Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Vacaville Oral History Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1976-1978
Collection number: Mss195
Creator:
Ronald H. Limbaugh
Extent: 3.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vacaville Oral History Collection, Mss195,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Access Points
personal name
Limbaugh, Ronald H. (b. 1938)
subject
Agriculture -California -Vacaville -History
Ranch life -California -Vacaville
Chinese Americans -California -Vacaville
Japanese Americans -California -Vacaville
Vacaville (Calif.) -Social life and customs
Vacaville (Calif.) -Social conditions
Vacaville (Calif.) -Politics and government
Biography
Ronald H. Limbaugh, history professor at the University of the Pacific
and co-author of Vacaville: The heritage of a California community (1978), was
commissioned---as part of local United States Bicentennial celebrations---by
the Vacaville City Council to interview Vacaville "old-timers" and to write a
history of Vacaville. Limbaugh conducted the interviews between fall 1976 and
spring 1978 in the preparation of Vacaville. The Vacaville Heritage Council
helped initiate the project with suggestions about local resources and persons
to interview. Council member, Eleanor Nelson, contacted interviewees and
arranged most of the interviews. The interviews describe conditions in
Vacaville betwen 1880 and 1976. They contain information about the growth of
the fruit cultivation, packing and processing industries which typified the
region during those years. They reveal much about the contributions of Chinese
and Japanese settlers to these enterprises. The tapes also contain information
about race and labor relations and many other local and regional
activities.
Scope and Content
The Vacaville Collection consists of: Ronald Limbaugh's research notes;
book drafts; photographs; project correspondence and reports; and, fifty-nine
taped interviews with long-time residents of Vacaville, California conducted by
Limbaugh, together with miscellaneous documentation pertaining to these
interviews (1976-78). A few of the interviews have been transcribed.