Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the Earle E. Williams papers, 1853-1983 (bulk 1952-1983)
BANC MSS 86/50 c
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Collection Title: Earle E. Williams Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1853-1983
Date (bulk): (bulk 1952-1983)
Collection Number: BANC MSS 86/50 c
Creator:
Williams, Earle E.
Extent:
Number of containers: 7 cartons
Linear feet: 8.75
Repository: The
Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, and research, chiefly relating to the history of Tracy and San Joaquin County, Calif. Includes Williams
research materials and drafts of his many books, articles, and stories about the Corral Hollow area and its ghost towns, including
San Joaquin City, Carnegie, and Tesla, along with historic El Camino Viejo, Rancho El Pescadero, and the people and places
of the West Side region of San Joaquin County and the city of Tracy. Unless otherwise noted, all books and articles were written
by E. Williams.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library 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 reader.
[Identification of item], Earle E. Williams papers, BANC MSS 86/50 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Title: Rancho El Pescadero, 1979,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 80/58 c
- Photographs have been transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
- Original manuscript materials collected by E. Williams have been cataloged separately.
Correspondence, writings, and research, chiefly relating to the history of Tracy and San Joaquin County, Calif. Includes Williams
research materials and drafts of his many books, articles, and stories about the Corral Hollow area and its ghost towns, including
San Joaquin City, Carnegie, and Tesla, along with historic El Camino
The Earle E. Williams Papers, 1881-1983, contain correspondence, writings, and research materials, chiefly relating to the
history of Tracy and San Joaquin County, Calif. The bulk of the collection dates from 1952 to 1983, and includes Williams'
research materials and drafts of his many books, articles, and stories about the Corral Hollow area, and its ghost towns,
including San Joaquin City, Carnegie, and Tesla, along with historic El Camino Viejo, Rancho El Pescadero, and the people
and places of the West Side region of San Joaquin County and the city of Tracy. Unless otherwise noted, all books and articles
included in the collection were written by Earle E. Williams.
Earle E. Williams was born on January 1, 1898 to George and Frances Belknap Williams of Woodside in San Mateo County, Calif.
In 1910, he came to Tracy, where he founded and built the Kerlinger Plant of Pacific Cement and Aggregates, Inc. on the alluvial
fan of Corral Hollow Creek. Williams was active in a variety of social and civic organizations, and through his extensive
research, became known as "
the historian" of southern San Joaquin County. Williams died on July 4, 1983, exactly 73 years to the day after he arrived in
Tracy.