Box 25
Container
Contains 10 Results:
Orange Road District--Map,, circa 1890.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series 1.3.
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The bulk of this series consists of Stephen McPherson's diaries, from his arrival in Northern California in 1864 through 1892. These give a sometimes vivid portrayal of the daily life of a schoolteacher, and later "viticulturist", businessman, and sometime entrepeneuer in Santa Clara County and what later became Orange County in the last half of the 19th century. Additional materials include account and wage books relating to Stephen McPherson's farming activities after the...
Dates:
circa 1890.
Box label and handbills,, no date.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series 1.1.
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains records of McPherson Brothers raisin business from 1884 until just after the collapse of the Southern California land boom. The bulk of the materials consists of cash books and disbursements, account books, and a time register/payroll of grape pickers, all of which give the names of workers, the hours they worked, and the amounts they were paid. The series also includes a box label and handbills for McPherson Brothers, as well as extracts (all but one typed) by William...
Dates:
no date.
Membership (honorary) certificate, Lincoln Farm Assocation,, 1907 September 17.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series 1.4.
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains records relating directly to William McPherson, his life, and activities. The materials may be broadly divided into correspondence, diaries, notebooks, and geographic and subject files.The bulk of the surviving correspondence derives from McPherson’s love affair with his first cousin once removed, Cora McPherson (born 1905), whose father, Isaac (1861-1936), son of Stephen McPherson’s elder brother, Chiles (1835-1914), had settled in Seattle, Washington,...
Dates:
1907 September 17.
Issued,, 1863-1902.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 7
Identifier: Subseries 2.5.9.
Scope and Contents
American Coal Company of Allegany County (incorporated Maryland). 60 share. To H. N. Skinner. 28 August 1863.
American Coal Company of Allegany County (incorporated Maryland). 200 shares. To Livermore Clews & Co. 28 August 1863.
Berkshire Mills, James Smyth (Pennsylvania), 5 per Cent, Mortgage Bond (bearer bond), First Series, $500. To Walter & Krohn. 22 March 1883.
Cameron Oil, Land, and Investment...
Dates:
1863-1902.
Unmarked,, circa 1854-1893.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 8
Identifier: Subseries 2.5.9.
Scope and Contents
Confederate States of America, Loan, February 20, 1863. Evans & Cogswell, S.C. J. Wojciechowski Lith.
Mobile and Dauphin Island Railroad and Harbor Company, First Mortgage Five Percent, Gold Bearer Bond, 20 October 1893. Waterlow Bros. & Layton, Limited, Birchin Lane, London.
Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road Company. Hufty & Danforth, Philadelphia and New York.
Sam Diego and Gila, Southern...
Dates:
circa 1854-1893.
Oversize,, circa 1865-1935.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 1.4.
Scope and Contents
P. Mahoney, Dealer in Paper Makers' Stock, Boston. Font and printing samples. n.d. Found laid in Boston Coachman's Ledger, 1846-1852 / Scrapbook #1 (Box 13, Folder 1, at #18).
Smith, Gray & Co's Six Stores, New York and Brooklyn. Page from Smith, Gray & Co.'s Illustrated Monthly.
Sonora Valley Land Co., Los Angeles, California. "Free Transportation To Buyers / Mexico / The...
Dates:
circa 1865-1935.
Boulder Dam,, circa 1920-1922.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 2.9.
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains materials relating primarily to the California state budget, and in particular the "King Tax Bill" (SB 855) of 1921, introduced by Prendergast's Redlands colleague in the State Senate, Lyman Maurice King (1869-1950), which raised corporate tax rates in California and sparked one of the most bitterly fought legislative battle in California history; and to legislative reapportionment, of special concern to Prendergast as chairman of the State Assembly Committee on...
Dates:
circa 1920-1922.
Newspaper clippings (oversize),, 1918-1931.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 6
Identifier: Subseries 2.1.3.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries contains correspondence, reports, studies, newspaper and periodical clippings, and advertising and promotional materials relating to the avocado industry, in particular in Southern California. Scientific studies, reports by explorer F. Wilson Popenoe, and the catalogs of avocado nurseries such as E. E. Knight and the famously irascible Albert R. Rideout , document in particular the efforts of the industry to perfect cultivation methods, standardize varieties, and improve the...
Dates:
1918-1931.
Women's Christian Temperance Union (Australia),, 1889-1891.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series 2.3.
Scope and Contents
Women's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, First Annual Conference, Minutes. Adelaide, 13 August 1889.
Women's Christian Temperance Union of Queensland, Fourth Annual Conference, Minutes. Brisbane, 24-26 September 1889.
First Intercolonial Convention, Minutes. Baptist Church, Collins Street Melbourne, 25-29 May 1891.
Ackerman[n], Jessie A. [(1857-1951), social reformer,...
Dates:
1889-1891.
Pleasants, William James (1834-1919),, no date.
File — Box: 25, Folder: 4
Identifier: Subseries 1.5.2.
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries contains photographic negatives and prints not mounted in albums relating to William McPherson and his family. The core of these materials is the “McPherson negatives”, numbering over 371 items. The majority of these images were taken between 1906 and 1912 in San Juan Capistrano and environs, during McPherson’s initial term as schoolmaster there, and document various aspects of life in rural Orange County in the first decade of the 20th century. The prints in the William...
Dates:
no date.