11 items

Scope and Content Note

The subseries, Correspondence, is mainly related to property held by Eunice Pierce. It is divided into outgoing and incoming correspondence and then listed in alphabetical order by the name of the correspondent.

Subseries 2.1.1. Outgoing, 1888

Physical Description: 1 item

Box 2:19

McDougall, J. H., Dec. 20, 1888, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 2.1.2. Incoming, 1879-1890

Physical Description: 10 items

Box 2:20

Briggs, H. W., 1893-1895, letter and 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 2:20

Davies, Work, McNamee and Hilton, Law Offices, 1879-1882, 2 letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:20

Evalyn [sister], Oct. 29, 1892, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:20

Frost, C. S., Sept. 16, 1892, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:20

Sacramento Bank; Coleman, William P., President, May 12, 1890, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 2.2. Legal Documents, 1897-1906

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Content Note

The subseries, Legal Documents, consists of an abstract of title (including deeds and tax receipts) for a Yolo County, CA property and insurance policies for property.

Box 2:21

Abstract of Title, 1897-1906

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:22

Insurance policies for property, 1904-1907

Physical Description: 2 items

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Subseries 2.3. Financial Records, 1867-1904

Physical Description: 38 items

Scope and Content Note

Tax receipts along with account statements, promissory notes, and receipts make up the Financial Records subseries.

Tax Receipts, 1874-1904

Physical Description: 20 items

Scope and Content Note

These tax receipts are records of Eunice Pierce's payment of property and school taxes for Woodland, CA, Yolo County, CA, and Monterey County, CA. Many of the receipts describe property owned by the Pierce Family.

Box 2:23

Tax receipts, 1874-1888

Physical Description: 12 items

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Box 2:24

Tax receipts, 1889-1904

Physical Description: 8 items

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Account Statements, Promissory Notes, and Receipts

Physical Description:

Box 2:25

n.d., 1867-1905

Physical Description: 18 items

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Subseries 2.4. Diaries, 1891-1900

Physical Description: 13 items

Scope and Content Note

The diaries are arranged chronologically.

Box 2:26

Diary entries on 2 leaves of paper, Jan. 2, [1891] - Jan. 24, [1891]

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:27

Diary and Accounts, 1 volume, 1891

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:28

Diary and Accounts, 1 volume, 1892

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:29

Diary and Accounts, 1 volume, 1 card, 1895

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:30

Diary and Accounts, 1 volume, 1896

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:31

Diary and Accounts, 1 volume, 1897

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:32

Diary, Accounts, List, and Receipt; 1 volume and 2 leaves; 1898

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 2:33

Diary and Accounts, 1 volume, 1899

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:34

Diary and Accounts, 1 volume, 1900

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 2.5. Printed Material, 1908

Physical Description:

Box 2:35

Funeral notices for Eunice Pierce,Oct. 26, 1908.

Physical Description: 3 items

Series 3. George W. Pierce, Jr., 1864-1931

Physical Description: 1328 items, 6 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Series III. (1864-1931) is the largest series (1328 items or 6 linear feet) and makes up the bulk of the Pierce Family Papers. Series III is comprised of items created or collected by George W. Pierce, Jr. and is divided into seven subseries: Correspondence; Legal Documents; Financial Records; Diaries, Notes, and Meeting Minutes; Creative Works; Printed Material; and Artifacts.

Subseries 3.1. Correspondence, n.d., 1876-1931

Physical Description: 398 items

Scope and Content Note

The Correspondence subseries is divided into outgoing, incoming, and collected letters. Within these three designations, items are listed in alphabetical order by the correspondents' last names or by the names of the organizations that they represent. Therefore, a researcher in search of a certain letter should look for the letter under both the names of possible correspondents and the names of their organizations. Notable correspondents include California Governors Hiram W. Johnson and George C. Pardee; Lieutenant-Governor Alden Anderson; Senator U. S. Webb; and University of California key players James Forsyth Hunt, V. H. Henderson, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, and E. J. Wickson. In addition to letters, the correspondence subseries also includes materials such as envelopes, lists, statements, postcards, telegrams, brochures, fliers, railroad passes, invitations, forms, and other enclosures. If it was possible to identify which items (including copies of other authors' letters) were enclosed with letters, these enclosures have been kept with the letters with which they were sent.

Subseries 3.1.1. Outgoing, n.d., 1901-1913

Physical Description: 78 items

Scope and Content Note

Researchers can gain insight into the personality and many activities of George W. Pierce, Jr. through these carbon copies of outgoing letters he wrote on subjects such as promotion of Yolo County, CA and Davisville, CA; agricultural technology; complaints about products or services (for example, automobiles); Pierce's various business ventures including Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company, California Almond Growers' Exchange, and California Grain Growers' Association; and his campaign to encourage the State Farm Commission and the University of California to choose Davisville, CA (Davis, CA) as the site for the University Farm. Letters to Governor George C. Pardee, U. S. Webb, and other members of the State Farm Commission discuss the selection of Davisville, CA as the future site for the University Farm.

Box 2:36

Balfour, Douglas, Feb. 22, 1904, 1 cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:36

Best Manufacturing Company, 1910-1911, 4 cc. letters

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 2:36

Brittain, John A., July 23, 1907, 1 cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:36

California Promotion Committee, March 25, 1907, 1 cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:36

Davis, William R., June 27, 1913, 1 cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:36

Dawson, W. T., June 15, 1913, 1 cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:36

Donohoe, Charles L., 1913, 2 cc. letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:36

Electric Appliance Company, 1913, 2 cc. letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:37

Fancher Creek Nurseries, Dec. 26, 1913, 1 cc. list

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:37

Fischer, C. F., June 28, 1913, 1 cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:37

Gillett, James N., Governor of California, May 18, 1907, 1 cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:37

Green, W. S., Nov. 27, 1904, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Hunt, James Forsyth, Feb. 5, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Jeffrey, Thomas B. and Company, Aug. 2, 1907, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Jefferies, Thomas G. and Company, Aug. 4, 1907, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Johnson, Hiram W., Governor of California, March 15, 1911, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Johnson, J. D. and Son, July 7, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Kent, W. H. and George C. Perkins, Feb. 8, 1913, 2 cc. letters and 2 handwritten drafts on 2 leaves

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:38

Knox Automobile Company, Sept. 19, 1904, 2 cc. letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:38

Leavitt and Bill, Sept. 14, 1904, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Lehe, Edward N., June 15, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:38

Lukens, G. R., Aug. 20, 1902, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

McSweeney, Ambrose, June 23, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

Millican, Kenneth A., Dec. 9, 1907, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

Morrison, W. L., Sept. 21, 1904, cc. letter fragment

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

O'Gara, James J., Feb. 18, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

O'Hara, Mrs. James, June 15, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

Pacific Manufacturing Company, 1913, 2 cc. letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:39

Pardee, George C., Governor of California, 1904-1913, 6 cc. letters (1 with notes on reverse) and 1 handwritten letter draft with notes on reverse

Physical Description: 7 items

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Box 2:39

Perkins, George C., Feb. 8, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

Pfaff, M. G., April 14, 1907, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

Reed, H. B., March 3, 1906, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

Reith, John, Jr., March 29, 1905, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:39

Rose, Charles T., 1913, 4 cc. letters

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 2:39

Rule, F. K., Sept. 16, 1904, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:40

Sheldon, M. N., June 18, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:40

Southern Pacific Company; Brennan, J. D., Superintendent Western Division; 1913; 2 cc. letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:40

Stabler, H. P., Nov. 27, 1904, cc. letter and statement

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:40

State Farm Commission; Henderson, V. H., Secretary; 1905-1906; 3 cc. letters

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 2:40

State Farm Commission, Members of , 1905-1906, 5 cc. letters, 1 letter fragment

Physical Description: 6 items

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Box 2:41

Talley Specialty Company, Jan. 22, 1904, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:41

University of California Club, Aug. 5, 1905, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:41

Webb, U. S., 1906, 3 cc. letters

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 2:41

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, President, University of California, 1904-1905, 2 cc. letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 2:41

Wickson, E. J., Jan. 16, 1906, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:41

Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, June 28, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:42

Unidentified Recipient; Dear Sirs (concerning California Grain Growers' Association; Dec. 12, 1901; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:42

Unidentified Recipient: Frankie (concerning Pierce Family activities), July 5, 1913, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 2:42

Unidentified Recipient: To Whom it May Concern (concerning Davis, CA Postmaster), n.d., letter draft

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.1.2. Incoming, 1876-1931

Physical Description: 322 items

Scope and Content Note

Incoming letters (1876-1931, 322 items) to George W. Pierce, Jr. are arranged in alphabetical order by the last names of the letters' authors or by the names of organizations from which the letters originated. Many of the letters dating (1905-1906) deal with the selection of Davis, CA as the site for the State University Farm. Authors of letters pertaining to the University Farm include: Alden Anderson, P. N. Ashley, W. E. Bates, J. H. Braly, Morris Brooke, John E. Budd, George C. Pardee, U. S. Webb, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, E. J. Wickson, members of the State Farm Commission, and Alfred Holman, Editor and Publisher of the Sacramento Union. Other letters have to do with Pierce's business ventures and farmers' marketing organizations: Silica Brick Company (correspondence from W. A. Beard, T. L. Myers, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company), Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company (J. E. Scarlett, H. G. Brown, Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, B. F. Newby, and Marsh Brothers and Gardenier Incorporated), California Almond Growers' Exchange (under the name of the organization and also under the names of their auditors Janes-Frase Company, and of Albert E. Boynton), California Grain Growers' Association (D. B. Groff, and A. Bannister), and Putah Creek Water Company (J. C. Pierson). Pierce received numerous letters (1901-1908) from prominent Davisville, CA landowner and business man, M. Diggs. These letters concern the sale of land near Davisville, CA. Some of Pierce's other interests such as farm labor, the promotion of Yolo County, CA and water rights are also demonstrated by the letters he received. Of special interest to those researching farm labor is a letter written by Mousha Singh, a Sikh and Pierce's long-time and most valued ranch hand. Singh was Pierce's link to securing other Sikh laborers during harvest time.

Box 3:1

Anderson, Alden, Lieutenant-Governor of California, 1906, 4 letters, 4 envelopes

Physical Description: 8 items

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Box 3:1

Ashley, P. N., June 7, 1906, 2 copies of 1 letter

Physical Description: 2 items

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Doc. Case 12:1

Associated Almond Growers of Paso Robles; C. E. Magahy, Secretary; n.d.; form, letter, booklet, and envelope.

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:1

Athens Lodge, No. 228, [Freemasons], Davisville, CA, Oct. 4, 1876, invitation, ticket, and envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:1

Bank of Yolo; C. W. Bush, President; Aug. 5, 1912; form letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:2

Bannister, A., Aug. 20, 1902, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:2

Bates, W. E., 1906, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:2

Beard, W. A., 1911, 2 letters, envelope, and copy of letter from E. W. Hilgard

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:2

Boynton, Albert E., May 21, 1918, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:2

Braly, J. H., March 31, 1905, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:2

Brooke, Morris, Feb. 14, 1906, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:2

Brown, H. G., Aug. 16, 1918, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:2

Budd, John E., 1906, 5 letters and 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 7 items

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Box 3:3

California Almond Growers' Exchange, 1919-1920, 1 postcard, 2 copies of letters from Dudley, U. H. and Company

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:3

California Almond Growers' Exchange; J. P. Dargitz, Secretary and Manager; 1910; letter with statement

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:3

California Almond Growers' Exchange; T. C. Tucker, Manager; 1912-1922; 6 letters, 1 statement, 4 envelopes

Physical Description: 11 items

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Box 3:3

California Almond Growers' Exchange; B. F. Walton; President; Aug. 9, 1912; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:4

California. State Commission of Horticulture; G. H. Hecke; State Commissioner of Horticulture; Oct. 29, 1918; letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:4

California. State Committee on Efficiency and Economy; Albert E. Boyton, Chairman; Jan. 21, 1919; letter, list, and envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:4

California State Prison, San Quentin, CA, Jute Mill Department; John C. Edgar, Warden; Jan. 31, 1907; letter, legal doc., and envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:4

Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company; N. E. Otterson, District Manager; Dec. 18, 1914; letter, envelope, and 2 fliers

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:4

Cook, Thomas and Son, World Wide Travel Service, March 9, 1926, letter and brochure

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:4

Crandall, F. W., Feb. 21, 1903, postcard

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:5

Dargitz, J. P., Dec. 24, 1918, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:5

Davis Business Men's Association, Davis, CA; H. B. Crego, Secretary; May 11, 1922; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:5

DeLaval Dairy Supply Company; Charles A. Crate, Sales Department; 1914; 1 letter and 1 copy of letter from Newman Brothers of Poppy Ridge Ranch, Elk Grove, CA

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:6

Diggs, M., 1901-1908, 14 letters and 14 envelopes

Physical Description: 28 items

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Box 3:6

Dixon Chamber of Commerce, Dixon, CA; R. Moss, Publicity Committee; April 1, 1913; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:7

Fancher Creek Nurseries, 1914-1915

Physical Description: 5 items

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Box 3:8

Franklin Paint Company; 1926; 3 form letters, 6 envelopes, 2 roofing samples, 3 brochures, and 6 order forms

Physical Description: 20 items

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Box 3:8

French, F. W., Feb. 6, 1903, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:8

Fulton Paint Company; 1926; 1 form letter, 2 envelopes, 2 roofing samples, 1 brochure, and 2 order forms

Physical Description: 8 items

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Box 3:9

Gregory, W. H., Sept. 10, 1906, 2 letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:9

Griffith Brokerage Company, n.d., 1919, 4 fliers

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:9

Groff, D. B., (regarding California Grain Growers' Association), Dec. 17, 1901, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:10

Hecke, G. H., Sept. 15, 1915, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:10

Hendy, Joshua, Machine Works; Feb. 20, 1884; letter, flier, and envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:10

Howell-Dohrmann Company; George W. Howell; May 29, 1912; letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:11

Janes-Frase Company, Auditors and Public Accountants; Louis L. Janes, Manager Commercial Department; 1923; 16 letters with accounts for the California Almond Growers' Exchange

Physical Description: 16 items

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Box 3:11

Johnson, Hiram W., Governor of California; Alexander McCabe, Private Secretary [for Gov. Johnson]; Feb. 18, 1913; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:12

Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company; J. U. Haley, General Freight and Passenger Agent; April 28, 1903; letter, annual pass, and envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:12

Lang, Herbert, June 13, 1905, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:12

Marsh Brothers and Gardenier Inc., Contracting Engineers; Marsh, E. L., President; Dec. 17, 1914; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:12

Montgomery, Carey, March 30, 1913, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:12

Myers, T. L., (regarding Silica Brick Company), March 31, 1911, letter with estimate

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:13

New Orleans Board of Control, Department of Publicity, National Drainage Congress, 1912, 2 letters and 1 flier

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:13

Newby, B. F., 1918, letter from Newby with 2 letters from Hugo K. Asher enclosed

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:13

O'Connor, Annie, incomplete date, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:13

Official Committee for the Reception of the Fleet, May 6, 1908, invitation, ticket, and envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:14

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; S. V. Walton, Manager Commercial Department; (regarding Silica Brick Company); Nov. 23, 1910; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:14

Pardee, George C., Governor of California; incomplete date, 1905-1913; 1 telegram, 4 letters, and 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 7 items

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Box 3:14

[Pierce, Susan Gilmore], "Susie," Sept. 4, 1909, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:14

Pierson, J. C., 1882-1883, 5 letters and 1 envelope

Physical Description: 6 items

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Box 3:14

Rose, Charles T., n.d., 1913, 2 letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:15

Sacramento Clay Products Company; J. P. Dargitz, Secretary; Nov. 18, 1914, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:15

Sacramento Union; Alfred Holman, Editor and Publisher; April 20, 1905; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:15

Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company; Melville Dozier, Jr., General Manager; n.d., 1914; 1 letter from Dozier with the following enclosed: copy of letter sent to H. R. Timm, copy of letter sent to John Reith, Jr., copy of letter sent to stockholders by E. L. Sisson, and envelope with notes

Physical Description: 5 items

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Box 3:15

Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company; Louis L. Janes, Secretary; 1914; 2 letters and 1 envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Doc. Case 12:2

Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company; Louis L. Janes, Secretary; Dec. 8, 1914; large envelope

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:15

Sacramento Valley Expositions Commission; William J. Weyand, Acting President; Oct. 19,1915; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:15

Scarlett, J. E., 1918, 2 letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:16

Silica Brick Company; J. P. Dargitz, Secretary; 1911-1912; 11 letters and 1 clipping

Physical Description: 12 items

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Box 3:17

Singh, Mousha, April 9, 1914, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:17

Shore Line Investment Company; Charles W. Fay, General Manager; March 18, 1912; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:17

Southern Pacific Company; J. D. Brennen, Superintendent Western Division; Feb. 17, 1913; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:17

Southern Pacific Company; James Horsburgh, Jr., Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent; 1903; 2 letters and 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:17

Stanley, Martha C., n.d., letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:17

State Farm Commission; V. H. Henderson; Secretary; 1905-1906; 7 letters and 7 envelopes

Physical Description: 14 items

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Box 3:17

Stevens, Flora J., Oct. 3, 1907, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:18

Throof, D. R., March 11, 1913, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:18

True, Gordon H., illegible date, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:18

Tufts, Addie B., n.d., 1927, letter, card, and envelope

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:19

United States. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Statistics, Dec. 1, 1903, county schedule

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:19

University of California, Davis. College of Agriculture, Faculty Club; University Farm; n.d., 1925; letters from E. H. Hughes and J. D. Long, Manager; form letters from the Board of Directors and the Social Committee.

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:19

University of California, Davis. College of Agriculture, Horticulture Round Table; University Farm; Jan. 20, 1924; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:19

University of California, Davis. College of Agriculture; University Farm Creamery; Sept. 25, 1915; form letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:19

University of California, Davis. College of Agriculture; University Farm; H. E. Van Norman, Dean; Oct. 2, 1915; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:19

University of California. Revenue Association; William Denman, Secretary; Dec. 31, 1900; letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:19

University of California. Volunteer Committee, Class of 1875, n.d., form letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:20

Webb, U. S., Attorney-General of California; Aug. 1906; 2 letters, 2 envelopes, enclosed copy of a letter from Webb to Gov. George C. Pardee, and enclosed copy of a letter from Webb to V. H. Henderson

Physical Description: 6 items

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Box 3:20

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1905-1906, 2 letters and 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:20

Wickson, E. J., 1905-1906, 5 letters, 1 telegram, and 4 envelopes

Physical Description: 10 items

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Box 3:20

Wilkins, C. W., July 15, 1931, letter and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:20

Woodland Daily Democrat; Edward E. Leake, Editor and Proprietor; n.d., 1915; 3 letters and envelope

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:20

Yolo County Board of Trade; H. S. Maddox, Secretary-Manager; n.d., 1913; 2 letters, envelope, flier

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 3:20

Yolo County Consolidated Water Company; J. Craig, President; Feb. 16, 1906; 2 letters

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:20

Yolo County Consolidated Water Company; W. H. Gregory, Manager; July 16, 1906; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:21

Unidentified Author; invitation to grand ball, Yolo County, CA; May 1, 1876

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:21

Unidentified Author; empty envelope mailed from Sacramento, CA; Feb. 10, 1915

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.1.3. Collected Letters, 1866-1920

Physical Description: 15 items

Scope and Content Note

These collected letters (1866-1920, 15 items) may have been enclosed in letters sent to George W. Pierce, Jr. They pertain to topics important to Pierce such as Silica Brick Company, the proposed University Farm site, Yolo County, CA promotion, and various agricultural products. Letters between Governor George C. Pardee and Senator U. S. Webb are included in the collected letters subseries.

Box 3:22

California State Prison, Folsom, CA; Warden John McComb to Sperry and Company; May 13, 1887; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Guile, D. B. to M. Diggs, incomplete date, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Hannon, W. to Sacramento Bank, Aug. 9, 1892, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Hilgard, E. W. to W. A. Beard, March 22, 1911, copy of letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Lamont, George A. to R. B. Armstrong, June 5, 1906, letter and copy of that letter

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:22

Lawrence, J. H. to Messrs. R. N. and C. D., Dec. 31, 1866, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

[Pardee, George C.], Governor of California, to U. S. Webb, May 8, 1906, cc. letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Sacramento Valley Home Products League; C. T. Farnham to Davis Chamber of Commerce, Davis, CA; Feb. 17, 1913; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Schlegel, Frank H. to M. Diggs, Oct. 28, 1908, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Schmeiser Manufacturing Company, Davis, CA; ca. 1920; form letter/brochure for the Read - Schmeiser Almond Huller and Separator No. 2. Letter features quote from Pierce's article "The Almond."

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Scott, G. W. to William [illegible last name], March 14, 1888, letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Southern Pacific Company; J. D. Brennan, Supt. Western Division; to H. S. Maddox, Secretary, Yolo County Board of Trade; Feb. 9, 1913; letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Vinter, William of Hope Orchard, Edenville, CA to Holmes Lime Company, Inc.; Dec. 23, 1908; copy of letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:22

Webb, U. S., Attorney-General of California, (by E. B. Power, Deputy) to George C. Pardee, Governor of California; May 26, 1906; copy of letter

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.2. Legal Documents, 1870-1927

Physical Description: 62 items

Scope and Content Note

The Legal Documents subseries contains documents having to do with Farmers' Marketing Organizations, Property and Water Rights, Public Office, Silica Brick Company, and Other topics. Within these subject headings, items are organized by format. Farmers' marketing organizations covered in the Legal Documents subseries are the California Almond Growers' Exchange, the Davisville Almond Growers' Association (Davis Almond Growers' Association), the Farmers' Protective Association of California, the California Fruit Distributors, the California Grain Growers' Association, and the California Fruit Growers, Committee on Labor. Property and water rights records include many important legal documents for Pierce Family properties, records having to do with University of California history and the founding of the University Farm at Davis, CA, and documents pertaining to various Yolo County, CA properties and water companies. Public office records relate to just two of the several offices held by Pierce. Records for Silica Brick Company are also contained in the Legal Documents subseries. The Other category contains legal documents having to do with life insurance, the building of a national highway, and the Porfirio Diaz government of Mexico.

Subseries 3.2.1. Farmers' Marketing Associations, 1901-1917

Physical Description: 12 items

Box 3:23

Agreements and Contracts; California Almond Growers' Exchange, Davisville Almond Growers' Association (Davis Almond Growers' Association); n.d., 1903-1906

Physical Description: 6 items

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Box 3:24

By-laws of the Farmers' Protective Association of California, 1903

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:24

Resolutions; California Fruit Distributors; California Grain Growers' Association; California Fruit Growers, Committee on Labor; n.d., 1901-1917

Physical Description: 3 items

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Subseries 3.2.2. Property and Water Rights, 1883-1927

Physical Description: 27 items

Scope and Content Note

The subseries, Property and Water Rights, includes many legal documents for Pierce Family properties, important records having to do with University of California history and the founding of the University Farm at Davis, CA, and documents relating to various Yolo County, CA properties and water companies.

Pierce Family Properties, 1904-1927

Physical Description: 9 items

Scope and Content Note

These legal documents having to do with properties owned by the Pierce Family include an agreement/contract for home renovations, property insurance policies, and a notice "to the users of water passing through the Pierce lateral irrigation canal."

Box 3:25

Agreement/Contract; Charles T. Rose and George W. Pierce, Jr., Sept. 7, 1912

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:6

Insurance Policies for Property; Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, and German American Insurance Company; 1904-1906; 4 policies and 1 letter

Physical Description: 5 items

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Box 3:25

Notice, Sept. 1927

Physical Description: 3 items

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University Farm site: University of California, Davis; 1905-1906

Physical Description: 12 items

Scope and Content Note

12 items among the legal documents of George W. Pierce, Jr. have to do with property and water rights and the site for the University Farm. These items are very important to those researching the founding of the University of California, Davis. This subseries contains a formal offer of a site for the University Farm. The land known as the M. V. Sparks place was offered by a committee of citizens of Yolo County, CA to the State Farm Commission in 1905. Also, in this subseries are agreements and contracts between parties including the citizens of Davisville, CA, M. V. Sparks, George W. Pierce, Jr., the Yolo County Consolidated Water Company, and the Regents of the University of California. Because of their importance, these documents had been separated from this collection--the Pierce Family Papers--put into a portfolio, and cataloged as a book. Now they are reunited with the collection of papers from which they came so that researchers may see these documents in their proper context.

Agreements and Contracts, 1905-1906

Physical Description: 11 items

Scope and Content Note

Agreements and Contracts are part of the legal documents belonging to the George W. Pierce, Jr. Series. They are agreements and contracts related to the acquisition of property and water rights for the University of California's proposed University Farm in 1905-1906.

Box 3:26

Citizens of Davisville, CA, regarding fund to pay for water rights for the University Farm and interest on purchase price of the M. V. Sparks place, 1906

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:27

Sparks, M. V. and George W. Pierce, Jr., 1905-1906, 6 agreements and envelope.

Physical Description: 7 items

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Regarding purchase of land for the University Farm and Yolo County Consolidated Water Company stock.

Box 3:28

Yolo County Consolidated Water Company and the Regents of the University of California, July 23, 1906

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:29

Formal Offer, May 12, 1905, copy.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Committee of citizens of Yolo County, CA offer site known as the M. V. Sparks Place to the State Farm Commission.

Various Yolo County, CA properties and water companies, 1883-1913

Physical Description: 6 items

Scope and Content Note

These legal documents belonging to George W. Pierce, Jr. (Series III) and pertaining to property and water rights, do not particularly have to do with the Pierce Family properties nor the University Farm. These documents instead relate to various Yolo County, CA properties and water companies. An agreement, by-laws, and records of a court decision and a lawsuit make up this subseries.

Box 3:30

Agreement; M. Diggs and G. Miner; Jan. 22, 1908.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Concerning rental of Hext Ranch subdivision lots.

Box 3:31

By-laws of Putah Creek Water Company, 1883

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:32

Court Decision; Moore vs. Capay Ditch Company; 1902.

Physical Description: 1 item

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In the Superior Court of the County of Yolo and the State of California

Box 3:33

Lawsuit; Ernest V. Cowell Estate vs. multiple defendants for rights to the water of Putah Creek; 1913.

Physical Description: 1 item

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In the Superior Court of the County of Yolo and the State of California

Subseries 3.2.3. Public Office, ca. 1898-1900

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Content Note

Legal documents pertaining to two of the many public offices held by George W. Pierce, Jr. are contained in the subseries, Public Office. A large certificate and its envelope have to do with the appointment of Pierce as a trustee of the California. State Normal School, San Jose. Two petitions containing the names of residents of Yolo County, CA, circa 1898, support the Republican Pierce's candidacy for the office he later held--representative in the California State Assembly of 1898 and 1899.

Folio 10:7

Appointment and Commission; Henry T. Gage, Governor of California, appoints George W. Pierce, Jr. as a trustee of the California. State Normal School, San Jose; 1900.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:34

Petitions; Residents of Yolo County, CA to George W. Pierce, Jr., ca. 1898

Physical Description: 2 items

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Subseries 3.2.4. Silica Brick Company, 1911-1912

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Content Note

Items in the Silica Brick Company subseries are legal documents and part of Series III, George W. Pierce, Jr. Two propositions relating to the business of the Silica Brick Company and the Sacramento Clay Products Company as well as a writ of attachment against the brick company are included in this subseries.

Box 3:35

Propositions, 1912

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:35

Writ of Attachment; Clinton L. White vs. Silica Brick Company; Dec. 4, 1911

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.2.5. Other Legal Documents, 1870-1913

Physical Description: 14 items

Scope and Content Note

The subseries, Other Legal Documents, is made up of various legal documents within Series III, George W. Pierce, Jr., that do not have to do with farmers' marketing organizations, property and water rights, public office, nor Silica Brick Company. Organized by format the documents in this subseries include a California State Assembly Bill, a club's constitution, materials related to life insurance, and two resolutions.

Box 3:36

Assembly Bill No. 553, California State Assembly, "An act to provide for the survey and construction of wagon road from Tallac to McKinney's, along the shore of Lake Tahoe," 1897

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:36

Constitution of the Yolo County Club of the University of California, 1895

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:37

Life Insurance Policies; Sonoma and Marin Mutual Beneficial Association and Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company; ca. 1870-1905 application, brochure, policy with supplement, envelope, and 2 letters.

Physical Description: 7 items

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Resolutions, n.d., ca. 1913

Physical Description: 5 items

Box 3:38

Resolution by Davis Chamber of Commerce, Davis, CA, ca. 1913, concerning national highway.

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:38

Resolution of California State Assembly, Joint Resolution No. 44, recognition of Porfirio Diaz government of Mexico, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Subseries 3.3. Financial Records, 1882-1925

Physical Description: 172 items

Scope and Content Note

The third subseries of Series III, George W. Pierce, Jr., is Financial Records. Pierce's financial records have been divided into 4 categories: Tax Records; Tax Records (Oversize); Account Statements, Promissory Notes, and Receipts; and Account Books. The tax records and oversize tax records (segregated by size for preservation reasons) consist of receipts for taxes paid to the cities of Davis, CA and Woodland, CA; the United States, Internal Revenue Service; and Yolo County, CA. Also included are receipts for taxes that Pierce paid for tracts of land deeded to the Regents of the University of California. Pierce's account statements, promissory notes, and receipts are not related to taxes but are records of other family and ranch business. 4 account books are part of the financial records subseries, but along with these books come numerous notes, clippings, and receipts.

Box 3:39

Tax Records, 1904-1918

Physical Description: 6 items

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Folio 10:8

Tax Records (Oversize), 1899-1918

Physical Description: 3 items

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Account Statements, Promissory Notes, and Receipts, n.d., incomplete date, 1885-1925

Physical Description: 126 items

Box 3:40

Statements, notes, receipts, n.d., incomplete date

Physical Description: 9 items

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Box 3:41

Statements, notes, receipts, 1885-1904

Physical Description: 23 items

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Box 3:42

Statements, notes, receipts, 1905-1912

Physical Description: 48 items

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Box 3:43

Statements, notes, receipts, 1913-1925

Physical Description: 46 items

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Account Books, 1882-1919

Physical Description: 37 items

Box 3:44

Pierce Family and ranch expenses and earnings (includes records of ranch laborers); 1897-1911; 1 volume, 26 notes, 3 clippings, 3 receipts

Physical Description: 33 items

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Box 3:45

Putah Creek Water Company, 1882-1885, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:46

Checkbook with register, 1906, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:47

Time book for Pierce Ranch laborers, 1913-1919, 1 volume and 1 clipping

Physical Description: 2 items

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Subseries 3.4. Diaries, Notes, and Meeting Minutes, 1866-1930

Physical Description: 136 items

Scope and Content Note

The fourth subseries belonging to Series III is Diaries, Notes, and Meeting Minutes. It is arranged in chronological order. 45 of the 136 items in this subseries are diaries. Other items in this subseries are loose leaves of paper featuring notes or diary entries, meeting minutes, a bookmark, business cards, clippings, envelopes, a pencil, a sticker, an ink blotter, a map, and annotated travel guides. Like his father before him, George W. Pierce, Jr. made brief entries almost daily in his diaries. Most of Pierce's diaries deal with life on the Pierce Ranch and vicinity, and many include ranch accounts. The 1866 diary was written during Pierce's time as a high school student in Woodland, CA. Diaries written during 1871-1881 allow the researcher a glimpse into the life of Pierce as a young man helping his father on the ranch, going on hunting trips and excursions to Lake Tahoe, and studying at the University of California at Berkeley, CA. Pierce's 1910 diary includes a description of a trip he took across the United States and on to Panama. Pierce's 1921, 1893, and 1903 diaries also record trips he took across the United States. His 1923-1924 diaries describe his world travels as do his 1928-1929 diaries. Notes in this subseries were taken by Pierce during readings, lectures, and tours. Pierce also took notes on the number of trains passing through Davis in 1906 in order bolster his case to the State Farm Commission that Davis was an appropriate site for the proposed University Farm. Meeting minutes are from meetings of the Putah Creek Water Company and the Silica Brick Company.

Box 3:48

Diary, 1866, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:49

Diary and accounts, 1871, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:50

Diary and accounts, 1872, 1 volume, 1 bookmark

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 3:51

Diary and accounts, 1873, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:52

Diary, accounts, and lecture notes; 1874-1881; 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:53

Notes; University of California, Berkeley, CA; 1875; 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:54

Notes, written on 3 business cards for Gundlach, J. and Company, Sept. 9, 1878

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 3:55

Notes, copied from "Popular Science Monthly," article, "Can sound be produced by radiant energy?" June/July 1881, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:56

Notes on human speech and religion and notes on Independent Order of Odd Fellows celebration picnic, ca. 1882, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:57

Meeting Minutes; Putah Creek Water Company, Davisville, CA; 1882-1883; 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 3:58

Diary, 1889, 1 volume, 2 clippings, 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 5 items

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Box 3:59

Diary, 1890, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:1

Diary, 1891, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:2

Diary, 1892, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:3

Diary, 1893, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:4

Diary, 1894, 1 volume, 1 clipping

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 4:5

Diary, 1895, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:6

Diary, 1896, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:7

Diary, 1897, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:8

Diary and accounts, 1898, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:9

Diary and accounts, 1899, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:10

Diary and accounts, 1900, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:11

Diary and accounts, 1901, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 4:12

Diary and accounts, 1902, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:13

Diary and accounts, 1903, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:14

Diary, 1904, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:15

Diary, 1905, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:16

Diary and accounts, 1906, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:17

Notes on number of people in trains passing through Davis, CA (University Farm data), 1906, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:18

Diary, 1907, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:19

Diary and accounts, 1908, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 4:20

Diary and accounts, 1909, 1 volume, 1 clipping

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 5:1

Diary and accounts, 1910, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:2

Meeting Minutes (informal summary), Silica Brick Company, 1910-1912, 3 leaves

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 5:3

Diary and accounts, 1911, 1 volume, 2 leaves

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 5:4

Diary, 1912, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:5

Diary and accounts, 1913, 1 volume, 1 clipping

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 5:6

Diary and accounts, 1914, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:7

Diary and accounts, 1915, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:8

Diary and accounts, 1916, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:9

Diary and accounts, 1917, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:10

Diary and accounts, 1918, 1 volume, 1 leaf

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 5:11

Notes on farm labor, ca. 1918, 3 leaves and envelope

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 5:12

Diary and accounts, 1919, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:13

Diary and accounts, 1921, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:14

Diary, 1922, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:15

Diary, 1923, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 5:16

Diary entries, description of travel in Hawaii and return voyage, 1923, 9 leaves, 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 11 items

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Box 6:1

Diary and Notes on travel in Hawaii, [1923], 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:2

Diary and Notes on travel in Mediterranean and Middle East, 1924, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:3

Diary and Notes on travel in London and Windsor, 1924, booklet

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:4

Diary, 1927, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:5

Diary and accounts, 1928, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:6

Diary, 1928-1929, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:7

Diary, "My Cruise Round the World on Canadian Pacific, S.S. Empress of Australia, 1928-1929;" 1 volume, pencil, 2 cards, sticker, ink blotter, and map.

Physical Description: 7 items

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Box 6:8

Notes on Imperialism and the Philippines, Feb. 12, 1929, envelope and 13 leaves

Physical Description: 14 items

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Box 6:9

Diary entries and notes on Canadian Pacific shore excursions into China, Hong Kong, Japan, Java, and Singapore; Feb. 13-March 5, 1929; 3 annotated travel guides, 13 leaves, and envelope.

Physical Description: 17 items

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Box 6:10

Diary and accounts, 1929, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:11

Diary, 1930, 1 volume, 2 clippings

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 6:12

Notes and sketches, various, n.d., 10 leaves

Physical Description: 10 items

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Subseries 3.5. Creative Works, [1860]-1925

Physical Description: 113 items

Scope and Content Note

Creative Works make up the 5th subseries of Series III, George W. Pierce, Jr. These creative works are further divided into three categories: Inventions, Literary Productions, and Other. Inventions include records of an almond bleacher patented in 1923 by Pierce and information gathered in a Baker and Hamilton ledger (1917-1925), which was created by an unidentified person who likely was from Yolo County, CA. The ledger contains photographs, diagrams, and notes about farm machinery and would be of great interest to historians of agricultural technology. Pierce's Literary Productions are articles written about Davis, CA; Yolo County, CA; almonds; and the selection of the University Farm site. The article, "Selection of University Farm Site," is found here in two forms: a typed draft and a photocopy of a handwritten draft. The original handwritten draft was made on the reverse side of a draft of a letter from Pierce to Governor George C. Pardee and is housed among Pierce's outgoing correspondence to Pardee. Other literary productions in this subseries are a poem, a satire presented to the Davisville Whist Club, a speech given on the occasion of the first commencement at the Davis Joint Union High School, an empty envelope that once held an "Almond Address," and the outline for a speech or article promoting Davisville, CA as the best site for the proposed University Farm. Other materials in the Creative Works subseries are labels for a Yolo County, CA exhibit, a handwritten program for a school play, and a scrapbook. The Scrapbook, which may have been created by George W. Pierce, Jr., is a circa 1860s account book with clippings pasted over most of its pages. The clippings are of poems, recipes, works of fiction, comments on liquor and drunkenness, and other articles of general interest. Many loose clippings, notes, fliers, and newspapers were also inserted between the pages of this scrapbook and have been removed either to a folder of 85 loose clippings that accompanies the scrapbook or to other locations within the Pierce Family Papers (as noted on a separation sheet).

Subseries 3.5.1. Inventions, 1917-1925

Physical Description: 3 items

Box 6:13

Almond Bleacher, by George W. Pierce, Jr., n.d., 1923, U.S. patent and time line

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 6:14

Diagrams and 7 photographs of farm machinery in Baker and Hamilton ledger, 1917-1925, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.5.2. Literary Productions, 1904-1928

Physical Description: 14 items

Box 6:15

Articles, n.d., ca. 1905-1913

Physical Description: 5 items

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"The Almond," "As We Appear to Outside Eyes," "Davis," and "Selection of University Farm Site"

Box 6:16

Poem, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:16

Satire, "The War in the Far East," to the Davisville Whist Club, March 5, 1904, 3 leaves

Physical Description: 3 items

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Speeches, ca. 1905-1928

Physical Description: 5 items

Box 6:17

On the occasion of the first commencement at Davis Joint Union High School, 1928, text of speech on 3 leaves

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 6:17

Envelope (empty) that held, "Almond Address," made to the Davis Fruit Growers' Convention, June 1914

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:17

Outline of a speech promoting Davisville, CA as the site for the University Farm, ca. 1905

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.5.3. Other, n.d., 1864-1889

Physical Description: 96 items

Scrapbook, 1865-1889

Physical Description: 86 items

Box 6:18

Account book converted into scrapbook, 1865-1889, 1 volume

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:19

Loose clippings from scrapbook, 1865-1889

Physical Description: 85 items

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Box 6:20

Exhibit Labels, Yolo County, CA, n.d.

Physical Description: 9 items

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Box 6:21

Program (handwritten) for school play, March 5, 1864

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.6. Printed Material, n.d., 1867-1930

Physical Description: 433 items

Scope and Content Note

The sixth subseries, Printed Material, is the largest of Series III, George W. Pierce, Jr. It contains 433 items (1867-1930) and is divided into the subseries subjects: Business Ventures, California Promotion, Farmers's Marketing Organizations, Highways, Labor, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Travel, the University of California, and Other. Items under these subject headings may be further divided by subject and then are finally arranged by the format of the materials such as clippings, newsletters, newspapers, lists, broadsides, fliers, brochures, bulletins, books, and pamphlets.

Subseries 3.6.1. Business Ventures, 1882-1914

Physical Description: 17 items

Scope and Content Note

Under Pierce's Business Ventures, the researcher will find brochures and a list of lot prices for the Diggs Subdivision of the Hext Tract in Davis, CA, an 1882 broadside for the Putah Creek Water Company, a statement for Sacramento Clay Products Company, 2 lists of Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company stockholders along with newspapers describing that company's activities, and estimates of construction costs and a statement for the Silica Brick Company. The 3 newspapers containing information about the Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company are the "Sacramento Union" (Jan. 19, 1914) and the "Woodland Daily Democrat" (Jan. 19, 1914 and Dec. 8, 1914). These newspapers feature such headlines as: "Donahue Ousted, G. W. Pierce Now in Power, Willows Man Deposed as Head of Sacramento Valley Electric and Yolo Man Elected," "George W. Pierce, Head of Railroad: Election held by Sacramento Valley Electric in San Francisco Saturday," and "Yolo Man in a Suit Filed against R. R."

Box 6:22

Diggs Subdivision of the Hext Tract, Yolo County, CA; 2 brochures and a list of lot prices; n.d., Feb. 1, 1907

Physical Description: 3 items

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Folio 10:9

Putah Creek Water Company; broadside; 1882.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:23

Sacramento Clay Products Company; statement; 1912

Physical Description: 1 item

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Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company, n.d., 1914

Physical Description: 5 items

Box 6:24

List of stockholders in Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Folio 10:10

Newspapers with articles relating to Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad Company, 1914.

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 6:25

Silica Brick Company, 1910-1912, estimates of plant and equipment costs and a statement

Physical Description: 7 items

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Subseries 3.6.2. California Promotion, n.d., 1889-1926

Physical Description: 25 items

Scope and Content Note

Printed material, collected by George W. Pierce, Jr. and related to California promotion, is divided into material promoting individual California counties (Contra Costa, Fresno, Sacramento, San Diego, and Yolo) or the State in general. The material is then further divided by format such as newsletters, menus, brochures, lists, bulletins, clippings, newspapers, pamphlets, fliers, and a postcard. Pierce contributed articles promoting the virtues of Yolo County, CA to many publications including the pamphlets: March 26, 1915, Yolo County Exposition Number (commemorative of Yolo County Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition) of the "Woodland Democrat" and the Democrat's August 23, 1926, "Yolo County in Word and Picture." A circa 1889 fragment of a newspaper, "Pacific Coast Commercial Record," features a group of articles about prominent Yolo County, CA figures and businesses. Fliers for a Picture Tour of California seem related to a 1903 postcard (housed in Pierce's incoming correspondence) to Pierce from F. W. Crandall discussing the promotion of this traveling slide show.

Counties, n.d., 1889-1926

Physical Description: 14 items

Box 6:26

Contra Costa County, CA; Newsletter, "The Richmond Times," Dec. 1922

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:27

Fresno County, CA; Menu; Dec. 14, 1907

Physical Description: 1 item

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Sacramento County, CA, n.d., May [1916]

Physical Description: 4 items

Box 6:28

Brochures, n.d.

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 6:28

List of prizes for Causeway Celebration Floral Parade, May [1916]

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:29

San Diego County, CA; Bulletin.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Cristadoro, C., ed., "Dry Farming Possibilities and Small Farms," San Diego, CA: San Diego Board of Supervisors and Chamber of Commerce, 1915

Yolo County, CA; n.d., 1889-1926

Physical Description: 7 items

Box 6:30

Clippings, n.d., 1913-1918

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Folio 10:11

List of exhibitors and products, Yolo County, CA, exhibit, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:12

Newspaper fragment.

Physical Description: 1 item

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"Pacific Coast Commercial Record," San Francisco, CA: ca. 1889, pp. 3-6.

Doc. Case 12:3

Pamphlets, 1915-1926.

Physical Description: 2 items

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California State, n.d., 1902-1922

Physical Description: 11 items

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material, collected by George W. Pierce, Jr. and having to do with the promotion of the State of California in general, is contained in the California State subseries (1902-1922). The 11 items in this subseries are bulletins, a clipping, fliers, a pamphlet, and a postcard with attached ribbons and button. The two bulletins are: "Monthly Bulletin of the California Development Association, Agriculture and Industry, for January 1922," San Francisco, CA: Feb. 4, 1922 and "Monthly Bulletin of the California Development Board," San Francisco, CA: July 1912.

Box 6:31

Bulletins, 1912-1922

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 6:32

Clipping, ca. 1918

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:32

Fliers, Picture Tour of California, 1903

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 6:33

Pamphlet; "Speech of United States Senator A. J. Beveridge, of Indiana," San Francisco, CA: 1902

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:34

Postcard with attached ribbons and button, n.d.

Physical Description: 4 items

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Subseries 3.6.3. Farmers' Marketing Organizations, n.d., 1902-1928

Physical Description: 112 items

Scope and Content Note

Printed material having to do with Farmers' Marketing Organizations includes many items relating to the California Almond Growers' Exchange, a few items pertaining to other farmers' marketing organizations, and general information about how farmers marketed their crops. The items are arranged first under the name of the organization with which they have to do and then by their format such as books, brochures, bulletins, certificates, clippings, envelopes, fliers, labels, lists, menus, newsletters, pamphlets, postcards, reports, and store displays.

California Almond Growers' Exchange, Davisville Almond Growers' Association, and Davis Almond Growers' Association, 1903-1923

Physical Description: 78 items

Doc. Case 12:4

Book; "California Almonds," San Francisco, CA: California Almond Growers' Exchange, 1918

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 6:35

Brochures; n.d., 1910-1920; 4 brochures, 2 handwritten notes, and 1 clipping

Physical Description: 7 items

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Folio 10:13

Brochures, oversize, 1919-1920.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 6:36

Bulletin, San Francisco, CA: California Almond Growers' Exchange, Oct. 14, 1919

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:14

Certificate, Davis Almond Growers' Association, May 4, 1910.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 10:15

Clippings, 1919.

Physical Description: 6 items

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Box 6:37

Envelopes, n.d.

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 6:38

Fliers, n.d.

Physical Description: 9 items

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Folio 10:16

Fliers, oversize, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 6:38

Labels, n.d.

Physical Description: 8 items

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Box 6:39

Lists (membership, products, prices), n.d., 1903-1920

Physical Description: 8 items

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Box 6:40

Pamphlets, n.d., April 9, 1920.

Physical Description: 9 items

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"By-laws of the Almond Growers Association," and "By-laws of the California Almond Growers Exchange."

Box 6:41

Pamphlet.

Physical Description: 1 item

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"Shall the American Almond Industry Perish?" San Francisco, CA: California Almond Growers' Exchange, ca. 1921.

Box 6:42

Postcards, n.d., 1919

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 6:43

Reports, 1922-1923

Physical Description: 2 items

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Folio 10:17

Store displays, banners and broadsides, n.d.

Physical Description: 10 items

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Folio 11:1

Store displays, booklet with posters for advertising campaign, 1919.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 11:2

Store displays, cardboard cut-outs, n.d.

Physical Description: 5 items

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California Bean Growers' Association

Physical Description:

Box 7:1

Clipping, 1918

Physical Description: 1 item

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California Fruit Growers, 1908-1917

Physical Description: 3 items

Folio 11:3

Clipping, Jan. 17, 1908.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:2

Menus, Nov. 23, 1917

Physical Description: 2 items

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California Grain Growers

Physical Description:

Box 7:3

Certificates and lists of canvassers and subscribers, n.d.

Physical Description: 7 items

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California Prune and Apricot Growers

Physical Description:

Doc. Case 12:5

Brochure, 1918

Physical Description: 1 item

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California Walnut Growers' Association, 1919-1920

Physical Description: 3 items

Doc. Case 12:6

Book; "The California Walnut," Los Angeles, CA: California Walnut Growers' Association, 1919

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 11:4

Brochure with store displays, 1919.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Doc. Case 12:7

Newsletter; "Diamond Brand News," vol. II, no. 2, March 1920

Physical Description: 1 item

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The Farmers National Cooperative Exchange Company

Physical Description:

Box 7:3

Brochure and clipping, 1902

Physical Description: 2 items

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The Farmers' Protective Association of California

Physical Description:

Box 7:3

Circulars, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

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The National Grange

Physical Description:

Box 7:3

Clipping, 1928

Physical Description: 1 item

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The National Society of Equity of North America

Physical Description:

Box 7:3

Clipping, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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General, n.d., 1918-1922

Physical Description: 10 items

Box 7:4

Clippings, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Folio 11:5

Clipping, oversize, Feb. 5, 1918

Physical Description: 1 item

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Folio 11:5

Fliers, "How the Tariff Affects the Farmer," n.d.

Physical Description: 3 items

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Doc. Case 12:8

Newsletters.

Physical Description: 2 items

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"The Express Messenger," Nov. 1919 and "Pacific Farm Progress," Feb. 1922

Box 7:5

Pamphlet, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Weinstock, H., State Market Director, "The Burden for Better Marketing Rests with the Farmer and Not with the State."

Doc. Case 12:9

Food Products Supplement to the Nov. 15, 1919 issue of "The Literary Digest Grocery Store."

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.6.4. Highways, 1903-1915

Physical Description: 9 items

Scope and Content Note

The Highways subseries consists of printed materials, collected by George W. Pierce, Jr., that have to do with highways and roads. The materials include a political broadside which features images of early Yolo County, CA roads, clippings, a newspaper, and a pamphlet.

Box 7:6

Broadside; "Good Roads or Political Roads, Which? M. P. Ormsby, Republican nominee for Supervisor, Second District," Nov. 6, 1906

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:7

Clippings, 1913

Physical Description: 6 items

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Folio 11:6

Newspaper; "Woodland Daily Democrat," April 9, 1915.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:8

Pamphlet; Brownlow, W. P., "Why Wagon Roads in the United States are Bad and How They can be Improved," ca. 1903.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.6.5. Labor, n.d., 1888-1918

Physical Description: 41 items

Scope and Content Note

George W. Pierce, Jr. was keenly interested in labor issues especially since he employed many laborers on his ranch. He collected items written about labor issues and attended meetings dealing with farm labor and the upheaval of laborers in general. The Labor subseries of Pierce's printed materials contains some of the labor-related materials that he collected. The bulk of the items found in this subseries are newspaper clippings (1917-1918). Other items consist of a flier, a form, meeting minutes, a newsletter, and a pamphlet. Also included is an envelope that may have been used by Pierce to store clippings or other labor-related information.

Box 7:9

Clippings, n.d., 1917-1918

Physical Description: 32 items

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Doc. case 12:10

Clippings, oversize, 1918

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 7:10

Envelope, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Doc. Case 12:11

Flier featuring article; McConnell, G. W., "The Hard Times of Prosperity," ca. 1917.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:11

Form, Sutter Growers' Association, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:11

Minutes of a joint meeting of committees on food production and labor conservation, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA, May 15, 1918; minutes and envelope

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 7:12

Newsletter; "The Anglo and London Paris National Bank," San Francisco, CA: Jan. 1, 1918.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:13

Pamphlet; "The President's Message, Hostile to Home Protection, Home Markets, and Home Labor: Remarks of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States," April 11, 1888.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 3.6.6. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1914-1915

Physical Description: 24 items

Scope and Content Note

The printed Panama-Pacific International Exposition materials in this subseries were collected by George W. Pierce, Jr. during his frequent visits to the Exposition in San Francisco, CA in 1915. 11 brochures that Pierce picked up at the Exposition will be of interest to researchers of Agricultural Technology. These 1915 brochures advertise products made by the Chattanooga Plow Company, International Harvester Company, Newell Sanders Plow Company, and the Siphon Ventilator Company. A book, a brochure, a magazine, and a catalog describe the wonders of the Exposition itself, while 8 brochures allude to Southern California's 1915 Exposition. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition subseries is divided into materials about agricultural technology, the Exposition (information about it), and Southern California. These subject categories are further arranged by format of materials.

Box 7:14

Agricultural Technology, brochures (collected at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition), 1915

Physical Description: 11 items

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The Exposition (information about it), 1914-1915

Physical Description: 5 items

Box 7:15

Book and envelope; "The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Illustrated in Color," San Francisco, CA: Reid, Robert A., 1915.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 7:16

Brochure, 1914

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:17

Catalog; "Temporary Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts: Panama-Pacific International Exposition," San Francisco, CA: Wahlgreen Company, 1915.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:18

Magazine; "Pacific Service Magazine," San Francisco, CA: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, March 1915.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:19

Southern California; brochures (collected at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition) relating to Los Angeles, CA and the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, CA.

Physical Description: 8 items

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Subseries 3.6.7. Travel, n.d., 1867-1930

Physical Description: 121 items

Scope and Content Note

An avid traveler, George W. Pierce, Jr. collected a large amount of printed travel materials. Most of these materials have to do with the world cruises that he began to take near the end of his life. Travel materials here are listed by the country that they describe and then by the format of the material. The formats include brochures, cards, envelopes, pamphlets, programs, books, maps, schedules, tickets and passes, a broadside, lists, menus, a newsletter, and newspapers. The newspapers, two copies of the Nov. 17, 1924, "Woodland Daily Democrat," feature the headlines: "Germany Leads Europe, Says Geo. W. Pierce; American Scenery Superior to Europe, Yolo Man Declares; George Pierce Discovers Business Dull Everywhere but in Germany." Researchers interested in guide books and travel brochures as well as cruises during the 1920s would do well to examine these printed travel materials. Also, the printed travel materials complement Pierce's travel diaries and tour notes which are included in the Diaries, Notes, and Meeting Minutes subseries.

Algeria,1928

Physical Description: 3 items

Box 7:20

Brochure, card, and envelope, 1928

Physical Description: 3 items

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Egypt, 1928-1929

Physical Description: 3 items

Box 7:21

Pamphlet; Quibell, A. A., "The Pyramids of Giza," ca. 1928.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:22

Programs, 1928-1929

Physical Description: 2 items

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England, 1924

Physical Description: 6 items

Box 7:23

Book: "Cambridge," Reigate: Frith, F. and Company, ca. 1924.

Physical Description: 1 vol.

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Box 7:24

Book: "Guide book to Windsor Castle and the town and neighborhood of Windsor," Windsor: Oxley and Son, 1924.

Physical Description: 1 vol.

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Box 7:25

Book: Lawrence, G. C., ed., "The British Empire Exhibition, 1924, Official Guide," London: Fleetway Press, 1924.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

book and two maps

Box 7:26

Pamphlet, Ely Cathedral, ca. 1924

Physical Description: 1 item

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France,1922-1924

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Content Note

These printed materials are books (travel guides) describing destinations in Paris, France.

Box 7:27

"Cook's Guide to Paris," London: Cook, Thomas and Son, 1924.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Book and map

Box 7:28

"Paris in eight days and a day in Versailles," London: Librairie Hatchette, 1922.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Book and map

Box 7:29

"Paris, Musee de l'Armee, Hotel des Invalides," Paris: Societe des Amis du Musee de l'Armee, ca. 1924.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Book and map

Gibraltar,ca. 1928

Physical Description: 6 items

Box 7:30

Brochures and program in an envelope; ca. 1928

Physical Description: 6 items

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Italy,1924-1925

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Content Note

These printed travel materials are 2 guidebooks for Rome, Italy.

Box 7:31

Scaglia, P. S., "The Catacombs of Rome, the Monuments of Italy-N. 14," Rome: Frank, Joseph, ca. 1924.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:32

Tani, A. D., "New Guide to Rome and its Environs," Rome: Verdesi, Enrico, 1925.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

book and map

Japan,ca. 1929

Physical Description: 11 items

Box 7:33

Japan; brochures, pamphlets, and program in envelope labeled, "Japan;" ca 1929

Physical Description: 11 items

Note

New Zealand, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Box 7:34

Brochure, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Palestine, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Box 7:35

Book: Trumper, V. L., "Historical Sites in Palestine with a Short Account of Napoleon's Expedition to Syria," Cairo: Nile Mission Press, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 vol.

Note

The Philippines, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Box 7:36

Pamphlet. "Manila and the Philippine Islands," Manila: The Philippine Education Company, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Scotland, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

Box 7:37

Book and map.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

"Macdonald's tourists' guide to Edinburgh and South-east of Scotland," Edinburgh, Scotland: Macdonald, William and Company, n.d.

Spain,1924

Physical Description: 3 items

Box 7:38

Book, receipt, and note.

Physical Description: 3 items

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Calvert, A. F., "The Traveler's Handbook for Spain," London: Cook, Thomas and Son, 1924.

Switzerland, 1923-1924

Physical Description: 3 items

Box 7:39

Book; Heinemann, F., "Lucerne: Lake of Lucerne and its Environs," Official Enquiry Office, 1923.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:40

Brochures, ca. 1924

Physical Description: 2 items

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Turkey, 1923-1924

Physical Description: 2 items

Box 7:41

Book; "Vues de Constantinople," ca. 1924

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:42

Pamphlet; "Tourist Guide to Constantinople, Robert College and Constantinople Woman's College," New York: Near East Colleges, ca. 1923.

Physical Description: 1 item

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United States, n.d., 1875-1925

Physical Description: 48 items

Scope and Content Note

Printed travel material related to the United States and collected by George W. Pierce, Jr. is arranged alphabetically by state. Within the category for each state, the materials are arranged by their format such as: broadsides, brochures, books, envelopes, lists, maps, menus, pamphlets, programs, schedules, and tickets and passes.

Alaska, n.d., 1923-1925

Physical Description: 18 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 7:43

Brochures, n.d., 1923-1925

Physical Description: 17 items

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Box 7:44

Pamphlet. Cordova Chamber of Commerce, "Via Cordova Alaska," Cordova, AK: Alaska Daily Times, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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California, n.d., 1875-1925

Physical Description: 8 items

Scope and Content Note

Printed material related to travel in California is made up of an undated brochure about Camp Agassiz and Fallen Leaf Lodge in the Lake Tahoe area, a 1925 Northern California automobile road map, schedules, and tickets and passes. One undated schedule is for the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company route from Truckee, CA to Tahoe City, CA. Another undated schedule is for trips from San Francisco, CA to the Barlett Springs resort as provided by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway or the Southern Pacific Railway. The tickets and passes include a ticket, business card, and envelope related to an 1875 trip from San Francisco, CA to Monterey, CA on the Goodall, Nelson and Perkins' Steamship Line. The other item that is part of the tickets and passes category is an 1899 Lompoc and Santa Barbara Stage Company pass for George W. Pierce, Jr. and wife on the account of the Glen Alpine Springs resort.

Box 7:45

Brochure, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:45

Map, 1925

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:45

Schedules, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 7:45

Tickets and Passes, 1875-1899

Physical Description: 4 items

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Colorado,1892

Physical Description: 1 item

Box 7:46

Manitou Grand Cavernsca. 1892, broadside

Physical Description: 1 item

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Hawaii, n.d., 1917-1923

Physical Description: 19 items

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Box 7:47

Book; Logan, D., "All about Hawaii," Boston, MA: Chapple Publishing Company, 1921.

Physical Description: 4 items

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1 book and 3 leaves ship's letterhead.

Box 7:48

Brochures, n.d., 1921-1923

Physical Description: 7 items

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Box 7:49

Envelope, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:50

Lists of passengers and menus, S. S. Matsonia, March 7, 1923-March 13, 1923

Physical Description: 4 items

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Box 7:51

Pamphlet; Alexander, W. D., "A Short Synopsis of the Most Essential Points in Hawaiian Grammar," Honolulu, HI: Thrum, Thomas G., 1920.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 7:52

Pamphlet; Kinney, H. W. and L. W. de Vis-Norton, "The Island of Hawaii," Hilo Board of Trade, 1917.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 7:53

Program, 1923

Physical Description: 1 item

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New York

Physical Description:

Box 7:54

Pamphlet.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

"Niagara in Summer and Winter," Niagara Falls, NY: Nicklis, E. E., n.d.

Washington

Physical Description:

Doc. Case 12:12

Book; Barnes, A. H., "Our Greatest Mountain and Alpine Regions of Wonder," National Park Arts Series, 1911.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Multiple Destinations, n.d., 1903-1929

Physical Description: 23 items

Scope and Content Note

Printed travel materials (collected by George W. Pierce, Jr.) that could not be categorized under the heading of one state or one country are held in this file. These materials are records of travel to multiple destinations and include a book, brochures, a map, a newsletter, a newspaper, and a ticket stub. Many of these items relate to cruises and tours.

Doc. Case 12:13

Book; "The Shasta Route in All of its Grandeur," Chicago, IL: Teich, Curt and Company, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:1

Brochure:Dollar Steamship Lines, 1926, 4 brochures, 2 envelopes

Physical Description: 6 items

Note

Box 8:2

Brochure; Cook, Thomas and Son; 1927-1929

Physical Description: 2 brochures

Note

Box 8:3

Brochure; United American Lines, 1925-1926

Physical Description: 3 brochures

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Box 8:4

Brochures; Various Companies, 1922-1926

Physical Description: 6 brochures

Note

Box 8:5

Map, route of the cruise, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:5

Newsletter; "The Empress Cruise News," Canadian Pacific's Empress of Australia, No. 22, Jan. 9, 1929.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Folio 11:7

Newspaper; "Woodland Daily Democrat," Nov. 17, 1924.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 8:5

Ticket Stub, Feb. 20, 1903

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Subseries 3.6.8. University of California, 1873-1928

Physical Description: 17 items

Scope and Content Note

The subseries University of California is composed of printed materials related to the University of California and collected by George W. Pierce, Jr. These University of California materials are divided into 3 categories: Alumni Association, College of Agriculture, and Various. Within these subject categories items are organized by format such as a certificates, programs, a ticket, a bulletin, a flier, reports, clippings, a course schedule, and a diploma. Some highlights of these materials are a certificate for Pierce's lifetime membership in the University of California, Alumni Association, programs relating to Picnic Day 1912 and an 1899 Farmers' Institute, and Pierce's diploma from the University of California. The 1873/1874 University of California yearbook belonging to George W. Pierce, Jr. was separated from the Pierce Family Papers and can be found in the reading room of the Special Collections Department of the Shield's Library under the call number LD 777 B5 1873/1874.

University of California, Alumni Association, 1891-1897

Physical Description: 4 items

Box 8:6

Certificate, Jan. 1, 1895

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 8:6

Programs, Oct. 9, 1897

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 8:6

Ticket, June 24, 1891

Physical Description: 1 item

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University of California, College of Agriculture; 1899-1920

Physical Description: 6 items

Box 8:7

Bulletin; Shaw, G. W., "How to Increase the Yield of Wheat in California," Bulletin No. 211, Berkeley, CA: The University Press, 1911.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:8

Flier; University Farm, incomplete date

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 8:8

Program; Farmers' Institute; Danville, CA; Feb. 8-9, 1899

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 8:8

Program; Fourth Annual Basket Picnic, University Farm, Davis, CA; May 11, 1912

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 8:9

Report; Hunt, T. F., "Observations on the Recent Agricultural Inquiry in California," Berkeley, CA: University of California, College of Agriculture, ca. 1917.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 8:10

Report; "Results of the Investigations on Deciduous Fruits, Olives, Figs, Nuts, and Fruit Products for the Year Ending June 30, 1920," University of California, College of Agriculture, ca. 1920.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Various, University of California, 1873-1928

Physical Description: 7 items

Folio 11:8

Clippings, 1920-1928

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Box 8:11

Course Schedule, 1873

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Folio 11:9

Diploma, 1875.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:11

Programs, 1928

Physical Description: 2 items

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Subseries 3.6.9. Other Printed Material, n.d., 1867-1930

Physical Description: 63 items

Scope and Content Note

The Other Printed Material subseries is made up of 63 items (1867-1930) of printed material collected by George W. Pierce, Jr. These items did not seem to fit into the subject categories by which the rest of Pierce's printed material is arranged. The items in the Other Printed Material subseries are arranged by format of material such as broadsides, brochures, cards, clippings, directions, fliers, newsletters, newspapers, and programs. Subjects covered by the material in this subseries are varied and range from agricultural technology to household items and local elections to Arizona copper mining. The broadsides advertise Frye's Self Supporting Farm Gate, n.d.; The Great Yaqui Valley, $25.00 per acre, n.d.; and Truman's Improved Iron Harrow, Jackson and Truman, n.d. Directions are for The Adjusto Collar Clasp, n.d.; Eveready Tie, ca. 1920; Fisher's Patent Prairie Mower Knife Grinder, n.d.; Hale's Patent Meat Cutter and Stuffer, n.d.; a Wax Cylinder Record Player, n.d. ; and the Gerrish Submerged Force Pump, Linworth, Kellog and Rail, n.d. The fliers in this subseries feature Dr. E. C. Abbey's cures and books, n.d.; an automatic derrick by Brown and Donnenwirth of Davisville, CA, ca. 1902; The Dixon Creamery, n.d.; a miniature copy of the assessment roll map of San Francisco, CA by Deffebach and Company Printers with an advertisement for Boyce Street Car Advertiser, n.d.; the Regular Democratic Ticket for delegate to the County Convention, Yolo County, CA, n.d.; the Regular Republican Ticket, Yolo County, CA, North Putah Precinct, various offices including George W. Pierce, Jr. for Member of the California State Assembly, ca. 1898; Smith's Form-A-Truck, ca. 1915; and Street Railways Advertising Company, 1922. The newspapers include a copy of the May 7, 1920 "Winters Express" and of the Feb. 11, 1925 "Woodland Daily Democrat" with articles about the Indian Valley Dam site, irrigation, the Yolo County Power and Water Company, Clear Lake, and storms. The Feb. 5, 1912 "Woodland Daily Democrat" mentions Dixwell Lloyd Pierce's high school standing.

Box 8:12

Broadsides, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Doc. Case 12:14

Broadside, Oversize, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:13

Brochures, n.d., 1900-1915

Physical Description: 9 items

Note

Box 8:14

Bulletin; "Facts about the War," Paris: Paris Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 5, 1915.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:15

Cards, n.d.

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Box 8:15

Certificate; Office of the State Veterinarian, State of California, 1908

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:16

Clippings, n.d., 1911-1930

Physical Description: 15 items

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Box 8:17

Directions, n.d., 1920

Physical Description: 5 items

Note

Doc. Case 12:14

Directions, Oversize, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:18

Fliers, n.d., 1898-1922

Physical Description: 8 items

Note

Box 8:19

Funeral notice for J. Eugene LaRue, 1906

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:19

Letterhead, n.d., 1910

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 8:20

Newsletter; "The Domestic Economist," Sacramento, CA and Virginia City, NV: Dale and Company, 1867.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:21

Newsletter; "Key System News," Oakland, CA: San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways, Dec. 29, 1921.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Folio 11:10

Newspaper; "Arizona Range News," Special Copper Edition, Willcox, AZ: Oct. 6, 1922.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Folio 11:11

Newspapers; "Pacific Rural Press;" Jan. 12, 1884, pp. 27-28, 41-42 and Feb. 19, 1887, pp. 143-146, 155, 158, 160-161.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Folio 11:12

Newspaper; "The Winters Express," May 7, 1920.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Folio 11:12

Newspapers; "Woodland Daily Democrat." Feb. 5, 1912, Feb. 11, 1925

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 8:22

Order Form, 1904

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:23

Pamphlet; Phelan, J. D., "Japan and the Shantung Affair: Keep the Orientals in Asia," The League of Nations, Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1919.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:24

Programs, 1879-1903

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Subseries 3.7. Artifacts, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Content Note

WV 13:1

Briefcase (empty), n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Series 4. Susan Gilmore Pierce, 1906-1918

Physical Description: 9 items

Scope and Content Note

Series IV., Susan Gilmore Pierce (Oct. 29, 1858-Oct. 1, 1918), is made up of 9 items (1906-1918) and is housed in one folder. Series IV consists of the few records in The Pierce Family Papers that were created by or collected by Susan Gilmore Pierce. This series is divided into 3 subseries: Incoming Letter, Financial Records, and Printed Material. The one incoming letter is from the Crane Company regarding an order for a foot bath. Financial records are 3 receipts. One receipt demonstrates Mrs. Pierce's interest in books while the other two receipts prove her membership in the Woodland Shakespeare Club and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows affiliated Rebekah Lodge No. 253. Printed material is made up of 3 yearbooks from the Woodland Shakespeare Club, a typed poem, and Mrs. Pierce's funeral notice.

Subseries 4.1. Incoming Letter, June 2, 1913

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:25

Crane Company, June 2, 1913

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 4.2. Financial Records, 1906-1914

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:25

Receipts, 1906-1914

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Subseries 4.3. Printed Material, n.d., 1914-1918

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:25

Yearbooks, Woodland Shakespeare Club, 1914-1916

Physical Description: 3 items

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Box 8:25

Funeral Notice, Susan Gilmore Pierce, Oct. 1, 1918

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 8:25

Poem (typed), Grace Hazard Conkling, "After Sunset," n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Series 5. George Gardner Pierce, 1901-1915

Physical Description: .25 ln. ft., 19 items

Scope and Content Note

Series V., George Gardner Pierce (Nov. 11, 1891-?), is made up of 19 items (1901-1915). Series V consists of records created by or collected by Gardner Pierce when he was a child and a young man. This series is divided into 4 subseries: Outgoing Telegram, Financial Records, Notes, and Printed Material. The Outgoing Telegram was the first ever sent by young Gardner to his father, George W. Pierce, Jr. Of the Financial Records, 3 of the account statements and receipts are for transactions between father and son while 2 are for Gardner's eyeglasses. Other financial records include two account books kept by Gardner when he was a university student. The Notes subseries includes a childhood note and lecture notes taken while a student at the University of California at Berkeley. Of interest among Gardner's lecture notes are such entries as "Fertilizers, U. C. Head Gardener's Suggestions" or "Cement pots, views and remarks by Mr. Priam." Primary school certificates of promotion and a 9th grade report card make up some of the Printed Material subseries. Two issues of the Woodland High School student publication, "The Ilex," round out the Printed Material subseries.

Subseries 5.1. Outgoing Telegram, June 6, 1906

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:26

Pierce, George W., Jr.; June 6, 1906

Physical Description: 1 item

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Subseries 5.2. Financial Records, 1904-1915

Physical Description: 7 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:26

Account Statements and Receipts, 1904-1905

Physical Description: 5 items

Note

Account Books, 1911-1915

Physical Description: 2 items

Box 8:27

Account Book, 1911-1913, 1 volume.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:28

Account Book, 1912-1915, 1 volume.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Subseries 5.3. Notes, n.d., 1912-1913

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:29

Lecture Notes, University of California, Berkeley, 1912-1913, notebook and loose leaves.

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Box 8:30

Note (in child's handwriting), n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Subseries 5.4. Printed Material, 1901-1911

Physical Description: 7 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:31

Certificates of Promotion, 1901-1906

Physical Description: 4 items

Note

Box 8:31

Report Card, 1904

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Student Publications, 1909-1911

Physical Description: 2 items

Box 8:32

"The Ilex," Valentine Number, Woodland, CA: Woodland High School, 1909.

Physical Description: 1 item

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Box 8:33

"The Ilex," Christmas Number, Woodland, CA: Woodland High School, 1911.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Series 6. Dixwell Lloyd Pierce, 1898-1940

Physical Description: .25 ln ft, 22 items

Scope and Content Note

Series VI., Dixwell Lloyd Pierce, is made up of 22 items (1898-1940) collected or created by Dixwell Pierce as a child or as an adult. This series is divided into 2 subseries: Correspondence and Printed Material.

Subseries 6.1. Correspondence, 1908-1938

Physical Description: 8 items

Scope and Content Note

Dixwell Lloyd Pierce's correspondence is comprised of a small number of items that are divided into outgoing and incoming letters. The outgoing correspondence is made up of 2 drafts of a letter written by Dixwell (when he was a child) that may have been sent to the Perry Mason Company, Gold Coin Club. The incoming correspondence includes photocopies of letters sent to Pierce by Anna C. Markham (the wife of poet, Edwin Markham) and by the Markhams' son, Virgil Markham.

Box 8:34

Outgoing Letters, 1908, drafts

Physical Description: 2 items

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Box 8:35

Incoming Letters, 1927-1938, photocopies of 3 letters and 3 envelopes

Physical Description: 6 items

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Subseries 6.2. Printed Material, 1898-1940

Physical Description: 14 items

Scope and Content Note

This subseries is made up of printed material collected by Dixwell Lloyd Pierce. The printed materials are arranged by format and include a book; briefs, a judgment, and a petition; a certificate of promotion; clippings; a program; a report card; and student publications. One of the two student publications, the 1913 issue of Woodland High School's "The Ilex," features a photograph of Dixwell Pierce as part of "The Ilex" staff. Also of special interest are the briefs, judgment and petition. These 5 items relate to the formation of the Davis Joint Union High School District in Yolo County, CA and a 1924-25 court case (Civil No. 2907 in the District Court of Appeal of the State of California in and for the Third Appellate District) for which Dixwell Pierce acted as Attorney for Appellants. C. A. Covell, E. S. McBride, H. S. Lee (Superintendent of Schools of Yolo County, CA) were also among those involved in this case.

Box 8:36

Book; Ainsworth, F. F., ed., "Hill's Vest-Pocket Rules of Order," Chicago, IL: Ogilvie and Company, 1898.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:37-39

Briefs, Judgment, and Petition relating to Civil No. 2907 in the District Court of Appeal of the State of California in and for the Third Appellate District; 1924-1925

Physical Description: 5 items

Note

Box 8:40

Certificate of Promotion, May 31, 1907

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:41

Clippings (photocopies), Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Markham, n.d., 1938-1940

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Box 8:42

Program, incomplete date

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:42

Report card, 1914-1915

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Student Publications, 1913-1916

Physical Description: 2 items

Box 8:43

"The Ilex," Commencement Number, Woodland, CA: Woodland High School, 1913.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:44

"The Ilex," Commencement Number, Woodland, CA: Woodland High School, 1916.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Series 7. Pierce Family, 1852-1928

Physical Description: .5 ln. ft., 68 items

Scope and Content Note

Series VII., Pierce Family, contains 68 items (1852-1928) and takes up a half linear foot of space in an archives box, a folio box, and a document case. Materials included in the Pierce Family series were undoubtedly collected or created by members of the Pierce Family, but these items could not be identified as belonging to any certain family member. Series VII is divided into four subseries: Legal Document, Notes, Printed Material, and Artifact. The Legal Document is a single item, an 1852 contract for a schoolteacher. The Notes subseries consists of four handwritten note fragments and addresses. The Artifact subseries is made up of two empty checkbooks. The largest subseries is Printed Material. It has been arranged by the format of the printed materials: books, brochures, cards, clippings, fliers, funeral notices, ink blotters (several with advertisements), instructional materials for penmanship, newspapers, pamphlets, a typed poem, postcards, programs, a raffle ticket, schedules, sheet music, and a student publication. Some subjects covered by items in the printed material subseries include religion, household activities, penmanship, theatrical performances, and train routes. The 1910 pamphlet, "Pointers on Banking: Showing the Road to Independence and Wealth," features advertisements for Woodland, CA businesses.

Subseries 7.1. Legal Document, Oct. 5, 1852

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:45

Agreement between School District No. 1 in the town of Somers and Lucy French a qualified teacher of Somers, Oct. 5, 1852

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Subseries 7.2. Notes, n.d.

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:46

Handwritten note fragments and addresses, n.d.

Physical Description: 4 items

Note

Subseries 7.3. Printed Material, 1852-1928

Physical Description: 61 items

Scope and Content Note

Books, n.d., 1889-1925

Physical Description: 5 items

Box 8:47

"The Cynic's Cyclopaedia," Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:48

Hooker, H., "Child's Book on the Sabbath," New York: American Tract Society, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:49

"More Borrowings: A Compilation of Helpful Thoughts from Great Authors," San Francisco, CA: Murdock, C. A. and Company, 1893.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:50

Woolard, S. F., ed., "Good Fellowship," Wichita, KS: Goldsmith, 1906.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:51

Work, H. C., "Marching through Georgia," Boston, MA: Ticknor and Company, 1889.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:52

Brochures, n.d., 1887

Physical Description: 4 items

Note

Doc. Case 12:15

Bulletin; "The National Art Co.'s Frame and Premium Bulletin," 1876.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:52

Cards, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 8:53

Clippings, n.d., 1910-1918

Physical Description: 9 items

Note

Box 8:54

Fliers, n.d.

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Box 8:54

Funeral Notices/Obituaries, 1883-1900

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 8:55

Ink Blotters, n.d.

Physical Description: 5 items

Note

Box 8:56

Instructional materials for penmanship, n.d., 1870

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Newspapers, 1910-1923

Physical Description: 8 items

Box 8:57

"The Daily Californian," vol. 1, no. 1, Berkeley, CA: 1916.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Folio 11:13

"The San Francisco Call."

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

May 7, 1910, pp. 1-2, 9-10 and May 8, 1910, pp. 29-40.

Folio 11:14

"The San Francisco Call."

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

May 10, 1910, pp. 1-18 and May 9, 1910, pp. 1-2, 13-14.

Folio 11:15

"The Sacramento Bee."

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

May 6, 1910, pp. 1-16 and May 10, 1910, pp. 1-20.

Folio 11:16

"The Sacramento Star,"[April 10, 1923], pp. 9-10.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Pamphlets, 1852-1928

Physical Description: 7 items

Box 8:58

Lothrop, J., "The Figurative Language of Scripture," ca. 1852.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:59

Newton, J. F., "The Music of Preaching: A Sermon, Preached in Trinity Church, in the City of Boston, on the Third Sunday in Advent, December 16, 1928, at a Service in Memory of Phillips Brooks," ca. 1928.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:60

"Pointers on Banking: Showing the Road to Independence and Wealth," Berkeley, CA: 1910.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:61

Sass, J., ed., "100 Up to Date and Popular Toasts," Detroit, MI: Sass Publishing Company, n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:62

"That Crime of '73," San Francisco, CA: Spaulding, George and Company, ca. 1895

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:63

Van Dyke, H., "The Battle of Life," New York: Crowell, Thomas Y. and Company, 1907, Pamphlet and envelope.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 8:64

Poem (typed); "Fourth O' July," n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:65

Postcards, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 8:65

Programs, n.d., 1879-1916

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Box 8:65

Raffle Ticket, ca. 1916

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Box 8:66

Schedules; California Pacific Railroad and Steamer New World, 1870

Physical Description: 3 items

Note

Box 8:67

Sheet Music, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

Note

Box 8:68

Student Publication; "The Netherlands," Rio Vista, CA: Rio Vista High School, 1915.

Physical Description: 1 item

Note

Subseries 7.4. Artifacts, n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Content Note

Box 8:69

Checkbooks (empty), n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items

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Series 8. Photographs, 1875-1929

Physical Description: 1 ln. ft., 131 items

Scope and Content Note

Series VIII., Photographs (ca. 1875-1929), contains 131 items and takes up 1 linear foot of space in an archives box and a document case. 127 black and white prints, 1 negative, 1 program, and 2 postcards are included in the Photographs series. All dimensions of prints and frames are given in inches.

If a notation was made on the back of a photograph, it was used as the photograph description and has been enclosed in quotation marks.

The acidic gray cardboard frames were removed from the first 11 photographs (all by the photographer Morton) in the photographs series but everything that was written on the back of the frames was preserved in the photograph descriptions.

In general, the larger prints (most often 8x10) and the cabinet card photographs have been made by professional California photographers such as Morton, McCurry Foto Company, Lother and Young Studios, Morse's Palace of Art, Webster, Alice M. Wilson, J. W. Bird of Globe Portrait Company, Kilborn, Taber, and Hodson Photo. Smaller prints may be snapshots taken by George W. Pierce, Jr., Pierce Family members, or acquaintences. Many of the snapshots feature the Kodak Company name. Some photographs of almond trees were made by the United States, Department of Agriculture.

The photographs in Series VIII throw light on the activities especially of George W. Pierce, Jr. but also of other Pierce Family members. This series is divided by subject into 4 subseries: California Almond Growers' Exchange, Sacramento Valley, University of California, and Other.

Although not part of the Pierce Family Papers, an interesting photograph of George W. Pierce, Sr. and other Davisville, CA founding fathers can be found in the Warren A. Westgate Collection of photographs at the University of California, Davis, General Library, Special Collections Department.

Subseries 8.1. California Almond Growers' Exchange, n.d. 1919-1923

Physical Description: 31 items

Scope and Content Note

A subseries of the Photographs series, many of the California Almond Growers' Exchange (C. A. G. E.) prints (circa 1920) are of the rooms and display cases in the Exchange's headquarters offices in San Francisco, CA. Other C. A. G. E. photographs were made in various locations such as the Sacramento, CA plant or the Lodi, CA warehouse and feature important political figures along with the leaders of C. A. G. E. For example, Senator Hiram W. Johnson posed with C. A. G. E. president George W. Pierce, Jr. while at the Sacramento plant. In addition, the C. A. G. E. subseries includes 11 halftone prints (photo A-21) of Spanish almond orchards and laborers. These images were used in the 1921 C. A. G. E. pamphlet, "Shall the American Almond Industry Perish?"

Diary entries made by George W. Pierce, Jr. can sometimes be matched to dated photographs. For example, photo A-18 of the Lodi warehouse must be related to Pierce's August 1, 1919 diary entry: "Went to Sacto., met Tucker at Hotel Sacramento--took Schmitt's machine and the three of us drove to Lodi--stopping at plant...went to Lodi plant--saw rig run...lunched at Lodi Hotel--went to see Messrs. Stephens, Ryan, and Marshall." Also, photo A-19, "Golden Gate Park, Mr. Hoyt of Oklahoma, Pierce," matches Pierce's July 26, 1919 diary entry which states: "Went to Palace Hotel with Mr. and Mrs. Tucker--met Mr. __of Kansas City and Mrs. Hoyt of Oklahoma. Mrs. H. met Mr. Hoyt and Mr. __ whose guests we were for luncheon."

Box 9:1

Photo A-1, "California and Battery Sts., San Francisco, No. 311 California St.-Offices of California Almond Growers' Exchange on Third Floor," Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:2

Photo A-2, Almond display at San Francisco, CA offices, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:3

Photo A-3, "Display case in office," San Francisco, CA, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:4

Photo A-4, "Display case at entrance to offices," San Francisco, CA, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:5

Photo A-5, "Office Hall," San Francisco, CA, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:6

Photo A-6, "Reception Room," San Francisco, CA, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:7

Photo A-7, "Managers Office," San Francisco, CA, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:8

Photo A-8, "Accounting room," San Francisco, CA, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:9

Photo A-9, Office with desks and office machinery, San Francisco, CA, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:10

Photo A-10, Almond Display, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:11

Photo A-11, Almond Display, Morton, n.d.,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:12

Photo A-12, "In front of Almond Plant in Sacramento," Left to right: Senator Bills, George W. Pierce, Jr., Senator Hiram W. Johnson, T. C. Tucker, D. R. Bailey, Postmaster McCurrey. Rear: D. S. Wilson. McCurry Foto Company, Sept. 1922,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:13

Photo A-13, "At almond plant in Sacramento." T. C. Tucker, Senator Hiram W. Johnson, and George W. Pierce, Jr., in center; McCurry Foto Company, Sept. 1922,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:14

Photo A-14, "Directors of California Almond Growers' Exchange," San Francisco, CA: E. S. Norton, South Butte; A. C. Woodworth, Lodi, CA; G. N. Talbot, Paso Robles; D. S. Nelson, Arbuckle, CA; Harry J. Wood; John Trembarth, Oakley, CA; George W. Pierce, Jr., President, Davis, CA; C. D. Hamilton, Banning, CA; T. C. Tucker, Oakland; James Miles, Hamilton City, CA. Lother and Young Studios of San Francisco, CA, May 4, 1923,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:15

Photo A-15, "Board of Directors and Manager of California Almond Growers' Exchange": A. R. Stephen, Lodi, CA; Manger, T. C. Tucker; C. D. Hamilton; V. C. Richards, Chico, CA; George W. Pierce, Jr., Davis, CA; E. S. Norton, Sutter County, CA. Lother and Young Studios of San Francisco, CA, April 1923,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:16

Photo A-16, "Eight members of the Board of Directors of the California Almond Growers' Exchange: its manager; and Mrs. James Mills, wife of Director Mills; Prof. Taylor, horticulturist; and D. R. Bailey, Superintendent of the Sacramento plant. Picture taken in front of the Sacto. Plant." McCurry Foto Company, Dec. 12, 1923,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:17

Photo A-17. George W. Pierce, Jr., President, California Almond Growers' Exchange; T. C. Tucker, Manager. Lother and Young Studios of San Francisco, CA, April 1923,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Box 9:18

Photo A-18, "Lodi warehouse; Pierce, Cunningham, Schmitt," July 1919,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.75, 1 print

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Box 9:19

Photo A-19, "Golden Gate Park, Mr. Hoyt of Oklahoma, Pierce," July 1919,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.75, 1 print

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Box 9:20

Photo A-20, "Martinette, Pierce, Herman, in front of The Park Hotel," Chico, CA, June 15, 1919,

Physical Description: 6x8, 1 print

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Box 9:21

Photo A-21. Images of almond orchards used in creating the California Almond Growers' Exchange pamphlet, "Shall the American Almond Industry Perish?" n.d., halftone prints.

Physical Description: 5x5 images printed on 7x11 paper, 11 prints

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Subseries 8.2. Sacramento Valley, n.d., 1866-1919

Physical Description: 39 items

Scope and Content Note

A part of the Photographs series, the Sacramento Valley subseries consists of photographs taken on the Pierce Ranch and at various other Valley locations.

Those photographs taken on the Pierce Ranch show such activities as prune dipping, sheep dipping, and harvesting crops. Many types of agricultural technology are evident in the Ranch photographs, and researchers interested in almond orchards can find images of almond trees and almond harvesting activities (including a shot of Chinese laborers "knocking" almonds) here.

Photographs taken at various locations in the Sacramento Valley include images of farm machinery in use, Yolo County, CA roads, the Sacramento River, and the Yolo County exhibit for the 1907 California State Fair. Photo B-2-c, "Dixwell beside the new Balfour scale house in Davis..." has been alternately identified in John Lofland's and Phyllis Haig's book, "Images of America: Davis, CA, 1910s-1940s," as the "Grain Scale House of Plant's Grain Warehouse at Fifth and G," in Davis, CA.

The date that 2 prints and a negative (photo B-2-i) were made of a Nov. 27, 1866 broadside is unknown.

Subseries 8.2.1. On the Pierce Ranch, 1878-1919

Physical Description: 28 items

Box 9:22

Photo B-1-a, Susan Gilmore Pierce and son, Kodak, 1900,

Physical Description: 3.75x4.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:23

Photo B-1-b, "Prune dipping on Pierce Ranch," Kodak, 1901,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:24

Photo B-1-c, "Prune dipping--Pierce Ranch," Kodak, 1901,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:25

Photo B-1-d, "Wool from Pierce Ranch," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 3.75x4.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:26

Photo B-1-e, "Sheep dipping--Pierce Place," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915, print.

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:27

Photo B-1-f, "Sheep-dipping, Pierce Ranch," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 prints on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:28

Photo B-1-g, "Sheep dipping--Pierce Ranch," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 prints on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:29

Photo B-1-h, "Pierce header with derrick unloading device for header wagons." Pictured are: M. Connell, P. Stripe, J. Hartigan, C A. Gibson, J. Deomezio, I. Lafswell, and V. Zanini. 1878,

Physical Description: 7.75x4.75 print on 8x5 board, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:16

Photo B-1-i, Harvester, Best Manufacturing Company, Pierce Ranch, 1891,

Physical Description: 5.5x8 print on 9x11 board, 1 print

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Box 9:30

Photo B-1-j, "Pierce Harvester," Kodak, 1901,

Physical Description: 3.5x4.75 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:31

Photo B-1-k, "Pierce Harvester," Kodak, 1901

Physical Description: 3.5x4.75 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:32

Photo B-1-l, "Pierce orchard, end tree, 8th row from NE corner, east orchard," [1919],

Physical Description: 4.5x6.5, 1 print

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Box 9:32

Photo B-1-m, "Almond, soft shell bitter. At head of small orchard N of residence," George W. Pierce, Jr., Davis, CA; United States, Department of Agriculture; Sept. 12, 1919,

Physical Description: 5x7, 1 print

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Box 9:33

Photo B-1-n, "Almond hardshell sweet (seed). End tree, east side, 8th row from N.E. Cor. Orchard opposite residence," George W. Pierce, Jr.; United States, Department of Agriculture; Sept. 12, 1919,

Physical Description: 5x7, 1 print

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Box 9:33

Photo B-1-o, "Seed, Hardshell sweet, 5th row from east end, 4th row from north side;" George W. Pierce, Jr.; Davis, CA; Sept. 12, 1919,

Physical Description: 4.5x6.5, 1 print

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Box 9:34

Photo B-1-p, "Knocking almonds using wagon with sheet attached," Chinese laborers, Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 4x3.5 print on 6.5x5.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:35

Photo B-1-q, "Knocking almonds, Pierce Ranch, showing wagon device for sacking," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:36

Photo B-1-r, "Drying almonds on trays, Pierce Ranch," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:37

Photo B-1-s, "Drying ground, almond sulphur house, and men's house at drying yard--Pierce place," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:38

Photo B-1-t, "Packing House, Pierce place," Kodak, ca. 1900-1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:39

Photo B-1-u, "Load of unhulled almonds going from orchard to huller, Pierce ranch," Kodak, ca. 1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:40

Photo B-1-v, "Load of almonds--en route to market--Pierce place," Kodak, ca. 1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:41

Photo B-1-w, "Almonds--en route to market, Pierce ranch," Kodak, ca. 1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Box 9:42

Photo B-1-x, "Load of almonds--Pierce place--ready for shipment," Kodak, ca. 1915,

Physical Description: 4.75x3.5 print on 5.5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Subseries 8.2.2. Various Locations, n.d., 1866-1919

Physical Description: 11 items

Box 9:43

Photo B-2-a, "Reade Almond Huller," n.d.,

Physical Description: 4x4 print on 5x5.5 board 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:17

Photo B-2-b, "Spring plowing, J. Currey Farm," 1884,

Physical Description: 9x7 print on 9x11 board, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:18

Photo B-2-c, "Dixwell beside the new Balfour scale house in Davis...Con Hilman in door," Aug. 8, 1907,

Physical Description: 5x7 print on 9x11 board, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:19

Photo B-2-d, "Road scraper (county) on road through to the H. M. Larue and Sons place," Alice M. Wilson of Winters, CA, ca. 1906,

Physical Description: 6.75x5 print on 9x7 board, 1 print

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Box 9:44

Photo B-2-e, "State Highway west of Davis, LaRue residence on right," Sept. 12, 1919,

Physical Description: 5x7, 1 print

Note

Doc. Case 12:20

Photo B-2-f, "Abutment of easement near Elkhorn, Sacramento River. Gardy and I went on the river excursion." J. W. Bird of Globe Portrait Company of Sacramento, CA. Nov. 26, 1898,

Physical Description: 8.5 print on 10.5 board, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:21

Photo B-2-g, "Easement, 2 1/2 miles above Elkhorn on Sacramento River, 2000 feet long. Gardner and I went on the river excursion." J. W. Bird of Globe Portrait Company of Sacramento, CA; Nov. 26, 1898,

Physical Description: 6x8 print on 8.5x10.5 board, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:22

Photo B-2-h, Yolo County, CA exhibit for California State Fair. Yolo County Where Everything Grows. Kilborn of Sacramento, CA, 1907,

Physical Description: 6x8 print on 11x14 board, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:23

Photo B-2-i, Administrator's Sale! Public Notice! Estate of A. Currie sold by George W. Pierce, Sr., Public Administrator of Yolo County, CA; negative and 2 prints of Nov. 27, 1866

Physical Description: 11x14 Broadside, [2 prints, 1 negative]

Note

Subseries 8.3. University of California, n.d., 1875-1915

Physical Description: 53 items

Scope and Content Note

University of California is the third subseries within the Photographs series. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of students, professors, and buildings at the Berkeley, CA campus make up the University of California subseries. An especially notable item held in this subseries is the 1875 class album of George W. Pierce, Jr. It features 42 Morse's Palace of Art cabinet card photographs. The cabinet cards are 6x4 inch portraits of professors and students (including a portrait of Pierce himself). Also part of the album are 4 prints of buildings and a class reunion program (1915). Another cabinet card photograph in the University of California subseries shows the 1894-1895 University of California, Glee Club and lists the members names on the reverse.

Box 9:45

Photo C-1, Class of 1875 Photograph Album, ca. 1875, 46 cabinet card photographs and program (1915).

Physical Description: 47 items

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Doc. Case 12:24

Photo C-2, Prof. Hesse; Morse's Palace of Art, San Francisco, CA; n.d.

Physical Description: 6.5x4, 1 cabinet card photograph

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Doc. Case 12:25

Photo C-3; University of California, Glee Club, 1894-1895; Webster of Oakland; Jan. 10, 1895

Physical Description: 6.5x4, 1 cabinet card photograph

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Doc. Case 12:26

Photo C-4, South Hall, Berkeley campus, n.d.,

Physical Description: 7x9, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:27

Photo C-5, North Hall, Berkeley Campus, n.d.,

Physical Description: 7x9, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:28

Photo C-6, Mining Building, Jan. 1908,

Physical Description: 3x4 print on 5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:29

Photo C-7, Greek Theatre, Jan. 1908,

Physical Description: 3x4 print on 5x6.5 board, 1 print

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Subseries 8.4. Other, n.d., 1891-1929

Physical Description: 8 items

Scope and Content Note

The fourth subseries of the Photographs series is titled, Other. The subject matter of the 6 photographs and 2 postcards in the Other subseries touches on the 1929 world cruise taken by George W. Pierce, Jr., California boosters, and the California State Assembly, among other things. The photograph (photo D-2) of Pierce riding an elephant at Kandy, Ceylon was originally kept between pages describing Ceylon in Pierce's 1928-1929 Canadian Pacific world cruise diary. Also, photographed during this world cruise and printed on board the Canadian Pacific steamship, Empress of Australia, is (photo D-1) the unidentified image of man, dogs, and cart filled with lumber. Possibly while he was overseas, George W. Pierce, Jr. acquired the print of W. E. Gladstone (photo D-3). Accompanying Gladstone's photograph are 2 color postcards--one of Harwarden Castle (Gladstone's home) and one of Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo D-4 (the delegation sent from Northern California to get data relative to possibilities of the proposed Southern California branch of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition) shows the delegation, including George W. Pierce, Jr., posing in the patio Ramona's Marriage Place at San Diego, CA.

Box 12:30

Photo D-1; Unidentified image of man, dogs, and lumber-filled cart; ca. 1929,

Physical Description: 6.75x4.75, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:30

Photo D-2; George W. Pierce, Jr. riding an elephant at Kandy, Ceylon; 1929,

Physical Description: 3x5 print, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:31

Photo D-3; W. E. Gladstone seated in his garden; McKenzie of Dunkeld; n.d.; matted print and postcards.

Physical Description: 9x6, 1 print, 2 postcards

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Doc. Case 12:32

Photo D-4; "Delegation sent from Northern California to get data relative to possibilities of the proposed Southern California branch of the Panama-Pacific, 1915 Exposition...;" San Diego, CA; Sept. 6, 1912,

Physical Description: 8x10, 1 print

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Doc. Case 12:33

Photo D-5; Warren Olney [(1841-1921)]; Taber of San Francisco, CA; March 1891,

Physical Description: 6.5x4 1 cabinet card photograph

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Doc. Case 12:34

Photo D-6; United States Senator, Thomas R. Bard, and members of the California Legislature by whom he was elected; Hodson Photo of Sacramento, CA; ca. 1900,

Physical Description: 8x10 print on 12x15 board, 1 print

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