Les Sipes Collection
Finding aid created by Contra Costa County Historical Society staff using RecordEXPRESS
Contra Costa County Historical Society
2019
724 Escobar Street
Martinez, California 94553
(925) 229-1042
http://www.cocohistory.com/
Title: Les Sipes Collection
Dates: 1930s-1950s
Collection Number: 1986.29
Creator/Collector:
Sipes, Les
Extent: 4 boxes textual items, plus photo collection
Repository:
Contra Costa County Historical Society
Martinez, California 94553
Abstract: Les Sipes was a reporter and photographer for the Oakland Tribune and covered the Contra Costa beat from the 1940s to the
1950s. He and former Contra Costa County Supervisor, Warren Boggess, flew the “Traffic” route daily. Included in the collection
donated by Jacquie Laudregon Sipes are photographs, negatives, slides, and news clippings, totaling over 15,000 articles.
The news clippings add to the Center’s collection in a time period that augments newspapers not already in the collection.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Contact the Contra Costa County Historical Society for publication permission.
Les Sipes Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs are housed in the Photograph collection [not accessible at this time]
Two boxes of miscellaneous clippings arranged alphabetically by subject.
education, Acalanes High School
auto deaths
airport, Buchanan Field
hospital, Centra Costa Costa Memorial
mining, coal
elections, county (1950)
state park, Mt. Diablo
adobe, Don Salvio Pacheco
education, junior college
equestrian, Lafayette Horse Show
adobe, Fernando Pacheco
election, sewer district
oil, Tassajara oil well
correspondence
World War II
Bowen, Barbara
Boggess, Warren
Engle, Ray F
Engle, Robert "Bobbie"
Shook, Dr. Francis M.
Rasmussen, Ed C.
Takahashi, William
Central Contra Costa Sanitary District
East Bay Municipal Utility District
San Ramon Valley-Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce
Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce
Walnut Creek Lion's Club
Canyon
Alamo
Clayton
Concord
Crockett
Danville
Diablo
Lafayette
Martinez
Moraga
Oakley
Orinda
Pittsburg
Pleasant Hill
San Ramon
Walnut Creek
Ygnacio Valley
newspaper clippings
photographer