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Title: Ephraim Dyer photograph album
Dates: 1905-1915
Collection number: MSS 229
Creator:
Dyer, Ephraim, 1881-ca.
1965
Collection Size: .25 linear feet
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of
Special Collections
Stockton, California 95211
Abstract: Photographs of agricultural lands on Palm Tract
in Contra Costa County, Wheatland in Yuba County, and other locations in
California. Photos illustrate land reclamation and agricultural practices in
the Delta region.
Physical location: For current information on the location
of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
researcher.
Ephraim Dyer photograph album. MSS 229. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.
Biography / Administrative History
Ephraim Dyer was a farmer. He was born in Alvarado, Alameda County,
California in 1881 and attended the University of California, graduating in
1907. He later worked for Rindge Land and Navigation Company on Palm Tract in
the San Joaquin River Delta (1908-1915) and for Natomas Corporation at
Wheatland in Yuba County.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of photographs Dyer took illustrating
reclamation and agricultural practices in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and
Sacramento Valley before World War I. There is also a Dyer genealogy written by
Ephraim Dyer IV.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Reclamation of land - California -
Delta Region
Farm equipment - Pictorial
works
Agriculture - California - Central
Valley
Contra Costa County (Calif.) -
Pictorial works
Delta Region (Calif.) - Pictorial
works
Central Valley (Calif.: Valley) -
Pictorial works
Yuba County (Calif.) - Pictorial
works