Guide to the California Dairy Industry History Collection

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California State Parks
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Guide to the California Dairy Industry History Collection

Collection number: Consult repository

California State Parks

Sacramento, California

Contact Information:

  • California State Parks
  • 1416 9th Street
  • Room 902
  • Sacramento, CA 95814
  • Phone: (916) 651-6959
  • Fax: (916) 653-3398
  • Email: vytur@parks.ca.gov
  • URL: http://www.parks.ca.gov
Processed by:
Larry Bishop
Date Completed:
2005
Encoded by:
Larry Bishop
© 2005 California State Parks. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

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

Administrative Information

Access

The collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the California State Parks. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact California State Parks.

Preferred citation

[item], California Dairy Industry History Collection, California State Parks, Sacramento, California.

Related materials

The collection described in this finding aid represents those materials that are archival in nature. Artifacts (including some very large pieces of machinery) that are also identified by the accession number 85-2 are not included in this guide. For information on the artifactual materials related to this collection contact California State Parks.

A Brief History of the California Dairy Industry

Cattle first entered California with the Spanish missionaries in the late 1700’s. Milk and cheese were consumed at the Franciscan Missions from San Diego to the northernmost mission at Sonoma. At times milk may even have been an essential element of the missionaries’ diet. Father Junipero Serra wrote in 1772 that milk was their “chief subsistence” at Mission San Carlos in Carmel, and other records show that as early as 1776 women were making cheese and butter at Mission San Gabriel. But the first cattle in California were of Mexican stock, better suited for meat, hide and tallow than for milk. As these herds grew, a lucrative trade in tallow and hides developed. These goods left California by ship, and the Eastern merchants’ desire for these products in the 1830s contributed to the growth of seaport trading communities at San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Monterey. In the first few decades after the arrival of cattle in California, dairying was incidental to the more lucrative tallow and hide trades. But as the herds grew stronger and larger, dairying became more and more popular.
The first export of dairy products, however, probably happened much farther north than the centers of the tallow and hide trades. The Russians at Fort Ross on the Sonoma coast engaged in farming and dairying and shipped butter, cheese, and locally grown produce to fur-trapping settlements in Alaska between the years of 1812 and 1841. After the Russians left California in 1841, John Sutter of Sacramento acquired most of the materials at the fort, including the small dairy herd, and he operated small dairies on land at Mills Station (modern-day Rancho Cordova, in the Sacramento area) and Yuba City. But until the great influx of fortune seekers in the 1850’s following the discovery of gold in California, dairying in the state was still primarily a domestic activity, and not an economic one.
Many families who braved the overland trek from the eastern United States brought with them cows to provide milk for their children and infants. In the Mother Lode mining communities dairy cattle soon became valuable commodities. In many cases, while husbands were mining, wives managed the family’s livestock and found that they could sell fresh milk and butter at a favorable price. Dairy herds began appearing in the Sierra foothills to satisfy the Easterners’ desire for milk and butter; simple pleasures that they had left behind when they decided to seek their fortunes in the untamed gold fields. As California’s population swelled over succeeding decades, the demand for milk increased proportionally.
Fluid milk is more perishable than butter or cheese, so initially milk had to be produced within a short wagon ride of its consumers. Larger dairy herds first emerged close to California’s most populated areas to ensure that milk could be supplied to the rapidly growing urban populations. According to the 1860 census, there were 264,000 people in California and 104,000 cows, and the principal dairy regions that year were the San Francisco Bay area and the Sacramento Valley. Because of the great demand for milk in San Francisco, and because of the area’s good rainfall and natural pasturage, the Bay Area became the state’s first major dairy center.
In the late 1850’s dairies in Petaluma began shipping butter and cheese down the coast by ship to the San Francisco Bay area; however, this answered only a fraction of the demand at the time and the majority of dairy products were still being shipped from the East Coast. California’s cheese and butter industries saw dramatic growth in the second half of the century. In 1850 only 705 pounds of butter and 150 pounds of cheese were produced in California, but by 1880 those numbers had increased to 16 million pounds and 3.7 million pounds respectively.
Today milk is produced in every state in the United States, but since 1980 more than half of the total U.S. milk production has come from only five states: California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania. In 2000 California produced about twenty percent of the U.S. total, surpassing Wisconsin as the nation’s largest milk producer. Yet the total number of dairy operations in California declined steadily in the second half of the twentieth century and now the state has less than one-seventh the number of dairies as Wisconsin. The average size of California’s dairy herds, on the other hand, is about seven times the national average and almost nine times the Wisconsin average. In 2002 California produced 1.7 billion pounds of cheese, second only to Wisconsin, and it also led the nation in production of butter, nonfat dry milk, cottage cheese, and ice cream.
California’s success in dairying is due in large part to environmental factors. Its temperate climate mitigates the need to house dairy cattle in winter months, and also contributes to the production of high quality alfalfa. California’s geographic isolation, with the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain ranges as obstacles to the transport of raw milk either east or west, necessitated the rapid development of in-state production and processing capacities. The state’s phenomenal population growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries created steady demand for dairy products, which stimulated the development of storage, packaging, and delivery systems. But the rise of California’s dairy industry from humble beginnings to national prominence is also a story of technological innovation, and cooperation and organization by its dairymen.
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, just as California’s population exploded and its demand for dairy products increased accordingly, several new technologies emerged to help jumpstart the state’s dairy industry. Mechanical cream separation, pasteurization, a reliable method of butterfat measurement and even the glass milk bottle were all developed between 1877 and 1892. Dairying in California shifted from a domestic activity to a major industry about 1890. Shortly before that time the centrifugal cream separator, a mechanical device for separating cream from raw milk in large batches, made its appearance in California, and the first commercial creamery in the state opened in Ferndale, California in 1899. The emergence of creameries created a division between production and manufacturing/marketing operations. Before 1900, California dairying was primarily an integrated endeavor, and included growing feed for the cows, producing the milk, skimming the cream, churning the butter and making the cheese all in one location—the dairy farm.
As the division of production and processing operations became the norm, other factors began reshaping the dairy industry as well. Dairy herd improvement associations aided the dairy farmer in selectively breeding cows that produced higher and higher volumes of milk, with higher levels of butterfat. Improvements in the treatment and diagnosis of bovine diseases, and improvements in milking machine technology in conjunction with newly improved herds saw production explode in the beginning of the twentieth century. In order to take advantage of increased demand for dairy products and to protect themselves financially, dairy farmers recognized a need to bargain collectively with processors or to do their own processing and distributing collectively. Farmer-owned dairy cooperatives developed in the first decades of the twentieth century to provide members an assured market for their milk and to help them negotiate prices, assemble, haul, manufacture, process, and market milk and dairy products to wholesalers. A dairy cooperative business is owned, operated, and controlled by the dairy farmers who benefit from its services.
Concerned about the marketing of their cream, dairy farmers in Tulare County, California formed the Dairyman’s Cooperative Creamery Association in 1910. The association operated its own creamery to manufacture butter, but left the marketing of their product to a Los Angeles firm. The following year the association merged with the nearby Riverdale Cooperative Creamery and they began marketing their own butter in Los Angeles under the “Challenge Butter” name. Today Challenge Butter is the largest-selling butter in the western United States. The Challenge Cream and Butter Association developed the first lab in California to sample and ensure butter quality, and their mechanical department developed the world’s first industrial metal churn, an innovation which quickly spread worldwide.
In 1919 California’s dairy industry faced a new threat. In January of that year, the State Legislature began considering two bills which would have had great impact on California’s dairymen and creamery operators. One would have permitted the manufacturers of margarine to color their product in imitation of butter; the other would have permitted the manufacture and distribution of a milk and coconut oil blend to remain unregulated. The dairy industry considered the first an affront to the integrity of their beloved butter and the latter to be a threat to the health of California’s children. That month the California Dairy Council was formed to go before the Legislature as the official representative of the industry. In addition to its legislative efforts, the California Dairy Council pledged to “promote human welfare and efficiency, by cooperative and united effort, in educating the public to appreciate the importance of the dairy cow and the value of dairy products as human food.” Many other such organizations were founded in California in the middle of the twentieth century with similar promotional goals, including the California Milk Advisory Board, the League of California Milk Producers, the California Creamery Operators Association, and the Dairy Institute of California.
One of these organizations, the California Dairy Industry Advisory Board was created by an act of the State Legislature in 1946 to provide substantial and dependable funding for dairy products research at the university level. In 1904 the California Livestock Breeder’s Association introduced a bill before the State Legislature calling for the purchase of at least 250 acres of the best agricultural land in the state to build a “University Farm” that would be operated by the regents of the University of California to advance the science of farming and dairying for the benefit of California. In 1905 an appointed commission selected 786 acres near Davisville (now Davis), California for the site. The following year the University occupied the site. Courses in dairying began in the fall of 1908, with twenty-five students studying butter making. The “University Farm Creamery” offered students the opportunity to see all the operations conducted in a commercial creamery from a practical point of view. The University Farm eventually became the University of California at Davis, one of the nation’s most prestigious universities for studying agriculture, medicine, and engineering. The California Dairy Industry Advisory Board now operates through the Dairy Industry Division of the University.
The rise of California’s dairy industry from humble beginnings to national and even international prominence is a story of technological innovation, legislative efforts, and masterful marketing, but most of all the cooperative spirit and organizational acumen of its dairymen.

Biographical Notes

The collection contains the papers of Herman Grabow (1898-1993), a cow tester, dairyman, radio personality, journalist and lobbyist for the California Grange. Trained as a cow tester at the University of Minnesota, Grabow came to California in 1923, where he found work as a tester in Ventura County. After losing his dairy in the midst of the Great Depression, Grabow came to San Joaquin County where he acquired a spread that was being sold for back taxes. With financial help from Roosevelt's New Deal, Grabow bought alfalfa seed and twenty cows. By the late 1930s he was well-established and had become Director of the local artificial insemination association. Beginning in the 1940’s, Grabow became a farmer’s advocate, working for forty years to advance the cause of the California dairy industry through legislation and promotion as a lobbyist for the California State Grange and as President of the California Dairymen, Inc. Grabow also published a regular column on dairy-related topics in the California Farmer during the 1960s and hosted a weekly radio program, "A Dairyman's Views on the News" on KTRB in Modesto, California from 1955 to 1960. He will be best remembered (among dairymen in particular) for his contributions to the passage of the California Milk Pooling Act (1969), which gave independent dairymen greater protection from milk price fluctuations.
The collection also contains material collected by Neil McPherson (1904-1983). A native of Scotland, McPherson was a dairy farmer, a regional representative for the American Jersey Cattle Club, and Industry Relations Director of the Dairy Council of California. His personal collection of dairy artifacts and documentary material, acquired through many years of visiting California’s historic dairy ranches and researching their histories, was the impetus for the development of the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation, where McPherson served as the founding and only curator from 1974 until his death 1983. In 1978, the American Association for State and Local History commended him for his “service and scholarship in the promotion and documentation of California’s dairy history,” and in 1983 The Dairyman magazine bestowed on him the title of California Dairy Industry Historian Laureate, and proclaimed that “Seldom has one man contributed so much to one industry’s rich history.”
Also featured prominently in this collection are materials relating to one of California’s pioneer dairy families, the Steele family. Cousins George (1825-1901) and Rensselaer (1808-1886) Steele immigrated to California’s Sonoma County from the East Coast in 1855, followed by George’s brothers Edgar in 1856 and Isaac in 1857. Initially farmers rather than dairymen, the family soon discovered a lucrative market for cheese and butter in San Francisco. In 1857 George and Isaac took possession of land at Punta del Reyes on the Marin County coast and established a prosperous dairy operation there. The Steeles produced a startling forty-five tons of butter in 1861. That year they added 15,000 acres to their dairy operations with the acquisition of land farther south at Año Nuevo on what was at that time the Santa Cruz County coast. In 1866 Edgar Steele moved from Marin County to San Luis Obispo County where he introduced dairy farming on an additional 45,000 acres, and by 1870 the Steele’s combined net worth was estimated to be about $1.5 million. Legal disputes over land titles eventually forced the sale of some of their acreage, but Isaac maintained the ranch at Año Nuevo until his death in 1903 and Isaac’s grandson William Steele continued operation there until his death in 1956. In 1967 William’s widow, Catherine B. Steele made a gift of the Green Oaks ranch to the County of San Mateo to be used for historical and educational purposes.

Chronology

1769 Cattle first enter California from Mexico with the Spanish missionaries.
1812-1841 The Russian settlement at Fort Ross exports dairy products from California to Alaska.
1848 Gold is discovered at Coloma
1850 California becomes a state. Mass migrations of gold-seekers flood in.
1856 The Steele family of Marin county begin earliest major dairy operations in California. Gail Borden receives a patent for condensed milk in New York. Louis Pasteur begins bacteriological experiments in France leading to the development of the pasteurization process.
1878 The centrifugal cream separator is invented by Albert Delaval in Sweden.
1886 The glass milk bottle with reliable closure is invented by Harvey Thatcher in New York.
1890 Dr. Stephen Babcock of Wisconsin develops a simple method of determining butterfat content in milk. “Babcock Test” becomes the standard method of grading milk. Tuberculin testing of dairy herds introduced.
1894 Delaval patents his first mechanical milking machine. California State Dairy Bureau is established.
1899 The first commercial creamery in California opens in Ferndale, Humboldt County.
1900-1910 Cooperative dairies and creameries appear in Southern California.
1902 Homogenization of milk is invented.
1904 The ice cream cone is invented.
1907 Pasteurized milk becomes commercially practical.
1908 The University of California Agricultural College at Davis begins offering dairy classes.
1918 The Delaval mechanical milker utilizing controlled and uniform pulsations is introduced.
1919 The Dairy Council of California founded.
1930-1935 The continuous ice cream freezer is developed. The commercial homogenization of milk becomes practical. The widespread adoption of stainless steel containers in dairies and creameries becomes reality.
1938 The first farm bulk tanks for milk begin to replace milk cans.
1946 The California Dairy Industry Advisory Board is created.
1948 Ultra high temperature pasteurization is introduced.
1964 Plastic milk containers are introduced.
1974 The California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation is established.

Organization and Processing Notes

The California Dairy Industry History Collection is an artificial collection encompassing materials acquired from various sources. Since the California State Parks’ acquisition of the bulk of this collection from the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation in 1978, a variety of efforts were made to catalog and organize the material. Unfortunately, none of these attempts resulted in the organizational or descriptive tools required to lend research functionality to the collection. For example, a typed inventory of the collection described items “from McPherson’s home,” but the inventory is undated, the author is not stated, the material was not arranged, and only the contents of a single box of documents were described.
In addition, the collection has been relocated more than once, and shows evidence of having been repackaged and resorted, eliminating the possibility of reassembling the order created by the original collector(s). It is also likely that items were added to the collection between 1977 and 2002, and records of these accruals, where present, have not been maintained or preserved. These factors, as well as the undocumented provenance of the materials, resulted in the decision to process the collection as a single entity. The total absence of a usable original order necessitated the imposition of a new overall arrangement to improve accessibility and facilitate locating, retrieving, and filing the materials.
Researchers may note what appear to be discrepancies or omissions in this finding aid regarding the numbering conventions used for boxes in the collection. To maintain an effective intellectual arrangement of the material, all items are listed within the context of the series or subseries they relate to, despite having been physically relocated because of size, format, or preservation need. The notation “Moved to Box [box number]” guides the user to the material.
The collection has been organized into the following series and subseries:
  • Series I: Organizations
  • Subseries 1: American Dairy Association
  • Subseries 2: California Dairy Industries Association
  • Subseries 3: California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation
  • Subseries 4: California Milk Advisory Board
  • Subseries 5: Dairy Council of California
  • Subseries 6: University of California
  • Subseries 7: Organizations, various
  • Series II: Companies and Cooperatives
  • Series III: California Dairy People
  • Subseries 1: Herman J. Grabow Papers
  • Subseries 2: Neil McPherson Collection
  • Subseries 3: Steel Family Papers
  • Subseries 4: California Dairy People, various
  • Series IV: Machinery and Equipment
  • Series V: Legislation and Regulation
  • Subseries 1: California State Assembly
  • Subseries 2: California State Senate
  • Subseries 3: California State Department of Agriculture
  • Subseries 4: Various Legislative and Regulatory Offices and Committees
  • Series VI: Dairy Trade Journals and University Publications
  • Series VII: Photographic Material

Scope and Content Summary

Arrangement

The Dairy Industry History Collection in its totality includes a large collection of artifacts, including milk bottles, butter churns, cream separators, cheese presses, storage containers, milking machines, and large pieces of dairying and processing of equipment. The material in the archival collection described in this guide includes brochures, bulletins, catalogs, ephemera, interviews, minutes, ledgers, receipts, press releases, advertisements, research reports, newspaper clippings, speeches, testimonies, transcripts, correspondence, publications, original histories, non-original documents (mostly photocopies), audio and video recordings, books, journals, slides, negatives, and photographic prints.

Arrangement

This collection records the development of California’s dairy industry in histories of and records from individual dairy farms, cooperatives, marketing organizations, processors, and distributors. Also included is biographical material relating to many dairy pioneers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and statesmen who contributed to the industry. The role of California’s legislature in protecting and regulating the dairy industry is evinced through legislative bill files, and the creation and operation of the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation is documented in newsletters, correspondence, minutes, and corporate documents. The material in this collection covers the years 1856 to 1986 with the bulk of the material dating from 1953 to 1978.

Arrangement

During the time period covered by this collection, many cooperatives, marketing, and educational organizations were formed. Organizations represented in this collection include the University of California Agricultural College at Davis, the American Dairy Association, California Dairy Council, the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation, and the California Milk Advisory Board. Material spanning the period from 1909 to 1983 evince the contributions made by these and many other organizations.

Arrangement

Several modern dairy technologies emerged during the time period covered by this collection. With items spanning the period of 1851 to 1988, these innovations are revealed in the collection’s large quantity of vendor publications, equipment descriptions, technical drawings, and patents. Vendors that are well represented in the collection include Coast Creamery Equipment, Damrow Brothers Equipment, De Laval, and McHale Manufacturing. Materials documenting the history and operations of these and other companies include business records, articles of incorporation, ledgers, organizational charts, brochures, catalogs, and photographs.

Arrangement

The collection also contains the personal and professional papers of two men who contributed to the story of California’s dairy history and considerable material pertaining to one of California’s founding dairy families. Herman Grabow (1898-1993) founded the Grabow Jersey Dairy in Escalon, California in 1935, served as president of California Dairymen Inc, and was the Legislative Representative for the California Grange from 1961 to 1978. Items collected by Grabow and contained in this collection include autobiographical essays, correspondence, memorabilia, business records, clippings, legislative reports and committee minutes, photographs and audio recordings documenting his career as a dairyman or dairyman’s advocate during the period from 1924 to 1988. Neil McPherson (1904-1983), a native of Scotland, was instrumental in the creation of the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation in 1974 and served as its founding curator until his death. Correspondence, clippings, original writings, histories, photographs, and notebooks spanning the period from 1867 to 1983 illustrate McPherson’s passion for dairying. Also collected by McPherson and included in this collection are audio and video tapes, movie film, and collected histories of many of California’s fifty-eight counties, and descriptive material on several dairy cattle breeds. George and Rensselaer Steele emigrated to California in 1856 and began dairying in Sonoma County in 1857. For the next one hundred years the Steele family operated dairies in Marin, San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties. Materials documenting their contributions to California’s dairy story include correspondence, clippings, receipts, invoices, photographs, and reminiscences spanning the period from 1857 to 1967.

Arrangement

The California State Legislature’s role in the development of the State’s dairy industry is evidenced by copies of bills and resolutions, committee transcripts, publications, and reports issued between 1950 and 1975. Likewise, annual reports, bulletins, court briefs, publications, transcripts, minutes and agendas spanning the period from 1920 to 1980 document California’s dairy regulation through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the California Department of Agriculture, and the State Dairy Bureau. A small quantity of material from U.S. House and Senate committees concerned with the dairy industry is also included.

Arrangement

Lastly, this collection contains a large number of books, magazines, student papers, and trade journals, with publication dates ranging from 1890 to 1984, which address the entire spectrum of dairying, from the selection of cattle breeds to the marketing of processed products.

Access

This collection is open for research

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.

Personal Names

Delaval, Albert
Grabow, Herman
McPherson, Neil

Business Names

American Dairy Association
Borden's Condensed Milk Company
California. Dairy Industry Advisory Board
California. Dairy Council
California. Dairy Bureau, State
California Milk Advisory Board
California. Milk Stabilization, Bureau of
California creamery operators' association
Certified Milk Producers Association of America
Cherry-Burrell Corporation.
DeLaval Separator Company
Ex-Cell-O Corporation
Frigidaire Corporation
James Manufacturing Co
National Dairy Council
National Grange
National Milk Producers Federation
Owens-Illinois Glass Company
University of California
University of California (1868-1952). College of Agriculture

Subjects

Butter industry
Cheese industry
Dairy cattle—Breeding
Dairy farming—California
Dairy farming—Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dairy farming—Periodicals
Dairy inspection
Dairy laws—California
Dairy plants—Equipment and supplies
Dairy products—Cooperative marketing
Dairy products industry 1850-1880.
Dairy products—Marketing
Dairying—Economic aspects—California
Dairying—Government policy
Ice cream industry
Margarine—Law and legislation
Milk Advertising
Milk Grading and standardization

Bibliography

Additional information on the history of the dairy industry in California can be found in the following publications:
Herbert, Rand, A History of the California Creamery Operator’s Association, Davis, California: 1984.
Hittell, John S., The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast of North America, San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1882.
Jones, Robert E., The Beginning of Dairying on the Pacific, Berkeley: University of California, 1930.
Santos, Robert L., “Dairying in California Through 1910,” Southern California Quarterly, 76 (Summer 1994), 175-194.
Steele, Catherine B., “The Steele Brothers: Pioneers in California’s Great Dairy Industry,” California Historical Quarterly, 20, (September 1941), 259-273.
Tinley, J.M., Public Regulation of Milk Marketing in California, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1938.
Wickson, E.J., Dairying in California, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1896.

 

Series I:  Organizations 1909-1983 (bulk 1950-1970)

Physical Description: 8.35 cubic ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains materials from organizations that were formed to educate the dairy industry and the public, promote the dairy industry through marketing and public relations campaigns, and serve as a resource for breeders, dairies, or processing facilities. Material types include organizational records, research and marketing reports, press releases, advertising copy and artwork, ephemera, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, photographic prints and slides, posters, booklets, and brochures. This series also includes material from dairy herd improvement and cow testing associations, and from research institutions, most notably the University of California, which has published material pertaining to the dairy industry and offered educational programs in the dairy sciences.

Scope and Content Note

This series is arranged into six subseries:
  • Subseries I.1. American Dairy Association
  • Subseries I.2. California Dairy Industries Association
  • Subseries I.3. California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation
  • Subseries I.4. California Milk Advisory Board
  • Subseries I.5. Dairy Council of California.
  • Subseries I.6. University of California
  • Subseries I.7. Organizations, various
 

Subseries I.1: American Dairy Association, 1955-1971 (bulk 1964-1968)

Physical Description: 1 cubic ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

Materials in this sub series consists of marketing research reports, minutes of annual dairy symposiums, and promotional items generated by the American Dairy Association (founded 1940) and its California organization, the American Dairy Association of California, which later became the California Milk Advisory Board. The merger of the National Dairy Council (NDC) and the American Dairy Association (ADA) in 1970 created the United Dairy Industry Association (UDIA). Only a small quantity of administrative material is included. The association was created to promote the sales of dairy products, provide members of the dairy industry with marketing expertise, and to increase public awareness of the nutritional value of dairy products through promotional campaigns. Promotional materials include brochures, press releases, advertising copy, ephemera, photographs, and recipe books. The marketing research reports and surveys were conducted either by the association itself or contracted to independent research firms.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries is organized into four groupings and arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each subject. A single item from the American Dairy Association of Missouri has been placed at the end of the subseries.
 

Association Business

Box 1, Folder I/1/1

Addresses by G.G. Quackenbush, 1964-1965

Box 1, Folder I/1/2

Presentation, Five Year Plan for Public Relations Programming, 1964

Box 1, Folder I/1/3

Presentations to annual meetings, 1966-1968

 

Promotional Material

Box 1, Folders I/1/4-6

Booklets, industry relations, 1960-1963 and undated

Box 1, Folder I/1/7

Booklets, public relations, A Dairyman Goes to Market , n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/1/8

Brochures and recipe books, n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/1/9

Clippings and press releases, 1968 and n.d.

Box 1, Folders I/1/10-15

Proceedings of First through Seventh National Symposiums on Dairy Market Development, excluding Fourth, 1960-1967

Box 1, Folder I/1/16

Speaker's Kit, n.d.

 

Research Reports

Box 1, Folders I/1/17-31

Various research reports, alphabetically by title, 1955-1970

 

American Dairy Association of California

Box 1, Folder I/1/32

Booklet, From Cow to Consumer, n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/1/33

Calendar of meetings, 1967

Box 1, Folder I/1/34

Dairy Princess Pageants, clippings and programs, 1965, 1967,1969

Box 1, Folder I/1/35

Dairy Princess Pageants, handbook for participants and factbook, 1965, 1969

Box 1, Folder I/1/36

Employee handbook, n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/1/37

Maps, locations of signage in Los Angeles area, 1966

Box 1, Folder I/1/38

Newsletter ,The Refresher, Aug 1965

Box 1, Folder I/1/39

Photos, photocopies, Garden Party Promotion, 1966

Box 1, Folder I/1/40

Press Packet, Garden Party Promotion, 1966

Box 1, Folder I/1/41

Press release, June 1964

Box 1, Folder I/1/42

Sample letters to producers from plant managers regarding membership, 1964

Box 1, Folder I/1/43

Photos of signage for Garden Party promotion, 1966. Moved to Box 22.

Box 1, Folders I/1/44-46

Maps and newspaper advertisements, 1966-1969 and undated. Moved to Box 25.

Box 1, Folder I/1/47

American Dairy Association of Missouri, The American Dairy Association Story, 1962.

 

Subseries I.2: California Dairy Industries Association, 1946-1980 (bulk 1965-1969)

Physical Description: .25 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains administrative and promotional material from the California Dairy Industries Association (CDIA). This organization was created in 1917 on the campus of the University of California at Davis, and was incorporated in 1949. Its mission is to promote and advance the education and interests of dairy industry people. Administrative records include correspondence to and from John Shea, the Director of Industry Relations, minutes of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors, and rosters of officers and directors. Promotional items include newsletters, press releases, brochures and flyers relating to programs promoted by the organization including the Dairy Roadside Appearance Project (DRAP), the Annual Dairy Industry Conference, and the CDIA Scholarship Program.
This subseries is organized into two groupings and arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each subject.
 

Association Business

Box 1, Folder I/2/1

Annual meetings, minutes, 1966-1967

Box 1, Folder I/2/2

Board of Directors, meeting notices, agendas and minutes, 1965-1966

Box 1, Folders I/2/3-5

Correspondence, John Shea 1965-1968

Box 1, Folders I/2/6-9

Executive Committee, meeting notices, agendas, minutes, 1964-1968

Box 1, Folder I/2/10

Notes and memos, John Shea, 1965-1968 and n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/2/11

Officers and Directors reference folder,1980

Box 1, Folder I/2/12

Planning Committee, meeting notices, agendas, minutes, 1966

Box 1, Folder I/2/13

Policy Advisory Board, meeting notices, agendas, minutes, 1966-1967

Box 1, Folder I/2/14

Rosters, officer, directors, chairmen, 1966

 

Promotional Material

Box 1, Folder I/2/15

Annual Dairy Industry Conference, programs, award nomination forms, award results, 1964-1967

Box 1, Folder I/2/16

Annual Dairy Products Conference, programs, rosters, memoranda, 1964-1966

Box 1, Folder I/2/17

Brochures, flyers, notices 1966-1968 and n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/2/18

Clippings, 1964-1976 and n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/2/19

Correspondence, internal, and memoranda, 1965-1968

Box 1, Folder I/2/20

Dairy Roadside Appearance Program, notices, rosters, rules, 1946, 1962-1967 and n.d.

Box 1, Folder I/2/21

Educational Program, notices, programs, syllabus, 1965-1969

Box 1, Folder I/2/22

History, "The California Dairy Industries Association," by B.E. Hubbell, c.1968

Box 1, Folder I/2/23

Newsletters, 1965-1966, 1968

Box 1, Folder I/2/24

Press Releases, 1964-1968

Box 1, Folder I/2/25

Scholarship Fund, proposal, press releases, recipients, 1966

Box 1, Folder I/2/15

Annual Dairy Industry Conference, programs, award nomination forms, award results, 1964-1967

 

Subseries I.3: California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation, 1920-1983 (bulk 1974-1980)

Physical Description: 2.25 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries includes administrative records, promotional materials, correspondence, and news clippings pertaining to the operation of the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation, founded in 1974. The focus of much of the material concerns the Foundation’s joint project with the California State Parks to establish a California Dairy Museum at Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz County. Photographic slides and slide show scripts assembled to promote the creation of the museum are in this subseries. Also included are records, correspondence, and notebooks pertaining to the collection of artifacts by the curator, Neil McPherson, and a small quantity of biographical and historical material gathered or written by him.
This subseries is organized into four groupings and arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each subject.
 

Association Business

Box 2, Folder I/3/1

Annual meetings, agendas, minutes, transcripts, 1976-1984

Box 2, Folder I/3/2

Articles of Incorporation and bylaws, 1974,1981

Box 2, Folder I/3/3

Board of Trustees, meeting notices, agendas and minutes, 1974-1982

Box 2, FolderI I/3/4

Correspondence, 1974-1979

Box 2, Folder I/3/5

Correspondence, 1980-1986 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/6

Correspondence, internal, 1975-1982 and undated

Box 2, Folders I/3/7-8

Executive committee, meeting notices, agendas, ballots, and minutes, 1974-1983

Box 2, Folder I/3/9

Financial statements, receipt journals, balance sheets, budgets, notes, 1972-1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folders I/3/10-11

Fundraising notes, contact lists, mailings, 1972-1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/12

Invoices and receipts, 1980-1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/13

Job descriptions, Director and Curator, 1981 and undated

Box 2, Folder I/3/14

Ledger, bound, 7x 9.5, [items loaned and donated], 1977-1982

Box 2, Folder I/3/15

Organizing committee, correspondence, minutes, notes -1974

Box 2, Folder I/3/16

Printed material, stationery, form letters, n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/17

Prospecti and Rationale, 1975, 1977

Box 2, Folder I/3/18

Resolutions of support, letters of support, 1979-1981

Box 2, Folder I/3/19

Rosters, officers and trustees, 1974-1984 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/20

Subcommittee meetings, agendas and summary reports, 1974-1981

Box 2, Folders I/3/21-22

Third party correspondence, 1977-1986

Box 2, Folder I/3/23

Year-end reports, 1974-1980

 

Promotional Material

Box 2, Folders I/3/24

Announcements and bulletins, 1974-1977

Box 2, Folder I/3/25

Brochures, 1974, 1979 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/26

Clipping, The McPherson Collection: Where it All Began, Western Milk and Ice Cream News, 1970

Box 2, Folder I/3/27

Clippings, 1955, 1967-1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folders I/3/28

Newsletters, 1979-1983

Box 2, Folder I/3/29

Presentations, prepared statements, 1977-1981

Box 2, Folder I/3/30

Press releases, fact sheets, 1974-1980 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/31

Slide show script, n.d. (slides from this script are item I/3/66)

Box 2, Folder I/3/32

Slide show scripts, 1980-1981 (some slides relating to these scripts can be found with item I/3/67)

Box 2, Folder I/3/33

Slide show, descriptions, notes, receipts, 1978-1982 and n.d. (some slides from this show are found in item I/3/68)

Box 2, Folder I/3/34

Slide show, storyboard, 1977

 

Curator’s Note’s, Comments, and Research

Box 2, Folder I/3/35

Booklet, Pebble Beach: The Way it Was, by Ann Germain, 1975

Box 2, Folder I/3/36

California Agricultural Museum, correspondence, minutes of Board of Trustees, miscellaneous, 1982-1983 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/37

Clippings about Wilder Ranch, 1977-1987

Box 2, Folders I/3/38-40

Collection inventories and notes, 1974-1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folders I/3/41-43

Correspondence, 1964 -1982

Box 2, Folders I/3/44-46

Curatorial notes and sketches, 1972-c.1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/47

Curatorial reports to Executive Committee, 1975-1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/48

Histories, biographical notes, and related clippings, 1954-1980 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/49

History, Legend of Monterey Jack Cheese, 1982 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/50

Humboldt County Dairy history by Harold White, 1979

Box 2, Folder I/3/51

Legislative Counsel's report, Amendment to Budget Act of 1979

Box 2, Folder I/3/52

Los Angeles City School District Publications, 1920, 1947

Box 2, Folder I/3/53

Membership cards and notices from various historical organizations, 1974 and n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/54

Proceedings, annual meeting, Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums, 1974

Box 2, Folder I/3/55

Report, Wilder Ranch: A Unique Opportunity, by Douglas Fisk, n.d.

Box 2, Folder I/3/56

Curator’s steno tablets and notebooks, 1980-1982. Moved to Box 26

 

Photographs and Artwork

Box 2, Folder I/3/57

Photographs, California State Park, Wilder Ranch, c.1930s, 1977 and n.d. Moved to Box 22

Box 2, Folder I/3/58

Photographs, Dairying equipment, n.d. Moved to Box 22

Box 2, Folder I/3/59

Photographs, Dairying equipment, n.d. Moved to Box 22

Box 2, Folder I/3/60

Photographs, Museum displays, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1981 and n.d. Moved to Box 22

Box 2, Folder I/3/61

Photographs, People, identified, n.d. Moved to Box 22

Box 2, Folder I/3/62

Photographs, People and places, unidentified, n.d. Moved to Box 22

Box 2, Folder I/3/63

Photographs, Various dairy activities, set of 28 B/W prints, n.d. Moved to Box 46

Box 2, Folder I/3/64

Photographs, Various ranches and dairies, photos and artwork, 1900, 1924 and n.d. Moved to Box 46

Box 2, Folder I/3/65

Signs, transparencies, and display labels, various, c.1970s. Moved to Box 42

Box 2, Folders I/3/66-69

Slides (177) from slide shows, 1977-1982 and n.d. Moved to Box 43

 

Subseries I.4: California Milk Advisory Board, 1961-1986 (bulk 1974-1977).

Physical Description: .7 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries includes administrative records, promotional materials, correspondence, and marketing research created by the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB). Established in 1969, the CMAB is the largest marketing board in the Western United States, serving more than 2,300 dairy families. Materials in this subseries include generic advertising, retail pomotions, milk quality improvement and research reports. Also in this subseries are photographs from the CMAB’s annual California Dairy Princess Pageant.
This subseries is organized into two groupings and arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each subject.
 

Association Business

Box 3, Folder 1/4/1

Board of Directors, agendas, minutes and accompanying reports, 1976

Box 3, Folder 1/4/2

Correspondence and personnel list, 1971-1982 and n.d.

Box 3, Folder 1/4/3

Policy letters, California Department of Agriculture, 1961, 1969, 1971

 

Promotional Material

Box 3, Folder 1/4/4

Market research report, 1971

Box 3, Folder 1/4/5

Market survey, Food Service Operations in CA, WA, and OR, 1977

Box 3, Folder 1/4/6

Market survey, Marketing Opportunities for Milk and Milk Products, 1969

Box 3, Folders 1/4/7-10

Marketing materials, vatious promotions, 1970-1978 and n.d.

Box 3, Folder 1/4/11

Marketing Plan, The Dairyman Campaign, 1977

Box 3, Folder 1/4/12

Marketing Plan, 1974

Box 3, Folder 1/4/13

Newsletter, Milk Advisor, March 1980-January 1986

Box 3, Folder 1/4/14

Press packet, California Dairy Princess Pageant, 1974

Box 3, Folders 1/4/15-16

Promotional materials, various, n.d.

Box 3, Folder 1/4/17

Public relations copy by Carl Byoir and Associates, n.d.

Box 3, Folder 1/4/18

Promotional materials, 2 in. round pin-back button, Milk Lovers Love Longer, and small plastic label, Time for Milk. Moved to Box 27

Box 3, Folders 1/4/19-20

Photographs, California Dairy Princesses, 1967-1976 and n.d. Moved to Box 22

Box 3, Folder 1/4/21

Photographs, Promotional photos, 1971, 1976 and n.d. Moved to Box 22

 

Subseries I.5: Dairy Council of California, 1919-1972 (bulk 1920-1960).

Physical Description: 2.3 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains administrative and promotional material from the Dairy Council of California spanning the period from 1919 to 1974. In 1961 the Council’s directors voted to dissolve the organization and to reform it under the name California Dairy Council. Administrative material includes ledgers, annual reports, articles of incorporation, and agendas and minutes of meetings and conferences, including the Board of Directors meetings from 1919 to 1961. Promotional material includes artwork, brochures, newsletters, press packets, photographs, and a sizable quantity of material pertaining to the Dairyland exhibit at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Also included are many essays and radio scripts from the period 1921 to 1953 by Samuel H. Greene, who served as the organization’s manager for its first thirty years.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries is organized into two groupings and arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each subject.
 

Association Business

Box 3, Folders I/5/1-2

Annual Reports, 1920-1946

Box 3, Folder I/5/3

Articles of Incorporation, by-laws, proposed amendments, 1935-1958 and n.d.

Box 3, Folder I/5/4

Contract between Samuel Greene and California Dairy Council, 28 May, 1946

Box 3, Folders I/5/5-20

Board of Directors, agendas, correspondence, minutes, 1919-1961

Box 3, Folder I/5/21

Correspondence, clippings, charts, pertaining to pricing of Class II and Class III milk products, 1958

Box 3, Folders I/5/22-24

Correspondence, general, 1932-1971

Box 3, Folder I/5/25

Education Committee, minutes, agendas, 1946

Box 3, Folders I/5/26-29

Executive Committee meetings, agendas, minutes, rosters,1935-1960

Box 3, Folder I/5/30

Fieldmen’s Conference, minutes, agendas, 1945-1946

Box 3, Folder I/5/31

Financial summaries, cancelled checks, receipts, 1949-1961

Box 3, Folders I/5/32-34

General meetings, agendas, correspondence, minutes, 1920-1941

Box 4, Folder I/5/35

General meetings, agendas, correspondence, minutes, 1942-1946

Box 4, Folder I/5/36

General meeting minutes, February 27, 1946

Box 4, Folder I/5/37

General meetings, agendas, correspondence, minutes, 1947-1958

Box 4, Folder I/5/38

General meetings, agendas, correspondence, minutes, 1959-1958

Box 4, Folder I/5/39

Invitation to membership, 1950

Box 4, Folder I/5/40

Ledgers (2), loose-leaf, "Producer's Accounts," 1920-1948. Moved to Box 30.

Box 4, Folder I/5/41

Ledger, loose-leaf, accounting records, 1940-1947. Moved to Box 29.

Box 4, Folders I/5/42-43

Ledger Pages, 1941-1947. Moved to Box 28.

Box 4, Folder I/5/44

List of affiliated companies, n.d.

Box 4, Folders I/5/45-48

Market Milk Committee and Conference materials,1954-1958

Box 4, Folder I/5/49

Materials relating to dissolution and reformation of organization, 1960-1961

Box 4, Folder I/5/50

Membership rosters, 1957-1958 and n.d.

Box 4, Folder I/5/51

Memoranda, 1933-1960

Box 4, Folder I/5/52

Organization Committee, minutes, 1919

Box 4, Folder I/5/53

Roster, Board of Directors, officers, and trustees, 1953-1966 and n.d.

Box 4, Folder I/5/54

Special Promotional Committee, minutes of meeting, 13 June, 1962

Box 4, Folder I/5/55

Women’s Auxiliary Committee, minutes, 1925

 

Research and Promotion

Box 4, Folder I/5/56

Articles by various authors, 1923-1955

Box 4, Folder I/5/57

Brochures, c.1945, 1965, and related correspondence, 1955-1956

Box 4, Folder I/5/58

Golden Gate International Exposition, Dairyland Committee, correspondence, financial statements, minutes, 1937-1939

Box 4, Folder I/5/59

Golden Gate International Exposition, Dairyland Committee, photocopies of photographs, 1939

Box 4, Folder I/5/60

Golden Gate International Exposition, Dairyland Committee, promotional booklet, publicity reports, 1939

Box 4, Folders I/5/61-64

Golden Gate International Exposition,Photographs,1938-1940. Moved to Box 22.

Box 4, Folders I/5/65-82

Greene, Samuel H. writings, radio scripts and clippings 1921-1953 and n.d. Moved to Box 49

Box 4, Folder I/5/83

Newsletters, "News and Views," 1958-1959

Box 4, Folder I/5/84

Newsletters, monthly, 1969-1981

Box 4, Folder I/5/85

Newsletter, "The Wholesale and Retail Dairy Idea Exchanger," 1966-67.

Box 4, Folder I/5/86

Newsletter, "The Wholesale and Retail Dairy Idea Exchanger," 1969-70, 1972.

Box 4, Folder I/5/87

Photographs, people and promotional events, 1930-1974 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 4, Folder I/5/88

Plan for Educational Work to Increase Consumption of Dairy Foods, 1946.

Box 4, Folder I/5/89

Poster, Dairy Council Returns Our Investment Many Times… n.d. Moved to Box 38.

Box 4, Folder I/5/90

Press packets for Dairy Month, 1969, 1970

Box 4, Folder I/5/91

Press Releases, clippings, 1923 and n.d.

Box 4, Folder I/5/92

Programs from annual dinners, 1929-1931

Box 4, Folder I/5/93

Proposal for the Institutional Program of the Dairy Council, by Neil McPherson, 1969

Box 4, Folder I/5/94

Publications: Pamphlets and Brochures, 1919, 1928, 1963 and n.d.

Box 4, Folder I/5/95

Radio addresses, 1932, 1952 and n.d.

Box 4, Folder I/5/96

Report, Twenty Busy Years, G.H. Rothe, presented at annual meeting, San Francisco, 1939

Box 4, Folder I/5/97

Report, Pricing Manufactured Dairy Products, author unknown, 1951.

Box 4, Folder I/5/98

Report, A Public Relations Analysis of California's Dairy Industry, by R. L. Harlan, 1957

Box 4, Folder I/5/99

Report, Teen-Agers Reactions to Dairy Council of California Advertising, 1968.

Box 4, Folder I/5/100

Reports and bulletins, 1955-1968 and n.d.

Box 4, Folder I/5/101

Report to the State Agriculture and Resources Committee, 1974

Box 4, Folder I/5/102

Scholarship Committee, description, press release, clippings, 1957 and n.d.

Box 4, Folder I/5/103

Script of public relations presentation, 1963

Box 4, Folder I/5/104

Teacher's guides to filmstrip presentation, undated

Box 4, Folder I/5/105

Typescripts, various authors, 1923-1955

Box 4, Folder I/5/106

Veteran’s Booklet, artwork for, 1945

 

Subseries I.6: University of California, 1909-1979 (bulk 1920-1950).

Physical Description: .9 cu. ft.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains newsletters, brochures, research reports, course syllabi, and grade books from the Agricultural College at the University of California, Davis. Also included are programs and proceedings from California Dairy Industry conferences held at the University, photographs of the early years of dairy instruction on the campus farm, and histories of the University’s development of an agricultural program.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries is organized alphabetically by subject.
Box 5, Folder I/6/1

Agricultural Extension Service Newsletter, 1967

Box 5, Folder I/6/2

Book, "Saga of UCD", by Alyce Williams Jewett, 1982

Box 5, Folder I/6/3

Blueprints, one bedroom and “minimum-type” farmhouses, 1954,1955. Moved to Box 38.

Box 5, Folder I/6/4

Butter wrappers, University Creamery Butter, n.d.

Box 5, Folder I/6/5

Cheese wrapper, Monterey Cheese Factory, n.d. Moved to Box 25.

Box 5, Folder I/6/6

Circular no. 44, Opportunity for Instruction in Dairy Industry at the University Farm, Davis, California 1909-1910, 1909

Box 5, Folder I/6/7

Circular no. 78, Announcement of Farmers' Short Courses for 1912, 1912

Box 5, Folder I/6/8

Class exercises, Ice Cream Short Course , n.d.

Box 5, Folder I/6/9

Class photographs (photocopies), students and professors of dairy short courses, 1917

Box 5, Folder I/6/10

Histories of the dairy industry as related to the University of California at Davis and Berkeley, 1974-1979 and n.d.

Box 5, Folder I/6/11

Magazine, California Agriculture , 1962 and 1966

Box 5, Folder I/6/12

Mastitis Research Facilities, School of Veterinary Medicine, building specifications report, 1964 (1 of 2)

Box 5, Folder I/6/13

Mastitis Research Facilities, School of Veterinary Medicine, building specifications report, 1964 (2 of 2)

Box 5, Folder I/6/14

Pamphlets, dedication of dairy buildings and various short courses, 1953-1963

Box 5, Folder I/6/15

Photographs, buildings, identified, 1910 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 5, Folder I/6/16

Photographs, classroom scenes, identified, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 5, Folder I/6/17

Photographs, equipment, unidentified, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 5, Folder I/6/18

Photographs, people, identified and unidentified, 1917-1955 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 5, Folders I/6/19-26

Proceedings and programs, California Dairy Industry Conferences, 1957-1969

Box 5, Folder I/6/27

Program for Sixth Annual Dairy Cattle Day at UC Davis and UC Riverside, 1967

Box 5, Folders I/6/28-30

Publications, pamphlets, and brochures (various), 1944-1975 and n.d.

Box 5, Folder I/6/31

Report, The Birth of an Institution: The Agricultural College at Davis by Peter J. Shields, 1954

Box 5, Folder I/6/32

Report, California Farmers Face Credit Problems during the 1970s 1970

Box 5, Folder I/6/33

Report, History of the Department of Dairy Industry in the University of California by E.L. Jack, n.d.

Box 5, Folder I/6/34-53

Record books from dairy classes 1910-1952. Moved to Box 31.

Box 5, Folder I/6/54

Reports and research papers,1944-1976

Box 5, Folder I/6/55

Rosters and syllabi, Short Courses in Dairy Industry, 1912-1942

Box 5, Folder I/6/56

Video, VHS cassette, Cows and Kilowatts, also on 16mm movie film, color, 16 minutes. Moved to Box 48.

 

Subseries I.7: Organizations, various, 1909-1983 (bulk 1940-1960).

Physical Description: 1.2 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains promotional and administrative material from various organizations representing dairy-related industries in California. These industries include manufacturers of ice cream, cheese, butter, and dry milk powder. In addition, this subseries contains items from cow testing associations, cattlemen’s associations, and universities outside of California. Promotional material includes clippings, brochures, correspondence, newsletters, booklets, and bulletins. Administrative materials include bylaws, correspondence, membership rosters, minutes and annual reports. Also included are research reports, technical papers, and legislative analyses.

Scope and Content Note

Material in this subseries is organized alphabetically by organization name.
Box 5, Folder I/7/1

American Dairy Science Association, list of contributors, c.1964

Box 5, Folder I/7/2

American Dry Milk Institute, correspondence, report from tenth annual meeting, bulletins, 1935-1953 and n.d.

Box 5, Folder I/7/3

American Dry Milk Institute, report, Positive Proof of Milk’s Value in the Diet, n.d.

Box 5, Folder I/7/4

Associated Dairymen1956-1978.

Box 5, Folder I/7/5

Associated Milk Producers, Inc., script of slide show, clippings, 1973, 1981.

Box 5, Folder I/7/6

California Cheese and Butter Association, brochure, membership roster, agenda for annual convention, anniversary announcement, 1965-1974

Box 5, Folder I/7/7

California Creamery Operators Association, Inc., clippings, brochures, agendas, programs 1909-1976.

Box 5, Folder I/7/8

California Creamery Operators Association, photographs, people, identified, 1947, 1950 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 5, Folder I/7/9

California Dairy Industry Advisory Board, advertising artwork, "Dairy Products For Life" n.d. Moved to Box 25.

Box 5, Folder I/7/10

California Dairy Industry Advisory Board, brochures, clippings, souvenir program, 1940-1953.

Box 5, Folder I/7/11

California Farm Bureau Federation, 1958.

Box 5, Folder I/7/12

California Farm Bureau Federation, graphical summary of county milk inspection standards, 1959. Moved to Box 25.

Box 5, Folder I/7/13

California Farm Bureau Federation, legislative analysis, correspondence, minutes, 1939-1983.

Box 5, Folder I/7/14

California Goat Dairymen's Association, brochure, c.1948.

Box 5, Folder I/7/15

California Grain and Feed Association, bulletins, 1979.

Box 5, Folder I/7/16

California Holstein-Friesian Association, clippings from California Holstein News, March 1972.

Box 5, Folder I/7/17

California Milk Producers, 1955-1964.

Box 5, Folder I/7/18

California Milk Producers Federation, research report on production costs in selected N. California areas, 1965.

Box 5, Folder I/7/19

California Milk Producers Federation, statements by W. Sawyer, W.J. Hunt, J.G. Van Maren, 1960, 1962.

Box 5, Folder I/7/20

Central Valley Milk Marketing Association, 1958.

Box 5, Folder I/7/21

Certified Milk Producers Association of America, brochure from the Pacific Slope Dairy Show, 1929.

Box 5, Folder I/7/22

Dairy and Food Industries Supply Association, brochures, technical paper, list of manufacturers, 1953-1969.

Box 5, Folders I/7/23-31

Dairy Herd Improvement Associations, various, 1958-1972.

Box 6, Folders I/7/32-33

Dairy Institute of California, Articles of Incorporation, bulletins, 1953-1968

Box 6, Folder I/7/34

Dairy Institute of California, Annual Dairy Industry Meetings, programs, 1954-1968.

Box 6, Folder I/7/35

Dairy Institute of California, correspondence, minutes, rosters and various administrative material, 1948-1963.

Box 6, Folder I/7/36

Dairy Remembrance Fund, Inc., correspondence, articles of incorporation, 1955-1957

Box 6, Folder I/7/37

Diary Society International, luncheon address at Dairy Industries Convention, 1967

Box 6, Folder I/7/38

English Country Cheese Council, poster 14.5 x 40, "The Story of Cheese," n.d. Moved to Map Drawer 10.

Box 6, Folder I/7/39

Evaporated Milk Association, classroom materials, reprinted articles, 1930, 1956 and n.d.

Box 6, Folder I/7/40

Ferndale Cow Testing Association, photographs, people, identified, 1909-c.1960. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder I/7/41

Ferndale Cow Testing Association, photographs, equipment and display materials, 1975 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder I/7/42

Ice Cream Institute of California, programs, annual conventions, 1929-1932.

Box 6, Folder I/7/43

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, 1955-1972.

Box 6, Folder I/7/44

International Association of Milk Control Agencies, 1968.

Box 6, Folder I/7/45

League of California Milk Producers, 1974, 1977 and n.d.

Box 6, Folder I/7/46

League of California Milk Producers, photographs of Jay Goold, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder I/7/47

Milk Industry Foundation, 1948-1958 and n.d.

Box 6, Folder I/7/48

Milk Industry Foundation, (6) slides from discussion kit. Moved to Box 43.

Box 6, Folder I/7/49

National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, n.d.

Box 6, Folders I/7/50-54

National Dairy Council, 1957-1980

Box 6, Folder I/7/55

National Grange, 1968-1976.

Box 6, Folder I/7/56

National Milk Producers Association of California, 1931, 1940.

Box 6, Folder I/7/57

National Milk Producers Federation, 1950,1968.

Box 6, Folder I/7/58

Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association, yearbook, directory, profiles of Board of Directors, 1954.

Box 6, Folder I/7/59

Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association, photographs, people, identified, 1954. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder I/7/60

Pacific Slope Dairy Show Association, plaque, metal on wood, Life Members Pacific Slope Dairy Show Association, n.d. Moved to Box 44.

Box 6, Folder I/7/61

Pacific Slope Dairy Show Association, records and flyers,1931-1932.

Box 6, Folder I/7/62

San Mateo County Cattlemen's Association, 1966.

Box 6, Folder I/7/63

Southern California Dairy Association, 1970.

Box 6, Folder I/7/64

United dairyman’s Association, historical report, History of 50,000 Dairyman, 1949.

Box 6, Folder I/7/65

University of Wisconsin, dairy school booklets, research report, 1908, 1970.

Box 6, Folder I/7/66

Western Dairymen's Association, income and expense summary, 1969

Box 6, Folder I/7/67

Western Fairs Association, publication, The Fair Dealer, 1979.

Box 6, Folder I/7/68

Yellow Dog Society, memo, flyer, address book, 1937-1979.

 

Series II Companies and Cooperatives, 1851-1988 (bulk 1940-1977).

Physical Description: 3.75 cu. ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series is comprised of materials from California dairies, cooperatives, creameries, and processors. Administrative items include articles of incorporation, bylaws, constitutions, financial reports, minutes, photocopies, and organizational charts. Promotional items include brochures, clippings, histories, newsletters, posters, and press releases. Other items in this series are butter wrappers, maps, and photographs of dairy interiors and exteriors, cattle, and delivery trucks and wagons from different time periods.

Scope and Content Note

Material in this series isarranged alphabetically by company name.
Box 6, Folder II/1

Adams Dairy, poster, "Country Butter," n.d. Moved to Box 25.

Box 6, Folder II/2

Adohr Milk Farms, clippings, 1976-1988.

Box 6, Folder II/3

Adohr Milk Farms, histories, various, 1976, 1979, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/4

Adohr Milk Farms, promotional material, c. 1950, 1973, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/5

Adohr Milk Farms, promotional photographs, championship cattle and various, c.1960 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/6

Alta Dena Dairies, photographs, ice cream plant interior, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/7

American Dairy Co., promotional booklet, 1916.

Box 6, Folder II/8

Arden Farms Co., photographs, plant exteriors, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/9

Arden Farms Co., promotional material, 1964, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/10

Borden's Capital Dairy Co., histories, clippings, 1851-1953.

Box 6, Folder II/11

Borden's Capital Dairy Co., photographs, dairy interiors/exteriors, cattle, delivery wagons, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/12

Borden's Capital Dairy Co., promotional material, c. 1940, 1977.

Box 6, Folder II/13

Borden’s Capitol Dairy, 100 year club plaque and medallions, 1953-1957. Moved to Box 45.

Box 6, Folder II/14

Bunker Hill Creamery, artwork for butter wrapper, n.d. Moved to Box 32.

Box 6, Folder II/15

California Central Creameries, photocopy of brochure, "Golden State Dairy Products," 1915.

Box 6, Folder II/16

Capital Dairy Co., advertising flyer, "FER-MIL-LAC", n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/17

Carmel Dairy, obituary of Earl Graft, cartoon by Hank Ketchum, 1970 -1978, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/18

Carnation Company, book, “Carnation: The First 75 Years, 1899-1974” by Weaver, John D. 1974. Moved to Box 37.

Box 6, Folder II/19

Carnation Co., ear tags (for dairy cattle), n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/20

Carnation Co., newsletters, 1974,1981.

Box 6, Folder II/21

Carnation Co., photographs, various, 1900, 1966 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/22

Carnation Co., press release, 1965, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/23

Carnation Co., promotional material, 1939, 1959, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/24

Carnation Co., talk given by George B. Bulkley, Los Angeles, 1952.

Box 6, Folder II/25

Challenge Cream and Butter Association, photographs, various, 1911 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/26

Challenge Cream and Butter Association, promotional pamphlets, 1931, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/27

Challenge Cream and Butter Association, publication, Creamery Cooperator, 1949-1950.

Box 6, Folder II/28

Challenge Cream and Butter Association, publication, History of Challenge Cream & Butter Assn., 1935.

Box 6, Folder II/29

Challenge Cream and Butter Association, publication, History of Challenge Cream & Butter Assn., 1947.

Box 6, Folder II/30

Challenge Cream and Butter Association, publication, History of Challenge Cream & Butter Assn., 1950.

Box 6, Folder II/31

Challenge Cream and Butter Association, reprint of newspaper article, One-Horse Outfit Now in Top Ten, , Herald Examiner (Los Angeles), 3 June, 1966. Moved to Box 25.

Box 6, Folder II/32

Clover Brand Dairy Products, photographs, people at outdoor event, c.1960 Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/33

Clover Brand Dairy Products, promotional material, 1963, 1967.

Box 6, Folder II/34

Cloverdale Creamery, advertisement, n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/35

College Guernsey Dairy, promotional calendar, 1931.

Box 6, Folder II/36

Crystal Creamery, clippings, 1918, 1957-1972, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/37

Crystal Creamery, newsletters, 1981-1982.

Box 6, Folder II/38

Crystal Creamery, photographs, creamery exteriors, delivery wagons, 1911, 1931 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/39

Crystal Creamery, promotional material, 1936, 1962, 1982.

Box 6, Folder II/40

Dairy Dale Co., sales agreement, financial reports, 1928-1929.

Box 6, Folder II/41

Dairyman's Cooperative Creamery Association, booklet, c.1980.

Box 6, Folder II/42

Dairyman’s Cooperative Creamery, photograph, portrait of J.P. Murphy, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/43

Danish Creamery Association, list of original members, clippings, newsletters, history, 1902-1971, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/44

Danish Creamery, photographs, delivery wagon and creamery exterior, c.1900, 1980. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/45

Del Monte Creamery, booklet, "The Truth About It All", n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/46

Del Monte Creamery, photographs, M. Dettling (owner), and creamery exterior, c. 1920s. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/47

Denman Creameries, advertisement, 1905.

Box 6, Folder II/48

Excelsior Dairy, butter wrappers, n.d. Moved to Box 32.

Box 6, Folder II/49

Foremost Dairies, "By-Laws Governing Golden State Employee Social & Athletic Club", n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/50

Foremost Dairies, histories, various, 1925, 1954-1978, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/51

Foremost Dairies, newsletter, P.S. From G.S. , 1958

Box 6, Folder II/52

Foremost Dairies, newsletter, P.S. From G.S. , 1959

Box 6, Folder II/53

Foremost Dairies, organization chart, corporate summery, 1967.

Box 6, Folder II/54

Foremost Dairies, photographs, delivery trucks and wagons, proof sheets c.1914-c.1955. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/55

Foremost Dairies, photographs, plant exteriors, 1911, 1951-1955 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/56

Foremost Dairies, photographs, plant interiors, 1951and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/57

Foremost Dairies, promotional material, 1929, 1933, 1956, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/58

Foremost Dairies, typescript, Oakland and the Dairy Industry, by Robert E. Jones, 1926.

Box 6, Folder II/59

Foremost Dairies, typescript, The Romance of Big Business: Dairying in California , by Robert E. Jones, 1925.

Box 6, Folder II/60

Hage’s Ice Cream and Dairy Products, pamphlet, c.1930.

Box 6, Folder II/61

Hage’s Ice Cream and Dairy Products, photographs, creamery exterior, 1909. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/62

Hage's Ice Cream and Dairy Products, promotional poster, c. 1945. Moved to Box 25.

Box 6, Folder II/63

Harmony Valley Creamery, photograph, panoramic, of annual meeting, 1936. Moved to Map Drawer 10.

Box 6, Folder II/64

Harmony Valley Creamery Association, photograph, M.G. Salmina, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/65

Harmony Valley Creamery Association, promotional material, clippings, 1946, 1976, 1981.

Box 6, Folder II/66

Harmony Valley Creamery Association, publication, History of Cooperation, 1936.

Box 6, Folder II/67

Harpain Dairy, brief history by L. Ketscher, 1979.

Box 6, Folder II/68

Hite's Dairy Farm, promotional calendar, 1962.

Box 6, Folder II/69

Hite's Dairy Farm, photograph, promotional, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/70

Ideal Certified Dairy, clippings and brochures, 1929-1959.

Box 6, Folder II/71

Ideal Certified Dairy (Jessup Farms), photographs, drive-through dairy exteriors and various promotional, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/72

Ideal Certified Dairy (Jessup Farms), photographs, trucks, wagons, and cattle, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/73

Jersey Creamery, promotional material, n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/74

Jersey Maid Dairy, photographs, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/75

Jersey Mead Dairy and Stock Farm, price list, n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/76

Kings County Creamery Association, articles of association, annual meeting notes, 1916, 1958.

Box 6, Folder II/77

Kings County Creamery Association, photographs of articles of incorporation, 1916, 1930, and portrait of Fraga, Maurice J. n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/78

Knudsen Creamery Co., address to the Newcomen Society, by J.R. Vaughan, Los Angeles, 1980.

Box 6, Folder II/79

Knudsen Creamery Co., clippings, 1967-1980, and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/80

Knudsen Creamery Co., photographs, trucks, cheese vats, promotional, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/81

Knudsen Creamery Co., publications, Skimmings: 40 Years of Achievement, 1959.

Box 6, Folder II/82

Knudsen Creamery Co., Tom Knudsen in Memoriam 1890-1965 , 1965. Moved to Box 32.

Box 6, Folder II/83

Kraft Foods, marketing and display material, 1940 and n.d.

Box 6, Folder II/84

Los Angeles Co-Operative Dairy Products Association, Ltd, Minutes of Meetings: Volumes One and Two, bound, 1930-1931. Moved to Box 50.

Box 6, Folder II/85

Los Angeles Creamery Co., photographs, delivery trucks, c.1920s. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/86

Los Angeles Mutual Dairymen, booklet, complete tank operation, 1940, 1948.

Box 6, Folder II/87

Lucerne Cream and Butter Co., photographs, ice cream plant interiors, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 6, Folder II/88

Lucerne Cream and Butter Co., photographs, n.d. Moved to Box 46.

Box 6, Folder II/89

Lucerne Cream and Butter Co., promotional booklet, history, n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/90

Marin-Dell Corp., history, 1948.

Box 7, Folder II/91

McColl's Dairy Products, clippings, promotional booklet, 1951,1973-1983, and n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/92

McColl's Dairy Products, photographs John Fitzpatrick, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 7, Folder II/93

Meadow Gold Farms, history, clippings, promotional booklets, 1981, and n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/94

Meadow Lark Dairy, pamphlet, n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/95

Milk Producers Association of Central California, promotional booklets, clippings, 1937, 1949.

Box 7, Folder II/96

Milk Producers Inc., articles of incorporation, by-laws, amended, 1952.

Box 7, Folder II/97

Milk Producers Inc., minutes, articles of incorporation and bylaws, 1932.

Box 7, Folder II/98

Milk Producers Inc., minutes, articles of incorporation and bylaws,1934. Moved to Box 34.

Box 7, Folder II/99

Milk Producers Inc., minutes, 1934. Moved to Box 35.

Box 7, Folder II/100

Milk Producers Inc., table of accounts receivable and payable, n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/101

Mission Dairy, history, Mission Dairy - Not a New Face, by Richard Ripley, n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/102

Peterson’s Dairy, photographs, dairy and bakery exteriors/interiors, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 7, Folder II/103

Point Lobos Dairy, clippings, 1952.

Box 7, Folder II/104

Pure Milk Dairy Company, "Guide Book", n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/105

Ralph’s Grocery Co., history, 1973.

Box 7, Folder II/106

Real Fresh Inc., promotional material, c.1977.

Box 7, Folder II/107

Santa Monica Dairy, photographs, Herman Michel on wagon, dairy exterior. Moved to Box 22.

Box 7, Folder II/108

Sonoma Cheese Factory, history, promotional folder, 1985, and n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/109

South Berkeley Creamery Co., article, 1947.

Box 7, Folder II/110

Tejon Ranch, history, n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/111

Tillamook County (Oregon) Creamery Association, photo captions, n.d.

Box 7, Folder II/112

Valley Flower Cooperative Creamery, constitution and bylaws, 1913.

Box 7, Folder II/113

Valley Sanitary Dairy, booklet, c.1933.

Box 7, Folder II/114

Vella Cheese, clippings, 1981-1982.

Box 7, Folder II/115

Western Farms, histories, c.1963, 1972.

Box 7, Folder II/116

Various dairies and processing plants, San Francisco Bay Area, Map, 24”x36”, n.d. Moved to Map Drawer 10.

Box 7, Folder II/117

Various dairies and processing plants, Sacramento County and Delta Region, Map, 28”x31”, 1962. Moved to Map Drawer 10.

 

Series III: California Dairy People, 1851-1988 (bulk 1940-1977).

Physical Description: 9.0 cu.ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains the personal papers and collected memorabilia of Herman J. Grabow (1898-1993), a lifelong dairyman and the legislative representative for the California Grange from 1961 to 1978, and Neil McPherson (1904-1983), curator of the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation. This series also contains material about the Steele family, immigrants from New York who began dairying in Northern California in 1856, and other pioneers, innovators, and dairymen that contributed to California’s dairy industry. It contains oral histories, memoirs, reminiscences, news clippings, diaries, memorials, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, autobiographical writings, and original histories.

Scope and Content Note

This series is organized into 4 subseries:
  • Subseries III.1 The Herman J. Grabow Papers
  • Subseries III.2 The Neil McPherson Collection
  • Subseries III.3 The Steele Family Papers
  • Subseries III.4 California Dairy People, various
 

Subseries III.1:  The Herman J. Grabow Collection, 1924-1986 (bulk 1955-1970).

Physical Description: 4.5 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains material collected by Herman J. Grabow and donated by him to the California State Parks in 1987. It contains commendations, correspondence, family memorabilia, notes, handwritten drafts and jottings, photographs, slides, and audio recordings collected during his life as a dairyman, radio personality, journalist, and lobbyist. Professional materials are from several of the organizations to which Grabow contributed, including California Dairymen and California Farmer magazines, the East 99 Highway Association, the Escalon (Ca.) Chamber of Commerce, and Grabow’s own dairy in Escalon, California, but the bulk is from his tenure with the California State Grange in the 1960s. Personal materials include an autobiography, original music and poetry, news clippings, photographs, awards, original writings, scrapbooks and audio recordings of Grabow’s weekly radio program on KTRB in Modesto, California, during the 1950s.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries is organized into two groupings and arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each subject.
 

Professional

Box 7, Folder III/1/1

California Dairymen, articles of incorporation, 1957

Box 7, Folder III/1/2

California Dairymen, printed material, memorabilia, press releases, 1957-1966 and n.d.

Box 7, Folder III/1/3

California Farmer Magazine, typescripts of articles, check stubs, statements of account, 1960-1966.

Box 7, Folder III/1/4

California State Grange, audio recording, 5-inch reel, dual track, approximately 30 minutes, interview with California Agriculture Director William Warm in Sacramento regarding HR4140, n.d. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/5

California State Grange, audio recording, 7-inch reel, dual track, approximately 60 minutes, California State Grange, May 13 and September 15, n.d. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/6

California State Grange Dairy Advisory Committee, minutes and notices, 1964-1968.

Box 7, Folder III/1/7

California State Grange, Dairy Day at State Fair, programs, donation receipts, speech notes, 1969-1980.

Box 7, Folder III/1/8

California State Grange, legislative reports, Senate voting scorecards, 1967- 1976 and n.d.

Box 7, Folder III/1/9

California State Grange, lobbyist reports and audits, business cards, receipts 1969-1977.

Box 7, Folder III/1/10

California State Grange, press releases, 1967-1972 and n.d.

Box 7, Folder III/1/11

California State Grange, resolutions, position papers, policies, programs, and misc., 1966-1980 and n.d.

Box 7, Folders III/1/12-19

California State Grange, testimonies by Grabow before the California Legislature, 1961-1978 and n.d. Moved to Box 9.

Box 7, Folders III/1/20-23

California State Grange, testimonies by other speakers and at various venues, 1956-1984. Moved to Box 9.

Box 7, Folders III/1/24-27

East 99 Highway Association, bylaws and financial statements, bulletins, minutes, membership rosters, receipts, 1956-1959.

Box 7, Folder III/1/28

Escalon Chamber of Commerce, brochure, committee rosters, n.d.

Box 7, Folder III/1/29

Grabow Dairy, advertisement, correspondence, invoices, health department report, 1935-1960.

Box 7, Folder III/1/30

Merced-Port of Stockton Highway Association, minutes and correspondence, 1954-1955

 

Personal

Box 7, Folder III/1/31

Audio tape, 4 inch reel, dual track, approximately 7 minutes, Herman Grabow interviews Charles Gilpen about Manemar livestock food, n.d. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/32

Audio tape, 4 inch reel, dual track, approximately 7 minutes, Julie Grabow sings “Milk, the World’s Most Popular Drink,” n.d. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/33

Audio tape, 5-inch reel, dual track, approximately 30 minutes, Herman Grabow, “Visit to Van Fleet ranch in Escalon,” and interview with Marion Van Fleet, February 1960. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/34

Audio cassette, (Side 1) Birthday party for “Steve,” c.1972. (Side 2) Noon newscast, KXTV television, Sacramento, c.1973. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/35

Audio cassette, (Side 1) Sermon, speaker unknown, “Kallas,” n.d. (Side 2) Sermon, speaker unknown, “Jesus and Contemporary Music,” n.d. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/36

Audio cassette, (Side 1) Copy of tape made October 1958 during Herman Grabow’s trip to Washington D.C. Speakers are Congressman John McFall, Don Hardy, Herman Grabow, and Bill Hunt. Followed by commentary by Grabow, c.1978. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/37

Audio cassette, Herman Grabow and family, “Anniversary 1974,” n.d.. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/38

Audio cassette, Lecture, speaker unknown, subject: “Collecting Memories and Oral Histories,” 9 January, 1978 (2 tapes). Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/39

Audio cassette, Herman Grabow interviewed by John Hyatt, “State Capital,” KOVR 13, Sacramento, 18 March 1975. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/40

Audio cassette, (Side 1) Herman and Frances Grabow, vacation diary, Ft. Bragg, California, n.d. (Side 2) Herman Grabow commenting on hearing for SB 304, March 1973. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/41

Audio cassette, Herman Grabow speaking on the occasion of his 82nd birthday, 11 January 1980. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/42

Audio cassette, Herman Grabow speaking on the occasion of his 85th birthday, January, 1983. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/43

Audio cassette, Herman Grabow speaking on the occasion of his 86th birthday, January, 1984. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/44

Audio cassette, Herman Grabow speaking on the occasion of his 87th birthday, January, 1985. Moved to Box 41.

Box 7, Folder III/1/45

Autobiography, Herman, various drafts and related correspondence, c.1979

Box 7, Folder III/1/46

Awards, commendations, resolutions, 1970, 1978 and n.d.

Box 7, Folder III/1/47

Birthday memorabilia, announcements, 1968-1985 and n.d.

Box 7, Folder III/1/48

Certificates of appreciation and gratitude, 1968,1978. Moved to Box 9

Box 7, Folders III/1/49-61

Correspondence, incoming by sender, A-Z 1953-1986 and n.d.

Box 7, Folders III/1/62-73

Correspondence, outgoing by recipient, A-X and unknown 1954-1984.

Box 7, Folders III/1/74-83

Correspondence, third party by sender, A-Z 1950-1986.

Box 7, Folder III/1/84

Grabow Family memorabilia, birth certificates, correspondence, 1926-1979 and n.d.

Box 7, Folders III/1/85-89

Newspaper clippings, 1913-1986 and n.d.

Box 8, Folders III/1/90-97

Newspaper clippings 1967-1969-1986 and n.d.

Box 8, Folder III/1/98

Notes, handwritten drafts, and jottings, n.d.

Box 8, Folder III/1/99

Oral history transcript, "An Interview With the Cow Commentator" by A.I. Dickman, 1978 (audio tape of interview is item III/1/100 below).

Box 8, Folder III/1/100

"An Interview With the Cow Commentator" by A.I. Dickman, 1978 audio cassettes, Moved to Box 41.

Box 8, Folder III/1/101

Original music, That's When I Want You Around, correspondence and publishing contract, 1952. Moved to Box 9.

Box 8, Folder III/1/102

Original Poetry, n.d.

Box 8, Folder III/1/103

Photographs, Identified people and subjects, 1958-1983. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/1/104

Photographs, Identified people and subjects, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/1/105

Photographs, Farm scenes, Grabow Dairy in Escalon, Ca., c.1940. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/1/106

Photographic slide, 35mm color, Herman Grabow with March Fong Eu, n.d. Moved to Box 43.

Box 8, Folder III/1/107

Radio broadcast, audio tape, 4 inch reel, dual track, approximately 7 minutes, Herman Grabow, “Dairyman’s Views of the News, ” KTRB Modesto, c.1960. Moved to Box 41.

Box 8, Folder III/1/108

Radio broadcast, audio tape, 5-inch reel, dual track, approximately 30 minutes, “The Cow Commentator,” KTRB Modesto radio broadcast, 28-29 June 1960, Note: Brittle tape is easily broken. Moved to Box 41.

Box 8, Folders III/1/109-117

Radio broadcasts, audio tapes, 5-inch reels, dual track, approximately 30 minutes, “The Cow Commentator,” KTRB Modesto radio broadcasts, n.d. Moved to Box 41.

Box 8, Folder III/1/115

Radio Scripts, KTRB, "A Dairyman's Views on the News," 1955- 1960.

Box 8, Folder III/1/116

Radio broadcast (station unknown), audio tape, 4 inch reel, dual track, approximately 7 minutes, dedication of McHenry Avenue Bridge, Escalon, California, c.1959. Moved to Box 41.

Box 8, Folder III/1/117

Resolutions (5) of appreciation to Herman Grabow, from various State Assembly persons and Sacramento Board of Supervisors 1968-1978. Moved to Box 25.

Box 8, Folder III/1/118

Scrapbooks (5), photos, clippings, memorabilia. Moved to Box 36.

Box 8, Folder III/1/119

Toastmaster's Club, scripts, evaluations and printed material, 1962- 1967 and n.d.

Box 8, Folders III/1/120-121

Typescripts, various, 1959-1976 and n.d.

 

Subseries III.2: The Neil McPherson Collection 1867-1983 (bulk 1950-1980).

Physical Description: 2.25 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains material collected by Neil McPherson during his life as a dairy farmer, regional representative for the American Jersey Cattle Club, Industry Relations Director of the Dairy Council of California, and amateur historian. Documents include correspondence, oral histories, memoirs, reminiscences, news clippings, memorials, photographs, audio and video tapes, movie film, ephemera, booklets, magazines, and biographical sketches This subseries also includes artifact inventories and correspondence with California State Parks compiled by McPherson in his capacity as curator of the California Dairy Museum and Educational Foundation from 1974 until 1983. Large groupings of material on dairy cattle breeds, historic dairies in thirty-five of California’s fifty-eight counties, and California county histories comprise the bulk of this subseries.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically within subject.
Box 8, Folder III/2/1

Appointment calendar pages, Nov -Dec 1972.

Box 8, Folder III/2/2

Artifact collection, inventories and notes.

Box 8, Folder III/2/3

Booklet, Hoard's Dairyman Dairy Collectibles, by James S. Baird, 1978

Box 8, Folder III/2/4

Booklets containing agreements between dairy product distributors and Milk Wagon drivers and dairy employees, 1937, 1940-1941.

Box 8, Folder III/2/5

California counties, Alameda.

Box 8, Folder III/2/6

California counties, Alameda, photographs, American Creamery, Oakland, Ca., 1918, c.1920. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/7

California counties, Butte.

Box 8, Folder III/2/8

California counties, Colusa.

Box 8, Folder III/2/9

California counties, Colusa , photographs, river scene, c.1900. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/10

California counties, Del Norte.

Box 8, Folder III/2/11

California counties, Del Norte, photographs, river scenes, c. 1900. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/12

California counties, El Dorado.

Box 8, Folder III/2/13

California counties, El Dorado , photographs, South Lake Tahoe Museum, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/14

California counties, Fresno.

Box 8, Folder III/2/15

California counties, Humboldt, 1 of 3.

Box 8, Folder III/2/16

California counties, Humboldt, 2 of 3.

Box 8, Folder III/2/17

California counties, Humboldt, 3 of 3

Box 8, Folder III/2/18

California counties, Humboldt, Agreement to Protect the Quality of Dairy Products, original document from Humboldt County, 1929. Moved to Box 25.

Box 8, Folder III/2/19

California counties, Humboldt , photographs, river and dairy scenes, 1906-c.1950s. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/20

California counties, Kern.

Box 8, Folder III/2/21

California counties, Kern, photographs, Peacock Dairy, 1893, 1952. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/22

California counties, Kings.

Box 8, Folder III/2/23

California counties, Kings , photographs, dairy and churn, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/24

California counties, Lassen.

Box 8, Folder III/2/25

California counties, Los Angeles.

Box 8, Folder III/2/26

California counties, Los Angeles , photographs, ranches and bottling line, 1918 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/27

California counties, Los Angeles, Leather-bound notebook, Livestock Data, property of H.A. Miller, Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce , 1924-1928. Moved to Box 27.

Box 8, Folder III/2/28

California counties, Marin.

Box 8, Folder III/2/29

California counties, Marin , photographs, Point Reyes, c.1900. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/30

California counties, Mendocino.

Box 8, Folder III/2/31

California counties, Merced.

Box 8, Folder III/2/32

California counties, Merced , photographs, Los Banos and Peloso cheese plants, immigrant houses, 1902 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/33

California counties, Merced, photographs, 35mm slides (3), Los Banos Cheese plant (see III/2/86 above). Moved to Box 43

Box 8, Folder III/2/34

California counties, Monterey, 1 of 2.

Box 8, Folder III/2/35

California counties, Monterey, 2 of 2.

Box 8, Folder III/2/36

California counties, Monterey, Manuscript, photo essay by Neil McPherson, Carmel and Monterey dairy history, n.d

Box 8, Folder III/2/37

California counties, Monterey , photographs, buildings and ranches, identified, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/38

California counties, Nevada.

Box 8, Folder III/2/39

California counties, Placer.

Box 8, Folder III/2/40

California counties, Plumas, 1 of 3.

Box 8, Folder III/2/41

California counties, Plumas, 2 of 3.

Box 8, Folder III/2/42

California counties, Plumas, 3 of 3.

Box 8, Folder III/2/43

California counties, Plumas , photographs, Hardgrave ranch, c.1904. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/44

California counties, Plumas , photographs, identified places and scenes, c.1910 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/45

California counties, Plumas , photographs, M.J. Bony Creamery and ranch, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/46

California counties, Riverside.

Box 8, Folder III/2/47

California counties, Sacramento.

Box 8, Folder III/2/48

California counties, San Diego.

Box 8, Folder III/2/49

California counties, San Diego , photographs, dairy parade floats, postcards, and various, c.1911 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/50

California counties, San Francisco.

Box 8, Folder III/2/51

California counties, San Francisco , photographs, dairy trucks and scenery, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/52

California counties, San Joaquin.

Box 8, Folder III/2/53

California counties, San Joaquin , photographs, dairy display, Micke Grove Park, 1976. Moved to Box 22.

Box 8, Folder III/2/54

California counties, San Luis Obisbo. 1 of 2.

Box 8, Folder III/2/55

California counties, San Luis Obisbo. 2 of 2.

Box 8, Folder III/2/56

California counties, San Luis Obisbo , photographs, Cayucos, c.1900 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 8, Folder III/2/57

California counties, San Luis Obisbo , photographs, Froom and Tomasini ranches, 1977 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 8, Folder III/2/58

California counties, San Luis Obisbo , photographs, George Hearst and San Simeon pier, c.1878 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/2/59

California counties, Santa Barbara.

Box 10, Folder III/2/60

California counties, Santa Barbara , photographs, Chute Landing pier, 1878. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/2/61

California counties, Santa Cruz.

Box 10, Folder III/2/62

California counties, Santa Cruz , photographs, Wilder Ranch, Elkhorn Ranch, and various pieces of equipment, 1896, 1924, and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/2/63

California counties, Sierra.

Box 10, Folder III/2/64

California counties,Sierra , photographs, men loading ice in Sierraville, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/2/65

California counties, Siskiyou.

Box 10, Folder III/2/66

California counties, Siskiyou , photographs, Miller Ranch and wooden churns, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/67

California counties, Solano.

Box 10, Folder III/2/68

California counties, Sonoma

Box 10, Folder III/2/69

California counties, Sonoma , photographs, Fort Ross, ranch scenes, Petaluma Cooperative Creamery legal document, 1880, 1913 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/70

California counties, Stanislaus.

Box 10, Folder III/2/71

California counties, Stanislaus , photographs, dairy equipment, Miller Ranch in Waterford, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/72

California counties, Tulare.

Box 10, Folder III/2/73

California counties, Tulare , photographs, ranch and processing plant scenes, n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/74

California counties, Tuolumne.

Box 10, Folder III/2/75

California counties, Yolo.

Box 10, Folder III/2/76

California counties, Yolo , photographs, horse-drawn combine, 1895. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/77

Cattle breeds, American Milking Shorthorn.

Box 10, Folder III/2/78

Cattle breeds, Ayrshire.

Box 10, Folder III/2/79

Cattle breeds, Guernsey. Catalog (1924) moved to Box 42.

Box 10, Folder III/2/80

Cattle breeds, Guernsey Cattle, newspaper, 16 February 1952. Moved to Box 25.

Box 10, Folder III/2/81

Cattle breeds, Booklet, “The Story of Half a Century,” by American Guernsey Cattle Club, 1927. Moved to Box 32.

Box 10, Folder III/2/82

Cattle breeds, Holstein.

Box 10, Folder III/2/83

Cattle breeds, Jersey.

Box 10, Folder III/2/84

Cattle breeds, Photographs, various, 1918-1926 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/85

Casein, materials pertaining to commercial uses of, 1951-1971 and n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/2/86

Casein, samples of commercial fibers, n.d. Moved to Box 27.

Box 10, Folder III/2/87

Clippings, 1950-1973 and n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/2/88

Commendation and recognition, 1978, 1983

Box 10, Folder III/2/89

Correspondence, general 1965-1982.

Box 10, Folder III/2/90

Research correspondence, 1967.

Box 10, Folder III/2/91

Correspondence with the De Laval Separator Co., 1964-1966.

Box 10, Folder III/2/92

Histories and research notes, various.

Box 10, Folder III/2/93

Original histories by McPherson.

Box 10, Folder III/2/94

Interview with Mrs. Roy Gill, audio cassette, conducted by Neil McPherson, February 1982. Moved to Box 41.

Box 10, Folder III/2/95

Interview with dairyman Owen Dorney, audio cassette, conducted by Jack Albright, University of Ilinois, Urbana, regarding the Mehring Milker depicted in item III/2/108,1960. Moved to Box 41.

Box 10, Folder III/2/96

16mm silent film of Owen Dorney demonstrating a Mehring Milker, c.1960 Also on VHS tape, Moved to Box 48 .

Box 10, Folder III/2/97

Photo essay, Immigrant Houses, n.d.. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/98

Instructional materials, primary school, n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/2/99

McPherson, photographs, formal portraits and various, 1976 and n.d. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/100

McPherson posing with dairy artifacts, c.1970s. Moved to Box 22.

Box 10, Folder III/2/101

Milk bottles, clippings and various historical notes.

Box 10, Folder III/2/102

Monterey Jack Cheese, clippings and various historical notes, 1980-1982 and n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/2/103

Proposal for a California Dairy Industry Museum, n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/2/104

Report, Agricultural Societies, Cattle Fairs, Agricultural Shows and Exhibitions of Upper Canada Prior to 1867, by D.J. Cochrane, 1976

Box 10, Folder III/2/105

Report, Make Mine Milk, The Story of the Milk Bottle and the History of Dairying, by Fred Rawlinson, 1969

Box 10, Folder III/2/106

Report, Origin and Enforcement of California Dairy Laws: Part 1, 1878-1919, by Albert E. Reynolds, 1977

Box 10, Folder III/2/107

Water wheels and hydraulics, various items.

 

Subseries III.3:  Steele Family Materials 1857-1983 (bulk 1860-1940).

Physical Description: 1 cu.ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains articles, correspondence, business records, news clippings, reminiscences, artwork and photographs detailing the lives of the Steele family and their Northern California dairying activities. Included are brief biographical sketches of cousins George and Rensselaer Steele, emigrants to California from New York in 1856 and George’s brother Isaac, who joined them later at their dairies in Petaluma and on the San Mateo and San Luis Obispo County coasts. The most recent materials are correspondence with and reminiscences of Catherine B. Steele, the widow of George Steele’s grandson.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically within subject.
Box 10, Folder III/3/1

Affidavit of Competitors (copy), Report and Answer to Questions Accompanying Steele Brothers Cheese, 1859.

Box 10, Folder III/3/2

Año Nuevo and Pigeon Point, photographs, c.1860s-1888 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/3/3

Article (photocopied), "The Steele Brothers: Pioneers in California's Great Dairy Industry," by C.B. Steele, 1941.

Box 10, Folder III/3/4

Artwork, Sanitary Cheese cartoon, n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/3/5

Artwork, 2-sided litho, “Creamery and Milk” and “Churns,” c.1885. Moved to Box 38.

Box 10, Folder III/3/6

Business receipts to William Steele, 1926-1931.

Box 10, Folder III/3/7

Butter wrapper, G.H. Steele, Ano Nuevo Creamery, n.d. Moved to Box 32.

Box 10, Folder III/3/8

Certificates of cattle transfers, handwritten list of cow names, 1887-1916, n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/3/9

Clippings, 1966-1967, 1975.

Box 10, Folder III/3/10

Commemorative item presented to Isaac Steele as Past Master of California State Grange, n.d. Moved to Box 45.

Box 10, Folder III/3/11

Correspondence, Neil McPherson to Catherine Steele, Aug 1976 to Mar 1977 and n.d.

Box 10, Folders III/3/12-13

Correspondence, Catherine B. Steele to Neil McPherson, Feb 1968 to Sep 1983. Moved to Box 9.

Box 10, Folder III/3/14

Draft notes, Dairy Reminiscences of William Jeffrey as Told to Catherine Steele in Odd Moments, n.d.

Box 10, Folder III/3/15

Green Oaks Ranch, histories, surveys and clippings, 1976-1977 and n.d. Moved to Box 9.

Box 10, Folder III/3/16

Green Oak Ranch, photographs, annotated by Catherine Steele, 1906 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/3/17

Green Oak Ranch, photographs, cattle and equipment, annotated by Catherine Steele,1923 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/3/18

Lease agreement and indenture to Steele family for properties in Marin and San Francisco Counties (copies), 1858-1862. Moved to Box 9.

Box 10, Folder III/3/19

Monthly Summaries of Herd Production, 1931-1932.

Box 10, Folder III/3/20

Receipts and invoices, Steele Brothers Dairy, 1861-1871.

Box 10, Folder III/3/21

Record of births and deaths, 2 copies, "The Steeles of Point Ano Nuevo," by C. B. Steele, et al, 1976.

Box 10, Folder III/3/22

Steele family documents, photographs, c.1860s, 1962 Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/3/23

Steele family, photographs, annotated by Catherine Steele, 1865 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/3/24

Various Steele family histories (photocopies) and genealogical notes, 1873-1976.

 

Subseries III.4:  California Dairy People, various, 1850-1983 (bulk 1965-1975).

Physical Description: 1.75 cu.ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains material on educators, pioneers, business leaders, dairy operators, creamery operators, writers, legislators, founders and organizers of dairy and creamery cooperatives, families with long histories of dairying, and others who contributed to California’s dairy history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Types of material in this subseries include artwork, photographs, business cards, memorials, articles, clippings, biographies, photographs, reminiscences, and business brochures and publications.

Scope and Content Note

Material in this subseries is arranged alphabetically by last name.
Box 10, Folder III/4/1

Baker, Virginia J.

Box 10, Folder III/4/2

Beatty, Rollo A.

Box 10, Folder III/4/3

Bellotti, Frank B.

Box 10, Folder III/4/4

Blewett, C. Howard.

Box 10, Folder III/4/5

Celio, Carlo G.

Box 10, Folder III/4/6

Celio Ranch, reprint of pencil or charcoal drawing, Celio ranch in El Dorado County, California, n.d. Moved to Box 32.

Box 10, Folder III/4/7

Clinton, Ned M.

Box 10, Folder III/4/8

Clowes, Edward C.

Box 10, Folder III/4/9

Cronshey, Richard H.

Box 10, Folder III/4/10

Dreyer, William Sr.

Box 10, Folder III/4/11

Dreyer’s Ice Cream truck, photographs, c.1920s. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/12

Euer, Sophary.

Box 10, Folder III/4/13

Evans, L. E.

Box 10, Folder III/4/14

Fosselman, Christian A.

Box 10, Folder III/4/15

Fosselman’s Ice Cream trucks, photographs, c.1920s. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/16

Gill, Irene.

Box 10, Folder III/4/17

Good, Hugh D.

Box 10, Folder III/4/18

Goode, Albert S.

Box 10, Folder III/4/19

Goode, Albert, photograph, formal portrait, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/20

Gray, C.E.

Box 10, Folder III/4/21

Greene, Sam H.

Box 10, Folder III/4/22

Greene, Sam H., photographs, portraits, photo postcard of San Bernadino City Hall, 1939 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/23

Hage, Willard B.

Box 10, Folder III/4/24

Haley, William.

Box 10, Folder III/4/25

Hansen, Carl, photographs, portraits and Crystal/United dairies, 1901 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/26

Hart, Joe.

Box 10, Folder III/4/27

Hatton-Martin families.

Box 10, Folder III/4/28

Hayes, Arthur W.

Box 10, Folder III/4/29

Herzog, Max L.

Box 10, Folder III/4/30

Herzog, Max, photograph, portrait with Max Jr. (Kip), n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/31

Hitchcock, Joseph.

Box 10, Folder III/4/32

Hubbell, Bruce E.

Box 10, Folder III/4/33

Jacks, David.

Box 10, Folder III/4/34

Jacks, David, photographs, portrait and scenes of Jacks’ ranch in Chualar, Ca.,1981 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/35

Jensen, A.

Box 10, Folder III/4/36

Jensen, Aage, photographs, portraits, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/37

Jessup, Roger W.

Box 10, Folder III/4/38

Jessup, Roger, photographs, portraits and promotional, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/39

Jones, Robert E.

Box 10, Folder III/4/40

Knudsen, Thorkild R.

Box 10, Folder III/4/41

Knudsen, Thorkild, photographs, scenes with identified people, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/42

Knudsen, Valley.

Box 10, Folder III/4/43

Mahy, Ernest J.

Box 10, Folder III/4/44

Mattei, Vittorio.

Box 10, Folder III/4/45

McColl, John, photograph, portrait, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 10, Folder III/4/46

McDonald, Perry.

Box 10, Folder III/4/47

McKenzie, George S.

Box 10, Folder III/4/48

Meister, John J. Diary moved to Box 42.

Box 11, Folder III/4/49

Meyenberg, Johann B.

Box 11, Folder III/4/50

Meyer, J. Henry.

Box 11, Folder III/4/51

Michel, Herman.

Box 11, Folder III/4/52

Michel, Herman, photograph, formal portrait, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 11, Folder III/4/53

Mitchel, Clyde L.

Box 11, Folder III/4/54

Mitchel, Clyde L, photographs, formal portraits and group photo at Sunset Creamery, 1900 and n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 11, Folder III/4/55

Nissen, Harlan.

Box 11, Folder III/4/56

Peacock, Wayne.

Box 11, Folder III/4/57

Peebles, David Dart.

Box 11, Folder III/4/58

Peebles, David Dart, photographs, portraits, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 11, Folder III/4/59

Phillips, Clement A.

Box 11, Folder III/4/60

Robinson, C. W.

Box 11, Folder III/4/61

Rowe, John O. Oral history (1978) moved to Box 42.

Box 11, Folder III/4/62

Salmina, M.G.

Box 11, Folder III/4/63

Salmina, M.G, photographs, portrait and dairy scene, n.d. Moved to Box 23.

Box 11, Folder III/4/64

Sawyer, Wesley.

Box 11, Folder III/4/65

Scaroni, Annie.

Box 11, Folder III/4/66

Severin, J. H.

Box 11, Folder III/4/67

Shields, Peter J.

Box 11, Folder III/4/68

Stabler, William H.

Box 11, Folder III/4/69

Stuart, Elbridge H.

Box 11, Folder III/4/70

Taylor, Benjamin F.

Box 11, Folder III/4/71

Telfer, Arthur W.

Box 11, Folder III/4/72

Westbrook, Henry.

Box 11, Folder III/4/73

Work, Thomas and John.

 

Series IV:  Equipment and Machinery, 1856 - c.1980.

Physical Description: 9.3 cu. ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains material about dairying and processing equipment, the people that invented them, and the companies that manufactured or distributed them. Document types include company brochures, catalogs, business receipts, ledgers, company histories, service contracts, technical drawings, charts, photographs, posters, artwork and ephemera. Companies well-represented in this series include Coast Creamery Equipment Co., Delaval Corp., and the Sacramento Bottle Exchange. Equipment types offered by these companies include milking machines, cream separators, butter churns, cleaning and sterilizing equipment, and refrigeration and packaging machinery. This series also contains a large number of photocopied patents for mechanical milking devices showing the effort by various inventors to duplicate the motion of human hands and/or the action of suckling calves. These patents span the period from 1856 to 1979. An original typescript of a patent application with the original patent issued in 1941 to C.W. Michaels is also in this series. The vast majority of the patents in this collection are concerned with improving the essential cow-to-machine interface, the teat cup, and with differing methods of extracting the milk through massage, constant suction, and “surge” (pulsed) suction. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides a searchable database of patents issued between 1790 and the present at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/ The USPTO has issued more than 600 patents for milking equipment since 1976, and patents specifically for teat cup improvements have been issued as recently as 2005. This collection shows some of the earliest attempts at developing this technology.

Scope and Content Note

Materials are organized into two groups: Equipment and Machinery Companies and Dairy Industry Patents. Arrangement within the first group is alphabetical by company name. Arrangement within the second group is sequential by patent number, which is also chronological order.
 

Equipment and Machinery Companies

Box 11, Folder IV/1

Alpha-Laval Inc.

Box 11, Folder IV/2

American Can Company Dairy Packaging.

Box 11, Folder IV/3

Americas International Dairy Equipment Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/4

American-Marsh Pumps Inc.

Box 11, Folder IV/5

Anderson Bros. Manufacturing Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/6

Armstrong Cork Co.

Box 11, Folders IV/7.1-7.3

Babson Bros. (3 folders).

Box 11, Folder IV/8

Baker and Hamilton.

Box 11, Folder IV/9

Bergman, Inc.

Box 11, Folder IV/10

Braun Brush Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/11

Bristol Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/12

Brown Equipment Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/13

Bump-Pump Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/14

California Dairy Supply Co.

Box 11, Folders IV/15.1-15.4

Cherry-Burrell Co. (4 folders)

Box 11, Folder IV/16

Chester-Jensen Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/17

Chore Boy.

Box 11, Folder IV/18

Clayton Manufacturing Co.

Box 11, Folder IV/19.1-19.23

Coast Creamery Equipment Co. (folders 1-23 of 36)

Box 12, Folders IV/19.24-19.36

Coast Creamery Equipment Co. (folders 24-36 of 36)

Box 12, Folder IV/20

Columbia-West Falia Centrifuge Inc.

Box 12, Folder IV/21

Conde Milking Machine Co. Inc.

Box 12, Folders IV/22.1-22.2

Conewang Service, (2 folders).

Box 12, Folder IV/23

Copeland Refrigeration Corp.

Box 12, Folders IV/24.1-24.4

Creamery Package Manufacturing Co., (4 folders).

Box 12, Folder IV/25

Crisci Dairy Supply.

Box 12, Folder IV/26

D.H. Burrell and Co.

Box 12, Folder IV/27

Dairy Equipment Co.

Box 12, Folder IV/28

Dairy Filtering Products Co.

Box 12, Folders IV/29.1-29.9

Damrow Brothers Co., (9 folders).

Box 12, Folder IV/30

Dazey Corp

Box 12, Folders IV/31.1-31.7

Delaval folders, (folders 1-7 of 39).

Box 13, Folders IV/31.1-31.7

Delaval, (folders 8-39 of 39).

Box 14, Folder IV/32

Eat-it-all Bakery.

Box 14, Folder IV/33

Empire.

Box 14, Folder IV/34

Emery Thompsen.

Box 14, Folder IV/35

Everhot.

Box 14, Folders IV/36.1-36.2

Ex-Cell-O (2 folders).

Box 14, Folders IV/37.1-37.3

Federal Manufacturing Co. (3 folders).

Box 14, Folders IV/38.1-38.2

Fort Wayne Dairy Equipment Co. (2 folders).

Box 14, Folder IV/39

Francis Economy Boilers.

Box 14, Folder IV/40

Fraser and Sons.

Box 14, Folder IV/41

Frididaire.

Box 14, Folder IV/42

G and H Products Corp.

Box 14, Folders IV/43.1-43.2

Gane Milking Machine Co (2 folders).

Box 14, Folder IV/44

Garver Manufacturing Co.

Box 14, Folder IV/45

Gast Manufacturing Corp.

Box 14, Folder IV/46

General Dairy Equipment Inc.

Box 14, Folder IV/47

Germania Dairy Automation Inc.

Box 14, Folders IV/48.1-48.5

Girton Manufacturing Co. (5 folders).

Box 14, Folder IV/49

Globe Fabricators Inc.

Box 14, Folder IV/50

Haynes Manufacturing Co.

Box 14, Folder IV/51

Howard, C.E. Corp.

Box 14, Folder IV/52

Illinois Creamery Supply Co.

Box 14, Folder IV/53

International Harvester Co. (McCormick)

Box 14, Folder IV/54

Jalco Motor Co.

Box 14, Folders IV/55.1-55.6

James Manufacturing Co. (6 folders).

Box 14, Folder IV/56

Jensen Machinery Co. Inc.

Box 14, Folder IV/57

John Chatillon and Sons

Box 14, Folder IV/58

John Wood Co.

Box 14, Folders IV/59.1-59.4

Kimble Dairy Glassware (4 folders).

Box 14, Folder IV/60

King Zeero Co.

Box 14, Folders IV/61.1-61.5

Klenzade (5 folders).

Box 14, Folder IV/62

Kusel Dairy Equipment Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/63

Lauson Corp.

Box 15, Folder IV/64

Liquid Freeze Corp.

Box 15, Folder IV/65

Liquid Packaging Equipment Corp.

Box 15, Folder IV/66

Lookout Boiler and Manufacturing Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/67

Louden Machinery Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/68

Lumenite Electronic Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/69

Lyons-Magnus.

Box 15, Folder IV/70

Maes.

Box 15, Folders IV/71.1-71.4

Manton-Gaulin Manufacturing Co. Inc. (4 folders)

Box 15, Folder IV/72

Mapes-Wisner.

Box 15, Folder IV/73

Marathon Corporation.

Box 15, Folder IV/74

Marley Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/75

Master-Bilt Refrigeration Manufacturing Co.

Box 15, Folders IV/76.1-76.3

McHale Manufacturing (3 folders).

Box 15, Folder IV/77

Melotte Separators.

Box 15, Folder IV/78

Metal Sponge Sales Corp.

Box 15, Folder IV/79

Meyer-Blanke Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/80

Miles Dairy Products and Services.

Box 15, Folder IV/81

Milk Cooling Equipment Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/82

Mojonnier Bros Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/83

Muckle Manufacturing Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/84

Mueller, Paul Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/85

Myers-Sherman Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/86

Nasco.

Box 15, Folder IV/87

National Distillers and Chemical Corp.

Box 15, Folder IV/88

O.M. Franklin Serum Co.

Box 15, Folders IV/89.1-89.4

Owens-Illinois (4 folders). Milk bottle drawings moved to Box 38.

Box 15, Folder IV/90

Penn-Michigan Manufacturing Corp.

Box 15, Folder IV/91

Perfection Manufacturing Corp.

Box 15, Folder IV/92

Pressed Steel Car Company.

Box 15, Folders IV/93.1-93.4

Pure-Pak (4 folders).

Box 15, Folder IV/94

Q-Controls.

Box 15, Folder IV/95

Quincy Compressors.

Box 15, Folder IV/96

Radco Products Co.

Box 15, Folder IV/97

Rehrig-Howard Co. LTD.

Box 15, Folder IV/98

Ridak.

Box 15, Folder IV/99

Ross-Holm Automated Milking Parlors.

Box 15, Folder IV/100

Rowe Manufacturing.

Box 15, Folders IV/101.1-101.16

Sacramento Bottle Exchange (16 folders). Ledger papers and receipts moved to Box 37.

Box 16, Folder IV/102

Schluster Co.

Box 16, Folders IV/103.1-103.2

Sealright Pacific LTD (2 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/104

Sharples Corp. Artifact moved to Box 27.

Box 16, Folder IV/105

Sorrenti MFG. Co.

Box 16, Folder IV/106

Sparta Brush Co. Inc.

Box 16, Folder IV/107

Specialty Brass Co.

Box 16, Folder IV/108

Sprinkman, W.H. Corp.

Box 16, Folder IV/109

Sta-Rite Industries Inc.

Box 16, Folder IV/110

Stainless and Steel Products Co.

Box 16, Folders IV/111.1-111.2

Starline Inc. (2 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/112

Steriline Storage Tanks.

Box 16, Folder IV/113

Sterling Research Corp.

Box 16, Folder IV/114

Stevens-Lee Co.

Box 16, Folder IV/115

Stoelting Brothers Co.

Box 16, Folder IV/116

Strahman Valves Inc.

Box 16, Folder IV/117

Superior.

Box 16, Folder IV/118

Tagliabue.

Box 16, Folder IV/119

Taylor Bros Churn and Manufacturing Co.

Box 16, Folders IV/120.1-120.3

Taylor Instrument Co. (3 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/121

Terminal Manufacturing Co.

Box 16, Folders IV/122.1-122.3

Tesa (Technical Industries Inc.) (3 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/123

Thompson, L.C. and Sons Inc.

Box 16, Folder IV/124

Thomas Mills and Bro.

Box 16, Folder IV/125

Toledo Scale Co.

Box 16, Folder IV/126

Torison Balance Co.

Box 16, Folders IV/127.1-127.4

Tri-Clover Machine Co. (4 folders).

Box 16, Folders IV/128.1-128.2

Triangle Package Machinery Co. (2 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/129

United Steele and Wire Co.

Box 16, Folders IV/130.1-130.2

Universal Dairy Supply Corp. (2 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/131

Valco

Box 16, Folders IV/132.1-132.3

Viking Pump Co. (3 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/133

Vollrath Co.

Box 16, Folder IV/134

Ward C. Cramer Associates.

Box 16, Folder IV/135

Waterous Co.

Box 16, Folders IV/136.1-136.4

Waukesha Foundry Co. (4 folders).

Box 16, Folders IV/137.1-137.2

Westfalia Centrico Inc. (2 folders).

Box 16, Folder IV/138

York Corp.

Box 16, Folder IV/139

Zero Manufacturing Co.

 

Dairy Industry Patents

Box 17

Photocopies of dairy equipment patents numbered 15629 to 1380499, 26 August 1856 to 7 June 1921.

Box 18

Photocopies of dairy equipment patents numbered 1384266 to 4141319, 12 July 1921 to 27 February 1979.

Box 40

Typescript draft of patent application, the original United States Patent Office certificate for patent number 2253341, 19 August 1941 issued to C.W. Michaels, and a description of milking machine technologies by Michaels.

 

Series V:  Legislation, Regulation, and Government Agencies, 1906-1986.

Physical Description: 3.1 cu. ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains material pertaining to dairy-related legislation and regulation enacted between 1906 and 1986. The California Department of Agriculture and the California State Legislature comprise the bulk of the material in this series but the series also includes material from the U.S. House and Senate, the United States Department of Agriculture and the California State Dairy Bureau. Types of materials in this series include transcripts of proceedings, reports, minutes, court briefs, press releases, photographs, and publications such as bulletins and pamphlets.

Scope and Content Note

This series is organized into 4 subseries:
  • Subseries V.1 California State Assembly
  • Subseries V.2 California State Senate
  • Subseries V.3 California State Department of Agriculture
  • Subseries V.4 Various Legislative and Regulatory Offices and Committees
 

Subseries V.1 : California State Assembly, 1959-1978.

Physical Description: .5 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains material pertaining to some of the dairy-related legislation considered by the California State Assembly between 1959 and 1978. The bulk of this subseries is comprised of transcripts of Assembly committee and sub-committee hearings, but a small amount of bill-specific material is included, as well as press releases and final reports.
Box 19, Folder V/1/1

Assembly Bill 1459, “Imitation Food products,” statement by author, 1968.

Box 19, Folder V/1/2

Assembly Bill 2629, “Oleomargarine packaging,” material related to, 1978.

Box 19, Folder V/1/3

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 34, “Milk Stabilization” material, 1960.

Box 19, Folders V/1/4-10

Committee on Agriculture, transcripts of proceedings, various hearings on dairy-related topics, 1967-1975.

Box 19, Folders V/1/11-13

Interim Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock and Dairies, transcripts of proceedings, various hearings on dairy-related topics Feb –Sep, 1964.

Box 19, Folder V/1/14

Interim Committee on Livestock and Dairies, final reports, 1959-1962.

Box 19, Folder V/1/15

Interim Committee on Livestock and Dairies, press releases, 1966-1971.

Box 19, Folders V/1/16-22

Interim Committee on Livestock and Dairies, transcripts of proceedings, various hearings on dairy-related topics, 29 June,1960 to 9 November, 1962

 

Subseries V.2 : California State Senate 1950-1976.

Physical Description: .5 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains material pertaining to some of the dairy-related legislation considered by the California State Senate between 1950 and 1976. This subseries is comprised primarily of the texts of, analyses of, and statements regarding Senate Bills and Resolutions relating to the pricing of milk and milk products, and also of transcripts of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Agriculture during this time period. A bound Senate Resolution relative to adjournment in respect to the memory of a California dairyman is also included.
Box 19, Folders V/2/1-10

Bills and Resolutions, 1950-1976.

Box 19, Folders V/2/11-22

Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Agriculture, transcripts of proceedings, 1960-1965.

 

Subseries V.3 : California State Department of Agriculture, 1920-1980.

Physical Description: 1.4 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains reports, bulletins, plans, court briefs, memoranda, minutes, opinions, press releases, tables, transcripts, publications and photographs created by, or in the service of, the California Department of Agriculture between 1920 and 1980. Subjects addressed in this subseries include sanitation and milk inspection, milk pricing, and milk pooling. A large grouping in this subseries is comprised of minutes, findings, correspondence and testimonies from the Milk Stabilization Board’s public hearings on milk pricing held during the 1950s.
Box 19, Folder V/3/1

Annual Report, Division of Animal Industry, 1960.

Box 19, Folder V/3/2

Audit manual, 1958. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folder V/3/3

Building plans, dairy buildings, n.d.

Box 19, Folder V/3/4

Bulletins and circulars, 1920-1965 and n.d.

Box 19, Folder V/3/5

Bureau of Dairy Control, group photos and display, c.1922. Moved to Box 23.

Box 19, Folder V/3/6

California State Agricultural Building, photo of 1895 sketch. Moved to Box 23.

Box 19, Folder V/3/7

Commemorative plaque, brass medallion on marble base, 3” x 4”, commemorating “100 Years of Service to Agriculture,” 1980. Moved to Box 27.

Box 19, Folders V/3/8-10

Court briefs, Case no. 12352, Superior Court, Kings County, Safeway Stores v. A. A. Brock, et al. 1955 (3 folders).

Box 19, Folder V/3/11

List of distributors and flyer, 1938 and n.d.

Box 19, Folder V/3/12

Memoranda, "Vat Pasteurizer Space Heaters," designs and sketches, 1952.

Box 19, Folder V/3/13

Milk Stabilization Board, 17 July 1951, Minutes, findings, and correspondence. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folder V/3/14

Milk Stabilization Board, 22 December 1953, Resale and Industry exhibits. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folder V/3/15

Milk Stabilization Board, 22 December 1953, Industry exhibits from public hearings on milk pricing. Moved to Box 25.

Box 19, Folders V/3/16-17

Milk Stabilization Board, Public testimonies, 23 June 1958. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folder V/3/18

Milk Stabilization Board, Resale and Industry exhibits, 23 June 1958. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folders V/3/19-23

Milk Stabilization Board, 19 April 1962, 12 June 1963, Departmental and industry exhibits. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folders V/3/24-28

Milk Stabilization Board, 19 and 30 April 1962, Industry exhibits. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folder V/3/29

Milk Stabilization Board, 30 April 1962, Departmental exhibits. Moved to Box 9.

Box 19, Folder V/3/30

Milk Stabilization Board, Photographs, Industry exhibits from public hearings on milk pricing, 12 June 1963. Moved to Box 23.

Box 19, Folder V/3/31

Minutes, Ad-Hoc Committee on Milk Inspection, 17 February 1978.

Box 19, Folder V/3/32

Minutes, various committees, 1962-1978.

Box 19, Folder V/3/33

Opinion of Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, on applicability of standards in Milk Control Act, 1955.

Box 19, Folder V/3/34

Opinion of Attorney General Stanley Mosk, on producer assessments and distributor fees, 1964.

Box 19, Folder V/3/35

Press releases, 1962-1978.

Box 20, Folder V/3/36

Publication, Agricultural Code (Revised to September 19, 1939), 1939.

Box 20, Folder V/3/37

Publication, California Milk Stabilization Laws, c.1964.

Box 20, Folder V/3/38

Publication, Dairy Containers Brands, 1976-1978, 1978.

Box 20, Folder V/3/39

Publication, Extracts from the Food and Agricultural Code of California Pertaining to the California Marketing Act of 1937, 1937.

Box 20, Folder V/3/40

Publication, Manufactured Dairy Products, Milk Production, Utilization and Prices, 1970.

Box 20, Folder V/3/41

Publication, Manufactured Dairy Products, Milk Production, Utilization and Prices, 1971.

Box 20, Folder V/3/42

Publication, Official List of Licensed Milk Products Plants and Fluid Milk Distributors, 1945.

Box 20, Folder V/3/43

Publication, Provisions of the Agricultural Code and Regulations Relating to Dairies and Dairy Products, 1937.

Box 20, Folder V/3/44

Report, Analysis of the Auditor General's Report on the California Milk Marketing Program, 1975.

Box 20, Folders V/3/45.1-45.5

Report, On the Bovine Brucellosis Eradication Program in California, 1975.(5 folders).

Box 20, Folder V/3/46

Report, California Agriculture 1972, California's Principal Crop and Livestock Commodities, 1972.

Box 20, Folder V/3/47

Report California Milk Stabilization Laws, 1960.

Box 20, Folder V/3/48

Report Characteristics of Milk Components (IRMA Study), 1977.

Box 20, Folder V/3/49

Report, Infrared Milk Analyzers (Program Evaluation), 1976.

Box 20, Folder V/3/50

Report, Producer Milk Pricing in California, 1975.

Box 20, Folder V/3/51

Report, Proposed Pooling Plan for Fluid Milk and Fluid Cream, 1968.

Box 20, Folder V/3/52

Report, Purpose and Nature of Marketing Order Programs, 1975.

Box 20, Folder V/3/53

Report, Recommendations and Legislation Pertaining to the California Milk Marketing Plan, 1974.

Box 20, Folder V/3/54

Report, Regulatory Milk Inspection in California, February 1977.

Box 20, Folder V/3/55

Report, Stabilization and Marketing Plan for Market Milk for the Northern California Marketing Area, 1981.

Box 20, Folder V/3/56

Rules and regulations of the Director of Agriculture pertaining to the marketing of milk and other dairy products, 27 July 1959.

Box 20, Folder V/3/57

Tables of dairy statistics, primarily from Los Angeles area, compiled by Martin H. Blank, 1937-1939. Moved to Box 9.

Box 20, Folder V/3/58

Testimony of Russell T. Swendseid before Milk Price Hearing, 11 April 1977.

Box 20, Folder V/3/59

Testimony of Assemblyman John E. Thurman to USDA Department of Reclamation, 15 November 1977.

Box 20, Folder V/3/60

Transcript of presentation to Senate and Assembly Agriculture Committees, 9 December 1968.

Box 20, Folder V/3/61

Transcripts of speeches, various speakers and venues, 1961-1962.

 

Subseries V.4:  Various Legislative and Regulatory Bodies, 1906-1986

Physical Description: .7 cu. ft.

Subseries Scope and Content Summary

This subseries contains statements, testimonies and reports pertaining to dairy-related legislation considered by the United States Congress in the years 1952 and 1953. Also included are minutes and agendas from the California State Board of Agriculture between 1967 and 1986, correspondence, minutes and reports from the State Dairy Bureau between 1906 and 1976 and publications from the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1911 to 1978.
Box 20, Folders V/4/1-4

California State Board of Agriculture Minutes, agendas, 1967-1986.

Box 20, Folder V/4/5

California State Dairy Bureau Seventh Biennial Report of the State Dairy Bureau to the Governor, 1907-1908. Moved to Box 39.

Box 20, Folder V/4/6

California State Dairy Bureau Correspondence with U.S. Bureau of Standards, 1912

Box 20, Folders V/4/7-9

California State Dairy Bureau Monthly reports from F. W. Andreasen, 1911-1919

Box 20, Folder V/4/10

California State Dairy Bureau, minute book, 12 May 1906 to 9 July 1919. Moved to Box 32.

Box 20, Folder V/4/11

United States Department of Agriculture, California Dairy Statistics, 1973 and 1978. .

Box 20, Folder V/4/12

United States Department of Agriculture, A Story of Milk, How the USDA Insures an Adequate Supply Through Minimum Prices to Dairy Farmers, n.d.

Box 20, Folder V/4/13

United States Department of Agriculture, Cheese Varieties and Descriptions, 1953.

Box 20, Folders V/4/14-16

United States Department of Agriculture, pamphlets pertaining to the dairy industry, 1911-1978.

Box 20, Folder V/4/17

United States House and Senate, statements, testimonies, and reports, various House and Senate committees, 1952-1953.

 

Series VI:  Publications, 1890-1984.

Physical Description: 36.25 cu. ft. 33.75 cu. ft. off-site.

Series Scope and Content Summary

The bulk of this series is comprised of dairy industry trade journals published between 1890 and 1984 and a small number of photographs taken at events sponsored by two of these journals during the1950s. Also included in this series are research reports, addresses, student papers, and seminar and conference proceedings published by various universities between 1944 and 1977. Individual issues of dairy trade journals are contained in two boxes stored with the rest of the collection. Bound issues in larger runs of the following titles are stored at the State Museum Resource Center and are noted in this guide as “Stored off-site:”

Scope and Content Note

  • California Milk News Weekly, 1934-1947.
  • Dairy Field, 1981-1984.
  • Dairy and Ice Cream Field, 1968-1980.
  • Ice Cream Field, 1922-1965.
  • Ice Cream Field and Ice Cream Field and Trade Journal, 1965.
  • Ice Cream Review, 1959-1968.
  • The Ice Cream Trade Journal, 1913-1965.

Scope and Content Note

Materials are organized into two groups with Trade Journals arranged alphabetically by title and Academic Publications arranged by author's name.
 

Trade Journals

Box 21, Folder VI/1

American Dairy Review, reprinted articles, March 1968.

Box 21, Folder VI/2

American Milk Review, December 1959.

Box 21, Folder VI/3

American Milk Review, August 1960

Box 21, Folder VI/4

Association Quarterly, August and October, 1938.

Box 21, Folder VI/5

Association Quarterly, May, August, October, 1939.

Box 21, Folder VI/6

Association Quarterly, February, May, July, 1940 and July, February 1941.

Box 21, Folder VI/7

Butter and Cheese Journal, May 1929. Moved to Box 39.

Box 21, Folder VI/8

California Dairyman, The, February 1951

Box 21, Folder VI/9

California Milk News Weekly, October 1949 (bound volumes, 1934-1947 stored off-site).

Box 21, Folder VI/10

California Orchard and Farm, 1891. Moved to Box 39.

Box 21, Folder VI/11

California Retail Grocers Advocate, February 1941 and 1942.

Box 21, Folder VI/12

Dairy and Ice Cream Annual Surveys, 1970-1973.

Box 21, Folder VI/13

Dairy and Ice Cream Field (includes The Milk Dealer and Ice Cream review), 1968-1980. (Stored off-site).

Box 21, Folder VI/14

Dairy Field (combines The Milk Dealer, The Manufacturing Milk Products Journal, Ice Cream Review, Ice Cream Field and the Ice Cream Trade Journal), 1981-1984. (Stored off-site).

Box 21, Folder VI/15

Dairy Illustrated, Harvest 1980, 1981and Spring 1982.

Box 21, Folder VI/16

Dairy Record, November 1980.

Box 21, Folder VI/17

Dairy Scope, January/February and September/October, 1980.

Box 21, Folders VI/18.1-18.29

Dairy Service Digest, 1939-1942. Moved to Box 51.

Box 21, Folder VI/19

Dairy World, January/February 1980.

Box 21, Folder VI/20

Dairy, September 1981.

Box 21, Folder VI/21

Dairyman, The, February, 1962 and reprinted article, July 1976.

Box 21, Folder VI/22

Dairyman, The, September-October, 1981.

Box 21, Folder VI/23

Dairyman, The, January-February, 1982.

Box 21, Folder VI/24

Dairyman, The, March-April, 1982

Box 21, Folder VI/25

Dairymen's Digest, November 1979.

Box 21, Folder VI/26

Farm and Ranch, reprinted editorials, 1955.

Box 21, Folder VI/27

Food Engineering, reprinted article, September 1952.

Box 21, Folder VI/28

Hoard's Dairyman, reprinted articles, 1974, 1981 and n.d.

Box 21, Folder VI/29

Ice Cream Field, 1922-1965. (Stored off-site).

Box 21, Folder VI/30

Ice Cream Field and Ice Cream Field and Trade Journal, 1965. (Stored off-site).

Box 21, Folder VI/31

Ice Cream Review, 1959-1968. (Stored off-site).

Box 21, Folder VI/32

The Ice Cream Trade Journal, 1913-1965. (Stored off-site).

Box 21, Folder VI/33

Journal of Dairy Science, Golden Jubilee Issue, June 1956.

Box 21, Folder VI/34

Journal of Dairy Science, May 1964 and reprint of article from November 1975.

Box 21, Folder VI/35

Los Angeles Times, research report, 1972.

Box 21, Folder VI/36

Milk Dealer, The, May 1959.

Box 21, Folder VI/37

Milk Dealer, The, April 1960.

Box 21, Folder VI/38

Milk Inspector, The, March and December 1936, March and May 1937.

Box 21, Folder VI/39

Milk Sanitarian, The, September and December 1937, February 1938.

Box 21, Folder VI/40

New York Times, research report, December 1962.

Box 21, Folder VI/41

Orchard and Farm, June 1890. Moved to Box 39.

Box 21, Folders VI/42.1-42.6

Pacific Dairy Review, 1923-1951.

Box 21, Folder VI/42.7

Pacific Dairy Review, photographs, unidentified people at dairy convention, “Atlantic City 1954.” Moved to Box 23.

Box 21, Folder VI/43

Progressive Farmer, reprint of survey, "Nonfat Dry Milk, Evaporated Milk, and Margarine," March 1959.

Box 21, Folder VI/44

Progressive Grocer, The, July 1940, January 1941.

Box 21, Folder VI/45

Rural World and Western Empire, Los Angeles, 4 October 1919. Moved to Box 39.

Box 21, Folders VI/46.1-46.19

Western Dairy Foods Review, January 1960-September 1965. Moved to Box 52.

Box 21, Folder VI/47

Western Dairy Foods Review, photos from annual Dairy Industry Meetings in Yosemite, some individuals identified, 1957-1960. Moved to Box 23.

Box 21, Folder VI/48

Western Dairy Foods Review, photos from “Cheese Party,” 1958. Moved to Box 23.

Box 21, Folder VI/49

Western Dairy Foods Review, photos from “Sacto 1958,” some individuals identified. Moved to Box 23.

Box 21, Folder VI/50

Western Dairy Journal, November 1954 and July 1969.

Box 21, Folder VI/51

Western Farm Equipment, August 1960 and January 1961.

Box 21, Folders VI/52.1-52.3

Western Milk and Ice Cream News, 1957-1972.

 

Academic Publications

Box 21, Folder VI/53

Arizona, University of, 1944, 1964-1967

Box 21, Folders VI/54.1-54.3

California Polytechnic University, student papers, 1968-1977 (3 folders).

Box 21, Folder VI/55

California State University, Fresno, student paper, 1975.

Box 21, Folder VI/56

Cornell University, 1958, 1964.

Box 21, Folder VI/57

Georgia, University of, 1972.

Box 21, Folder VI/58

Idaho, University of, 1956.

Box 21, Folder VI/59

Minnesota, University of, 1979.

Box 21, Folder VI/60

Ohio State University, 1969, 1971.

Box 21, Folder VI/61

Oregon State University, 1958, 1963.

Box 21, Folder VI/62

Pennsylvania State University, Circular No. 495, n.d.

Box 21, Folder VI/63

Purdue University, text of address, 1963.

Box 21, Folder VI/64

San Fernando Valley (California) State College, workshop proceedings, 1963.

 

Series VII:  Photographic Material, 1885-1978 and undated.

Physical Description: 2 cu. ft.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains identified and unidentified photographs, slides, and negatives of various people, places, dairy cattle, dairy equipment, milk bottles, and modes of transportation pertaining to California’s dairy history and span the period from 1868 to 1980. The folder and individual item descriptions for prints, slides or negatives contained in quotation marks are those ascribed either by the original collector(s) or during previous efforts to catalog the collection and were transposed into this guide. The photographs of individual milk bottles were taken by California State Parks sometime after its acquisition of the collection in 1976 to aid in the cataloging of the actual bottle collection. All 35mm color negatives are stored in negative sheets of seven strips each numbered NS001 to NS008. All 35mm black and white negatives are likewise stored in sheets of seven strips each and are numbered NS020 to NS034, and are accompanied by contact sheets of the images, which serve as the only descriptive tool for the majority of these images. Where possible the negative strips from which photographs in this series were printed are noted within brackets (e.g. [NS020]) following the description. Most, though not all negatives of other formats have been identified. These other formats are 3.5 x 6 or 4 x 5 inches, and 6 x 6 or 6 x 7 centimeters, and mounted 35mm color transparencies.

Scope and Content Note

Photographic prints in this series are arranged into six groups: People, Places, Dairy Cattle, Dairy Equipment, Milk Bottles, and Transportation. Negatives are arranged by film size.
 

Photographic prints.

Box 24, Folder VII/1

People – identified, c.1930-1978.

Box 24, Folder VII/2

People – identified, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/3

People – not identified, 1941-1959 and n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/4

Places - “ADMI – Fresno 1957,” 1957.

Box 24, Folder VII/5

Places - Chester Baccala ranch, n.d. [NS004]

Box 24, Folder VII/6

Places - Berkeley Farms Dairy, Berkeley, Ca. c.1908.

Box 24, Folder VII/7

Places - “Doppelmaier – Elverta,” n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/8

Places - English dairies from the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, U.K., n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/9

Places - English dairies and creameries, various, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/10

Places - J. Scarone ranch, Santa Cruz, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/11

Places - “Judd [Dairy] – Willows,” n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/12

Places - “Model [Dairy] -- Reno,” n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/13

Places - “Ramonetti Place,” n.d

Box 24, Folder VII/14

Places - Various identified places, 1885-1962

Box 24, Folder VII/15

Places - Various identified places, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/16

Places - Various, unidentified places, 1961 and n.d

Box 24, Folder VII/17

Cattle – from ranches/locations identified, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/18

Cattle – from ranches/locations not identified, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/19

Dairy equipment - Dairy display at Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/20

Dairy equipment - Ice insert for shipping cream, Peacock Dairy, 1978.

Box 24, Folder VII/21

Dairy equipment - Milking equipment, 1978 [NS022-023].

Box 24, Folder VII/22

Dairy equipment - “Old way of washing milking machines,” n.d. (see also slides, VII/53)

Box 24, Folder VII/23

Dairy equipment - Pioneer engines on display at Amador County Fair, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/24

Dairy equipment - Righetti separator, n.d. (see also slides, VII/55).

Box 24, Folder VII/25

Dairy equipment - “At Templeton,” Oct. 1969.

Box 24, Folders VII/26-28

Dairy equipment - Various -- identified, n.d. (3 folders)

Box 24, Folders VII/29-31

Dairy equipment - Various -- not identified, n.d. (3 folders) [NS027]

Box 24, Folder VII/32

Milk bottles - Absolutely Pure Milk to Allen's Dairy.

Box 24, Folder VII/33

Milk bottles - Borden's to Brown Ranch Capitola.

Box 24, Folder VII/34

Milk bottles - Carmel Dairy to Crown City Dairy.

Box 24, Folder VII/35

Milk bottles - Edgemar Farms to Eureka Dairy.

Box 24, Folder VII/36

Milk bottles - Ewell's XL Dairy Bottled Milk Co. to Gallimo Dairy.

Box 24, Folder VII/37

Milk bottles - Golden State to Hotel Del Monte

Box 24, Folder VII/38

Milk bottles - Indian Valley Creamery to Jessup Farms

Box 24, Folder VII/39

Milk bottles - Knudsen's to Lucerne.

Box 24, Folder VII/40

Milk bottles - Maple Confections to Mendocino State Hospital.

Box 24, Folder VII/41

Milk bottles - Milbrae Dairy to Mother Load Dairy.

Box 24, Folder VII/42

Milk bottles - Naval Prison Farm to Pacific Union College.

Box 24, Folder VII/43

Milk bottles - Peffer Farms to Ralphs.

Box 24, Folder VII/44

Milk bottles - Ramelli Portola to Royal Creamery.

Box 24, Folder VII/45

Milk bottles - Royal Dairy Farm to A.G. Smalley.

Box 24, Folder VII/46

Milk bottles - Spreckels Dairy to Union Milk Co.

Box 24, Folder VII/47

Milk bottles - U.C. Berkeley to various unidentified and group collections.

Box 24, Folder VII/48

Transportation - Milk wagons – identified, c.1900 and n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/49

Transportation - Milk wagons – not identified, n.d.

Box 24, Folder VII/50

Transportation - Ships and boats, n.d.

 

35mm color slides.

Box 43, Item VII/51

Carmel Dairy milk bottle (2 slides, see also photo folder VII/34)

Box 43, Item VII/52

Cheddar cheese manufacturing process (29 slides), 1973.

Box 43, Item VII/53

“Old way of washing milking machines,” n.d. (see also photo folder, VII/22).

Box 43, Item VII/54

Peffer farms, wagon, n.d. (see also photo folder VII/43).

Box 43, Item VII/55

Righetti Separator, n.d. (4 slides, see also photo folder VII/24).

 

Negatives

 

35mm negatives

Box 47, Item VII/56

Negative strips NS001 to NS008, color, 35mm.

Box 47, Item VII/57

Negative strips NS020 to NS034, black and white, 35mm, with contact sheets.

 

Negatives, various, 6x6 and 6x7 centimeters.

Box 47, Item VII/58

“Milk Advisory Board,” B&W 6x7 cm, June 1980.

Box 47, Item VII/59

Unidentified house, Color, 6x6cm (120), n.d.

 

Negative, B&W 3 ½ x 6 inches

Box 47, Item VII/60

Cattle gathered in pond, n.d.

 

Negatives, various, B&W 4x5 inches.

Box 47, Item VII/61

Bearded male, n.d. 4x5.

Box 47, Item VII/62

“Bottle from Naval Prison Farm,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/63

“Bottles in Penn Dairies collection,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/64

“Cayucos on Market Day,” c.1891.

Box 47, Item VII/65

“Double image of Wilder butter stamp,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/66

“Ed Hosselkus house in Genessee Valley,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/67

“Sidewheeler Julia,” n.d.

 

Negatives, various, B&W 4x5 inches, with contact prints

Box 47, Item VII/68

“Another view of dairy equipment,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/69

“Bearded male,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/70

Capital Dairy electric delivery wagon, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/71

“Cow Hollow (now Union Street) San Francisco,” 1868

Box 47, Item VII/72

Crystal Cream and Butter – Milk Dept, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/73

Crystal Cream and Butter, row of early delivery trucks, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/74

Crystal Creamery horse drawn delivery wagon, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/75

Crystal Dairy horse drawn delivery wagon, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/76

“Collection of milking machines hanging from ceiling,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/77

“Foremost dairy – horse drawn wagon and modern truck,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/78

Danish Creamery Butter delivery wagon, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/79

Dreyer’s Ice Cream delivery wagon, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/80

Knudsen Creamery delivery truck, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/81

Letter to N. McPherson from Fr. Geiger, March 1967

Box 47, Item VII/82

“Old barn,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/83

“Room full of various separators, pumps, etc,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/84

Santa Monica Dairy horse drawn delivery wagon, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/85

Santa Monica Dairy building with horse drawn wagons, n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/86

“Swedish house,” n.d.

Box 47, Item VII/87

Unidentified horse drawn wagon, c.1880s.

Box 47, Item VII/88

Deloss Wilder and Neil McPherson, Wilder Ranch open house, n.d.