Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
D-016
Description:
The Mining Collection contains documents relating to the development of mining in California, including account books and
ledgers for several mining companies, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
MC251
Description:
The Reed Quicksilver Mine was located in Yolo County, California. This small collection contains reports about the mine, several
pieces of correspondence, as well as twenty-seven photographs of the mine property.
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
MC255
Description:
Waldo Wade Waggoner (1860-1939) served as County Surveyor of Nevada County, California and as California Debris Commissioner.
The small collection contains his report and map on the Dry Creek Reservoir Site in Nevada County as well as three letters
from
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
MC256
Description:
John S. Dunn (1810-1885) lived in the Nevada City, California area. This small collection contains two letters from Dunn addressed
to "Brother," two receipts, and an agreement between Dunn, Charles Dunn Jr., and Richard Rowe regarding mining claims on Kennebec
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
MC252
Description:
The Ruth Pierce Mine was located in Mariposa County, California. This small collection contains reports about the mine as
well as correspondence regarding a lease option.
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
MC250
Description:
The small collection contains materials from John H. Helwig related to a mining claim for the Jennie Lind Placer Mine in North
Bloomfield, California in the late twentieth century.
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
D-562
Description:
The North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company, located in Nevada County, California, was a hydraulic gold mining operation. The
collection contains five account books which provide statements on water received and used, payroll, and expenses. Also included
is one volume of
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Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
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Description:
Published and related materials pertaining to a wide variety of conservation issues and proposed projects in the San Francisco
Bay Area. Includes Klinger's independent projects and projects as part of Contra Costa Park Council. Materials include publications
from local and
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
MC253
Description:
Niles Searls (1825-1907) served as State Senator and Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. This small collection
contains several letters to Niles Searls and his son Fred Searls, as well as materials related to Fred Searls' involvement
with the
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
D-559
Description:
The Pioneer Reduction Company processed gold ore in Nevada City, California. The collection contains organizational records
(by-laws, check stubs, bullion book, and stock certificate register) as well as correspondence regarding the plant's operation.
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Contributing Institution:
University of Southern California::Special Collections
Collection Number:
0037
Description:
The collection consists of environmental reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, and other ephemera pertaining to the controversial
1960s development of a 16,000 acre tract of the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County, California. The materials were created
and collected by conservation activists
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Contributing Institution:
California State University, Fresno::Special Collections Research Center
Collection Number:
csf.1987.001
Description:
National Land for People, founded primarily by George Ballis and Berge Bulbulian, was a grassroots organization most active
in California in the 1970s and 1980s, concerned with a number of environmental factors, most notably federal irrigation water
use restrictions and
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Contributing Institution:
UC Riverside::Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number:
MS 148
Description:
The Stringfellow Hazardous Waste Site collection contains technical reports, media clippings, correspondence, public records,
ephemera, notes, government publications, photographs, and other material regarding the Stringfellow Hazardous Waste Site,
a Class I industrial waste disposal facility in Glen Avon, California, that
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Contributing Institution:
UC Irvine::Orange County Regional History Collection
Collection Number:
MS.R.090
Description:
This collection consists of Frank and Frances Robinson's research materials relating to issues surrounding the proposed land
exchange between the County of Orange and The Irvine Company that would have allowed the latter to develop the Upper Newport
Bay, California.
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Contributing Institution:
California State University, Chico
Collection Number:
MSS.306
Description:
Article “The California dredger as an instrument of conservation” with rejection letter from Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, State
of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Mines, California journal of mines and geology.
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Contributing Institution:
California State University, Chico
Collection Number:
MSS.311
Description:
The collection consists of a five page report on the Frontier Mining Property, “Blue Hog Channel”, in Butte County, California,
dated October 26, 1933.
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Contributing Institution:
UC Riverside::Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number:
MS 121
Description:
This collection contains photographs, publications, and other material regarding the citrus industry in California, Florida,
and Louisiana in the early twentieth century. Most of the items in the collection are black and white photographs featuring
avocados, pecans, and other fruit,
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
D-348
Description:
Robert Mower Hagan (1916-2002) served as Professor of Water Science at the University of California, Davis from 1948-1987.
The Hagan Papers contain writings, teaching files including class lecture notes and background materials, as well as subject
files which contain materials
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Contributing Institution:
Cal Poly Humboldt, Library Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number:
2003.04
Description:
Rudolf Willem Becking was a professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at Humboldt State University from 1960-1983. He did
extensive work in Northwestern California. His research interests included Redwoods, sustainable forestry (Plenturung), plant
community ecology (Phytosociology), serpentine endemics, the Marbled
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Contributing Institution:
UC Davis::Special Collections
Collection Number:
D-229
Description:
The Nikola P. Prokopovich Papers document United States Bureau of Reclamation geologist Nikola Prokopovich's work on irrigation,
land subsidence, and geochemistry in California. The collection includes draft reports and memoranda, published writings,
slides, photographs, and two films related to several
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