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SC.KMF
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Kraemer-Milligan Family Collection
Creator:
Kraemer-Milligan Family
Identifier/Call Number: SC.KMF
Extent:
1.97 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1913-ca. 1993
Abstract: John Thomas Milligan raised white
Leghorn chickens on his Oakgrove farm near Stithton, Kentucky. He migrated to the San
Fernando Valley in 1922 and started The California White Leghorn Breeding Farm in the
Lankershim area of the Valley (now North Hollywood). Mr. Milligan's daughter, Wilhelmina C.
Milligan, married Edgar W. Kraemer, whose father, Herman Kraemer was also in the poultry
business in the San Fernando Valley. The collection consists primarily of photographs,
histories of the Kraemer and Milligan families, and ephemera.
Language of Material: English
John Thomas Milligan raised white Leghorn chickens on his Oakgrove farm near Stithton,
Kentucky. He migrated to the San Fernando Valley in 1922 and started The California White
Leghorn Breeding Farm in the Lankershim area of the Valley (now North Hollywood). Mr
Milligan's daughter, Wilhelmina C. Milligan, married Edgar W. Kraemer, whose father, Herman
Kraemer was also in the poultry business in the San Fernando Valley.
The
Kraemer-Milligan Family Collection documents the poultry
farming industry in the San Fernando Valley during the early- and mid-20th century, and
consists primarily of photographs, histories of the Kraemer and Milligan families, and
ephemera.
This collection is part of the
California Collection.
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Wilhelmina Milligan, 1995.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ephemera
Documents
Photographs