Orange County (Calif.) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
David Boulé California Orange Collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1098
Abstract
This collection contains materials related to orange and citrus cultivation in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Items include advertisements, vendor guides, labor documents, photographs, artifacts relating to production and packing, and a sizable collection of souvenirs and products offered to tourists and consumers. Developed by author, researcher, and avid collector David Boulé, this collection contains many valuable resources relating to the California citrus...
Dates:
1882-2016 and undated
William McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0524
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, photographs, account books and journals, land and tax records, manuscripts, scrapbooks, notes, transcripts, reports, newspapers, clippings, promotional materials, and ephemera, relating to the family, life, career, and intellectual pursuits of Orange County, California, avocado rancher and historian William McPherson (1885-1964). Family papers document the McPhersons' settlement in Orange County in the 1870s, and their involvement in local agriculture, first in the...
Dates:
1664/65-1970.; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1945