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Miller & Lux records : relating to Bloomfield Farm, 1860-1961.
BANC MSS 86/210 cLOCAL
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Title:
Miller & Lux records: relating to Bloomfield Farm, 1860-1961Creator/Contributor:
Miller & Lux, creatorAbstract:
Included are general correspondence, 1922-1926, among company officials; newspaper articles regarding the history of Miller
and Lux, Inc. and the celebrated 1954 Trust fraud case; a sketch of the Poso Farm house plan; a report on the registered cattle
herd; a handwritten reminiscence ("A Charcoal Portrait") by an unidentified employee; a soil strata chart for a proposed well;
a transcript of president Ulysses S. Grant's settlement of the Las Animas land claim; a wage scale for hired help; a letter
from a creditor addressed to company founder Henry Miller, and an 1860 daily journal of farm finances kept by Miller.
Date:
1860 (issued)Subject:
Miller, Henry -- 1827-1916Ranches -- California
Type:
Account books.Land grants.
Architectural drawings.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
print
2 boxes (.4 linear ft.).
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 86/210 cLOCAL